Lady with a sob story wanted to sell a bros grimm book, an interesting but valuless book, and nearly broke down when I offered only $1. Then she skulks around the shop looking for what a 'valuble' book looks like and proceeds to break the stool by standing on one of the crossbars.
Spend more time dealing with crap people want to sell than with selling anything!

SDCC09

Just dumped my bowl of cereal all over me and the chair and the floor... argh. not a good start to the day. My pants are sopping..

I hate banks, and I hate BofA more than any of them. Their website sucks, and everytime I've had a problem with cc's or banks it seems to be BofA.

David Eddings died June 2, 2009
http://www.rgj.com/article/20090627/NEWS/906270327/1321/NEWS


Ray Bradbury Dismisses Internet as "Distracting" and "Meaningless"
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=15531

Had a costly return on a cheap online order.

Just got jacked for over $70 on a $10 book that the customer didn't like. They didn't like it because they felt it wasn't published in a high enough quality... Despite the fact that it was described as poorly printed, and there was a picture for reference. An online order, that they returned without permission, and debited the unnecessary overseas express! return shipping from our account. Lost more on the shipping than the book will ever be worth.

offical curmudgeonly bookseller

Managed to piss off a 'customer' (are they still a customer if they don't buy anything?) who felt wasn't helpful enough. He comes roaring over in his huge SUV and slams bouncing into the curb, hops out and immediately gives a poor impression. After letting him in an hour and a half after closing time, while busy with the #$%@# computer (trying to get things finished up to could go home!), and after directing him to the self-help section where the book he wanted would have been - if there was one in the store, which dunno, can't memorize everything (especially the self-help stuff), felt lucky to recognize the author when he named it. After he threw a fit over the lack of help, went back and found a book by the author, but it was the wrong one or else he was too annoyed to purchase it. Guess officially a curmudgeonly bookseller now...

Whole Lotta Shakin'

Last 3 days this old guy's been coming in, after betting on the ponies, (from which conclude since he bought all the horse racing books in the store, and had a racing form magazine and pays in cash). He got his walkman blasting classic rock, which seems later than his era, and his hips are a-shakin', enough so that seemed like he was either having a fit, trying to catch his balance or rockin' out. Since he never fell, and seemed cognizant, guess it was the 3rd. He made a total mess of every shelf he looked at, leaving piles everywhere and randomly reshelving everything, really getting annoying, until he drops 2 bills on some books, each day, then his behaviour becomes merely eccentric...

Bettie Page!

Pin-up Queen Bettie Page, at 85, is now in Flying Spaghetti Monster cheese-cake/stripper heaven. She was placed on life support last week after suffering a heart attack in Los Angeles and never regained consciousness, said her agent, Mark Roesler. He said he and Page's family agreed to remove life support. Before the heart attack, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia.

The Music's Over

Damn, looks like the hard drive I'd been storing all my mp3 on died... 80 gigs of music disapeared... well maybe a quarter of them I can re-rip, but hmm gonna be a lot I'll miss. Especially since I don't have any list of what was there even.. gah. I'd be upset.. except I haven't listened to any of them in over a year since I started using pandora...

Customer #1 "You can find a lot of information about that on the web."
Customer #2 "The FBI surfs the web, don't they?"
Everyone just goes quiet and sort of eyes the guy sidelong.

NECROVILLE

Couple of stoned chicks wandering around the store bemoaning the fact that there were no books on turtles, because one of them just got a turtle and she needs a book on turtles, etc. Kinda creepy chicks too, very drug chic.

San Diego Comic-Con 2008

Thursday
Watchmen

Sci-Fi Channel
Kevin Eastman
Steve Rude
Colleen Doran
David Petersen
Bill Plympton
James A. Owen
Simon Bisley
Rick Geary

Eoin Colfer

www.ComicMix.com

The Con Mob
Mark Buckingham, Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges - Fables.

hEcToR SeViLlA

Dalek

Dalek going after David




Friday
Max Brooks the Zombie guy

Bill Tucci - AIW

Bill Tucci - booth girl

Daniel Liester artitst on Zenescope's Beyond Wonderland


Steve Purcell - Sam & Max

Underworld chicks



Princess Lia's behind




On the way out.


Senor Donut!

Steven Segal's new movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOUORYAPds0

Guy with a cane, and perhaps a slight English accent, comes in looking for Byron, finds a combo Byron Keats Shelley, and when purchasing says "I should go next door," (across the way is a BevMo) "and get some Absinthe for reading this."
"I wouldn't be surprized if they did have some there." I say.
"Oh, they do. Trust me, I know." he answers with a grin.

internet phone USB

This looks interesting.

http://www.magicjack.com/4/index.asp

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/voip/magicjack.aspx

Fwd: Coraline

The stop-motion animated feature film based on Neil Gaiman's Coraline is set for a wide release on Feb.6
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12793.html
 

The creeps were out today, the 1st wanted to trade moldy, thrashed books for credit, and of course got annoyed when I declined. The 2nd was a couple having a spat, or getting a divorce, or something, I _tried_ not to listen to them, he put a book on the counter and wandered off, the she cursing under her breath) dropped a stack on the counter and left saying he would pay, least he owed her etc. He kept looking around, until long after she started to lean on the horn, and of course wouldn't get her stuff...

Hackmaster AD&D Cover Parodies

DMG







PHB

CBLDF wins!

At 4:30 on Friday afternoon, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund received word from its attorneys that all remaining charges against Rome, Georgia retailer Gordon Lee had been dropped:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12417.html
 

http://technabob.com/blog/2007/09/16/best-hard-disk-clock-ever/

Finally, A Prescription Just for YOU!!

Arrrggh! my back is killing me! and I can't figure out what the hell I did?!
Started Fri morning - and wasn't too bad, thought maybe slept bad or something, it was a bit worse on Saturday, and even worse today. I wasn't fencing - there was none thursday, and nothing big Tuesday, I guess could have been moving boxes or something - but you'd think I remember doing something! gah, hope it quits soon.

Best info booth question of the day - phone in - What's the name of that place across the way from you?

It's astounding how a pretty girl can get anything she wants. I'd never really seen it in action before. So A- and I were at the show, she's 20 has a pretty, though not striking face, and it fairly well endowed, but was wearing several layers of sweater & coat, so certainly wasn't dressed to thrill. Over the course of the day she was given several items just for expressing interest in them. Then while standing in line and being chatted up by some guy who she wasn't interested in and who she said was annoying - until he bought her lunch, then she was fine with him hanging around. And she wasn't even _trying_! I'd heard of this but really seeing it in action was amazing. Guys will do anything for a pretty face if it smiles at them... Not that I can claim dispassion or something, but it was interesting seeing it from the outside - as it were - for once.

Hoppy Zombie Bunny Day

Where Easter Eggs come from

The end of Pink

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/opinion/17price.html

get a life

http://www.alife4sale.com/

Hey David you were looking for a house... :)

Another loss

Report: Arthur C. Clarke, Dead at 90
By Sharon Weinberger March 18, 2008 | 6:06:00 PM
An aide to the famous science fiction writer tells the Associated Press that Arthur C. Clarke has died. That's all the news available at the moment. The author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, reportedly died in Sri Lanka, where he had been living for over 50 years.
If ever there was a need for a good biography, it is about Clarke. Revered as both a futurist and science fiction writer, he is also credited with proposing geostationary communications satellites. The breadth of his work and mysterious private life (which included accusations of pedophilia) would make for an intriguing story.

It's a sign of the Apocalypse...

http://www.kittywigs.com/wigindex.html

Gary Gygax -10 HP

http://reason.com/blog/show/125308.html

Fwd: BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN - Download a FREE copy for 3 days only

 

cooking show

While using the internet for its intended purpose I wandered across this site -

http://bunnybunns.net/Site/home.html

New Risk; Borders download centers

Hasbro is planning a fall release for a revamped version of Risk that will provide 3 different modes of play depending on the players' skill levels and the amount of time they have to play the game--yes, there will be a 60-90 minute version, but you won't be able to conquer the whole world in that time frame:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12112.html
 
Borders has opened the first of 14 "concept" stores planned to debut this year--and in addition to the state-of-the-art digital center, the store's have a special emphasis on several categories including graphic novels:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12115.html
 

Fwd: Monopoly the Movie?!; Akira Live!

Universal signed an agreement with Hasbro to produce four movies based on Hasbro properties such as Monopoly, Magic: The Gathering, and Clue:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12110.html
 
Leonardo DiCaprio and Warner Bros. are planning to release the first half of a 2-part live action adaptation of Akira in 2009:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12113.html
 

Blu-ray Wins!

In the wake of the decision by Wal-Mart to carry Blu-ray discs exclusively starting in June, Toshiba is ending support for the HD high definition format:

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12088.html