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2013-09-03

by shaenon on September 3, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. OddManOut
    September 3, 2013, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Am I the only one who can see comments but not the comic itself?

    • Glass Sound
      September 3, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      No, it’s happening to me too…

      • SnigePippi
        September 3, 2013, 3:11 am | # | Reply

        It’s been so the last two days, and there’s widget comments in the sidebar.

    • bigbearseviltwin
      September 3, 2013, 3:41 am | # | Reply

      same here

    • reynard61
      September 3, 2013, 10:34 pm | # | Reply

      i can see the comic. I don’t give a split about the widgets.

      • mnementh
        September 3, 2013, 11:50 pm | # | Reply

        I can see the comic too. And if I had a cat’s bass I wouldn’t give it for the Ifni-slucking widgets.

        mnem
        Bleeping Bleepity-Bleep Bleeper-Bleepers!

    • Dark_Razor
      September 4, 2013, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      I can actually see the comic today, but yesterday it was like that.
      And the Cast page was huuuge. Like I could read 3/4 of the description. Which wouldn’t be enough if I hadn’t read them a few thousand times before.
      Just stating that the entirety of the site was acting up.

  2. Manifesta
    September 3, 2013, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Nope, I’m in the same boat. Until they fix the problem, you can read the comic at http://www.gocomics.com/skinhorse, but I think it may not update until midnight PST.

    • Prester Fred
      September 3, 2013, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Same thing happening here.

    • Moor
      September 3, 2013, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      Also, here: http://skin-horse.com/comics/2013-09-03There_was_plenty.png

    • OddManOut
      September 3, 2013, 3:40 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks for all the alternate ways of viewing it.

    • Kwaj
      September 5, 2013, 11:50 am | # | Reply

      Wait, GoComics? Is… Skin Horse in newspapers?

  3. The Doctor
    September 3, 2013, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Same for me as well. Glad I’m not alone.

    • The Master
      September 3, 2013, 6:57 pm | # | Reply

      You will always be alone, Doctor. Always.

  4. pcj
    September 3, 2013, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    🙁 no comic 🙁

  5. Anderson
    September 3, 2013, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Gocomics version is now up.

    You can always depend on some people to do the right thing. You can depend on a lot more people to do the right thing if you pay them a lot to do so.

  6. Moor
    September 3, 2013, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    <img src="http://skin-horse.com/comics/2013-09-03There_was_plenty.png&quot; alt="Transcript:

    Panel 1:
    Whimsy!Drone: Sir foreman! You are in thrall to the greedy executives infesting me!
    Panel 2:
    Whimsy!Drone: There is yet time to pledge yourself to virtue! Call off your machines of destruction!
    Panel 3:
    Foreman: Who do you think you are, lady?
    Whimsy!Drone: Someone who can dish out huge salary bonuses!
    Panel 4:
    Foreman: I’ve got my bank on speed dial. Keep talking.
    Whimsy!Drone: Witness! A victory for virtue!
    ” title=”Look ma, no click! (Also, I put the transcript in the alt. I don’t know why — it just came over me.)” />

  7. Moor
    September 3, 2013, 2:02 am | # | Reply
    • Moor
      September 3, 2013, 2:05 am | # | Reply

      Rats. That didn’t work. No embeded images in comments? Fine. There’s a transcript up, at least.

      Phoo-y.
      <Dramatic>I DON’T NEED YOU ANYWAY!</Dramatic>
      *sobs*

  8. Rincewind
    September 3, 2013, 2:44 am | # | Reply

    Dave Warren over at Selkie ( http://www.selkiecomic.com/ ) has a similar looking problem. He posted; “I clicked what I THOUGHT was an innocent Comicpress update, but apparently it was a full conversion to Comic Easel and now a lot of the site is completely BORKED.”

    • Dave
      September 3, 2013, 3:04 am | # | Reply

      Hello there, Selkie fan. 🙂

      Oh poor Skin Horse, you made the same mistake I did, I can tell. I’d be glad to offer whatever help or advice I can should it be needed. Dave AT selkiecomic DOT com.

      • Shaenon
        September 3, 2013, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, I did make the same pitiable mistake! Arrgh…

        • Bill
          September 3, 2013, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

          Spent most of yesterday fixing mine. Looks like we’ve got a bit of a club going.

          • Dave
            September 3, 2013, 9:25 pm | #

            Quickly, to the Commiseration Vodka!

          • GeneM
            September 13, 2013, 6:13 pm | #

            This happened to me too, but luckily not on my main comic site. Unfortunately I’m missing a lot of features now, like the page archive dropdown I was using and transcriptions. I’m planning on asking Frumph if/when we can expect to get those back.

      • JET73L
        March 6, 2015, 1:24 am | # | Reply

        OH. You’re THAT Dave. No wonder you have a Selkie-eye avatar!

    • Tetra Valent
      September 3, 2013, 3:48 am | # | Reply

      Number 1 cause of computer system failure: software “upgrade”.

      • Max
        September 3, 2013, 5:01 am | # | Reply

        Upgrades are inherently eeeeeevil. My mythbuntu box distro-upgraded twice after LTE end-of-life, both times promptly failed to boot (for different reasons). My last software update (!) got killed and retried numerous times to increasing degrees of system failure until I remembered that it didn’t actually hang – for some inscrutable reason it just tries to access my non-existent floppy drive for FOURTY MINUTES in a row before it gives up every time “menu.lst” gets messed with.

  9. Some Smartass
    September 3, 2013, 4:55 am | # | Reply

    So she thinks of greedy executives like we think of parasites? Makes sense.

  10. Andorxor
    September 3, 2013, 4:57 am | # | Reply

    I realy like the phrase the greedy executives infesting me

  11. Wayne Zombie
    September 3, 2013, 6:47 am | # | Reply

    I wanna see an EdG filk about an invisible comic!

    • Danny in Canada
      September 3, 2013, 7:04 am | # | Reply

      It’s already been posted, but it’s invisible. Sorry!

      • eddurd
        September 3, 2013, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

        OK, I’ll turn off the invisibility …
        [visibile = TRUE]

        (TUNE: “You Won’t See Me”, The Beatles)

        When we click … the link,
        Our screen is bare!
        Server says, “We think
        The strip is there!”
        It went up … last night,
        But something’s just not right!
        The strip is on … the site,
        But we can’t see it!

        Now we feel … distress,
        We cry and cuss!
        Because Co-mic Press
        Just barfed on us!
        Seems they made … a slip,
        Now this is such a rip!
        ‘Cause there should be … a strip,
        But we can’t see it!

         Stupid update
         That they claim improves our service …
         Don’t you just hate
         When an upgrade makes you nervous?

        Now the air … turns blue,
        We curse and shout!
        Hope the ser-ver crew
        Can sort this out!
        This is less … than fine!
        The readers moan and whine!
        The strip is here … online,
        But we can’t see it!

  12. Freddie Freelance
    September 3, 2013, 7:24 am | # | Reply

    The comic is there, but there was an undefined function call in displaying it.

  13. eddddd the mad genius
    September 3, 2013, 7:45 am | # | Reply

    Aw, whimsy took off the dress 🙁 whimsy, aren’t you supposed to be a princess? c’mon!

    …nick wore the dress… 🙁

    • TSOJ
      September 3, 2013, 8:43 am | # | Reply

      The dress is now 6 kinds of radioactive. It’d kill the foreman before she had a chance to get him to call the work off.

      • Dewy
        September 3, 2013, 9:44 am | # | Reply

        Well, unless the dress was made of metal and she had him swollow it, I’m pretty sure the forman is safe. Nick’s body on the other hand…

  14. eddurd
    September 3, 2013, 10:04 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “God Save The Queen”)

    Execs infectious, fall!
    Whimsy, protect us all!
    Princess, save us!

    Avarice glorious
    Now will work fo-or us …
    Virtue victorious!
    Princess, save us!

  15. Zap Rowsdower
    September 3, 2013, 10:50 am | # | Reply

    So greed=virtue.

    Yup, she’s a corporation all right.

    • NAAIP
      September 3, 2013, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

      Zap Rowsdower,

      Can’t you see this hateful bigotry for what it is?

      Birds fly, fish swim, and Incorporations are generally created for the purpose of conducting business.

      In earlier times, the level of societal trust was much lower, and some of the only large organizations capable of conducting business were families.

      This meant one didn’t work with people one wasn’t related to by blood, marriage, or both.

      A corporation is a later step in a large series of stages that brought us to a world where one can sometimes trust, in matters of money, those one isn’t blood related to.

      I would further submit that corporations in general behave very similarly to a realistic estimate of how groups of humans with free will would behave.

      Sincerely,
      Insomnia Insights LLC.
      Spokesentity
      National Association for the Advancement of Incorporated People

  16. Jeffrey Wells
    September 3, 2013, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    Obligatory error-day post, for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet: ComicPress update clashed with some of our coding. It’s not on your end, it’s ours. Keep pace in the meantime at gocomics.com/skinhorse . Peace out!

  17. Rex Vivat
    September 3, 2013, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

    Huh. In the absence of the comic, I just noticed that the Social stuff is titled “Share and Enjoy”. Now I got the theme song for the Complaints division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation stuck in my head…

    • Shadowmehr
      September 3, 2013, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

      Oh good grief, that hold music! . . .

      All you want is a good cup of tea and you get something that resembles liquid fertilizer, and then when you call to complain the wait time is measured in months . . . No wonder they’re the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

  18. Andrew Farago
    September 3, 2013, 7:28 pm | # | Reply

    ComicPress experts (and fellow cartoonists) can e-mail Shaenon at me(at)shaenon.com with basic troubleshooting tips. There was some weird widget issue once before, and that wiped out most of Shaenon and Jeff’s comments on the Sunday features, among other side effects.

    • Moor
      September 3, 2013, 7:48 pm | # | Reply

      You got the comic back up! Our hero!

      But oh goodness, the comments! Do you have backups, or should go crazy at every possible internet caching website?

  19. Saberbeam
    September 3, 2013, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

    So if you get on the side of virtue due to your lack of virtue, is that like, negative virtue or do they cancel each other out and you’re at neutral virtue? Man, the ethics (or lack thereof) of bribery are confusing.

  20. Andrew Farago
    September 3, 2013, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

    The site seems to maybe, gradually be figuring itself out. Sit tight, and we’ll see if it all comes back.

  21. Norman
    September 3, 2013, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

    Status Update: 3 September 2013, 1756 PDT:

    I was able to read the comic without problems other than a slight giggle-fit. In other words, normal for Skin-Horse.

  22. WuseMajor
    September 3, 2013, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

    …Where’d she get the new clothing?

    • TSOJ
      September 3, 2013, 11:17 pm | # | Reply

      Hello,… Princess?
      (Either that, or Tip brought spares.)

      • Moor
        September 4, 2013, 12:01 am | # | Reply

        Tip brought spares.

  23. King
    September 4, 2013, 3:38 pm | # | Reply

    Is that… is that Dave in the background of panel 1?

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