Comments on: Atomic

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:56:34 +0000

Sorry, but for me someone hot is probably Jeff.

By: TAFKAN

TAFKAN — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:24:46 +0000

Er um BTW when I snarkily (and unapologetically) referred to ‘music’, I was referring specifically to the song and band you chose for today’s strip. Certainly not complaining about the choice of music for 1977 in general!!! (note multiple exclamation marks)

By: TAFKAN

TAFKAN — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:22:48 +0000

Argh, sorry about that – I do know that, and tried to post a comment in reply to you (about the click-to-play tab) several days ago, but your site was being cranky at the time and ate my comment, and then I wandered off and forgot to try again!

I do approve of most of your music choices. *Most*

By: 11 in 1977

11 in 1977 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:57:48 +0000

umm dont know if this is important but when i scrolled down to comment all the text on the screen disappeared when i scrolled back up it came back. ill check if its me and let you know

By: 11 in 1977

11 in 1977 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:55:08 +0000

excellent strip as usual byron. the music loads just fine. i love that new feature.cant wait to see how this pans out.

By: Makkabee

Makkabee — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:12:17 +0000

Plaid. She got teased about it a lot in school, which is why she developed that flamboyant public persona. The tears of a clown, don’t you know…

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:14:12 +0000

I just pick up the code over at the site… what it is I have no idea as I’m not even an HTML guy, so when it comes to website design and coding, I’m the Luddite.

I miss my electric typewriter and having to type a college term paper WITH NO mistakes or spell checkers or Thesauruses or the bleedin’ Internet as a whole to “steal” ideas from. Damn, if you “kids” today aren’t getting A’s on your term papers, you’re just freakin’ lazy.

I hear you on the poor part. My main PC is from 2003 and is a plain 3.6 P4 Windows XP Pro computer. Can’t even buy good AGP video cards any more, so when this dies, I’m up shit creek as all the software I run works great with XP but I don’t know if it’ll work on Win7 or not. UGH!

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:08:50 +0000

Things go better with blondes…

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:08:23 +0000

Well, I’ll say it once more, the song does NOT play unless you click play. The little tool pops in and that’s it, so it should not eat any bandwidth or slow the page down UNLESS you click play. I simply think it’s fun to have there.

Dead horse is now beatin’…

Also, I know some of my song picks will rub you the wrong way too… But that’s what makes you a great friend… we can toss barbs back and forth on stuff like this and still come up smiling.

By: dee

dee — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:14:24 +0000

i am not a luddite (at least i don’t think i am — curmudgeon, yes…luddite, no…spear good! fire bad! ungh!), but it just so happens that the system i pretty much live on these days is an old 17″ g4 powerbook. i’m poor and can’t afford to live on the bleeding edge. plus i like recycling old but still useful hardware. i still use my g4 powerbook, a dual g5, and a p4-1.6gHz mo-sheen for production purposes because they still werk fine for what i do. and with people keying me in as to when to stand under their window so i can catch their old junk as they fling it out, it makes life easier. can’t get new junk, so the old junk werks just fine. and it keeps the mo-sheens out of far-east technology landfills.

if anyone’s got a terabyte hard drive they’re gonna fling out the window, lemme know, ok?

i am thankful that byron’s site doesn’t have a shitload of stupid flash animations. it seems that adobe doesn’t care about us ppc guys because if they did, they’d do something about the fact that flash pegs any ppc cpu to 100%, takes over all timeslicing and doesn’t let hardly any multitasking happen while the flash animation in question is playing. youtube is a pain in the rump on this platform. i can’t do anything but watch ONE youtube video on the mo-sheen when a youtube video is playing.

the little audio player seems to run great, however. php-based? whatever the case, it werks well, doesn’t bog down the system one iota, and is a great addition. site still loads in zippy fashion.

cheers.

–dee!
spear good! fire bad!

By: TAFKAN

TAFKAN — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:27:42 +0000

Re today’s strip: the fun continues, and much amusement is being had in our household.

Re the ‘music’: can’t say what I really feel for fear of starting a flamewar here, so I’ll just say that I’m very, very, very, very, VERY glad that I don’t use sound on my ‘puter except when watching downloads… ‘Yours truly, Plan 9’s producer’s advocate’

By: Nate Fakes

Nate Fakes — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:35:33 +0000

Love the comic and today’s soundtrack to go with it. Gotta love the blondes – and Blondie (even the comic character aint too shabby…)

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:08:09 +0000

Damn straight! And I even liked some of Cindy Lauper’s songs too… and what WAS her real hair color? Never saw it I believe…

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:06:49 +0000

Thanks, Dawn! Thanks goes to my readers for turning me onto the ability to even do it. Duh, is right…

Now to make money with it… hmmmm…

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:05:19 +0000

I seem to have a sixth sense when it comes to music and influencing my reader’s listen experiences outside the comic! I have had many comments where folks will turn on their iTunes or whatever and that day’s comic song comes on as they pop my page up.

OooooOOOoooOOo! Now to conquer the Lotto numbers…

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:03:48 +0000

I have to hand it to you, my friend, but you can make me laugh more than my own comics sometimes! “Bonking suite” has just been officially stolen! Call the Idea Cops, Dee!

Thanks man!

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:01:43 +0000

Thanks! Makes me laugh too… which is a good thing. I love the fourth frame which is why I put her up in the header in that pose. That is soooo Lorraine…

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:01:03 +0000

Cool. I didn’t want to have to take the buttons off as I really dig them. And I’m doing my best to keep the site as clean as possible of ads, there are just a couple at the bottom now and they don’t seem to slow it down (yet).

Rock on my dial-up readers!

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:59:54 +0000

I had a crush on this one blonde girl and dated her a couple times. Got to see her totally buff one time completely by accident as I carried her roommate on my back into their dorm room. I knocked and thought I heard “Come In” but actually she had said “Don’t Come In” and she was standing there totally naked. Now, who does that without locking the door? And yes, that is when I discovered the carpet matches the curtains. Who knew? It was a good year…

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:56:01 +0000

Man, I was wondering who was going to pick that out. Believe it or not, it was a Spongebob Squarepants episode that made that popular amongst the current college stoner crowd. For those still confused… here’s a hint: C U Next…

I am a stinker sometimes…

Grand Funk Railroad had a song on their live album title T.N.U.C with the letters backwards so when you held it up to a mirror you got the message. I believe the song was a drum solo too, but that WAS AGES ago, so I’m only guessing now..