Via Slashdot…  This scanned across my computer screen today…

The Manga Guide To Databases

Princess Ruruna, of the Kingdom of Kod, has a problem. Her parents, the King and Queen, have left to travel abroad. Ruruna has been left to manage the nations fruit business. Much is at stake, Kod is known as "The Country of Fruit." Ruruna is not happy though, as she is swamped by paperwork and information overload. A mysterious book, sent by her father, contains Tico the fairy. Tico, and the supernatural book are going to help Princess Ruruna solve her problems with the power of the database. This is the setting for all that takes place in The Manga Guide to Databases. If you are like me and learned things like normalization and set operations from a rather dry text book, you may be quite entertained by the contents of this book. If you would like to teach others about creating and using relational databases and you want it to be fun, this book may be exactly what you need.

Er…  Right.  It’s Monday morning…it’s gray and rainy and chilly just like it’s been now for days and days…  I’m tired, I’m about to go nuts with all this damn rain all the damn time…and this pops up on my computer screen.  A Manga.  About a princess.  In the Country of Fruit.  Suffering from information overload.  Swamped with database problems.  Rescued in the nick of time by Tico The Fairy.  I had to stare at this for a few seconds while my brain kept insisting that I was going to wake up any moment now and Monday would begin for real this time…

If this post is confusing you…don’t worry.  There’s an in-joke staring me in the face that I just can’t even think about clarifying here.