I’m a twenty-something university grad living in the Bay Area with hopes of returning to the world of academia for Japanese, linguistics, or East Asian Studies.
My obsessive-compulsions include stopping the microwave only when the time remaining is divisible by five and reading the fine print on commercials.
My first sip of tea was out of my baby bottle. I make one of the best cuppas you’ll ever taste.
my mom’s argument against piracy is “well what if you wrote a book and one person bought it and then hundreds of people got to read it for free and you didn’t make any money!”
MOTHER YOU HAVE JUST DESCRIBED
LIBRARIES
(via nomi-malone)
I heart my library
I show [my love for the library] a lot but I feel the need to yell it at the top of my lungs right now. /all
I had to get my copy of “1Q84” when one of my fav local bookstores tweeted that it was released today. :)
This is the single most important thing I’ve ever babbled about on the internet.
My incredible partner Tanner is opening a book store here in Chicago. This is their dream, and what we’ve dedicated the last 7 months of our lives to work towards. He quit his job, he sold the proverbial farm, and we are ready to open Uncharted Books very soon—
but not without help from our friends and our communities.
Tanner has launched a Kickstarter and we are looking for people to invest to help turn the perfect location in the heart of Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood from
into a haven for writers, readers, and nerds without refuge.
I know times are tough, I am acutely and personally aware of this fact, so please know that your investment means the world to me and to Tanner and to our future. Your investment, also, is just that: an investment. It comes with a reward. Things like lifetime discounts, free books, swag, and invitations to our investor-only preview party.
Please check out our kickstarter page at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1945935286/uncharted-books to see all of the cool rewards and read more about the store Tanner is trying to build.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to read this and please, please, reblog.
I’m really proud of these two for being so brave and chasing their dreams. Also for doing good by books, community and creativity. Also for being amazing members of my Chosen Family.
I love you both and I can’t wait to see your dreams flourish.
The decay of a bookstore - a continuation of a death of a bookstore.
(via lookinglasslife)
LeVar Burton Reveals Reading Rainbow Follow-Up
Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton has raised funds for a follow-up to his beloved public television show, a series of smartphone and tablet enhanced eBooks for kids. His new company is called RRKidz.
The new website includes Burton’s trademark slogan from the show: “Coming Soon … but you don’t have to take my word for it.” Burton summarized the show with a twitter hashtag: “Reading Rainbow for today’s connected kids.”
Here’s more from FishbowlLA: “Fifteen months after indicating to New York Times columnist David Pogue at a Macworld event that he was raising money for a start-up, actor LeVar Burton is fully focused on the twain of education and enhanced children’s e-books. He tells Venture Beat that his company RRKidz has got $3 million in seed funding and is compiling a library of 300 iPad and Smartphone titles, with roughly 50 of those to be voiced by Burton himself. The actor is partnered on the project with Buffalo’s WNED-TV, rights-holder to the 1983-2006 PBS series Reading Rainbow.”
(via teachingliteracy)
Today On TDW: Geek —
- Above: That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore — a zombie-themed children’s book.
- Carol Bartz: “Yahoo! f*cked me over.”
- Arrington out at AOL for real: Fortune.
- Google’s latest purchase: Zagat.
- Space.com celebrates Star Trek’s 45th birthday with a comprehensive infographic.
- Warner Bros. Pictures Canada uses “living billboards” to advertise Contagion.
- Illinois man with mental disability has valuable Superman collection stolen.
- Arduino turns ordinary desk lamp into Pixar’s Luxo, Jr.
- Full House and Street Fighter — together at last.
