Here at work, I’ve just switched my desktop wallpaper to the yellow one in the upper left hand corner of this page. If you’ve never seen Skinny Panda, you may like to go take a look through the archives. I have had people tell me they thought I was secretly Phil Cho (the person who actually creates Skinny Panda), or that Phil had based the Skinny Panda of Skinny Panda on me. I haven’t read it in a while, but I remember it like an old friend and I recommend it.
Author: Teel
Author, artist, romantic, insomniac, exorcist, creative visionary, lover, and all-around-crazy-person.
Weird. A business model.
I’m not going to reveal any of the details, but I was just about to go to bed, when I couldn’t because I needed to write down an idea I had for a website. It is a pretty good idea for a comics website that provides a service that is not currently available from any other source (that I am aware of). I think that if I could get it working the way I want it to, it could be very popular, and integrate with the “big names” in online comics pretty easily.
Here’s the weird part: I was writing down all the details I could think of for what would actually be on the different parts of the website and how they would work together so I could think about how to build the backend later, and I found myself writing down a way to recover some of the costs of developing and running the site. An honest-to-goodness business model. Normally when I have an idea for a website, money only figures into it because it costs me money to buy the domain and host it. For the first time I can think of, there was a valid place for money in the initial idea for a website. I’ll look into the costs of putting it together and what is a reasonable amount of money to charge for the services I am suggesting, and keep you updated if I find out that it could actually be a break-even or profitable business model.
I didn’t say it was a good business model. As we all learned, most of the business models for the web weren’t profitable ones. This might be one of those, but even if it is, it’s my first. Anyone know a venture capitalist looking for a rinky-dink online comics service provider to invest in?
Should I cancel the party?
So far I have two people out of town, two people who think they’ll be out of town, two people who think I’m secretly planning an orgy, and two people who don’t think there’s any way for them to reduce their purity scores, so why attend at all? That and another two or three who haven’t even responded to my email or posted anything in the forums to give their excuse, and it’s looking like the first party won’t be coming together the way I hoped it would.
That, and everyone has already gone and taken the test. I don’t know about you, but I’m not one to spend a couple of hours taking a purity test in preparation for taking the exact same test a week later. I don’t expect you to be. I’m thinking that what might work better is for everyone to submit their starting purity scores (most of you have already got one, unless you’ve gone out and done something strange since you took it), and then have everyone attend the followup test the last weekend in June. That’s the one you really wanted to attend anyway, since that’s the one with the prizes, right?
This way I don’t have to take the time to clean the place up for another month, right? And you don’t have to take the test again for another month, and everyone has plenty of time to mark their calendars and not go out of town, right? My 96% pure roommate can move out and I don’t have to worry about making her uncomfortable just by living my life anymore.
Oops, this post is turning into something it wasn’t supposed to be. Still, I don’t think the party this Saturday night is coming together. If you had your heart set on going, let me know, and I’ll let everyone else know it’s back on, but for right now I’d just like to plan on having everyone send me their exact Purity score by the end of the weekend, and we’ll plan on having the followup party Saturday, June 29th.
To clear it up for everyone: I was never planning an orgy, I was just encouraging you to have an orgy sometime in June with your choice of partner(s). I was simply planning on having some friends over to play a party game that happened to involve asking people to measure their Purity, and at a party a month later, to measure their change in Purity. I wasn’t asking anyone to come become more impure with me, or in my home, or even suggesting that I planned on doing everything I could to become more impure myself. Typically when taking the Purity Test in a group, no one even reveals what they have and haven’t done (unless they’re proud of it, or something).
Incidentally, I have heard more inaccurate things about this party second and third hand than makes sense. Like all of a sudden everyone’s talking behind my back about my own party, and somehow it became much more than I planned without me knowing about it. Except not in a good way. The rumor mill this time seems to have actually killed the party by making it sound like more than it was. For those of you who killed the party, and I hope you know who you are, just read the name of this site to yourself. That’s how I feel about you.
The rest of you are welcome to come over to my place this Saturday night. Instead of a purity test party I’m having a hardcore bareback orgy and opening my home as an opium den (first time’s free, one night only!) and a full bondage/fetish brothel. You know, the regular Saturday night gig.
Your birthday is…
Take a look at my new Birthday Converter. Plug in your birthday, and find out what that day is on my calendar, and how old you are in my 300-day years (instead of the 365.249998-day years you’ve been using).
This is similar to my (updated) Calendar converter. The two are available as one .xls file.
I was just playing around with this myself. Did you know that my birthday is 4.3.3? I did. I forgot how old I was, though. I’m 28. I’ll be 29 in a few short months. How old are you?
Something in common with Thomas Jefferson
They say that Thomas Jefferson slept only three hours a night. I swear I saw him napping every afternoon, though. I know I have to take afternoon naps when I sleep less than four or five hours a night. Which is what I do most Sunday nights. Like last night. I actually slept only three hours. Feeling like a nap is due right now, actually.
I’ll get by. I’m not passing out tired, just sorta like there’s this nagging feeling that I’m supposed to be doing something else. And that that something else happens to be sleeping. I’m pretty sure my mind is actually doing a little background sleeping though, because within another hour or two if this reduced operation mode, I’ll be feeling fine, as though I had slept all night. At least until 4 or 5 this afternoon.
Maybe after my nap I’ll write a declaration of independence. That would be a weird little interlude in my book.