Being the martyr that I am, I opted to stay faithfully at my PC instead of going out and boozing it up for St. Patrick's Day. And what do I have to show for it?
Only this.

I also learned that the forum can't deal with comics over 9999.

Don't worry; I'm sure you'll come up with something more amusing for #100,000

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Some guy you don't know

The bug has been fixed. It'll break again at 100,000, but so will our database server probably.

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Numerical real estate...

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I decided that Scyess is right and I can't afford to let the 100K mile marker pass me by. So I've purchased enough Jolt and beef jerky to last me about eight years and had a toilet installed next to my PC, so there's no way it'll slip by me.

So now I've got nothing to do but sit back and wait for my moment of triumph.

G

Not quite. I've compiled a short list:

Sign divorce papers.
File for unemployment.
Drain gas out of tank and put car on blocks.
Obtain a live-in gastrointestinologist. (Beef jerky is rude.)
Install a fuck off huge security system to thwart creditors, process servers, and the legions of other Lowpass artists who will be trying to kill you after you run out of ideas with about 90,000 strips to go to hit 100,000.

Hope this helps you on your way,

bunner :- )

Well, it's taken over a year to get thus far, so we can expect at least 10 years of consistent posting, which is sociologically improbable, as people will most likely eventually grow tired of th comic strip creator.
You'll be waiting a loooong time Gabe.

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Could the subject of this thread be any more true? Intrigued by the idea of a statistical analysis of Lowpass Comic creation, I spent the last fifteen minutes gathering some data.

Right off the bat I realized that all my time spent huddled over my PC like some sort of PC-huddling fool was spent in vain. If you look at the comic list pages, you'll note they're displayed in sets of 100 (oddly enough my screen resolution and browser set up fits _exactly_ 25 listings from the top of the browser to the bottom, so it's easy to count).

Anyhoo, on the first page alone I noticed numbers 3-6 and 45 are missing for some odd reason. Thus are others smattered here and there. So my comic, though #10000, is actually the 9981st comic. The real 10,000th comic is this...

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And for either futher geekishness, the aforementioned stats:

Data range: 01/06/2001 - 03/18/2001
Daily comic totals-
Mean: 140.9
Median: 90
Mode: 74
High: 622 (02/27/2001)
Low: 46 (01/21/2001) *not counting the 3 of the first day

At the current daily average, we should reach #100K in 636 days, or mid-December of 2002.

The only reason having the ten thousandth comic would be cool is because the number ten thousand has all those zeroes when you express it in decimal notation. And since you, Gabe, have the comic which is indexed with all those zeroes, I think you can go ahead and claim whatever bragging rights that entitles you to. Anyway, I think that the missing comics you alluded to were, in fact, created, but were later deleted by Johnny for one reason or another. I've seen messages on here in which artists have requested that he delete certain strips, and I'm pretty sure he deleted that strip by "lowpassnumberone" or whatever the guy's name was who made an account just to brag that he knew how to cheat the voting system. So comic #10,000 is the ten thousandth comic after all -- we just can't still see every one of the first 9,999.

That's an interesting spike on February 27th. Anyone have any idea how it happened? Did anyone find this site around that time? I searched AltaVista for pages that link to the Strip Creator, but all I found were a bunch of weblogs. Maybe one of them was really popular.

I think Gabe had a quadruple espresso that day...

Dude? Dude? Gabe?

Step - away - from - the - calculator!
Go OUTSIDE! See that thing with the brown pointy sticks? That's a tree. Touch it. It wont bite. That feeling in your chest that sort of tingles? That's OXYGEN!

Work with me, man!

Thank you, Mister Billings. I thought I had no life, but your amazing bout of anally retentive perfectionism and misguided data entry has proven to me that, compared to some people's, my life is fascinating!

(Urm, I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course...)

Don't listen to these ingrates, Gabe. I thought it was a very nice bar graph. The web needs more people like you.

I'm an engineer. We'd rather look at bar graphs than porn. Thanks Gabe. BTW, do you have any, umm, black on white bar graphs. Ahem. Just curious.

You guys really need to go outside more. If I wasn't in this basement reviving an old p100 and swapping my AWE16 out for an AWE64 Gold and rebuilding this old Tascam 24/2 console and trying to find a way to construct a mold slurry to manufacture the fiberglas horn lenses on this old Community Sound RS series cab, I'd... I'd....

Is it still winter out?

*sigh*

bunner

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That's an interesting spike on February 27th. Anyone have any idea how it happened? Did anyone find this site around that time? I searched AltaVista for pages that link to the Strip Creator, but all I found were a bunch of weblogs. Maybe one of them was really popular.

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You'll be happy to know that I'm currently compiling a database of all the text used in Lowpass strips, so that we can get a statistical analysis of that, too. I'm sure a little script could do the job just as well, but where's the love in that? This will only take a few months to slap together, as long as I stop sleeping.

Those bar graphs are SO pretty.

Gabe

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You'll be happy to know that I'm currently compiling a database of all the text used in Lowpass strips, so that we can get a statistical analysis of that, too.

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You'll be happy to know that I'm currently compiling a database of all the text used in Lowpass strips, so that we can get a statistical analysis of that, too. I'm sure a little script could do the job just as well, but where's the love in that? This will only take a few months to slap together, as long as I stop sleeping.

Those bar graphs are SO pretty.

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Dexx
you forgot the whole "all your base" and subsequent Zero Wing mentions ;)

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I was impressed with the bar graph. I wrote a very, very basic search engine for the comics so that a friend of mine could just read the ones with Jesus and the ones with the word "ass" in them.

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Just out of curiosity, I have a question to pose. I'm pretty sure that 800x600 is the most widely used monitor resolution. I assume it due to a mix of people having crappy vision, poor monitors and not knowing how to change it.

My own is set to 1152x864, and I can't stand anything bigger. It hurts my head. If I had a better monitor I'd probably crank it up even more.

So what does everyone here use? And any particular reason as to your choice?

1024 x 768

Bad eyesight won't let me go any larger, and any smaller and I feel like I'm working on an old mac. Association is a bitch.

Also, 1024 and 768 are both divisible by 3. Like the trinity. The voices told me that was an imperative.

I use 800x600. Unfortunately, Strip Creator comics are just large enough that they don't fit inside that. If I fiddle with the scroll bars I can usually get the whole comic inside the window, but by the time I finish I've already read the whole strip anyway.

I used to use 640x480, because it was the default and I didn't really have any problem with it. I changed because all the screens at work were 800x600, and I got to like it.

I probably should go up at least one more notch, but I'm reluctant to because I also assume that 800x600 is the most commonly-used resolution, and since I spend a lot of time writing web pages, I want to be able to see them the way most of my audience sees them. I see a lot of pages whose designers obviously don't ever consider the reality that different people use different resolutions, and it ticks me off. So I try to avoid that.

I use 1024x 768 res. It's legible, unobtrusive, I've never seen a page that didn't fit into it. And I hate all of those angry fruit salad HTML designs jumping out at me at 800x600 that are on the commercial pages I have to use for business.

bunner

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Yeah, the web page design thing is a pain. What I did was this... Went into a graphics program and made a big black rectangular jpeg. Then I opened it in both Netscape and IE with the screens maximized and the normal set of toolbars. Then I started resizing the rectangle slowly until it just fit into both the windows with a little bit of the background color showing through.

Now when I'm designing I don't need to switch resolutions to check. I just have a browser window that isn't maximized, and just shows the majority of my rectangle. And I design for that.

Hence on my system there's an assload of white space on my pages. But it looks fine at 800 x 600.

I agree with Johnny, though. The more crap I can fit onscreen the better. Doesn't W98 have support for mulitple monitors? Just get another graphics card and set them up next to each other and double your screen space.

That'd be sweet.

G

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I agree with Johnny, though. The more crap I can fit onscreen the better. Doesn't W98 have support for mulitple monitors? Just get another graphics card and set them up next to each other and double your screen space.

That'd be sweet.

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I found an NEC 21" viewable monitor used for $350.00 that I'm picking up in a couple of weeks. I always use NEC monitors because the res and the daylight gamma correction is accurate, and they're cheaper than Trinitron. No more Mr. Squinty Bunny for me. :o)

Okay, assuming that I'm much older and more brain dead than the lot of you, I felt I was being outwitted with my paltry 800x600 res so I changed it to 1024x768.

I was quite amazed at my grasp for learning Braille in such a short time, and even more amazed that my seeing eye dog Vizzini can type almost faster than I can dictate. I knew my mom's "if all your friends changed their screen resolutions, would you?" curse would eventually catch up with me.

I run my 17" monitor at 1280 x 1024 (24 bit colour). The sad thing is the real reason I do this - my monitor is buggered, and at 1024 x 768 it goes all wonky.

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I was quite amazed at my grasp for learning Braille in such a short time, and even more amazed that my seeing eye dog Vizzini can type almost faster than I can dictate. I knew my mom's "if all your friends changed their screen resolutions, would you?" curse would eventually catch up with me.

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I was quite amazed at my grasp for learning Braille in such a short time, and even more amazed that my seeing eye dog Vizzini can type almost faster than I can dictate.

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Hey, ObiJo, all your friends are participating in to-the-death cage matches with the Red Robot. You don't want to be the outcast, do you?

No whining billings. I saw her first.

It's time for "Random comic idea spawned by the forums!"

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Part of ObiJo's eulogy (ObiJo believes refering to ObiJo in third person is exciting):

...and, as luck would have it, ObiJo happened to be vacationing in Disneyworld at the time.

Gabe! I'm astounded!! Surely you know who Vizzini is???
INCONCEIVABLE!!!

"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia; and only slightly less well known is this: Never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on line!"

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Hey, Jael, all your friends are sending me naked pictures of themselves. You don't want to be the outcast, do you?

[[[Mental Note- Take "Tom Arnold's Tricks to getting Women" back to the Library. You could write your own book. Stud.]]]

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Yikes. Must have had a brain fart. I don't think I've ever seen it written out... Alas.

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Yikes. Must have had a brain fart. I don't think I've ever seen it written out... Alas.

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Sorry. The server spazzed out and I got some SQL messages so I backed up and hit save again. Oops.

Anyone having any interest in throwing together a picture page of regular users? I'd love to see what everyone looks like. I'd be willing to slap it together if people want to shoot some photos my way. Or would you all rather live in blissful anonymity?

If anyone's interested my email is gbilling@telocity.com. I promise not to do anything bad with them.

Except ObiJo's. His I'm sending to a plethora of male prison inmates along with a 'mail-order bitch' order form.

G

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Anyone having any interest in throwing together a picture page of regular users? I'd love to see what everyone looks like. I'd be willing to slap it together if people want to shoot some photos my way. Or would you all rather live in blissful anonymity?

If anyone's interested my email is gbilling@telocity.com. I promise not to do anything bad with them.

Except ObiJo's. His I'm sending to a plethora of male prison inmates along with a 'mail-order bitch' order form.

G

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Yeesh....whaddya think I am Obi? Blonde?? I'm onto your Jedi Mind tricks Mister!!! ;)

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You come here for the chicks? Wow, I was coming here for the complimentary peanuts and oral sex.

Without the oral sex, of course.

And the peanuts...

And actually, it's more like a slap in the face than complimentary...

And Gabe? I've traced your IP, tracked down your address, home phone, and all that stuff. When Bubba and Jake stop by, tell them I said hello.

I hope you didn't spend too much time tracing the IP and all that. I'm in the book.

As for Bubba and Jake, they're already here. We're playing Scrabble and watching episodes of 'Absolutely Fabulous'. We had a little tiff when Bubba tried to play the word 'niggaz' on a triple word score, but the ol' Scrabble dictionary straightened him out but good.

You should stop by. We're making peanut brittle later.

Gabe