Nerd Boy, episode 413

     You look buff today.               You know how in some games,
     What's going on?  `              repetitive tasks give experience
                       ,,,              ,  that you can assign to
                       '..            OO   any attribute or skill?
                        ||           .\/.
               ________ |\ __________ dd ______________



                         Yeah?        I invented "The XP Assigner(tm)",
                             `         and turned 5 years of stupid
                             ,,,        ,  debugging sessions into
                             '..      OO    upper body strength.
                             .||.    -\/-     Look at my pecs!
                     ________ || ____ dd _______



Um, doesn't that mean you're now       "Pecs" is short for
much worse at programming?  `,,,        ,   "pectorals".
                             '..      OO
                             .||.    .\/.
                           __ || ____ dd __


  You also seem to have traded         ... Pecs?
  away your intelligence... `,,,        ,
                             '--      OO
                             .||.     \/
jg                            || ____ dd



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This must be the work-out NB meant in NB411. I actually
got the idea for this strip from some kind of shower gel
called "Experience". Shower, sports, pecs. That would've
been a possible line of association, but it's not the one
I followed.

About the book, since some nice people showed interest,
I'm still fiddling with how I should lay out the strips
in book form. Probably two on a "letter" sized page
(8.5" x 11"), since that's the cheapest option, but I'm
working on how to make it obvious that there are two
strips and not just one big one.

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 bb  jg

Joaquim G�ndara wrote:

> working on how to make it obvious that there are two
> strips and not just one big one.

Suggestion: Put your comments under the strips. :-)

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"Andreas Klauer" <And...@metamorpher.de> skrev i meddelandet
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> Joaquim G�ndara wrote:
>
> > working on how to make it obvious that there are two
> > strips and not just one big one.
>
> Suggestion: Put your comments under the strips. :-)

I would, but there's only room for maybe one line of text
between the two, and nothing below the second. I'm really
cramped for space, and that's when using Lucinda Console
(which is shorter than Courier) at 10pt.

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 bb  jg

> "Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote in message
> news:bg42co$koe3d$1...@ID-102694.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
> I would, but there's only room for maybe one line of text
> between the two, and nothing below the second. I'm really
> cramped for space, and that's when using Lucinda Console
> (which is shorter than Courier) at 10pt.
>
>
>      Word.  Lots of them, infact, in my new book.
>      ,
>    OO     Joaquim G�ndara
>   .||.    http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
>    bb     jg



Then how about a fancy seperator line, containing perhaps the
episode number and the date?


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"Andrew Z Carpenter [Newsgroup Groupie]" <azc...@cirencester.ac.uk>
 skrev i meddelandet news:bg59po$l1ar1$1...@ID-200455.news.uni-berlin.de
> > "Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote in message
> > news:bg42co$koe3d$1...@ID-102694.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >
> > I would, but there's only room for maybe one line of text
> > between the two, and nothing below the second. I'm really
> > cramped for space, and that's when using Lucinda Console
> > (which is shorter than Courier) at 10pt.
<snip>
>
> Then how about a fancy seperator line, containing perhaps the
> episode number and the date?

I thought about that, but without the episode number and dates.
Dates and numbers wouldn't make much sense in a book, since I'm
not planning on just sticking all of the episodes in there. And
without those, I'm not sure how the seperator should look.

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 OO  Joaquim G�ndara
.||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
 bb  jg

"Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote in message
news:bg8hg5$m4nm2$1...@ID-102694.news.uni-berlin.de...
> "Andrew Z Carpenter [Newsgroup Groupie]" <azc...@cirencester.ac.uk>
>  skrev i meddelandet news:bg59po$l1ar1$1...@ID-200455.news.uni-berlin.de
> > > "Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote in message
> > > news:bg42co$koe3d$1...@ID-102694.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > >
> > > I would, but there's only room for maybe one line of text
> > > between the two, and nothing below the second. I'm really
> > > cramped for space, and that's when using Lucinda Console
> > > (which is shorter than Courier) at 10pt.
> <snip>
> >
> > Then how about a fancy seperator line, containing perhaps the
> > episode number and the date?
>
> I thought about that, but without the episode number and dates.
> Dates and numbers wouldn't make much sense in a book, since I'm
> not planning on just sticking all of the episodes in there. And
> without those, I'm not sure how the seperator should look.
>
> --
>  OO  Joaquim G�ndara
> .||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
>  bb  jg
>
>

What about half the strips at the top of the page starting from the first
page, and the other half on the bottom of the page, upside down, starting
from the end.  So you would read the first half of the strips from page 1 to
x then turn upside down for the seocnd half reading from page x to 1

i.e.

+-----------++-----------+
|23  OO     ||24         |
|   .||.    ||      ..   |
|    bb     ||           |
|         jg||           |
+- - - - - -||- - - - - -+
|           ||           |
|     ..    ||   qq      |
|           ||  '||'     |
|         SL||   OO    hL|
+-----------++-----------+

:)
ross

"kjl" <.> skrev i meddelandet
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<snip>
> What about half the strips at the top of the page starting from the first
> page, and the other half on the bottom of the page, upside down, starting
> from the end.  So you would read the first half of the strips from page 1 to
> x then turn upside down for the seocnd half reading from page x to 1
>
> i.e.
>
> +-----------++-----------+
> |23  OO     ||24         |
> |   .||.    ||      ..   |
> |    bb     ||           |
> |         jg||           |
> +- - - - - -||- - - - - -+
> |           ||           |
> |     ..    ||   qq      |
> |           ||  '||'     |
> |         SL||   OO    hL|
> +-----------++-----------+

You are one sick cookie. That's a cool idea, but I'm not sure anyone
would understand how to read it. Numbers would help, but I'm not
planning on having any strip numbers, just page numbers. Plus, I think
I might use another format for the special book strips, possibly some
kind of full-page deal.

-- 
 OO  Joaquim G�ndara
.||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
 bb  jg