Maybe I can compile a bunch of these silly notes and call that an update. No, I CAN, but I wonder if I WILL. I haven’t decided if this one counts yet, either.
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I just went outside for ten minutes or so for the purpose of looking at the moon. That probably means I’m crazy. However, it might be the good crazy. Either way it probably also means that I am boring.
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Last year I whined, inadvertently, on my birth-day. This year I pledge not to do that. If you don’t know when it is or had forgotten, that is fine and possibly preferable.
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Monday:
Yes, it’s true! I broke my own website!
While trying to block another abusive IP address with a file called “.htaccess,” I inadvertently destroyed everything. I thought the webhost people had removed the old one, but evidently it had only been set to be invisible somehow. Since I could not find the old one to work from, I couldn’t add the old data nor keep its syntax, the syntax being the disastrous element. Eight hours later, I noticed. All I could do was swap the bad htaccess for a blank one, because I appear to never have bothered to save an online copy of the most recent functioning non-blank version. And so now not only is the new comment robot not blocked, the OLD ones are UNBLOCKED. Whoopth.
WHILE the site was broken, a message instructed anyone, possibly no one, to send email to “[email protected].” I don’t know whose address that is, but it certainly isn’t mine! I am but a webpeasant. I did sometime ago make this thing forward any email addressed to bimshwel to me, but I doubt it knows how to do that when it’s broken. Also, I haven’t been writing a page update since the last one.
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page 7 of that
At last, I have uploaded three comic pages in one month! However, I did not get much else done and now expect to revert to my standard .9 or less.
I reversed the creature positions from the old ones so they would match the previous page. However, the words fit better the old way. Whoopth. Someday I’ll figure it out. Maybe that should be the title. No, I like the current one better.
I did not hate the “I had my house built BACKWARDS” line, despite its apparent untruth conflicting with the odd, unfunny compulsion I make the speaker have later; I’m sure something about the house is backwards that kumquat kould klaim makes the statement true, but this alternate version occurred to me and I didn’t want it to go to waste.
In addition to the color, I like to think I’m using this as an opportunity to correct the errors of a poorly/not at all thought out thing but that I like the eventual result of and so dare not scrap entirely. So why am I still using the same fonts I picked out on a whim almost nine years ago? I don’t adhere to them as strictly as I did when I first started hand-writing them rather than type-setting them, but you can still discern that they’re based on fonts.
You do not own me! I do not answer to you! Stop trying to take my rights awayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Two turntables (and a microphone) sez:
It’s good to see that you’re making rapid progress on the revised editions of these. Though I also had no objection to the previous line, I must agree that the new variant was indeed a good choice. Much punnier.
The “I never said I paid them” bubble is a bit too small in this version, to the point of barely being readable. It further gives the impression that Kumquat is effectively whispering this remark to biv’s self, though I kan’t imagine kumquat would be particularly koy about this sort of komment. After all, it probably never even occurred to Pog in the first place that one ought to be paid for one’s work (as well as being questionable as to whether a significant portion of Pog’s normal activities can realistically be described as “work”), and Yibrick and any other possible parties are presumably out of hearing range at the moment.
Out of curiosity, is the yieldingness of the road to pressure meant to represent its gorplixinity, or is this merely another curious background detail like sine-curve like wall? Further, are we to really assume Pog to be heavy enough to make a significant indentation? I always assumed Pog to a weight approximately equivalent to a comparably sized portion of Jell-O brand gelatin dessert. Also, in the final panel Pog’s right arm seems to be melting into Pog’s right…headfoot. Creepy.
Rabivit sez:
I would not call the progress “rapid…” this one still took me a week to do, and I can’t bring myself to initiate the next just yet!
Yes, I decided the path area was comprised of the same substance as the other ground areas. I think, assuming I am using earth gravity and proportions and such, that pog weighs a bit more than gelatin, but certainly less than most other characters generally depicted. And so perhaps I did err in this regard, visually, on this occasion. I did not think of it much.
“I never said I paid them” is meant to be quickly mumbled rather than whispered. I had not intended to imply that pog and yibrick were “staff;” the reference to a “them” was just a dumb joke. I had not even considered that yibrick might exist when I first wrote it. But I suppose it could be thought of as having meaning. In any event I doubt kumquat is koncerned that pog might hear this remark.
A Dragon out for a day of Relaxation sez:
As a matter of fact, a shark did jump some Fonzies. See it here: http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x207/RelaxingDragon1/Public/?action=view¤t=SealabJumptheFonzies.flv
Rabivit sez:
I need to pay more attention to the news!
I would also have accepted the violent, from an ambush kind. Preferably outside of the water, where it would be less expected.