Si visita aqui a menudo, sabe probablemente que mi español sucks, pero estoy aprendiendo lentamente.

Miro muchos de la TV desde México de practicar, y he comenzado últimamente a mirar una programa de la mañana desde San Luis Potosi se llama Te Levanta, una programa de Mexicanal.  Para migo, es más difícil que las noticias y otras programas; las presentadoras en la show hablan rápidamente y como la gente regular.  Es un desafío agradable. 

Ayer, envié una nota rápida, y a mi sorpresa, hoy dijeron hola  — durante la show. Es una manera para me despierte muy agradable. Agradezco mucho, Te Levanta.  Deseo mucho éxito para ustedes.

We now return you to my regularly-scheduled butchering of English, below.

Bay Area readers: I’ve just been asked to do a signing of Prisoner of Trebekistan at this year’s WonderCon up at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.  As I am slowly becoming a comics geek in midlife, this is a thrill.

My workload is still pretty thick right now, so it’ll be a very brief visit once we get the details worked out.  More info shortly.

Bay Area readers: I’ve just been asked to do a signing of Prisoner of Trebekistan at this year’s WonderCon up at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.  As I am slowly becoming a comics geek in midlife, this is a thrill.

My workload is still pretty thick right now, so it’ll be a very brief visit once we get the details worked out.  More info shortly.

A new academic study based on 10 years of financial data has found that media companies which invest in their newsrooms, producing a superior product, are much more profitable than companies that slash and burn, hoping to cut costs.

So Tribune, McClatchy, and the other media companies who have been buying newspapers and then cutting staff aren’t just betraying the public — they’re betraying their own interests as well.

According to the BBC, Baghdad residents are using Google Earth to plot their paths around town, hoping to anticipate and avoid various militias. I cannot begin to imagine.

Meanwhile, these enterprising folks put together this look at Saddam’s Baghdad palace, before and after the US occupation:

I have no additional comment.  (Note: their site has started having server troubles, so if you just see a big white box, you’ll have to try again later.  Sorry for any inconvenience.)