Michael Fri Jul 27 08:58:23 2001
Polymer City
What is this, some kind of Toonbots *thing* building or something? First Jenn says that her "friend" actually *recommended* Toonbots as an initial foray into the Webtooning scene (I have no idea who this so-called friend is, but it was a cruel, cruel trick to play on poor Jenn, now wasn't it?) (Oh, and Jenn? Is this your arm that Gwendolyn left under my desk this morning?)
And today I saw that the Polymer City Chronicles has linked to Toonbots (http://www.polymer-city.com/) -- did somebody here submit me, or did this guy just find me on his own? Weird. Weird, I tell you.
And yet daily traffic on the front page holds steady at about 40 hits a day. I just don't get it. First, who are all these 40 people every day? Second, if they tell two friends, and *they* tell two friends, and so on, why are there still only 40 of them?
Am I obsessing? I'm obsessing. I'm going to go back to getting Oracle to accept my callbacks and give me LOB data. I understand Oracle. Oracle loves me.
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Michael Fri Jul 27 13:40:29 2001
Re: Polymer City
> I'm going to go back to getting Oracle to
> accept my callbacks and give me LOB data. I understand Oracle. Oracle
> loves me.
Let me rephrase that -- Oracle feels nothing whatever except for an inhuman and implacable hatred for me that burns with the heat of a thousand suns.
But I still made it work. Hee, hee.
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Jenn Fri Jul 27 15:29:24 2001
Re: Polymer City
This is probably a good place to mention this...I was gonna save it for later...but...
I found the forum archives quite by accident today. (You can stop laughing at me any time. It's not my fault that I just can't manage computers at all. And that despite Michael patiently sending me email after email, trying to explain where it was...I simply didn't see the button. In fact, I didn't see the button this time. I just happened to click on it because our home computer is so slow that it takes 3 minutes for a Netscape window to load, and I clicked on it accidentally. Yeah, yeah, yeah, MS people. Explorer takes longer and has a 50% likelihood of making the screen turn all blue.)
Y'all sound really smart. Especially, like about computers and programming and stuff. If I'd seen that before I started posting, I would never have screwed up the courage to post in the first place. Cajoling from Michael (mostly I think cause I wouldn't stop emailing him otherwise) aside, of course.
Anyway, my point is that this is clearly the thinking programmer's comic. And as such, should there really be a concern about the number of people who hit the site a day? In my experience, playing to the largest number of viewers produces such works of art as: Monster Truck Rallies. Budweiser. And any number of painful reality tv shows.
It's a shame he didn't come up with (as of yet, I'm only so far as January in the archives.../89/ messages in a thread? Man, you all are verbose!) that thingie that measured quality. That's probably a better way to judge the strip than numbers.
I did learn something else from the forum archives. I'm rivalling Lord Emsworth in post length. Gotta learn to turn off stream of consciousness...
Jenn
Shutting up now. Before the wolverines tear my fingers off.
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gopher Fri Jul 27 16:06:11 2001
Re: Polymer City
> (as of yet, I'm only so far as January
> in the archives.../89/ messages in a thread? Man, you all are verbose!)
Or maybe just insane. We could have had more, too, if not for the cursed thread reaper...
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Cursed Thread Reaper Fri Jul 27 16:38:43 2001
Re: Polymer City
> Or maybe just insane. We could have had more, too, if not for the cursed
> thread reaper...
MWUHAHAHAHAHA! My plans are coming to fruition!
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gopher Fri Jul 27 17:13:08 2001
Re: Polymer City
> MWUHAHAHAHAHA! My plans are coming to fruition!
Napoleon? Is it possible to defenestrate a perl script?
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Napoleon Fri Jul 27 18:45:26 2001
Re: Polymer City
> Napoleon? Is it possible to defenestrate a perl script?
If there isn't, I'll create one.
Ahh, I love a challenge.
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Napoleon Fri Jul 27 18:57:43 2001
Re: Polymer City
> If there isn't, I'll create one.
I'll create A WAY, even. Sheesh.
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Michael Sat Jul 28 04:34:30 2001
Re: Polymer City
> I'll create A WAY, even. Sheesh.
The Jihad: coherence-optional.
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Chris Sat Jul 28 06:14:16 2001
Re: Polymer City
> The Jihad: coherence-optional.
Multitudes of coniferous vacuum tubes with a cardboard phaser in the conservatory.
You haven't lived until you've tasted melted atmosphere.
Wolverines tied up with string under the Christmas tree.
No, no, Alaric, I was just kidding I was just kiddAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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pv Tue Jul 31 18:47:47 2001
Re: Polymer City
> The Jihad: coherence-optional.
I thought we were through with the physics references? PV
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Michael Fri Jul 27 16:44:01 2001
Re: Polymer City
> Netscape window
If it's good enough for the metacartoonist, it's good enough for the Jihad.
> And as such, should there really be a concern about the number of people
> who hit the site a day?
BoxJam gets more traffic than I do, the jerk.
> I did learn something else from the forum archives. I'm rivalling Lord
> Emsworth in post length. Gotta learn to turn off stream of
> consciousness...
But *why* for God's sake? I *like* your posts. They're funnier than Tirdun's and more prolific than gopher's.
> Shutting up now. Before the wolverines tear my fingers off.
Down, Gwennie.
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Michael Sat Jul 28 07:11:35 2001
Oracle and hatred and stuff
> But I still made it work. Hee, hee.
OK, so, I made it work *today*. And so I complete a task after two and a half grueling weeks which I had estimated at three days.
Sigh.
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