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HyenaHell at 2:08PM, May 24, 2011

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You're not in Louisiana, are you?

Yes'sah.

Where? I'm in NOLA. :)

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HippieVan at 2:26PM, May 24, 2011

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I think Juliet is sick. I have a vet appointment for her this evening, but I'm so worried about her. : (

What happened to her? I hope things turn out okay… :(

She hasn't been eating or using her litterbox for the past day. And she's acting strange…chewing everything(even more than usual) and hiding under the bookshelf. Things she usually does when she's pissed off.

I finally got her to eat a little bit of lettuce and some veggie puffs. And she's drinking, so at least that gives me more time to get her all fixed up. If bunnies stop drinking that's really bad.

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Dodger at 2:28PM, May 24, 2011

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I dunno what AA and AB are! Cons I'm guessing. :]

Well I think I mentioned a couple things, but we'd want someone who has actually set up with a table and done sales or something at least. (Oz and I have both been to cons just as attendees.) MrRiot is meant to also be a guest, and we know from his other quackcast that he's set up tables and mostly does a lot of sketches and stuff at cons, and tries to sell some of his books/prints/etc. So someone with a similar-but-different experience? I suspect we'll be talking about stuff like choosing a con, how to prepare, what kind of costs there are, how to attract attention, how to get people to buy your stuff, etc. :] So if you think you can comment on that type of thing, then let me know!

Ideally I was hoping to get someone who could fill in the “how to be one of the presenters/panelists” type of things, but it seems like there is no one here who would have that sort of advice, who has been active on DD lately anyway. :I (Advice from experience I mean. I was a panelist once at a local con, but it was by virtue of my being one of the only actual webcomic artists in attendance. Hm, Hawk was there too… though I dunno how involved he ever got.) It's not important though, it just seemed like an interesting ‘raising your profile’ activity.

AA = Artist Alley XD Sorry. AB in Anime Boston.

I've had a few tables before but not one in the last few years. I'm doing Anime Boston 2012 (I think I wrote 2011… I had to get up at 5 am for graduation. @_@)

I don't know if I'd be a good fit, I… pretty much sell deco boxes and crafty things. Next year will be my first time selling a printed comic. Sorry ) :

Koji Takahashi Stops the World, full color, updating Mondays

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skoolmunkee at 3:18PM, May 24, 2011

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I've had a few tables before but not one in the last few years. I'm doing Anime Boston 2012 (I think I wrote 2011… I had to get up at 5 am for graduation. @_@)

I don't know if I'd be a good fit, I… pretty much sell deco boxes and crafty things. Next year will be my first time selling a printed comic. Sorry ) :

Hm… well that might be interesting in a ‘what other stuff you can sell at a con’ way… but hm, yeah, I mean it is a webcomics podcast so maybe we should stick to that? :S I probably should have started looking for people sooner, haw. Or maybe we can just have another one in the fall after people have just done a bunch of cons, and we can try to hit some of the stuff we'll surely miss out the first time?

IT'S OLD BATMAN

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OnlyFoolsAndVikings at 4:34PM, May 24, 2011

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Got woken up by a text message at 7 in the morning, it was from my dad saying: “GUESS WHAT I'M EATING!” He'd sent me a picture of himself eating this wierd cooked thing with a spikey foot. My answer was: “A small furry animal lulled into a false sense of security and then grilled, perchance?”

His repsonse: "It's an echidna, it tasts like shit.“

Not only am I wondering WHY he's eating a cooked echidna, I'm wondering how he knows what shit tastes like, and why he interuptted my terribly important sleep pattern to tell me this. Mind you, I'm no better than him, because I responded saying: ”I didn't know they were edible."

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Product Placement at 4:55PM, May 24, 2011

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So what is “it” that causes those reactions? Sulphur compounds that form strong acids when exposed to moisture in the air? Phosphates doing the same sort of thing?

This is what volcanic ash looks like, close up:

Compared to that, some normal sand that has been exposed to the natural polishing effect of the elements:

This tiny difference makes all the difference. It's like someone smashing a piece of glass and grinding it to fine powder. While it looks like fine powder, it's actually just a mass of fine splinters. Fine grain dust can be irritating, when you get it in your eyes but this stuff actively cuts your cornea. The abrasion effect it has on your skin is hastened by its ease to penetrate it.

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semiflex at 5:25PM, May 24, 2011

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The sharp ash wedge right-of-center… looking at it actually made my eye ache. Ow.

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OnlyFoolsAndVikings at 5:38PM, May 24, 2011

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They're like tiny little razor blades of death falling form the sky. D:

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ayesinback at 6:10PM, May 24, 2011

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@Product: I'm always impressed on how you can find such great support material. I think we should call you Professor instead of Product.

I had wondered if it was the shape of the particle instead of an actual chemical burn. I think that unless you live near volcanoes, most of us associate ash with wood ash, which would be a much softer particle. But seein (Xtreme close ups) is believin.

— (pacing wildebeests)

so my sister's due date (or rather, her baby's) was four days ago. AAAAHHHHH — the friggin ANTIXIPATION!!!!!

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Product Placement at 7:28PM, May 24, 2011

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I think we should call you Professor instead of Product.

Well, It's a good thing I've got just the avatar for that.

The good news is that while the eruption started very strong (10 times stronger then the last one), it's been dwindling in strength ever since. Still… that darn cloud is gonna be bothering us until it starts to rain.

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I've been looking at the photos posted on the news site and I have to say that I like this one.

It's sheephearders looking for sheep to heard into barns, so that they don't suffocate in the ash.

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seventy2 at 7:56PM, May 24, 2011

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That picture makes me sad product. I know the bond between farmers and their animals. Not only are they their money makers, they're part of the family. you raise them, feed them. they're practically family. So i can see they're running in the pictures, and i know they're frantic. it pulls on my heart string.

(yes i know they become food…thanksgiving and christmas was always hard on me)
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we found a house listed for 115 with jacuzzi, spacious backyard. we offer 115 closing costs paid. they come back with 118 with half closing costs, and jacuzzi goes. we counter…whut is…i don't even…

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HippieVan at 8:05PM, May 24, 2011

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So Juliet has GI Stasis(which is kind of what I figured). Basically an intestinal blockage. $120 later, got her some meddies and she'll be okay soon enough. I get to give her a syringe of stuff twice a day…that'll be fun. :\

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Fuego at 9:03PM, May 24, 2011

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Oy, the baby chickens broke the thing off the thermometer so ya gotta hang it on just right so it don't fall off.

*Not my picture, and sort of outdated because they got feathers on their wings now. That box isn't right either. I just wanted to attach a picture so my post would stand out.

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Ozoneocean at 9:44PM, May 24, 2011

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Chickies

Skulbie?

seventy2
All military branches have commissioned and non-commissioned officers.

Ya, I meant the difference between the Navy and merchant ships.
Thanks for the extra info though! That was pretty interesting :)

carly_mizzou
Good luck everyone!

Heya Carls! You going to San Diego Comic Con this year?

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ozoneocean
So what is “it” that causes those reactions? Sulphur compounds that form strong acids when exposed to moisture in the air? Phosphates doing the same sort of thing?
This is what volcanic ash looks like, close up:

Thankyou mister smartipants professor!

But I still remained curious and so had a look on the US government website for this sort of thing, and it turns out my suspicious RE sulphuric acid were right as well;

Soluble components
Freshly fallen ash grains commonly have surface coatings of soluble components (salts) and/or moisture. These components can make ash mildly corrosive and potentially conductive. The soluble coatings are derived from the interactions in an eruption column between ash particles and volcanic-gas aerosols, which may be composed of sulphuric and hydrochloric acid droplets with absorbed halide salts. The amount of available aerosols varies greatly between eruptions of similar size and volume.
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Volcanic eruptions inject water vapour (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), hydrochloric acid (HCl), hydrofluoric acid (HF) and ash into the atmosphere. HCl and HF will dissolve in water and fall as acid rain whereas most SO2 is slowly converted to sulphuric acid (H2SO4) aerosols. Ash particles may absorb these aerosol droplets onto their surfaces.

…so, if you feel burning, you may actually be getting chemical burns O_O
It says it's only mild though, but if the sharp shards cut you first, acid in those wounds will make it hurt more.

I can't imagine there's too much HF about though, that stuff will kill you pretty fricken quick, or at least badly injure you, only need teeny amounts.

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OnlyFoolsAndVikings at 1:57AM, May 25, 2011

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You wouldn't want to be anywhere near volcanic ash :/ I know that the particles basically cut up your lungs and insides when inhaled, I can't imagine it going in your eyes. Making my eyes hurt thinking about it.

As for getting the stuff in your underwear…

of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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bravo1102 at 2:27AM, May 25, 2011

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What happened to her? I hope things turn out okay… :(

I'm very sorely tempted to put a Star Trek fan webcomic on Comic Fury just to see
what would happen…

There have been some very good Star Trek fan webcomics so it's a very steep order. There's even an excellent one done with action figures. But still no facial expressions. So everyone looks like Stallone or Arnold with these blank tough-guy expressions and the women have these slight smiles all the time no matter what is happening or what they are saying.

“He's dead Jim!” And there's this whimsical smile on McCoy's head sculpt.
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Professor Placement, my apologies but in Hawai'i it's tropical so I wasn't wearing underwear or sleeves. Iceland is not exactly a place you normally wear an Aloha shirt, shorts and sandals.

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OnlyFoolsAndVikings at 3:00AM, May 25, 2011

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Iceland is not exactly a place you normally wear an Aloha shirt, shorts and sandals.

Unless you're a fearless bastard, of course, and look at a volcano saying: “Come at me, bro.”

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Ozoneocean at 3:12AM, May 25, 2011

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Bravo
Iceland is not exactly a place you normally wear an Aloha shirt, shorts and sandals.
Unless you're a fearless bastard, of course, and look at a volcano saying: “Come at me, bro.”

And THAT man would be Magnum P.I.

BTW, I can't believe your dad ate an echidna :(

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DarkGesen at 6:04AM, May 25, 2011

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“It's an echidna…”

I am tempted to crack a Sonic joke, but I will not.

Gesen

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Fuego at 8:04AM, May 25, 2011

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Skulbie?

Who?

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HyenaHell at 8:23AM, May 25, 2011

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An indication of a.)the fact that I have been so brainwashed by facebook that I can't think in non-facebook format, b.)that I have been away from the forums too long, and c.)my laziness: I keep looking for a “like” button on people's posts. Someone get me into rehab. As long as it's just facebook rehab, and not the kind where they take away my booze, or lock me up in a room until I'm no longer a danger to myself or others…

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seventy2 at 9:25AM, May 25, 2011

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An indication of a.)the fact that I have been so brainwashed by facebook that I can't think in non-facebook format, b.)that I have been away from the forums too long, and c.)my laziness: I keep looking for a “like” button on people's posts. Someone get me into rehab. As long as it's just facebook rehab, and not the kind where they take away my booze, or lock me up in a room until I'm no longer a danger to myself or others…

I do this too. Mostly because a lot of times i have nothing to contribute, and i hate making an entire post to say “cool” or “that is neat-o”

Also another forum i frequent (non webcomics related) has one. It's cool, except that it gives a heart, so it's like “<3 seventy2 likes this” (except the heart is filled in and right side up)
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mmmmmmm Roast beef from the crockpot. delicious.

<3 102 people like this

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HippieVan at 10:29AM, May 25, 2011

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Bah! Juliet is doing well today, and managed to give her her medicine, but now Baby has an eye infection. Which means another trip to the vet, which means we won't be able to afford a new couch for a while.
Any ideas for some kind of cheap couch-less living room sitting arrangement?

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ayesinback at 10:38AM, May 25, 2011

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Bah! Juliet is doing well today, and managed to give her her medicine, but now Baby has an eye infection. Which means another trip to the vet, which means we won't be able to afford a new couch for a while.
Any ideas for some kind of cheap couch-less living room sitting arrangement?

I'm really glad they'll be OK - and I know You know that's priority one.

But do They know it? probably not. cute, fluffy, and clueless.

So if you don't like the idea of stacks of cushions and pillows, how comfy a footrest would Juliet make?

*SO kidding*

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Product Placement at 11:53AM, May 25, 2011

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Thankyou mister smartipants professor!

Now, now. You asked me directly and I gave you an answer. My answers were also mostly based on experience, as I can vouch that this stuff isn't exactly smooth to the touch.

It's true that hydrofluoric acid is one of the byproducts of volcanic eruptions but we normally worry about it after it's gotten into the nearby soil, cause it's bad for our livestocks to eat the grass that's been coated with that stuff. Before then, it's mostly in gaseous form, making it very dangerous to be near volcanoes but further away it's floating up high into the sky until it bonds with a cloud and rains on us.

Although I suppose that few particles of it coating the ash flakes, isn't exactly making them more comfortable.

On the plus side, volcanic ash has very positive long term effects on the area where it falls over. It's a natural fertilizer, in addition to darkening the soil, thus increasing it's ability to absorb heat from the sun, which also benefits cold climate plants. It also boosts plankton growth in the seas where ash clouds falls, which has positive long term benefits for marine life.

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ayesinback at 12:10PM, May 25, 2011

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@Prof: your new avatar just seems so much more appropriate than the previous one, which was a tad smug. As much as I am a declared fan of Roku's work, every post you made with that other avi seemed somewhat uppity. This one is from Our Friendly Educator. :)

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seventy2 at 2:22PM, May 25, 2011

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Bah! Juliet is doing well today, and managed to give her her medicine, but now Baby has an eye infection. Which means another trip to the vet, which means we won't be able to afford a new couch for a while.
Any ideas for some kind of cheap couch-less living room sitting arrangement?

bean bags! lawn chairs. Futon.

I used to have some comfortable arm chairs we used until we could afford a couch.
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OnlyFoolsAndVikings at 2:49PM, May 25, 2011

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BTW, I can't believe your dad ate an echidna

I know, I can't believe he sent me pictures of him doing so either. But he works with traditional Aboriginal groups as a Native Title Barrister handling land claims, and apparently echidna was a traditional dish for the “elders” of the clan so they gave it to him. I think they were having a laugh.

I heard magnum PI's chest hair could be used as steel wool, should the need arise.

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Gesen
I am tempted to crack a Sonic joke, but I will not.

I will, “He just wasn't fast enough to escape the grill, apparently.”

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Product Placement at 3:31PM, May 25, 2011

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Couple of yahoos went to see the volcano today. Apparently it's been dying down quite rapidly and has almost stopped. Pictures here.

P.S. Would just like to point out that they're on a glacier. The biggest one in Europe. Ash does a great job at transforming a landscape. Picture 15 shows how deep you had to dig in order to reach the snow at some places.

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OnlyFoolsAndVikings at 4:33PM, May 25, 2011

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That ash looks like its at least half a metre deep! Great photos, but I can't help feeling walking across a glacier, around an active volcano is not incredibly safe… :/

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