Saturday 14th June 2003
Although the Petco problem hasn't yet been resolved, it's time to move on. If these frauds ever respond with something I can't laugh at, I'll let you know.
gremlin.net: Exposing the Suck Since 1997
Bumpersticker: US$3.95There's a lot going on here, mostly behind the scenes [as usual]. Including the format for the forthcoming V14. It's mostly done now. And, although it looks a bit boring, compared to V13, it solves a few problems. For example, it fits nicely into about 775 pixels. I'm assuming that no one is using a 640*480 anymore--or, if they are, they're on a computer which can't even handle JavaScript. For the few people still on 800*600 screens--the majority of whom have let me know that gremlin.net sidescrolls at that resolution--V14 should fit nicely.
Of course, for those on 640*480 screens who can't handle .js inclusions, the site will fit into a space equal to the longest word. Although images are likely to be as large as 640*360 or so.
On the subject, insofar as V14 has updated the gremlin.net logo again, there's a new bumpersticker out, as seen to the right. Hey: people dig bumperstickers. Cheap to buy, and worth their weight in um...bumperstickers don't really weigh much. But they're good for getting people to think. Or cry. Or shoot at your car. Or whatever you're hoping to accomplish.
I'd have a contest for the best shot of one of these stuck to a squadcar, but that's probably illegal. Can't have citisens going around sticking things on cars they paid for through taxes, after all....
Oh well. If you stick a bumpersticker on something interesting, let me know about it....
While V14 isn't totally finished yet [it'll go live on 1st July], it's done enough to let me know that I'll be able to cover over V13.1 in the archives. V12 is a bit trickier, since the .js opened a couple of tables used in the primary files. So I'm also trying to decide whether to replace the stuff surrounding this [the V13.1 JavaScript] with the new .js files. I might. Once V14 is fully done, it'll be easier to decide that.
Really, all that's left to work out for V14 is which links to add. A couple of the links currently to the right have gone dead in the last six months. Not that I can't just remove them, of course. I'm mostly just waiting to see whether they come back online someday.
As for the links to the left, I'm aware that a lot of those are under construction, since I'm the one who hasn't finished them yet. One advantage to V14 is that it doesn't particularly rely on having a certain number of offsite links on either side. So I'll probably leave the unfinshed sites out of it until or unless I get them done. Which may or may not happen before V15 goes live in 2004.
In other news, I updated the little counter thingy again. Not a hitcounter; I got rid of that when we got up to fifty thousand hits a day; I don't really care anymore. This counter initially just tracked the time since nero_was_here19@yahoo.com announced that gremlin.net was 'ganna get fucked by us'. At the moment, it's been seven days, sixteen hours, thirty-four minutes, and forty-two seconds. This little scriptkiddie really sucks. I've had pets who could have taken down this site in less than a week.
I've since added a few more timers to it. marge_simpson12@yahoo.com let me know she was going to kill me two days, nine hours, fifty-one minutes ago; two days, two hours, thirty-three minutes ago, almighty_sword_of_truth@yahoo.com offered to give me proof that his deity existed; the list goes on, and is tracked at random by the .swf up there. Incidentally, the grempire is 2351 days, thirteen hours, and thirty-four minutes old. And, my favourite, in the bible, the character of Y'shua promised to return at the end of the world, before those he was talking to had died; he's currently 1928 years, 163 days, twenty-three hours, thirty-six minutes, and twenty-one seconds late. Plus/minus about ten years.
I'll add more timers for fraud and empty threats as they occur.
The timer, of course, is already plotted into V14.
In yet other news--while still loosely related to everything else--FlashTalon has been making some really weird images lately, as seen in part here. For those who haven't heard of FlashTalon before: consider yourselves new here; she's been a regular at gremlin.net nearly as long as I have.
For those who like weird stuff like this: you're about to be in luck. We're setting up to add these things to the merch at Wasted, Inc.--hopefully by the end of the month. So watch for that over the next few days.
Also coming someday--once everything gets worked out--should be FC2K, which people have been hearing about for a while. I was going to release that two or three years ago, but then there were problems with the publisher. If we ever get out of the R&D phase on printing novels here, it'll be the first thing released by WastedDiscourse Publications alone.
The R&D phase has been going on since August 2002; we're hoping to go pro with it sometime this summer.
If that works out as planned [and what are the odds of that happening], then the S97S will begin to come out as scheduled. Which is to say that, if everything is ready in time, LK3 will be out this September--hopefully after the release of LK1 and LK2. If not, then LK1-3 should be released before LK4 comes out in September 2004. If LK4 isn't released by September 2004, then something else probably went wrong. But that's the plan at the moment.
Whether LK0 is ever released as a real book is something I'm not sure about yet. It might be. To date, it's only been available as an EBook. Which almost doesn't count. I'm almost considering forgetting about it, waiting until LKLast is released in 2009, and rewriting it completely for a real release in 2010. I guess I've got some time left to decide that.
Which remnds me. For those who might be wondering, I did pick up TrinitytheAlligator.com a while ago; if I ever have the time to get back into that, I'll have a place to put it. Not that it technically takes that much time to draw a comicstrip, scan it in, and upload it, per se; it just takes a little bit of thought. Like remembering to do it. And, in the event that I remember to do it, remembering to do it without getting coffee all over it.
Of course: the first thing I usually remember is that I can't actually draw for shit. If I was ever able to--which the Chicago Art Institute seemed to think at the time--I don't remember how to to it anymore. Something to work on someday, if I ever have the free time again.
Maybe I could go do that tonight. I could use some coffee anyway.
More later....
--Gremlin