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My collection cataloged here.

Some quick facts you should know:

• -Most pucks are manufactured by Quebec-based Inglasco.
• -Pucks are only produced in Canada, Slovakia, Russia, China and the Czech Republic.
• -Pucks are frozen a few hours before use to make them less bouncy.
• -A standard puck is 1 inch thick and 3 inches in diameter.
• -NHL regulation pucks were not required until the 1990-91 season.
• -A diamond cross-hatch texture is put around the edge of the puck to increase friction between stick and puck.

Detroit Hipster Burger (Woodbridge Pub, Detroit)

Garrison Keillor’s Shoes.  Barnes & Noble, NYC.  Always wears red shoes.

Xmas shopping.  Upper West Side, NYC.

My favorite mall store is Hot Topic, with Spencer’s Gifts as a close second.

Don’t judge.

January 30th will be Doc Emrick Night at Prudential Center.

Product Description
Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you.

Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod’s humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It’s all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the practical magic of databases.

In The Manga Guide to Databases, Tico the fairy teaches the Princess how to simplify her data management. We follow along as they design a relational database, understand the entity-relationship model, perform basic database operations, and delve into more advanced topics. Once the Princess is familiar with transactions and basic SQL statements, she can keep her data timely and accurate for the entire kingdom. Finally, Tico explains ways to make the database more efficient and secure, and they discuss methods for concurrency and replication.

Examples and exercises (with answer keys) help you learn, and an appendix of frequently used SQL statements gives the tools you need to create and maintain full-featured databases.

(Of course, it wouldn’t be a royal kingdom without some drama, so read on to find out who gets the girl—the arrogant prince or the humble servant.)

This EduManga book is a translation of a bestselling series in Japan, co-published with Ohmsha, Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan.

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Vintage poison labels.

A cold fact
Asked about her bag, suburbia’s such a drag
Won’t go back
‘Cos Papa don’t allow no new ideas here
And now he sees the news, but the picture’s not too clear

Just when you think you’ve drained the last drop out of the Motor City’s musical heritage, another gem surfaces.  I was at this record store last week and Rodriguez’s Cold Fact was playing in the store.  The Misses picked up a copy and I started listening to it.  Unbeknownst to us, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez is a native Detroiter, a Wayne State grad and longtime Detroit community activist. Cold Fact was originally released in 1970 and has recently been reissued by Light In the Attic Records.  They’ve posted “Sugar Man” as a free download.  Visit the label site or Rodriguez site for more.

Nice leafbug found in the lobby of our apartment building.