Posts Tagged ‘comics’
April 3, 2010
It’s still syncing.
While I prepare myself for the inevitable post-purchase depression and “why can’t I do that, Mr. Jobs” revelations, here are some unboxing pictures and a video from my Posterous page.
At some point I’ll list the pros and cons. But I’m done with the posting and tweeting today. I doubt there’s much new that I could say about it.
Technology isn’t my beat, so I’ll leave the iPad news and reviews to my colleagues at Bits. (Here’s an earlier post about how I made the purchase decision.)
For me, the iPad is first and foremost a book and media reader. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in iPhone Apps, New York, Paper & Ink | 3 Comments »
Tags: Apple, Books, Collyer brothers, comics, ebooks, iBooks, iPad, Kindle, Kindle for iPad, macs, NYT, Posterous
March 15, 2009
I happened to find myself in a Whole Foods store a week ago and noticed the wide coffee selection. Not being able to help myself, I picked up some single-source beans from Ecuador. For much of the week, I have been drinking it, mostly as espresso, alternating with the pricier Kenyan beans from an indie shop that I wrote about last week as part ofmy ongoing coffee quest.
This has kept me alert through a few hours of an extracurricular project, listening to the audiobook version of “Shantaram,” by David Gregory McDonald, a potboiler set in India. (It was a MacBreak Weekly pick from Andy Ihnatko). Listening to fiction is harder work than nonfiction, and this book, though entertaining and well-narrated in many accents by the award-winning Humphrey Bower, stretches to 43 hours and 3 minutes (I’m in the third hour). Coffee is needed to get through it.
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Tags: America's Top Model, Andy Ihnatko, audiobooks, Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Coffee!, comics, David Gregory McDonald, Ecuador, Espindola, espresso, graphic novels, HBO, Jim Cramer, Jon Stewart, MacBreak Weekly, NYC, organic, podcasts, Shantaram, The Daily Show, Tyra Banks, Watchmen, Whole Foods Market, Will Ferrell
December 6, 2008
One notable aspect of the 21st Annual Indie & Small Press Book Fair this weekend is the location, the members-only library of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, at 20 West 44th Street in Manhattan, which is also home to the New York Center for Independent Publishing.
The free book fair (donations accepted, in exchange for homemade baked goods on each floor), which lasts through Sunday, is a great excuse to wander up and down the floors and halls of this fascinating building on one of the more interesting blocks of Midtown. The Algonquin Hotel, another literary landmark, is across the street. (Times have certainly changed: The hotel now lends Amazon Kindles to its guests.)
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Tags: Algonquin Hotel, Books, comics, Continuum Books, David Rees, Dzanc Books Best of the Web, General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, Get Your War On, Indie and Small Press Book Fair, Kindle, Matt Taibbi, Midtown, Neutral Milk Hotel, New York Center for Independent Publishing, NYC, O.K. Computer, Radiohead, Sony Reader
October 19, 2008
Lately my music library has languished as I have loaded up my iPhone with podcasts of a certain type: Men (mostly) talking about gadgets, technology, movies, stuff on the Web, games, women, and news of the weird, among other topics. The list:
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Tags: Alex Albrecht, Apple TV, comedy, comics, computers, iPhone Apps, iPods, iTunes, John C. Dvorak, Jonathan Larroquette, Kevin Rose, Kevin Smith, Leo Laporte, MacBreak Weekly, men, Merlin Mann, movies, Podcast Zeitgeist, podcasts, Scott Bourne, Seth Romatelli, Smodcast, technology, This Week in Tech, TV, Twit.tv, Uhh Yeah Dude, video games, You Look Nice Today
October 13, 2008
The big one right now is “Anathem” by Neal Stephenson, a work of speculative fiction set on another planet (apparently), weighing in at more than a pound and 937 pages. For some reason I am a sucker for big books.
I am also working my way through a stack of comix, graphic novels and illustrated memoirs, including:
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Tags: Anathem, Books, comics, graphic novels, Neal Stephenson, science fiction
It’s still syncing. 
