I’d like to have made these situations up entirely, but it’s half-true, sadly. Maybe I still don’t quite understand the purpose of cellular phones. I was under the impression that they were for calling people.

Apparently, phones are for annoying the shit out of me with text messages. I’ve got a keyboard for typing, a phone for talking. I really don’t understand why people would want communicate with their thumbs if they have a voice option. The worst part of it all seems to be my phone’s provider intent on selling me crap via text messages.

Hypocritically, though, I kind of want an iPhone, which is currently the poster child for multi-functional phones. But it’s damn convenient, having my music and phone together, so I don’t have to carry both my shuffle and phone in my pockets, trying to juggle where I put what. And my shuffle is kind of fucked, anyway, since it won’t acknowledge that I shove it into a USB port. Jiggling it around in the port doesn’t do anything, like it once did. Shoving it in over and over doesn’t do anything except making me feel uncomfortable.

Convenience is something that technology addresses whenever innovation occurs, which is…all the time. Newspapers are somewhat hateful of the internet, since the ability to get news instantly makes their method of delivery obsolete. However, there are still plenty of people who want to read their news with a newspaper. You can’t really replace the tactile feel of paper. But it’s not foreseeable to have news that automatically updates on paper. That’s the stuff of fiction, of the scientific variety. It’s also kind of silly when you think about the logistics.

I’ve gotten several people responding to the website design, and some people don’t like the comic not being on the first page. Ling’s left the decision of changing the site design up to me, and I am terrible with decisions. He knows this. So I’m under the impression that he bestowed this responsibility to me because he wants to see my neurotic response. That, or he really doesn’t fucking care as long as people read the comic.

I’ll be honest; it hurts “Unless your name is Tycho fucking Brahe, your comic should be the first thing on the page.”

The first thing I want to say is “Fuck you.” But I really can’t. I asked for honest criticism, unprepared as I was for the response, which I thought would be a unanimous “This is amazing and I wish to father your illegitimate children.” Now I can either respond to the criticism favorably, or decline the suggestions. Part of me wants to change the site, just to appease these people. Another part of me is willing to accept the fact that they’ll just bookmark the comic page and never glance at the news again. I’m still mulling over the choice. And even if I decided to change it, it wouldn’t happen right away.

That’s kind of the deal when you aren’t pro at webcooking.

- Leo