Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Kindle Comic Books?

I wonder if someone can respond to this.  I'm very curious about Comic Books being available on the Kindle 2.  I know that some comic books are full size like magazines so you have a larger page and if it's shrunk down for the kindle will it be harder to read.  Or perhaps if it is available for the Kindle, will you only get 1 box at a time,  What about the bigger boxes that take up the whole page of the comic book?  That will definitely be harder to read.  Maybe it would have a zoom?  Or does the Kindle 2 have zoom?

I think it would be a cool idea to have comic books available on your Kindle.  If someone googles Comic Book with the word Kindle please respond to this if you find this post and let me know what you think.  Is this going to be available?  Would you like it to become available or is it just better to have them in paper form for their value in the future?

Just so that I don't look like a complete moron, I went to Amazon and searched for comic books and found this Serenity, Vol. 1: Those Left Behind [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback).  I see that it's not available for Kindle so I clicked the "I'd like to read this on Kindle" link.  Yeah, I know, I don't have a kindle yet but I've been clicking that for a lot of books just so they do become available.  At some point I'd like to get one, some day.  But that Serenity book says paperback but it is a comic book.



I looked up Spiderman comic books and they all say paperback and they all have the "I'd like to read this on Kindle" link.

Future PSP Dream

I had this dream that I was in a department store like Walmart or whatever, I don't remember where it was.  Sometimes in dreams you end up somewhere and you have no idea where.  And I was in the electronics department (yeah big surprise lol) and there was a PSP sitting on a box in front of the counter and it was turned on.

I picked it up and showed the sales lady that there was a PSP on the box and she said it's a demo, go ahead and play with it.  I looked at it and it was odd.  The screen wasn't as glossy as the PSP-2000, I'm guessing it was the same as the PSP-3000.  And the right side was missing completely.  The buttons were gone as well as the top right button.  It was obviously smoothed out so it wasn't cut.  I cropped an image of a PSP to show how it looked.

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Obviously the button on the bottom wasn't cut in half in the dream, Actually there wasn't any space between the bottom of the screen and the bottom of the PSP.  I don't know what buttons were on the left side but there were buttons.  And it was all touch screen too.  Oh and I remember it was so light too.  I mean, my PSP is light but the PSP is my dream was so much lighter, it was like half the weight of the current PSP Slim.

I touched the screen and moved my finger and the screen changed, I mean it moved as if I was pressing the arrow buttons to move around.  I'm assuming the buttons on the left were the triangle, square, circle and x buttons.

It was really cool but then all of a sudden I was outside and there was a tiger in a tree trying to save her cub and there was a woman in a dress which was dark green then faded to light green and had these black lines on them.  All of a sudden the tigers fur changed and it looked just like the dress as if it were a chameleon.

Weird huh?

Pet Toxins

I got an email about Pet Toxins.  You know already that you can't give chocolate to your dog because they just cannot tolerate it and it will kill them.  This one time our dog Flower (toy chihuahua) ate half of a doughnut with chocolate frosting that Chip left on the couch while he went to the kitchen.  We rushed her to the vet with the doughnut and showed them how much she ate.  They said that she might feel a little sick and maybe even vomit but she'll be OK,  It wasn't enough to hurt her.

But is there ever any amount that is OK?  No.  That's why I'm listing foods that you absolutely cannot feed your dog or cat.

  • Grapes and Raisins - In dogs and cats, grapes can cause kidney failure.

  • Bread Dough - The dog's body heat will cause the dough to expand quickly resulting in severe abdominal pain and bloating. In some cases, death can occur if enough dough is eaten.

  • Chewing Gum - A dog might be attracted to the sweet-smelling gum that your kids are chewing or that's tucked away in your bag. But the artificial sweetener, xylitol, in many types of gum and breath mints, can be deadly to pets. The sweetener can cause a low-blood sugar crisis in your pet. In fact, just one pack of gum can kill a dog.

  • Macadamia Nuts - Ingesting these nuts can cause tremors, weakness, unsteadiness, depression, a rapid heart rate, and a dangerous rise in body temperature that can lead to other complications.

  • Nicotine - Nicotine is highly toxic so it doesn't take much to cause a health crisis for your pet, including seizures, coma and death.

  • Chocolate - Caffeine-like stimulants in chocolate known as methylxanthines can produce vomiting, diarrhea, excessive thirst and urination, hyperactivity, abnormal heart rhythm, tremors, seizures and even death.

  • Alcohol - Alcohol ingestion can lead to seizures, heart arrhythmia, vomiting, coma and death.

  • Pain Relievers - One tablet of acetaminophen can kill a cat.

  • Tea - Caffeine in your tea is toxic to both cats and dogs. Depending on how much is consumed and the size of your pet, ingesting it can lead to vomiting, diarrhea, hyperactivity, seizures, coma and even death.

  • Onions - Onions are toxic to dogs and cats whether they're raw or cooked. When ingested, onions can cause hemolytic anemia, a condition that destroys the red blood cells in the bloodstream. A dog with onion poisoning may become lethargic and have difficulty breathing. Generally, a large amount of onions would need to be consumed to pose a serious threat to your dog, but cats are highly sensitive to onion toxicity.


Wow, I didn't even know that about all these things.  I knew about chocolate but not the rest like the macadamia nuts.  Well, who can afford those anyway?

All I have to say is that the dog on Family Guy better stop smoking and drinking. (That was a joke hehe sorry Brian).

The source by the way is AOL Health.  The website address that this came from is Pet Toxins- AOL Health.  You gotta click the arrow on the picture for a pop up window that shows a top 11 list of what I listed.