GRAPHIC ARTIST Must be proficient in Mac and all Mac programs. Photoshop, Acrobat, OS10, Illustrator experience. Ability to convert PC files to Mac format. Experience with emailing and receiving art, sending digital film out to film product unit or direct play. Familiarity with printing a plus. Ability to make files press ready. Good spelling, grammatical and proofreading skills. Must be [...]

I need to get something off my chest, and it got on my chest because of a page I saw while previewing another Japanese language learning book: Language Poseurs It just pisses me off. Many Americans who learn Japanese are learning it in the hopes of reading manga, or meeting chicks, or watching anime. The anime and manga don’t bother [...]

I studied Japanese in high school and through college. I still remember a lot of it, but like wisps of smoke, words’ exact meanings and the speed of native speech elude me. I haven’t ridden that bike in years, so watching Fujisankei news, listening to Japanese people at Minoya, it’s frustrating. That cool skill I used to have is fading [...]

I bought a Finding Nemo pen at Disneyworld when I went there with my husband and dad and everybody back in ’04. I love that pen. It’s cute, and has a little Nemo thingy where you pump the point out. The ink ran out. I went to Staples and bought some ball-point thingy that looked like it would be the [...]