I know I’ve shown to you this not-so-old A&J from 2014. I just hope it wasn’t in the past couple of months. If so, I apologize; I feel as if I’ve been chasing my tail since before the Kickstarter thing early this past summer. Speaking of that, there are a couple of things I want to mention today, and that is one. The Kickstarter rewards promised for October are shipping. Some of you will get a package today. Other rewards haven’t yet been shipped, but we’re working hard to get everything that was promised for October in the mail before Halloween. Thank you for your patience.
The other thing: that Web site make-over I keep talking about. It is on hold and, for once, for a very good reason. GoComics is in the process of seriously revamping its own site. You know, that’s where you go for “Today’s Arlo & Janis.” I don’t know the details yet myself, but supposedly the changes will not be totally cosmetic. There will be a new structure that affects not only you, the reader, but people like me, the creators. So, for now, it’s a good excuse to take a wait-and-see approach.
30 responses to “The Shipping News”
Larry, I have to agree that needed changes usually happen…but often not soon enough.
Jackie, it sounds like you’re growing your own happiness.
Debbe, your Dad’s flirting put a smile on my face today!
I do hope, sand, that Jimmy gets some inspiration from us here (besides peeking in our windows, I mean).
Ghost, true words about one’s own bed.
Figures, just when I get used to doing something, somebody wants to change it. Weather.com is the world’s worse at doing that. They are always, without warning, change the way you can look up the local and national forecasts. Hopefully, the changes will be understandable to an old foggy like me.
A few websites like to either link you to a video or to a slide show instead of just writing a story. When you are at work, both are quite inconvenient.
One website that I used was AAA. They would list in a table the average price of regular, premium and diesel fuel for each state. At first I liked to use it for work, but after a while it became an interesting thing to track as the price of diesel went below the price of gasoline in the western part of the country earlier this year.
Sometime this summer, AAA rolled out a “new look” and said “With just a simple click on a drop down, you can get the price of premium, regular and diesel” The problem was that before, they had a nice table that I copied and pasted into an excel file and could do my own analysis. I contacted them and their response was that this was much “cleaner”. I replied: “Maybe cleaner but certainly less useful!”
Sand, perhaps a “Russian dacha”?