Ka-runch

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This happened to us this week.

Wednesday, I flipped my old phone open, and, well, it kept going. Hinge just shattered. So Wednesday night we ended up shopping for new phones (since we were both outside of contract anyway). My number (for those of you who have it) hasn’t changed, but now my phone plays music too.

And when I added Xingtone to my computer, well, let’s just say I have some very interesting ring tones now :)

Yes, some of us do this for fun.

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If any of you are still in touch with your high school English teachers (or mine) it might be worthwhile to pass on a link to Websnark.com: The Podcast and the Examiner: on the nature of Webcomics Criticism.

I say that because, in English class through high school and even through college, I often heard people ask when they would possibly ever use the literary criticism skills they were stubbornly digesting at the time.

Well, if your interests lie in creation of things – art, fiction, comics, pretty much anything – you might find that literary skills come in handy sometime much later, when you’re participating in the creative community.

And no, I don’t expect my English teachers (or anyone else) to understand all of this comic criticism, this is more to say, “Look! I’m still using the skills you taught me! Thank you!”

Site redesign take two!

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It’s been, what? Six or seven months since a redesign? Anyway, hope you like it… I’m not happy with the comic navigation myself, but that’s because I’m fussy fussy fussy.

New features:

  • having your browser window too small shouldn’t cause a big empty white space at the top anymore.
  • the “links” list (fastest way to get to the forum) won’t spontaneously rearrange itself. the order you see is the order you get.
  • it just plain looks nicer than that boxy thing.
  • number of items in each category is posted in the category list
  • if you click the title of a given category, you can use “first / previous / next / current” links to navigate – this is especially handy for the comics, which are usually navigated that way everywhere else. (note: you’ll get all the comics – there’s no way to do this by subcategory yet… i’m still looking for one though.)
  • changed the RSS feed so you have to actually VISIT the site to view the comics. I miss your smiling faces!
  • code validates!

So, seeing as my stomach still hurts, sleeping’s going to be an interesting challenge, but i can’t miss work two days straight, so it’s off to bed I go.

Ugh.

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If asked two hours ago, I would have said that I much prefer getting sick to being nauseous, because at least something’s happening to resolve the issue.

I’ve changed my mind.

What a lousy way to start a week. I’m going back to bed and will try to reboot Monday later.