On the domestic side, with slightly warmer temperature there was a lot to do around the house (spring cleaning, preparing the garden) and many things to organize (medical check-ups, update financial records, using the income tax returns to replace and update household appliances, etc). So it kept me busy. I didn't write much (just one book comment, on a manga about Freud). It is frustrating to have so many ideas, so many words in my mind that I could write and not enough time to do so… I went to a book sale and found lots of books (many manga) for really cheap. We've finally found someone (a shelter) to take the last of the kittens we've rescued this winter. I'm so glad that we found places for them, but I was also a little sad to see them leave. However, I kept one and his playfulness, his cuteness, fill me with joy. I've seen something really strange one night right after sunset: a swarm of seagulls noisily turning and pulsating into the clouds. Not long after, we got the first thunderstorm of the year…
In the news, provincial elections brought back a liberal government, the Ukrainian situation continues, they still haven't found the Malaysian plane, and a South Korean ferry sank killing lots of children from the same school. You'll find over an hundred links to some news stories that I found interesting — just after the jump:
Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture
- Top 300 Graphic Novels for March 2014 (ICv2)
- 'The Heroic Legend of Arslan' Manga Adaptation by 'FMA' Creator (ICv2)
- Harvard students learn about Apple's history through manga (Engadget)
- ComiXology is being bought by Amazon (TUAW)
- How ComiXology Became The iTunes Of Comic Books (Cult of Mac)
- 'Attack on Titan' Comes to Toonami and home video (ICv2)
- Amazon's ComiXology Acquisition Has Some Readers Concerned (Forbes)
- The 2014 Eisner Award Nominees (ICv2)
- Yen Press Announces New 'Light Novel' Imprint (ICv2)
- Amazon-Owned ComiXology Removes In-App Purchases From Its iOS App (MacTrast)
- May 2014 New Manga Releases (Suvudu)
- Du manga dans les steppes (Le Monde)
- Damned ! De la BD à la British Library ! (Le Monde)
- More 'Robotech RPG Tactics' Delays (ICv2)
- How to Teach iOS Autocorrect New Words (iPhone Life)
- Videoshop is an excellent video editor for iOS (TUAW)
- How To Setup a Geofenced Reminder on Your iOS Device (MacTrast)
- How to use Apple TV: The ultimate guide (iMore)
- A&E and History Channel add live TV stream in iOS apps (9 to 5 Mac)
- InDesign alternatives for Mac: Can anything unseat Adobe for page layout? (iMore)
- 10-second setup lets Siri control Nest, lighting and more via web app (9 to 5 Mac)
- Apple opens OS X beta program to the public for 10.9.3 (Ars technica)
- Apple Releases AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.7.3 With Heartbleed Fix (Mac Rumors)
- iOS 7.1.1 now available, improves Touch ID, fixes keyboard issues (TUAW)
- Apple’s Early Years Gets The Manga Treatment In New Comic Series (Cult of Mac)
- How to get beta seeds of OSX for your iMac and Macbooks (Cult of Mac)
- How US libraries are becoming community problem solvers (The Guardian)
- A Plea to Book Designers: InDesign Is Not a Linotype Machine (Huffington Post)
- Paper vs digital reading is an exhausted debate (The Guardian)
- Geek the Library — Literally (Huffington Post)
- Books, eBooks Decline in 2013 (ICv2)
- What 21st-century libraries can learn from this 19th-century institution (Quartz)
- Retour des lecteurs dans les librairies? (Le Devoir)
- L’écrivain colombien Gabriel Garcia Marquez est décédé (Le Devoir)
- Author Gabriel García Márquez dies (USA Today)
- La lecture des journaux sur support numérique gagne du terrain (La Presse)
- Deep reading: 'an island in the sea of technology' (The Observer)
- 12 Irrefutable, Amazing Reasons We Need More Diversity In Books (Huffington Post)
- How Role-Playing Games Made Me a Better Writer (Huffington Post)
- How Innovation and Technology Are Shaping Libraries of Today (Huffington Post)
- Libraries Working To Bridge The Cultural Divide (Huffington Post)
- Why Every Writer Needs An Author Brand (Huffington Post)
- 7 Big Myths About Libraries (Huffington Post)
- Lire pour minou (La Presse)
- Prix Boréal-Aurora 2014: Lauréats (fractale-framboise)
- U.S. Response to Crimea Worries Japan’s Leaders (NYT)
- The art of George W. Bush (Politico)
- Climat: le monde s’éloigne de la solution (Le Devoir)
- Ebola outbreak in Guinea 'unprecedented': MSF (BBC)
- Climate inaction to be 'catastrophe' (BBC)
- Boston Marathon Bib Theft On The Rise Due To Social Media (Huffington Post)
- Cancer And Death by Radiation? Not From Fukushima (Forbes)
- Dien Bien Phu: Did the US offer France an A-bomb? (BBC)
- En dix ans, quels prix ont le plus augmenté ? (Le Monde)
- Ukraine: « La menace d'une guerre civile est chaque jour moins farfelue » (Le Monde)
- At Chernobyl, Hints of Nature’s Adaptation (NYT)
- Vivre à Montréal avec son animal (PDF)
- Les ondes émises par les téléphones cellulaires sont inoffensives, dit un comité d’experts (Le Devoir)
- L'agrile menace nos frênes (lien, Wikipedia FR & EN)
- 10 objets qu'on ne sait jamais où jeter (L'internaute)
- U.S. Reports First Case of MERS (NBC)
- U.S. one of few countries with rise in maternal deaths (Canoe)
- Adopter un potager en ville : casse-tête ou nécessité? (Gaïa Presse)
- Mass memory and reasoning tests 'track dementia risk' (BBC)
- L'arrondissement de Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension poursuit ses actions pour lutter contre l'agrile du frêne (Link)
- Des étudiants anglophones passent à l’offensive (Le Devoir)
- Coderre veut abolir 2700 postes à Montréal (Le Devoir)
- Montréal veut abolir 2700 postes d'ici cinq ans (La Presse)
- Philippe Couillard met le PQ K.-O. (Le Devoir)
- ICI à la tronçonneuse (Le Devoir)
- Jim Flaherty s’éteint (Le Devoir)
- «Décisions difficiles» en vue à Québec (Le Devoir)
- Des tunnels limés pour laisser passer le nouveau métro (Journal de Montréal)
- Limage des tunnels: le DG de la STM rectifie le tir (Métro)
- La surenchère culturelle (Le Devoir)
- Travailleurs diplômés peinant à lire et à compter (Le Devoir)
- Le gouvernement maintient la hausse salariale des fonctionnaires (Le Devoir)
- RIP Dungeons & Dragons Artist Dave Trampier (Suvudu)
- How can Wikipedia woo women editors? (BBC)
- 'Game of Thrones' Renewed for Two More Seasons (ICv2)
- Film brings Pompeii back to life perfectly – and destroys it again (The Observer)
- Bob Hoskins of Roger Rabbit dead at 71 (Chicago Tribune)
- Al Feldstein, who headed Mad magazine, dies (AP)
- We shouldn't be grammar Nazis (The Telegraph)
- 7 Philosophers You Should Know (And Probably Don't) (Huffington Post)
- The Bad Grammar awards are prize stupidity (The Guardian)
- 7 Times When A Comma Has Made A MAJOR Difference (Huffington Post)
- Les rappeurs américains ont-ils plus de vocabulaire que Shakespeare ? (Le Monde)
- Pourquoi le code A113 se cache-t-il dans presque tous les films de Pixar ? (Le Monde)
- The Crimson Field: Les séries se tournent vers la Grande Guerre (Le Monde)
- New technology unwraps mummies' ancient mysteries (AP)
- Papyrus Referring to Jesus’ Wife Is More Likely Ancient Than Fake, Scientists Say (NYT)
- National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It's Beautiful (PolicyMic)
- Study of Moon’s Atmosphere Ends With Planned Crash (NYT)
- Pompeii "Exposed and Vulnerable" to Neglect and the Elements (NG)
- Ancient Writer's Tomb, Artifacts Found In Egypt (Huffington Post)
- Le « David » de Michel-Ange menace de s'écrouler (Le Monde)
- Plaidoyer pour le journalisme scientifique (Le Monde)
- 50 momies découvertes dans une nécropole géante (Le Monde)
- L’archéologie de la Grande Guerre (Le Monde)
- Une nouvelle écriture ? (Le Monde)
- Watch the ISS's View of Earth Live, Right Here, Right Now (Gizmodo, UStream link)
- You can finally watch a live video feed of Earth from space, and it’s awesome (ExtremeTech)
Technology, Gadgets & Internet
- Nest Halts Sales of ‘Protect’ Smoke Alarm Over Safety Concerns (Cult of Mac)
- Windows XP demise gives small business a tech headache (BBC)
- Hackers Trying to Exploit 'Heartbleed' Bug, U.S. Officials Warn (NBC)
- Do's And Don'ts Of Email Writing (Huffington Post)
- LED Tubes Will Make Fluorescents Seem Old-Fashioned (Gizmodo)
- Bras de fer en vue dans les municipalités (Journal de Montréal)
- Les employés municipaux exposés à la violence (Jobboom)
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2 comments:
The day after writing these lines I learned that my transfer request was accepted. So from the beginning of June I will work in another library. After nearly two years (and thirty job applications) to try tirelessly (and unsuccessfully) to leave the borough where I work to get closer to my home, I decided to aim for a more realistic goal and apply for a transfer within the same borough and so bring me only a little closer. Better have occasionally a small victory that no victory at all! It's better for morale and for the mind too!
Le jour après avoir écrit ces lignes j’ai appris que ma demande de mutation avait été accepté. Donc, dès le début de juin je vais travailler dans une autre bibliothèque. Après près de deux ans (et une trentaine de demandes d’emploi) à essayer sans relâche (et sans succès) de sortir de l’arrondissement où je travaille pour me rapprocher de chez moi, j’ai décidé de viser un objectif plus réaliste et de faire une demande de mutation à l’intérieur même de l’arrondissement et ainsi de me rapprocher seulement un tout petit peu. Vaut mieux avoir de temps en temps une petite victoire que pas de victoire du tout! C’est meilleur pour le moral et pour le mental.
I'll probably save only fifteen minutes on my commute time (thirty minutes round-trip off the ninety it takes me now), but it will be a quieter library, and I won't have to deal with the teenagers from hell anymore. I am quite happy!
Même si je sauve seulement une quinzaine de minutes de voyagement (une trentaine de minutes par jour de moins sur les quatre-vingt-dix que ça me prends en ce moment), je vais travailler dans une bibliothèque plus tranquille et je n'aurais plus affaire aux ados de l'enfer! Somme toute, je suis pas mal content.
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