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I went to Borders today; people were ransacking it

Borders is closing some stores and today I went to one of the ones that was closing and it was jam packed. While there, I picked a bunch of random books, taking pictures of their prices. Every book that I photographed, I'm putting online so it's a fair contest. Lets compare prices and see why Borders is closing. Borders prices are figured with their 20% discount and a 6% Michigan sales tax since that's part of the price too.

Borders Price: $15.25
Amazon: $11.42

Borders Prices: $12.67, 12.72
Amazon Prices: $10.55, 10.20

Borders Price: $9.33 (Penguin edition)
Amazon Price: $5.99 (different Penguin edition)

Borders Price: $33.91
Amazon Price: $26.39

Borders Price: $14.37
Amazon Price: $11.53

Borders Price: 11.86
Amazon Price: 11.99

Borders Price: $20.34
Amazon Price: $16.31

Borders Price: $21.20
Amazon Price: $19.00

Lauren Conrad: Sweet Little Lies (paperback)
Borders Price: $8.47
Amazon Price: $9.99 (though hardcover is $7.20)

Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms
Borders Price: $16.91
Amazon Price: $12.89

Puppy Place: Goldie
Borders Price: $4.23
Amazon Price: $4.99

Date Night on DVD
Borders Price: $16.95
Amazon Price: $14.99

World of Warcraft Programming: Second Edition
Borders Price: $42.39
Amazon Price: $29.80

Total (in case this is your exact shopping list)
Borders: $240.60
Amazon: $193.25


And still they had lots of people in line, buying everything they could. I mean even the needlepoint section was getting low on books.

Set the Tone: One Day at a Time

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time".

- Abraham Lincoln

Another Carrot Fully Consumed

Well, this place is DEFINITELY cleaner and better organized with these last nine days off... The Mid-Winter Break is especially good for staying in and getting things done... Christmas Break is too distracting with families and friends, and Spring Break is too... Well... Springy! Hard to stay in and get stuff done!

Tonight is Oscars. I'll DVR the whole nonsense and selectively view it later this week....

I may have seen one or two nominated films this year... LOL...

The best thing about the Red Carpet is Joan Rivers... LOL. I've been enjoying the Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best show on WE this winter...

Gotta get it in gear for a full month of work ahead... Seven full five day work weeks til the Spring Break...

These breaks are the carrots on the ends of the stick...

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Out Of This World @ Fountain Gallery

The Fountain Gallery's current showing is titled Out of This World... Until March 16

Keith Pavia is featured...

His Space Odyssey (pictured at right) is a colorful assemblage painting piece...

It's huge and striking at 15 1/4inches x 47 inches...

Visit the artist's website here.

Stop by the Fountain Gallery whenever you are in Hell's Kitchen... It's a very special place with quality art:

702 Ninth Avenue @ 48th St.
New York, NY 10019
Map
Tel: 212.262.2756


Tues-Sat: 11am-7pm
Sun: 1-5pm

Passports

To those pupils who are going to Batam, bring your passport to school tomorrow.

Marcus, please make a copy of birth certificate. I need to verify your Chinese name.

Thanks.

Here's What I Think...

I THINK, therefore, I am....

I THINK Bill Clinton should be allowed to be President again... Remember when he left us with a balanced budget? (Saw Chris Matthews' special this week on the Billster!)

I THINK the attack on teachers across this country is reprehensible...!

I THINK the timing of Obama's DOMA Executive Order was a trap to get the Righties all squawkie about this issue while the government was on the precipice of budgetary shutdown... To make the Repubs look small and shrill... Looks like the Repubs haven't taken the bait... Not yet... (Except for the frothy mix guy, but he's on the sidelines). But... the Repubs know that when this makes it to the Supremes the deck is stacked in their favor...

I THINK the attack on unions is a right wing attempt to destroy the Democratic party (see Rachel Maddow's excellent coverage of that thesis!)

I THINK Charlie Sheen should go start a Charm School.

I THINK an Arab neighbor needs to conquer Libya and then liberate them...

I THINK Michelle Obama will some day be the nation's first female Vice President...

I THINK it's tragic the way the powers that be are ignoring climate change...

I THINK it's somewhat shocking that the USA is still so dependent on oil...

I THINK that's enough of my completely unsolicited, uninformed wild guess appraisal of the issues of the week!...

(Image from Zazzle)

Munson Diner's Life After Hell's Kitchen

I've blogged over the years about the Munson Diner....

It used to be parked in Hell's Kitchen at 11th Avenue and 49th Street.

Somebody bought it and dragged it to the Catskills. Where it has failed in several reincarnations....

The latest news, according to the New York Times:

Still, the Munson’s allure endures. He’s out his life savings. The 15 original investors have spent more than $400,000. But Mr. Moore would love to figure out how to try again, and the businessmen are committed to making something work. One option is to find the right operator in Liberty, which, alas, has not turned into the new Hamptons. Another is to move the Munson yet again. One potential buyer, it turns out, has expressed preliminary interest in moving it back to New York City, this time to Park Slope, in Brooklyn, where, if all goes well, women in evening dress could swap jokes with men in overalls — presumably husbands or significant others — once again... It’s early, but stay tuned.

Photo by Gothamist

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FIGHT NIGHT CHAMPION XBOX 360 REGION FREE TEST

We have tested Fight Night Champion - 360 (Region Free) (Preorder) on our PAL XBOX 360 and can confirm that it is region free. Look for more region free tests soon as more North American games are released.

Math problems

1. Christopher will take one day to paint 1/5 of a house. Mark will take 2 fewer days to paint the same house. How many days will it take both of them to paint the same house if they work together? Leave your answer as a mixed number.

2. May and Jen have some beads each. If May gives 30 beads to Jen, she will have 4 times as many beads as Jen. If she gives 150 beads to Jen, she will have 1 ½ times as many beads as Jen. Find the number of beads May has.

3. 400 people took part in a camp. 73 of them were adults and the rest were children. 2/5 of the boys and 1/4 of the girls were lower primary pupils while the rest were upper primary pupils. There were 9 more upper primary girls than upper primary boys.
a) How many upper primary pupils were there?
b) What percentage of the people who took part in the camp were girls?

4. A librarian counted the number of children in the library and found that 40% of the number of girls was equal to 2 times the number of boys. When another 12 boys entered the library and 45 girls left the library, the ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys became 5 : 2.
(a) What was the ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys at first? Give your answer in its simplest form.
(b) Find the number of girls in the library at first.

5. Josh had 25 lollipops. Michael had k lollipops less than Josh. Preston had 3k lollipops more than Michael.
(a) How many lollipops were there altogether?
Express the answer in terms of k.
(b) If k = 6, find the total number of lollipops

Comment on Comments

I lifted the word verification feature on comments and left on the comment moderation feature.... You should see ALL the spam that I'm getting. It's actually fun to see this crap.

Sometimes couched in grand word combinations that make no sense... Sometimes, a perfectly sterile looking remark but the person's name is actually a link to an advert... Foreign language ones. Some are sexy. Some not so much.

I gotta commend Blogger though, as they have caught them ALL and placed them in the Spam folder where I can easily glance and delete them...

I know from a reader's perspective that when I go to comment on friend's blogs, the word verification feature is tedious and frustrating...

And for those have both security features intact, I say... What are you afraid of?? Comment Verification alone is perfectly fine...

Blogger even reminds you from the dashboard that you have comments waiting to approve or deny...

I like it because I can be more aware of the reader's comments and also to see if it's a Blogger buddy it can remind me to swing by their place and look around and comment, too...

Now there are all those non-Blogger comment clients... And some work better than others... One friend uses one that I particularly despise... As it never recognizes me, and requires several stages of pull-down menus and passwords before I can log in to comment. He knows who he is... And he knows I do stop by his fishbowl and read much more than I actually comment...

And then there's a friend and blog reader who looked at this header and was horrified that it referred to something else. My comment to him?: Relaaaaaax...

Awareness Is An Answer

Made some Steel Cut Oats for breakfast for the first time ever!... MUCH more difficult than the standard Old Fashioned Oats in the microwave for four minutes... See this post.

But, as BMB pointed out... The flaky oats probably lack the same nutritional punch... That had never occurred to me before... Dr Oz is always touting oatmeal on the telly... And if you freeze frame the DVR and look carefully at his bin, it's always quietly marked "Steel Cut" oats...

Took 35 minutes to cook these babies... Dag! And the pot will need a good soak

Yesterday's paperwork mission was accomplished!

Well almost... Today, Thursday, is the run to Kinko's to xerox everything and the Post Office to stand in line to mail all these things... And THEN to pickup all the neatly sorted piles of receipts off the floor...

The floor is clearly the best place to organize tasks like this! Big pillow helps! Ralphie agrees!

Oh... And also on today's agenda: Some serious deep cleaning, and possible furniture re-configuration...

You gotta pull out the couch to clean behind and under it, so you might as well move it across the room to a new spot... LOL.

Here's a pointer to fellow bloggers (Newcomer Danny especially!): It's best to compose your Blogger blog posts when the posting window is on the "Edit HTML" tab... When you are in "Compose" tab the constant automatic system updates invariably interrupt what you are doing, and can add mysterious HTML instructions to the body of your post... So keep it on "Edit HTML" if you ask me... Put it on compose when you want to tweak your font sizes or re-size or drag/drop an image).

Oh and later: Gotta attend a monthly business meeting (at a non-profit) in the late afternoon... And will try *not* to pull out my hair... Or what little bit remains at this age... These business meetings are a complete challenge to my full inventory of personal defects... And I gots to be on my proverbial toes! Ahhh... Awareness can be a bear!

European Gamers 6 RPG Titles Worth Importing

The following 6 great RPG titles should be on most European gamers import lists as they either have early North American release dates, exclusive North American bonus contant and in some cases both. The list contains 2 PS3 titles, 2 DS and 2 PSP and the best part is all games will be region free and work on all consoles worldwide. Let's check them out!!



1. Radiant Historia with [BONUS MUSIC CD] - DS (In stock usually ships within 24hrs)

NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE DATE: AVAILABLE NOW

EUROPEAN RELEASE DATE: NOT ANNOUNCED



Channeling the heart and soul of fan favorite 16‐bit RPG classics, Radiant Historia combines a unique position‐based battle system, intricate hand‐drawn details, and one of the best soundtracks in recent memory as it takes gamers on a steampunk adventure back and forth through time.



BONUS ITEM: Atlus has made each and every

launch copy of Radiant Historia into a premium boxed

set. Packaged alongside the game is a free music CD

featuring unique piano arrangements from famed

composer Yoko Shimomura's acclaimed musical score.

2. Ys I & II (1&2) Chronicles "Hair Metal Pack" (Contains Bonus Music CD) - PSP [First Run ONLY] (Preorder)

NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE DATE: AVAILABLE NOW

EUROPEAN RELEASE DATE: NOT ANNOUNCED

Ys: I & II Chronicles is a PSP remake of the first two iterations of the critically-acclaimed Ys series. The graphics have been reimagined in highly-detailed hand-drawn 2D and the soundtrack has been newly rearranged.

BONUS ITEM: EXCLUSIVE MUSICAL SELECTION CD

3. Dragon Quest VI (6) : Realms of Revelation - DS (In stock usually ships within 24hrs

NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE DATE: AVAILABLE NOW

EUROPEAN RELEASE DATE: NOT ANNOUNCED

DRAGON QUEST® VI: Realms of Revelation - previously unavailable outside of Japan - will make its North American debut exclusively on the hand-held Nintendo DS family of systems. Combining classic role-playing adventure with new character options and enhancements, the game offers hours of imaginative DRAGON QUEST fun spanning several unique game worlds that can be enjoyed on the go



4. Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel Premium Edition - PS3 [FIRST RUN ONLY] [includes an Artbook & Soundtrack CD] (Preorder)

NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE DATE: MARCH 15th, 2011

EUROPEAN RELEASE DATE: APRIL 1st, 2011

Ar tonelico Qogais the final installment in the Ar tonelico series. The story takes place in Sol Cluster, a kingdom ruled by an organization called Clustania and their ultimate goal is to enslave humans and rule the world. However, the two key Reyvateils (humanoids) they need to accomplish their goal meet Aoto and fight back against injustice.



BONUS ITEM: EXCLUSIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE Premium Edition Box, Visual Art Book, Soundtrack CD



5. Hyperdimension Neptunia Premium Edition [FIRST RUN ONLY] [includes an Artbook] - PS3 (In stock usually ships within 24hrs)

NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE DATE: AVAILABLE NOW



EUROPEAN RELEASE DATE: MARCH 4th, 2011



Compile Heart’s RPG takes place in the land of Gamindustri, which is overrun by monsters summoned by the evil Arfoire. The heroes, actually heroines, are personified video game companies and consoles.



BONUS ITEM: EXCLUSIVE TO NORTH AMERICA RELEASE An illustrated art book, premium edition collectible box



6. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky "1st Chapter" Premium Edition - PSP (Preorder)

NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE DATE: MARCH 29th, 2011



EUROPEAN RELEASE DATE: NOT ANNOUNCED

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is the first of a new trilogy in the established The Legend of Heroes RPG series. A highly detailed 3D world, beautiful original soundtrack, and unique strategic battle system showcase production values a generation beyond the previous iteration.

BONUS ITEM: Soundtrack CD, 13inch by 19.5 inch poster, Bracer guild replica metal badge