The last day at the beach. Of course it’s sunny and perfect. We have to eat everything out of the freezer in the beach house rental so breakfast is drumstick ice cream diet coke float. I know, diet coke sullies the float and you’re supposed to use vanilla, not drumstick, but it’s that or ginger ale and that’s what I’m planning for lunch. One last slather of sun block and nap in the sand. Gotta go jump in the waves and get some salt in my ears and sand between my toes so that when I go home tomorrow I can find sand in my shoes and remember that just that morning, I was at the ocean.
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Each year my family goes to the beach. We bring piles of nail polish and we all paint our toe nails different colors. My mom’s toes have silver sparkles, my sister has polka dots, my brothers toe nails are blue and I’ve been trying to put a dot of each color on my toes but have only gotten 1/4 of the way through the pile of nail polish. My three year old niece has told us that she counted 100 bottles of nail polish but I think it’s closer to thirty or forty. Obby is bonding with my nephew over “old” arcade games. My nephew gets confused when the opening of the game tells you to insert a coin. They’re playing Aliens vs. Predator. It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a second ago. I think the predator has a banana hammock on. My sister is down on the beach reading a book. I’m thinking of going to take a nap and contemplate a walk. These are the important decisions of a trip to the beach… maybe it’s time for a snack.
At the beach with Obby and my family.
I’m enduring a strict regiment of dominoes with my siblings, swimming in the ocean, collecting shells and eating too many snacks.
Just got back from Dallas and gotta draw and ink todays comic. I got to sleep some in the car while Gina’s husband drove but when I got home I think I used up that rest reading some of the comic books that I got at the show… If Obby asks, it was research.
Akon was awesome! got to see piles of convention friends and did lotsa great over sharing of inappropriateness during panels. I have learned many things.
#1. When drunk and/or over caffeinated at a panel I chose my words and am careful not to over share. If I am sober, I have no such filter and everything just plops out of my mouth without a second thought and the next thing I know I’m …. nevermind.
#2. If I’m on my own in a panel, and no one is there to curb my rambling, it adds to the rampant over share.
#3. I should not post blog entries at 2am after a 13 hour drive… 3 parts Simply Limeade and 1 third Havana Rum…it’s a really really dangerous thing.
Anywho, this is the best photo ever mostly because of the awesome ladies from Adamo Anothology (and other books?) are in the background.
Sleep time.
obby here.
So, I fail at HTTP.
The stats on the site have shown about 3000 people per day coming in from geebaonparade.com. I thought: “Sweet!”.
Then I finally got some metrics going on geebasonparade.com and saw that almost all of the people that visit geebas go directly to thedevilspanties.com after visiting.
Then I remembered the part where Jennie had told me that a fan was asking when the April Fools joke would be over….
…The one where I redirected everyone from thedevilspanties.com to geebasonparade.com.
Then I felt like an idiot for not investigating deeper when Jennie first mentioned it to me.
So the short of it is that I should have used a 302(Temporary) redirect instead of a 301(Permanent). I usually do a 301 by default without issues. However with a site this popular there will always be some browsers and ISPs that will misbehave, or in this case behave 100% according to the RFC.
Unfortunately there is no easy way to fix this for everyone unless we issue another 301 redirect on geebasonparade.com to go back to thedevilspanties.com.
This is not something we want to do right now, but we will be forced to if the numbers don’t drop from the current 3000 redirected visitors in the next 2 weeks.
So:
TL;DR
IF YOU ARE STILL BEING REDIRECTED TO GEEBASONPARADE.COM VAPORIZE YOUR BROWSER CACHE.
IF YOU STILL ARE STILL HAVING ISSUES AFTER NUKING YOUR CACHE FROM ORBIT, CALL YOUR ISP OR ADMINISTRATOR AND TELL THEM TO “CLEAR THE REDIRECT FOR THEDEVILSPANTIES.COM FROM THEIR PROXY”.
ALSO I WILL BE COMMITTING EPEEN SEPPUKU.
My larp comic “Geebas on Parade” will never be dead but it has been in a coma for the past year. It’s been stuck in limbo since I moved off of Keenspot’s servers (awesome guys, it was time for me to head out on my own) and I never got around to switching Geebas over.
Guess what Obby fixed? http://geebasonparade.com/
I still have a lot to update on it; photos, links, etc. And I’ll get to that after I finish updating the photos links etc on DP. So much to do. So few clones.
Houston was awesome! Usually if a conservative couple walk by my table I feel I have to explain myself “No really, it’s a comic about buying a house and normal things, not satanic porn.” But in Houston the conservative couples walked right up to my table and said “oh my, this looks interesting. How lovely!” It was great. The panels were fantastic. Perfictly balanced with only about three people per panel. If you have five or more than it’s hard for everyone to get a chance to talk.
oh! oh! and when I first walked into the Hilton to check in there were nothing but amazing fabulous men everywhere. The only women I could see were the ones working there. I almost got whiplash looking at all the gorgeous gay men. I died trying to figure out what convention they could be there for. I’m sure a few of them were secretly geeky enough to want to go to the comic convention but they were all WAY too well groomed to be there for just that. It turns out that there’s a Volley Ball national championship or something in the same convention center as Comicpalooza. Not only Volley ball, but I was told that it was specifically gay mens valley ball. I couldn’t stop squealing. It sounds so awesome.
I’m trying out a new printer and Obby has been working non stop on the edits. He wants to get this one perfect and keeps getting new proofs to tweak final changes. I’ve never done so much editing for one book. If you find anything slightly out of place with Devil’s Panties Volume 5 then let me know. I’ll owe Obby a dollar.
Obby’s been working on updating the website. The down side is that there will be more advertising banners but the up side is that there’s going to be piles more information and interaction. These are all the tweaks that I want to do but don’t have the time or knowledge to do them. Obby is amazing in that he’s interested and willing to tackle this.
In addition to the new site material there’s going to be some downloads in the store. I just have to set some of the books up as downloads and there’s going to be these amazing video downloads available. When something funny happens, I take an audio recording of it and photos for reference. I’m putting together little videos that have the comic strip along with the photo reference and audio of what’s going on.
After I get the advertising set up and the downloads finished then I’m going to try and fix the Geebas site. The back button is broken for some reason. So Geebas is on the list to do, it’s just not at the top just yet. Geebas will never die, it’s just in a mild coma.