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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.

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?

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?

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.

So, I actually did have a new comic for today, I just forgot to post it last night, what with all the staying up late discussing possible plot twists in the next installment of Star Wars, and with waking up 1/2hr late this morning and not having time to really do much more than cover my nakedness, shove raisins, bran flakes, and skim milk down my throwt with a spoon, and head out the door. I plan on posting the comic when I get home today.

Today’s comic mentions blood.

That’s always a good sign.