Comic for Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Posted: 6:35 am, Wednesday, April 1st

The photo I yanked for the third panel is from here, all credit being paid to the credit.ee. Thing. Person. The third panel is also kind of a wink and nod to 2.0 and Tree, who think I drive too fast.

I am happy to report that the long and interminable month of March has finally given way to April here in New York City, and, more importantly, in the New York City public school system. 31 days have never been so long. I'm starting to lose the thread in this first year of teaching - I have no idea what it was I thought the kids were supposed to be doing for an hour and a half yesterday - and seriously need the week and a half coming up next Wednesday. I guess it's national poetry month now, which is well-timed to coincide with the little mini-unit on newspapers that I'm doing right now. Wait, what?

Slogging about in a haze as I was last night, I happened to watch this new show, Cupid, last night, with 2.0. Wow, that was bad. No wonder scripted TV is going down the crapper. I fuzzily remembered the same concept starring Jeremy Piven back in the day, and I guess it's the same creator and everything, the dude who was also responsible for the much superior Veronia Mars. I never watched the Piven version, so I can't let you know which is better, but I'm guessing it wasn't the one that was on last night.

I really don't have much else to say aside from this. I need to work on the yearbook today and tomorrow, so I'm really glad I had the extra time to draw today's strip over the weekend, because otherwise, you'd be looking at this boring black-and-white field for the remainder of the day. Good luck avoiding most of the douchebaggery that sprouts up around the internet every April 1st.

bullfrog

2.0 -- Wednesday, April 1 2009, 06:57 am

It's not that you drive too fast, it's that you drive too angry.

Right so, $5 is going daily exactly when again?

Possibly over the summer. There is just absolutely no way I could do it daily during the school year. I'd need that stopwatch from that one episode of Duck Tales.

Thesis: April Fool's day is worse in a NYC public high school than it is on the internet.

I will complete my research and check back in at the end of the day.

Today's strip reminds me of Pushing Daisies! (This always happened on that show.) Awww.

When i used to mouseover the comic, i always got some little witty comment or phrase or something. Not anymore. Did this go away? Or maybe the latest IE is not reading it?

Must be the latest IE. Dreamweaver actually gets cranky if I don't enter a "witticism".

Yup, I'm on old IE and I can still see the mouseover.

For the BSG fans in the room:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_depressed_distant_since?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

It's not really a mouseover. It's the 'alt' text in the img link. Dreamweaver is correct to insist on alt text, since it is technically required, but its purpose is only to describe the image for cases where the image can't display. Older IE incorrectly showed it on mouseover, but I guess somebody at MS has finally read the standard. If Dreamweaver provides a way to put in a 'title' text, that's actually the formally correct way to do it.

PS- So there are years of these things that I never knew were there?

Yeah, going back at least a year or two, the alt text is present. I forget when I started putting it in. I know I started putting song lyrics in quite a while ago.