Five Fists piece on CBR.

"'Five Fists of Science' is the story of genius author Mark Twain and genius inventor Nikola Tesla and their plan to bring about world peace while saving mankind from apocalypse," Fraction explained to CBR News. "Standing in their way are Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan, the heads of an evil science-cabal that have apocalypse plans of their own.

"Best of all, it's 100% true. Almost."

Nikol's got a new knitting blog.

Also, her book is on Amazon: Naughty Needles. (I think Laurenn and I are both in it. Jess and I both knit samples for it.)

I started my Japanese lessons last night and I'm more excited about it than I can possibly tell you. Also? Intimidated. Because a) I am old and my brain is not as elastic as it once was; and b) I am forever pressed for time.

The first thing I need to get started on is learning the alphabet -- or alphabets, actually. Eek. I'm thinking flashcards...? Thoughts? Tips? Jean, Barbara, Eric... I'm looking at you.

Also, I recall seeing some kind of flashcard software -- a free application, I think -- recently, though I don't recall where that was off the top of my head. Was it a Merlin Mann thing...? Anyone?

I have some funny friends. Jason Hefter, Craig Baldo, Dave Holmes... all fine comedians. Fraction's no slouch either. But how far are these guys willing to go for a joke? Chip Zdarsky? ALWAYS WILLING TO GO TOO FAR.

What I'm reading: -Batman, Detective Comics, Legends of the Dark Night, Batman Year 100, Batman and the Monster Men, All Star Batman and Robbin the Boy Wonder, Batman:Secrets, The Batman Strikes!, Batman Jpurney into Night, Superman/Batman, Love & Rockets

Do you see the lens flare on the boobies? Do you see? In context.

It's official.

Congratulations, baby. So proud of you.

(If you're only going to read one, people, read the CBR story.)

Fraction on Five Fists on Newsarama.

People who speak computer/web stuff, can you help me think this out?

So, Ryan has agreed to help me out of my daily blacklist hell by upgrading me to the next version of MT this weekend. (I spend a good 15-20 minutes using blacklist to wipe comments spam off my site DAILY.)

But now I'm thinking, would I be wasting his time? My site is due for a redesign. Casey put NattyMinx.com on Word Press and I love it. It's so much friendlier than MT. Especially because he set up Amazon and upload buttons for me so I can do everything for a post from a single page.

If I switched kellysue.com from MT to WP, would I have to migrate all my old posts over by hand? I mean, there are a THOUSAND.

If I decided to suck it up and hand enter all that stuff, what do you think -- should I just combine the Personal and Professional blogs? Ellis says yes, and well, he seems to know what he's doing. I mean, I could upload a resume and just link to that page for professional inquiries that can't tolerate posts about knitting. Or, I could move knitting posts over to livejournal. Hm.

Is this slow migration thing even feasible?

As long as I kept an archive for myself, would it be so tragic if my old posts just came down and I started fresh...? What if I only manually moved over my favorites -- the "best of's"...?

Is WP something I could set up myself? If I can get things moved over Jean Snow thinks he can help me make it pretty. (I'm crushing very hard on his blog right now.) (Merry, who did this design, did an amazing job and it's held up well for me for what? Two or three years now, right? But she's in school and burning multiple candles at multiple ends.)

So many questions.

And, you know, since I'm sitting on all kinds of spare time and money right now, my timing on this is superb.

Maybe it's best I just ask Ryan to go ahead and do his thing this weekend and revisit this idea this summer... when I'm going to be busier than I am right now.

Gah.

Several updates on the Pro page today.

Details on Sanders' blog.