Assorted Reminders
Posted November 16th, 2008 by Howard Tayler
I haven’t mentioned it in weeks, but that doesn’t mean the Schlock Mercenary RSS feed has gone away. Au contraire! It is alive, well, and being fed some 2,300 times per day. There is also a separate feed for this blog, which is unsurprisingly not nearly so popular. It tops out at around 72.
Other RSS-ish things that you don’t need RSS to get: Writing Excuses is now into Season 2, and Episode 6 is up! Join us for a discussion on “Endings” and get a sneak peek into the process I used to tighten up the impending climactic ending for Book 10 — Schlock Mercenary: The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse.
Finally, don’t forget that we’re running a “free shipping anywhere on the planet” sale at store.schlockmercenary.com. All you have to do is spend $100 or more with us. Forget 700-billion-dollar stimulus packages. I can get stimulated with a C-note and a shipping address.
(Note: please do not take that last sentence out of context.)
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November 16th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I encountered the blog feed (and the comic feed–and therefore the comic itself) via Google Reader’s recommended feeds. Looking at the Google Reader statistics, the blog has 145 subscribers through Google Reader alone, while the comic feed has 1,057 Google Reader subscribers.
Your audience is a little larger than you thought. :-)
November 16th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Hmmm… that first number is probably due to the fact that I’m only counting the Feedburner stats, and the blog has two feeds — one direct, and one through Feedburner.
The comic only has one feed, however, and yes, Google Reader accounts for very nearly 50% of the readers.
November 16th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Three feeds. Don’t forget the LJ blogunderschlock syndication, which has 28 readers (including me).
November 16th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I’m still horrified by the whole Howard getting stimulated by a C-note and a shipping address mess.
All I can think to say is Ewwwwwwwwww.
I may never be able to look at you with a straight face at a shipping party again.
Just to flaunt my ignorance, how do I go about getting the Google Reader set up?
November 16th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
I suspect the stimulus package would work better if the U.S. government wasn’t so deep in debt. (By the way, that’s the GOP’s fault. We hear so much about tax-and-spend Democrats, and hardly anything about borrow-and-spend Republicans. Oh, did I just derail the thread?) I’m glad Australia and China both have nicely solvent governments.
Howard: I’m using the direct feed. Is there any reason to pick one or the other?
WEKM: Perhaps instead of “Note: please do not…” Howard should have said “WARNING: Do not…”?
November 16th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
:>
November 17th, 2008 at 3:49 am
You’ll have to do some feed forwarding tricks to get google reader to recognize the new feed location.
November 17th, 2008 at 7:19 am
WEKM - dirty minds what stink alike…
Howard - Thank you for putting up that nice cognitive floater. It’s not like we weren’t going to go there eventually. However, I would like to complain about being asked to forget the $700 BILLION ($700,000,000,000) of tax monies being used in the bailout. Especially when that’s roughly 7% of the (ballpark, $10 trillion) US GDP. I don’t want to forget. I want to remember. I want EVERYONE to remember.
-John
November 17th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Y’all can worry about things that you can’t do anything about (like The Economy™ or The National Debt™) if you want to, but I’m going to worry about people adding SMELL to video games. That’s Truly Evil™. And it must be stopped.
http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/2008/11/12/that-s-not-teen-spirit-i-smell.aspx
You know that if they add odor to games that web comics can’t be far behind… I shudder to think what a Schlock omelette schmells like. Do not want!!
November 17th, 2008 at 10:47 am
GUYS!
I’m already sick over here. I do not need things like that being forced into my brain.
If I throw up thinking about that later, I am saving it and sending it to you in the mail.
I already hate my government and want the ALL replaced. If only we could get them all term limited.
This was never intended to be a career!
If I could just get to Washington D.C. I swear, I would run through Congress with a whiffleball bat beating them all senseless.
One small step for a man, one big reminder of who they actually work for.
Viva La Revolucion!
Just remember, the cake is a lie…
November 17th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I have a random note to pass on to Brandon…
Apparently, Felicia Day (of The Guild), is a big fan… http://twitter.com/feliciaday/status/1010249410
November 17th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
The smell of burnt Schlock… Hmm… Probably just some mildly-carcinogenic smoke. The silicate parts wouldn’t contribute to the smell – singeing them is pretty much just firing clay, right?
DarthReed and WEKM, you need to remember that Schlock doesn’t smell anywhere as disgusting as he looks. If he did, he wouldn’t be able to sneak up on people like he occasionally does.
November 17th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Howard, i would hate to call you redundant for fear you might start believing you actually DO suffer from memory loss but…
http://schlockmercenary.com/d/20061205.html
Clearly though, that comes from simply reading your comic WAY too much. The only other man i know of capable of getting as many if not more laughs from telling a joke twice is Jeff Foxworthy.
“You might be a redneck if you’ve done something or seen someone do something redneck-like, and thought it was perfectly normal.”
Remember, redundancy and paranoia are the keys to security.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
@Entrench: What does the comic you linked have to do with anything redundant? I don’t doubt that I’ve gone back to the well a time or two, but that strip about Shufgar singing in the shower doesn’t seem germane to the current discussion.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Probably something about being stimulated by a C-note? Playing on the notes section quite a bit, in the linked strip, and making the leap from music to money…