I’m not sure who was more foolish in this one. Ruby for specifying he should get off his bike and run when he could have made a quicker getaway by pedaling as hard as he could, or Dr. Kirk for choosing to interpret “stupid thing” to mean “impractical or useless device” rather than “silly looking machine”, and then pontificate on the subject while a horde of zombies closed in upon him.
On second thoughts, it was clearly Dr. Kirk who was the most foolish.
Sensible! Sensible! Sensible!
Recumbent bikes are Sensible! Sensible! Sensible!
Recumbent bikes are sensible!
Recumbent bikes go zoom!
Recumbent bikes are practical!
They help to speed me to my doom!
You say “Stop!”, but I go!
You say “Run!”, I say no!
You say “There!”, I say “Here now,
Ergonomic design
Means there’s naught to fear now!”
I lay down, speed goes up!
Please don’t frown, zombie and pup!
As I speed, horde will feed!
Low aerodynamic force
Means I’m now the dinner course!
And the sturdy frame is …
Sensible! Sensible! Sensible!
Recumbent bikes are Sensible! Sensible! Sensible!
Regular bikes have a major advantage over recumbents in the real world: ability to actually see over cars. If you only use them on deserted stretches of road, the various physical advantages of the recumbent come to the fore, but I prefer not navigating traffic blind.
Quite often when I am reading skinhorse, on different browsers on different days, I will get frequen server errors. Having to manually reload a page many times before it displays.
The server error requests that I inform you of it at an email address that doesn’t exist.
Error log from email: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table (state 13).
Error from web server:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@skin-horse.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
html ate a portion of the error message from the email server. It was supposed to include the email address webmaster@skin-horse.com between a pair of greater-than and less-than signs.
Inform them of “anything you might have done that may have caused the error.” OKAY, OKAY,I CONFESS! IT’S ALL MY FAULT! I LOVE THIS COMIC SO PASSIONATELY THAT I SEEM TO HAVE BLOWN A GASKET ON THE INTERWEBS. MEA MAXIMA CULPA.
On the other hand, maybe the site really is showing the strip each time we log on, and GODOT is making us see the Internal Server Error message instead.
Ah, one of the classic horror victims. The person who, despite warnings from the protagonists, manages to remain completely unaware of the impending danger. I guess being an absentminded professor type is only useful when inventing flubber, not fending off zombies hordes (though perhaps one could fend off zombie hordes with flubber).
Well, flubber body armor would cause the zombies to bounce off with slightly greater force than that used in their attack, so it would be most effective against fast zombies, and nearly useless for ones lying in wait.
Now, a set of flubber body armor with weighted boots and surface wiring to provide electrical shock on contact would probably be quite effective for solo work. A slow zombie would recoil from the shock, and its forward momentum for a second attack would trigger the flubber effect, pushing the zombie away. The weighted boots are to make sure you have more mass than the zombie, to keep YOU from being the one pushed away. Perfectly obvious, if you’ve watched enough Fred McMurray movies…
I grew up with Fred MacMurray in Disney movies and on My Three Sons, so I thought he was just a boring old man. Then I discovered his films from the ’30s and ’40s, when he was just about the sexiest thing in pants. The world is far stranger than we realize.
Double Indemnity! Where he played opposite Barbara Stanwyck! I knew her only as the matron from “Big Valley”. Then I saw this movie and WOW. That blew image of the two of them right up.
I am beginning to think that if everyone in St. Charlie were to die a gruesome death then the average intelligence of the human race will be increased by a small increment….
Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that the immediate path of a ravenous zombie horde is generally not the place for arguing about botanical and culinary definitions.
Yeah, me too. But it looked like webmaster@skin-horse.com was the default email asisgned by the template and never actually connected to a real account, and I always managed to get through eventually, so I’ve been ignoring it.
I hate it when that happens. You start on a filibuster on the topic of conversation, you have both Facts and Truth on your side, and you get into the groove with a captive audience, and some niggling detail interrupts you mid-stride. Some trivial nuance like an appointment, or the weather, or a zombie horde gnawing on your scalp. (*sheesh*)
I’m not sure who was more foolish in this one. Ruby for specifying he should get off his bike and run when he could have made a quicker getaway by pedaling as hard as he could, or Dr. Kirk for choosing to interpret “stupid thing” to mean “impractical or useless device” rather than “silly looking machine”, and then pontificate on the subject while a horde of zombies closed in upon him.
On second thoughts, it was clearly Dr. Kirk who was the most foolish.
(TUNE: “Bicycle Race”, Queen)
Sensible! Sensible! Sensible!
Recumbent bikes are
Sensible! Sensible! Sensible!
Recumbent bikes are sensible!
Recumbent bikes go zoom!
Recumbent bikes are practical!
They help to speed me to my doom!
You say “Stop!”, but I go!
You say “Run!”, I say no!
You say “There!”, I say “Here now,
Ergonomic design
Means there’s naught to fear now!”
I lay down, speed goes up!
Please don’t frown, zombie and pup!
As I speed, horde will feed!
Low aerodynamic force
Means I’m now the dinner course!
And the sturdy frame is …
Sensible! Sensible! Sensible!
Recumbent bikes are
Sensible! Sensible! Sensible!
This is how you can tell that at least one of the authors lives in San Francisco.
Regular bikes have a major advantage over recumbents in the real world: ability to actually see over cars. If you only use them on deserted stretches of road, the various physical advantages of the recumbent come to the fore, but I prefer not navigating traffic blind.
Plus, on a standard bicycle, you have a better sight line for seeing approaching zombie hordes…also, you don’t look like you’re on a serving cart.
Ah, but what about a recumbent bicycle with <four-foot diameter tires? Height AND mechanical advantage! Muahahahahaha!
Ignore that <. It's a formatting typo (four-foot diameter tires), not a “less than” symbol. Curse WordPress’s lack of a comment preview function!
Quite often when I am reading skinhorse, on different browsers on different days, I will get frequen server errors. Having to manually reload a page many times before it displays.
The server error requests that I inform you of it at an email address that doesn’t exist.
Error log from email: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table (state 13).
Error from web server:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@skin-horse.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
html ate a portion of the error message from the email server. It was supposed to include the email address webmaster@skin-horse.com between a pair of greater-than and less-than signs.
Inform them of “anything you might have done that may have caused the error.” OKAY, OKAY,I CONFESS! IT’S ALL MY FAULT! I LOVE THIS COMIC SO PASSIONATELY THAT I SEEM TO HAVE BLOWN A GASKET ON THE INTERWEBS. MEA MAXIMA CULPA.
On the other hand, maybe the site really is showing the strip each time we log on, and GODOT is making us see the Internal Server Error message instead.
“Every! Thing! You! Read!”
Ah, one of the classic horror victims. The person who, despite warnings from the protagonists, manages to remain completely unaware of the impending danger. I guess being an absentminded professor type is only useful when inventing flubber, not fending off zombies hordes (though perhaps one could fend off zombie hordes with flubber).
Well, flubber body armor would cause the zombies to bounce off with slightly greater force than that used in their attack, so it would be most effective against fast zombies, and nearly useless for ones lying in wait.
Now, a set of flubber body armor with weighted boots and surface wiring to provide electrical shock on contact would probably be quite effective for solo work. A slow zombie would recoil from the shock, and its forward momentum for a second attack would trigger the flubber effect, pushing the zombie away. The weighted boots are to make sure you have more mass than the zombie, to keep YOU from being the one pushed away. Perfectly obvious, if you’ve watched enough Fred McMurray movies…
I grew up with Fred MacMurray in Disney movies and on My Three Sons, so I thought he was just a boring old man. Then I discovered his films from the ’30s and ’40s, when he was just about the sexiest thing in pants. The world is far stranger than we realize.
Double Indemnity! Where he played opposite Barbara Stanwyck! I knew her only as the matron from “Big Valley”. Then I saw this movie and WOW. That blew image of the two of them right up.
I am beginning to think that if everyone in St. Charlie were to die a gruesome death then the average intelligence of the human race will be increased by a small increment….
You are confusing Intelligence and Wisdom.
Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that the immediate path of a ravenous zombie horde is generally not the place for arguing about botanical and culinary definitions.
Yeah, me too. But it looked like webmaster@skin-horse.com was the default email asisgned by the template and never actually connected to a real account, and I always managed to get through eventually, so I’ve been ignoring it.
I hate it when that happens. You start on a filibuster on the topic of conversation, you have both Facts and Truth on your side, and you get into the groove with a captive audience, and some niggling detail interrupts you mid-stride. Some trivial nuance like an appointment, or the weather, or a zombie horde gnawing on your scalp. (*sheesh*)
‘Glurch’? Yecch!