Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

dill616 · Jan 30, 2013

blotsfan said:
Dear people from Texas/the South,
Fuck you.
Sincerely,
Blotsfan

Hey, we're not equipped for icy/snowy weather. If something sticks to the ground, everything must come to a halt!!

Chad Sexington · Jan 30, 2013

stienman said:
Even with the shower very hot, I was still shivering in it, and my head is all congested.

I'm still holding out hope it's just due to the new weather system that's moved in...

I ain't hugging you until you're sure you're not sick.

WasabiPoptart · Jan 30, 2013

dill616 said:
Sunbeds can actually help with this. You don't have to go for long periods of time. Just sitting under one for 10 minutes a week can improve your Vitamin D levels and help produce Serotonin.

Health food stores sometimes carry full spectrum light bulbs or even lightboxes that are supposed to help. Also, there have been some studies which suggest eating foods rich in Omega-3 fatty acids can help counter SAD.

fade · Jan 30, 2013

blotsfan said:
Dear people from Texas/the South,
Fuck you.
Sincerely,
Blotsfan

You can make fun of us when we're bursting into flames. Humid, humid flames.

LittleKagsin · Jan 30, 2013

I'm not sure what a reverse head nod is...but here stienman is a head nod. From a distance.

Or this one. It even has two nods!

OOorrrrrr...disss one

jwhouk · Jan 30, 2013

I picked a crappy week to be off on vacation.

fade · Jan 30, 2013

jwhouk said:
I picked a crappy week to be off on vacation.

WasabiPoptart · Jan 30, 2013

LittleKagsin said:
I'm not sure what a reverse head nod is..

It's that thing guys do when they just tip their chin up in a quick acknowledgement sometimes followed by a grunt or "yo".

LittleKagsin · Jan 30, 2013

OOOHhhh, makes sense. Had I given it more thought...I might've figured it out eventually...

Thank you!

sixpackshaker · Jan 30, 2013

/s'up

BananaHands · Jan 30, 2013

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evilmike · Jan 30, 2013

It's also something that Scott Kurtz once wanted every con goer to do instead of shaking his hand...

stienman

WasabiPoptart · Jan 30, 2013

evilmike said:
It's also something that Scott Kurtz once wanted every con goer to do instead of shaking his hand...

stienman

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Didn't he even make a strip about it?

Yoshimickster · Jan 30, 2013

You know why todays weather over here makes today awesome? Because I can FINALLY clean the rabbit cage. Sooooooooooooooooo much whatsit.

MindDetective · Jan 30, 2013

stienman said:
Consider this notice that I have offered you a reverse head nod from a distance. I would have provided an image illustrating this procss, but my google-fu has failed me.

This time.

It might be because his entire news and comics archive is gone. I can only go back about 6 or 7 strips.

GasBandit · Jan 30, 2013

It wasn't a strip, it was a blog post, with an accompanying diagram. He called it the "con nod."

GasBandit · Jan 30, 2013

stienman said:
I was hoping someone else picked it up and reposted or blogged about it.

I suppose no one thought it was interesting enough to talk about, even to make fun of.

There was a thread about it. But that was on a previous iteration, long gone.

sixpackshaker · Jan 30, 2013

Oh, he got hacked. The only place that old PvP exists now is on one of his thumbdrives. ouch.

Chad Sexington · Jan 30, 2013

I am like 99% sure that the whole reverse-nod thing was a joke because he was always getting sick after cons.

LordRendar · Jan 30, 2013

The reverse nod is very common in the Philippines.It is used as a greeting,to tell someone to go away,to give respect...
depends on the eyebrows and lips. >.<

PatrThom · Jan 30, 2013

sixpackshaker said:
Oh, he got hacked. The only place that old PvP exists now is on one of his thumbdrives. ouch.

That's...awful.

Having some miscreant delete your digital history is one of the worst. I already have to spend time and money making sure my stuff is backed up someplace against hard drive failure, but now when I tell people how to keep their data safe, I'll have to include how to make sure that your backups are secure from deliberate removal also.

--Patrick

GasBandit · Jan 30, 2013

I remember a discussion amongst coworkers years ago (who probably didn't read PvP) about the social implications behind the various kinds of nods... upward vs downward vs tilted downward etc

sixpackshaker · Jan 30, 2013

Up: Hi
Down: Respect/Thanks

GasBandit · Jan 30, 2013

sixpackshaker said:
Oh, he got hacked. The only place that old PvP exists now is on one of his thumbdrives. ouch.

Maybe I'm a little over-skeptical, but it occurred to me that this could also be a thinly-veiled manufactured excuse for a reboot - the chance to jettison old continuity because he can't remember it any more and is tired of retconning.[DOUBLEPOST=1359584212][/DOUBLEPOST]

sixpackshaker said:
Up: Hi
Down: Respect/Thanks

That's a start, but there's also the different meanings behind the speed of the nod (quick up = "hey look, pay attention for a sec to what I'm about to try to communicate non-verbally", quick down for confirmation/obedience, etc) and then there's the whole area of the combination nods that go both up and down and at different speeds....

Officer_Charon · Jan 30, 2013

The up-nod is also dirty-ese for "I see you, po-po." That way, they're not bowing their heads to us, or something like that...

Chad Sexington · Jan 30, 2013

stienman said:
No, he was straight up serious about it. He tried so hard to stick to it, but complained later that people just didn't get it and it was taking too long to explain, even with several posters on his booth about it.

He hated that he got sick after each con.

Really. Huh.

fade · Jan 30, 2013

I know the feeling. The entire second issue of Fade only exists as low-res jpg files now. Well, the pencils and inks I have in hardcopy, of course, but the coloring is gone. At the time, that was traditional flat/cut/grad, which is really time consuming. Probably about 12 hrs/page. Gone when I tripped over the cord of my Powerbook while teaching. I had not backed up in a while, either.

Sparhawk · Jan 30, 2013

fade said:
You can make fun of us when we're bursting into flames. Humid, humid flames.

He's not kidding. You can always bundle up for cold weather, but you can only take off so much before they arrest you in the summer.

We have mild winters, but summer it is not unusual to NOT have temps below 80F for over a month straight.

Officer_Charon · Jan 30, 2013

Hell, last year, July didn't see a temp under 100F, here!

GasBandit · Jan 30, 2013

Sometimes our state just catches fire.

Chad Sexington · Jan 30, 2013

Sparhawk said:
He's not kidding. You can always bundle up for cold weather, but you can only take off so much before they arrest you in the summer.

We have mild winters, but summer it is not unusual to NOT have temps below 80F for over a month straight.

I would love this. I can't even tell you. I heart heat and humidity.

Sparhawk · Jan 30, 2013

Officer_Charon said:
Hell, last year, July didn't see a temp under 100F, here!

I was meaning overnight lows and all, high temps for last July were all 100+ here too.

GasBandit · Jan 30, 2013

Well, a storm blew through here last night, and the temps dropped 25 degrees. It's been in the high 50s and pleasant all day. Really nice weather, if a bit blustery.

GasBandit · Jan 30, 2013

Google reader has started acting odd this afternoon, spontaneously marking things I've read as unread. It's irritating when your own damn computer commits reposts against you.

WasabiPoptart · Jan 30, 2013

GasBandit said:
Sometimes our state just catches fire.

California was like that. When we were in San Diego I always said we had Spring, Spring plus, Summer, and Fire.