(2/2/2010) Not to comment on a far more popular comic, but I think yesterday's xkcd missed the most interesting statistic, and that's strip "happy days game" (n>85%).

(1/18/2010) Speaking of BoingBoing... (well, I was a few months ago). "Katherine," presumably a loyal Nuclide, made a very cool Tetris blanket, made as an Agnostica present, which was cool enough to garner a mention on BoingBoing, thus disseminating Agnostica cheer beyond my readership and the occasional Festivus forum post. Though, the blanket reflects not the joys of video game merriment, but rather the exasperation of life's unfortunate turns, brought upon ourselves by our inability to cope with its pace and simple stupidity. Take a looksee.

(1/15/2010) Did you get shafted by the Random Bag of Fun? If you sent something into the Random Bag and didn't receive something in return, please email me right away and tell me what it was. I remember a specific gift arriving but it somehow went away. It's also possible I dreamt it. Seriously. I have a problem.

(9/18/2009) Top 5000?! Okay, I have no delusions that Nukees is anything close to one of the most popular comics on the web. Alexa ranks me at something like the 250,000th most popular site. Then when browsing Boing Boing I ran across a site called What the Internet Knows About You. It offends places like Boing Boing by violating your privacy or something by reporting your browser history. Check it out and click on "Top 5k websites." What's up at the top alongside Google and Facebook? Yours Truly! You know who isn't considered a "popular webcomic" according to this site? Sluggy Freelance, Dinosaur Comics, Dilbert, or even (wait for it) XKCD! Wow, who runs this site? A loyal Nuclide, I guess? (Even Boing Boing isn't a top site). Well... you guys may be wrong, but oh so right!

(9/7/2009) Happy Labor Week! So it took four days in a row of sleeping only three hours a night (actually during daylight), but I succeeded in inventing and installing one of the very first diagostics (indium activation to determiine D-D fusion neutron yield) on the very first fusion shot of the National Ignition Facility completely from scatch in just five days. Sure, it was wrong by a factor of about three, but for something that didn't exist five days ago, it's a success just to deploy it.

...especially in light of the fact that I also took two midnight-8am "Owl" shifts at the cyclotron, sat through two four-hour safety classes, and drew three comic strips during the same week. Go me!

Thank Darwin I get today off.

(8/15/2009) Kudos to Rochester Airport and Frontier Internet Provider for providing a comfy place to sit and free internet access in the airport. Now that I've purchased a portable scanner, I was, for the first time, able to write, draw, scan, and upload a comic while waiting for a flight. The future is finally yesterday. I just wish more airports would be this nice.

(3/14/2009) Happy Pi Day! I'm happy that the world is becoming geekier every year and I see this salutation more and more. Oh, and I got re-uncled yesterday on the much-more-boring Friday the 13th. Congrats, bro and sis-in-law!

(1/23/2009) Wait, what day is it? I think I'm a couple days late, but happy twelveth birthday to Nukees. Soon my comic will start growing body hair, talking back to me, and noticing Girl Genius.

(1/2/2009) HA! So now I'm actually hoping that I made Wednesday's joke before! It turns out it's a Schlock Mercenary T-Shirt! So I either (a) repeated a joke from 10 years ago, or (b) subconsciously ripped off someone else's joke. I'd prefer (a). But if that's true, it means Howard ripped me off and I deserve royalties on his shirts. :)

(12/31/2008) Now that it's too late, I'm staring at today's comic and suddenly am struck with the uncomfortable notion that I may have already made this joke before. Twelve years old your webcomic gets, repeat yourself you will.

(7/13/2008) Keenspotless. So we haven't made a big deal about it, but about six months ago, I sold my share in Keenspot to the Crosbys. And as of July 2008, I am no longer providing technical support for them. That was a pretty painful decision for me--so painful, in fact, that it's not really possible for me to write a heart-rending sob story about my feelings in my news. So I won't. I'm happy to answer anyone's questions about it, but thus far no one has been terribly interested. The bronze age of people caring about webcomics drama seems to be over. It's probably for the best.

Today, I moved Nukees off the Keenspot servers. I intend on redesigning the site in the next few weeks (or, knowing me, months). In the interim, a bunch of stuff will probably break. In the short term, I've removed most of the ads. I noticed that now that I was no longer controlling the ads, Keenspot has been running a lot of annoying ads that overlay on top of the page content, which I have never allowed on my site. If the ads can't be unobtrusive, I'd rather not have them at all.

Speaking of that, I'm not sure what direction to take with the "business of Nukees" in the future. I don't really need the trickle of loose change that advertising brings, though income makes me feel slightly more "professional." Most of my "business decisions" regarding this comic were made to show support of the business I was trying to build with Keenspot. So who knows, maybe I'll have to revolutionize comics all over again somehow. Or maybe I'll just draw without worrying about it for once.

Thanks to all of you for still reading Nukees after 11 years. And a special über-thanks to any of you who have linked to Nukees or told your friends about me.

Oh, and I'm blonde now.