spreadin’ the nerd
happy monday readers! just 5 more days. you can do it!
the 2% of you that don’t have ad blockers in place might notice a small change. that’s right, i’ve sold out. the right side of my page has space for a banner ad, and so far, i’ve made a whole dime. that USD pure profit right there.
i just set that up for a laugh. i suspect you’ll see the odd webcomic taking space there, new guys, just tryin to make good with a story, some art, just trying to get noticed. hoping one day they can sell out for the big cash, like i have. i may take it down at some point. i don’t know. for now, it’s up and running.
another new change, i’ve enabled facebook commenting on my page. i wasn’t aware it would keep both, and i don’t know how to migrate one to the other, so for now, there’s both. if you have something you’d like to say, say it the way you feel most comfortable. if it doesn’t work, i’ll revert to the old way. again, this is just another way i’m trying to get the word out there.
other changes i tried to implement was a fancier look to the page. my idea was that i wanted to get the text to hover over a muted image in the background. i was thinking of maybe putting the drawing i did on the left here, on the bottom corner , or something like that. but either wordpress let me down, or my wordpress skills did. probably the latter. but i did the drawing, and i thought i’d share it all the same. i was kind thinking mignola when i did it. i should get a style, and stick with it. one day…..
anyhow, feel free to click any link you like, and if you’ve liked what i’ve been up to, head on over to my patreon page, and buy me a beer. not only is it a kindly thing to do, but you’ll have access to an ever expanding collection of exclusive content. which does grow more quickly the more people i have interested in it. shout out to the peeps who’ve already signed on!
ProjectWonderful I trust (and don’t mind letting them gather data). Once in a great while, I even discover a new webcomic that way. That kind of “selling out” we all can live with.
fair enough. there’s not a lot of great ways of getting noticed in a vacuum. I’ve tried submitting the comic for review by web comic critics, and not only have I never been taken up on the offer, I’ve never had a response. so, whatever it takes for people to get noticed, I say.
Ad blocker? I just don’t run JavaScript. All kind of bad things happen when you run JavaScript. “Hey, look, browse somewhere and run random code! Earn BitCoins for somebody! Let them take over your whole computer for shits and giggles!”
At work I found a bug in a microprocessor that has tons of security features. Turns out that its encrypted firmware can be replaced with different encrypted firmware with cut-copy-paste. It’s like swapping out a safe for a different safe because they only check the packing slip, not that the safe itself is a problem.
Morons.
(Yeah, I had a part-time job in high school writing COBOL. And before that I was learning 6502 machine language on my own. Still cutting it.) Plot: how many old men with decades of experience are at the keyboard, busily hacking away? Nyah hahahhahaha!
i looked into the whole bitcoin thing. i was curious. i didn’t know anything about it. and now that i know, it’s old news. got get onto these weird things early i guess.
but yeah, the intenet is a dangerous place for people like me who don’t know too much about all the tech stuff. please don’t hack me. i’ll draw for mercy!
Beautiful work as always! And ew…FaceBook. What kind of percentage do you get if people click your ads? Maybe in a fit of insomnia I can just poke things on your page.
thanks for the compliment! much appreciated.
and I don’t get anything for the clicks. people rent the space, in a way. I think they get it for about a penny a day. so yeah. cha ching!
I GOT A JOB! Temp job, but I already have 59 hours this week! Pick yourself out something nice for me to donate to the cause!
really good! 59 hours, wow. hope you have time for anything else! and, as i’m going to post in the next few days, my donations will be going to my new upgrade of photoshop. i finally made the leap. i tried the demo, and the brush strokes are so smooth. it’s something i’ve been wrestling with for the last while. so, thanks in advance, but make sure you pay yourself first before you go blowing it on comics, and other things you should only have to tell 13 year olds. haha
congrats! what are you doin, anyways? what’s this new job?
Sorting mail, third shift. I’m an insomniac anyway, so it’s like getting paid for not getting rest anyway! They will probably lay me off after Christmas, but at least I’ll have money for a while!
well, hopefully it’ll last longer than just till xmas, if it’s a job you dig. i mean, any job is a job, but if you find a fit, that’s the most you can hope for. but that great. money for the holidays is never a bad thing.