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[theinevitable]

no, man, just put the laptop on the floor. is so easy. is basic thing.

...where is vlad lately? and liebot? have they been gone for something like a year???

[linnea]

Did you guys see that Onstad put out a new hat?

Also, I agree with CJ and Wombat. This is how the dude makes his money. He is smart for putting out new merch at Christmas.

In a similar vein, fellow webcomic humorists Drew and Natalie are posting on their pages that their shit is selling way faster than expected and much faster than they can restock. They'll have more to sell in January, at least.

Even if it's way after the holiday season. Damn.

[KeithHernandez]

I am really interested in the whole idea of people other than myself who are willing to pay for something they can get for free on the internet. People are aghast when I say that I buy CDs that I already have on my computer. I am especially interested in the idea that it varies depending on the content-- buying the Achewood Books somehow makes more sense to most people than buying a CD I have already downloaded-- and yet, the downloading of music is illegal, while reading the comics online is not. Hmm.

I don't know, but, like, when you download something you can burn it or put it on your ipod and then back it up on your external hd and also have it on your computer.  You own it and can use it forever (unless you get DRMed shit-please don't) but if Onstad decides to take his shit off tomorrow (not that he will) he can.  That is what would make me get the books, the fact that someday achewood.com will not exist but I can have the books forever.

Also, a lot easier to try to get someone in to something by giving them a book to borrow, not having to look like a super nerd all speaking of internet cartoons, etc.

[theinevitable]

I mean... I have a ridiculous number of Achewoods saved on my computer, because I used to compulsively save comics.

[KeithHernandez]

Yeah, I guess you could do that.  Never thought of it.

[Golfhaus]

if Onstad decides to take his shit off tomorrow (not that he will) he can.  That is what would make me get the books, the fact that someday achewood.com will not exist but I can have the books forever.

That was actually a minor subplot in a dream I had either last night or the previous night - that I went to read Achewood, and there was a message that he had been picked up by a syndicate and part of the deal was that he had to shut the website down because the syndicate was starting the strip from the beginning in the papers. Weird.

[theinevitable]

I am glad I am not the only one who has Achewood and TOUAMB- related dreams.

I have also started having Facebook dreams, and I am a little less comfortable with those.

[KeithHernandez]

Well yeah, what if future employers see them.

[theinevitable]

oh my god, do not even get me started on that shit.

[KeithHernandez]

Oh no, I was talking about your dreams.


oh shiiiiit

[theinevitable]

wait, what?

I meant do not get me started on the "future employers will see everything on facebook!" shit. I get in arguments about this thing. "I am OK with putting up pictures of me drinking and smoking pot on the internet, but I will delete my facebook when I want to get a job."
"Why don't you just... not put things you don't want people to see up on the internet?"
"but... what? *blank stare*"

[KeithHernandez]

I was trying to make a joke about how future employers will be able to see your dreams if they involve facebook.


Also, I don't care about future employers but also don't use facebook, so I don't want to get you started.

[linnea]

I try to make all of my online profiles as private as possible. I don't want people to be able to view my information until I specifically give them permission. Of course, you could also be like that beauty queen who posted mildly racy pictures of herself on her facebook site, and then one of her "friends" sold the pictures in an effort to make her rescind her plastic tiara and there was a mild controversy about the whole debacle. 

[KeithHernandez]

Also, with this whole thing, I am pretty sure there are pictures of me hitting a bubbler on a friends facebook page, but I don't have an account.  I guess if I cared I could have him take them off, but you know, I don't.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I dont like any kind of photographic evidence of where Ive been, when Ive been there, or who Ive been with. I am defending my life from the inevitable deposition.