So I’m not the only one encountering this? Been getting the “internal server errors” on and off for several days now. And the site’s been extremely slow for, oh, about a month and a half. Wonder what’s going on…
I boot my laptop—first things first—
For Skin Horse pleasures I do thirst
But, lo, what greets me? It’s the worst—
Internal Server Error
And on my iPhone I depend
It brings the world, my truest friend
(Look, we can’t all have a wrench.)
But where’s the comic? Gods forfend!
Internal Server Error
How do I post this? That’s my quest
If you can read this, count me blessed
This website with my life has messed
Internal Server Error
Diurnal, infernal, eternal
Internal Server Error
It’s a server thing. Dreamhost moved a bunch of sites to a new server that’s having problems, and unfortunately this is one of those sites. Supposedly it’ll get straightened out. In the meantime, there’s nothing I can do about it on my end.
It must be driving you and Jeff nuttier than it’s driving the rest of us. I guess this calls for:
“Perseverance,” by Edwin Carp
Somebody said it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied,
“Maybe it couldn’t, but I will be one,
Who’ll never say ‘No!’ ’til I’ve tried.”
So he buckled right in,
With a trace of a grin
On his face, if he worried he hid it.
And he tackled the thing that couldn’t be done,
And he couldn’t do it.
(Carl Reiner, “The Return of Edwin Carp,” The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1 April 1964.
Reiner wrote this parody of Edgar Guest’s “It Couldn’t Be Done” for Richard Haydn to recite.)
Aha, I just got that. Remember when Moustachio got over-wound and tried to use the mini-reactor called “Beni”? Gavotte said there was another one called “Victor”. And at the start of this story arc, Gavotte mentioned there was a bomb aboard this train …
Nice catch! Thanks, I’d forgotten about Victor and Beni, and was assuming Victor was an engineer.
Though you’d think anyone maintaining something that dangerous would know their job well enough to not need to consult instructions or to notice if menu options change. Then again, a new and unknown error message could probably send an experienced operator fumbling for the manual.
It’s kinda rad, you won’t let the mob be
An interruption for ’bout an hour …
Well, let me tell you about my hobby!
I’m just enjoying stealing power!
With just a chair underneath the knob, he
Is thwarting Ruby and all her tools!
Well, let me tell you about my hobby!
Ha, ha! I’m gonna show those fools!
How rad, you tricked her!
I think you should know
That to the VICTOR
All the spoils will go!
Now they’re all stuck in the outer lobby!
Don’t bother shouting, don’t waste your breath!
Now let me tell you about my hobby!
I’m gonna “lure” ’em all to death!
I think it would depend on the mad scientist’s primary discipline.
If you went to a mad *fisher*, you’d probably get something like the Po-Peel Artifact from Gurps IOU: not only does it catch the fish for you, it guts, scales, fillets, and cooks the fish to perfection from a menu of a million million possible fish dishes. All of which are designed for ammonia-breathing life forms.
Everyone ride that Soul Train!
Is anyone else still getting “internal server error” much of the time?
Yeah, but only when the site doesn’t load after the usual minute or so of waiting.
So I’m not the only one encountering this? Been getting the “internal server errors” on and off for several days now. And the site’s been extremely slow for, oh, about a month and a half. Wonder what’s going on…
I boot my laptop—first things first—
For Skin Horse pleasures I do thirst
But, lo, what greets me? It’s the worst—
Internal Server Error
And on my iPhone I depend
It brings the world, my truest friend
(Look, we can’t all have a wrench.)
But where’s the comic? Gods forfend!
Internal Server Error
How do I post this? That’s my quest
If you can read this, count me blessed
This website with my life has messed
Internal Server Error
Diurnal, infernal, eternal
Internal Server Error
Every! Thing! You! Read!
:p
It’s a server thing. Dreamhost moved a bunch of sites to a new server that’s having problems, and unfortunately this is one of those sites. Supposedly it’ll get straightened out. In the meantime, there’s nothing I can do about it on my end.
It must be driving you and Jeff nuttier than it’s driving the rest of us. I guess this calls for:
“Perseverance,” by Edwin Carp
Somebody said it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied,
“Maybe it couldn’t, but I will be one,
Who’ll never say ‘No!’ ’til I’ve tried.”
So he buckled right in,
With a trace of a grin
On his face, if he worried he hid it.
And he tackled the thing that couldn’t be done,
And he couldn’t do it.
(Carl Reiner, “The Return of Edwin Carp,” The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1 April 1964.
Reiner wrote this parody of Edgar Guest’s “It Couldn’t Be Done” for Richard Haydn to recite.)
Oops, my bad. Haydn wrote this parody himself, years earlier, when he first created Edwin Carp.
Yes, there is–post more Narbonic while we wait for Skin Horse to get fixed.
Aha, I just got that. Remember when Moustachio got over-wound and tried to use the mini-reactor called “Beni”? Gavotte said there was another one called “Victor”. And at the start of this story arc, Gavotte mentioned there was a bomb aboard this train …
Nice catch! Thanks, I’d forgotten about Victor and Beni, and was assuming Victor was an engineer.
Though you’d think anyone maintaining something that dangerous would know their job well enough to not need to consult instructions or to notice if menu options change. Then again, a new and unknown error message could probably send an experienced operator fumbling for the manual.
Yeeeesh! G.O.D.O.T. gone nuclear? At least this will clear up the pesky zombie problem.
Nice catch!
Actually ’twas Marcie who said it:
http://skin-horse.com/2010/todays-comic-117/
…and there’s a third Italian Robber unaccounted for – Luigi (the fat man – eep!)
(TUNE: “Get Happy”, Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler)
It’s kinda rad, you won’t let the mob be
An interruption for ’bout an hour …
Well, let me tell you about my hobby!
I’m just enjoying stealing power!
With just a chair underneath the knob, he
Is thwarting Ruby and all her tools!
Well, let me tell you about my hobby!
Ha, ha! I’m gonna show those fools!
How rad, you tricked her!
I think you should know
That to the VICTOR
All the spoils will go!
Now they’re all stuck in the outer lobby!
Don’t bother shouting, don’t waste your breath!
Now let me tell you about my hobby!
I’m gonna “lure” ’em all to death!
So, does anyone else find themselves wondering what a mad scientist produced fishing lure would look like?
Surely it glows in the dark, but does it cook the fish for you?
It fails entirely to catch or cook the fish… but it might very well launch you into space.
I think it would depend on the mad scientist’s primary discipline.
If you went to a mad *fisher*, you’d probably get something like the Po-Peel Artifact from Gurps IOU: not only does it catch the fish for you, it guts, scales, fillets, and cooks the fish to perfection from a menu of a million million possible fish dishes. All of which are designed for ammonia-breathing life forms.