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Eric: A day of... well, nothing.
It was a day of nothing. Nothing at all. All worthy things passed by me with no acknowledgment. And barely even any notice. It was, in short, a null day. In terms of Websnark, anyhow.
Though I did unravel Gossamer Commons's RSS troubles -- not that Bloglines has noticed or cared. Fucking Bloglines. And Weds and I brainstormed a new CMS (Wordpress based, most likely) for GC. And Greg bounced some thoughts and continued to build the buffer on the strip.
Oh, and I wrote some scripts and did some work on Sekret Projekt Wu.
So it wasn't a total waste. I just... didn't have something for here, today. And so, I suck.
I'm tired. I'm going to bed. Night.
Posted by Eric Burns-White at March 27, 2005 11:20 PM
Comments
Comment from: miyaa posted at March 28, 2005 4:05 AM
Eh, no sweat, Eric. You don't have to have something new for us every day (ditto to Wednesday).
Comment from: larksilver posted at March 28, 2005 11:35 AM
Darlin', it sounds like you were extraordinarily productive to me. Please don't beat yourself up on our account. Sure, sure, we love it when you write for us. But we don't want anything you had to force yourself to do, or had to pull yourself out of a groove to do.
Based on the comments I read here, I think most of Websnark's audience consists of creative types, who all understand what it's like when the work just flows (and what it's like when it does NOT).
We know you'll turn your creative eye back to the Snarky goodness soon. The comics, they will draw your gaze back toward them inexorably, and we will all benefit. We can wait. Of course, we benefit from the Gossamer goodness too. So it's a win-win. No worries, man.
Comment from: Colin L. Burke posted at March 28, 2005 1:42 PM
You had the perfect excuse! All you needed to say was that you were too busy with Easter, and that would have covered it. (Even if you didn't do anything involving the holiday at all.) ;)
Comment from: Zaq posted at March 28, 2005 1:51 PM
Consider everything you've said about non-"professional" webcomics (that is, ones that aren't the cartoonist's sole job) that don't update every single day. And think about how we've agreed wholeheartedly with you, chanting the "We're not paying for it, they don't owe us anything" mantra with the best of them. I think it should be pretty obvious that we're nothing less than totally sympathetic to something like this.
Besides, if anyone deserves a break now and again, it's you... juggling creation and mechanics of a brand spanking new comic, along with this, along with a bills-paying job, along with whatever else you like to do. Don't kill yourself on our sake. We'll be here later. Promise.
Comment from: Wednesday posted at March 28, 2005 2:57 PM
Dammit. I was expecting a full 10k words on the decline and fall of Sabrina this morning. Curse you for not staying up until 7AM like the rest of us!
Comment from: Tangent posted at March 28, 2005 3:04 PM
Heh. I think you should take time and enjoy yourself a little, Eric. Hell, you've not done a good snark on a book or movie of late, and it's YOUR snarkspace, so go wild with something different. :) *chuckle* Or you can even do a "Write a Snark" contest and take the three Snarks you like the best and put those up for a day or two while you take some time off to relax.
Except knowing you, you'd find a comic doing something cool on the day you have off and end up snarking anyway. Not to mention having to go through a hundred+ snark submissions... *laughter*
Rob, the Tangential one
Comment from: Xaviar Xerexes posted at March 29, 2005 12:24 AM
Eric,
It takes a webcomic CMS to get me to go thru the hassle of signing up for Type Keyster. If you can get WordPress to behave like a webcomic CMS please consider sharing :)
Gluemeat has turned MT into a pretty decent webcomic CMS and I have seen Wordpress used - I think it was Ad Grunts.
Comment from: Rhandir posted at October 28, 2005 1:49 PM
Hi!
Back in March, Xaviar Xerexes, said:
"It takes a webcomic CMS to get me to go thru the hassle of signing up for Type Keyster. If you can get WordPress to behave like a webcomic CMS please consider sharing :)"
Well, I'm no Eric Burns, but I did hack WordPress into a webcomic CMS! Gotcher navigation buttons, gotcher different styled posts for webcomic posts vs. regular posts. Gotcher mad hax. Okay, it's actually hideously ugly* in the default color scheme, but I have your basic centered, single column type webcomic, with webcomic on top, with two rants beneath. If you didn't want to use centering, it would be trivial to pour it into a more standard multicolumn layout. (I put a lot of notes into the stye template about where/how to do this.)
Over in the wordpress support forums, I put in an announcement:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48034
but you can see it in all its brutal glory here:
blog.rhandir.com
and download it from www.rhandir.com/download/
Right now I'm at version 0.902, and I'm calling it picoTokyo.
-rhandir.
*It's a "feature". Encourages people to use a different color scheme from mine :)
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