(4/25/2008) These guys totally stole my joke from eleven years ago. All I have to say is that it's not a three minute joke.

(2/6/2008) Danny's contraction today actually isn't out of character, so you don't have to email me about it.

(1/21/2008) Oops one more time. Hey, it's been three months since I screwed up an update. Looks like I scanned the wrong side of the bristol board and repeated Friday's comic today. But now it's fixed.

(10/3/2007) _hoops! I forgot a "W" in today's strip this morning (I had whited out a mistake and forgot to correct it once the white-out had dried). How embarrassing. Just fixed it with a creative "cut'n'paste." Try to guess from where to where! No, don't really. Go be productive with your day.

(8/17/2007) A new reviewzie! Hrm, I haven't updated my Reviewzies page in a long, long time, though occasionally people do continue to review this cute little strip of mine. I was alerted to this new review recently. It's always nice to know people are interested enough to write about it.

(8/5/2007) Ugh for the fourth time.

I had fixed it... I had tested it... And still, my "missing comic notification system" failed me again on Friday. This is getting super irritating.

So in case you're interested, I had fixed the script that text messages my cell phone when the comic isn't updated by routing the email it sends through my Gmail account, which forwards it to my phone (my cell phone has stopped accepting email text messages from Keenspot). It worked in tests and everything.

I forgot to similarly fix the script that text messages me when any of the hard drive partitions are about to run out of space. And the mail directory had filled up, preventing the mail system from working, thus making my script fail. Again.

Okay, sure, it's usually my own fault when the comic doesn't get uploaded (when I draw them far enough in advance, sometimes I just forget to scan/upload them), but it would seem I've become reliant on the notification system telling me when I've been stupid. What can I do? Become responsible for my own actions again? Pfah! Why did we invent computers?

So grrr one more time. I'll update with both comics on Monday, so you're sure not to get them out of order.

(8/1/2007) In case you were wondering, I did find a place to stay in San Diego at the very last minute. Aeire and Chris Daily let me crash on their couch (as did Steph, but I have nothing to link her to).

I suppose I should write a Con report or something. Perhaps I will a little later. For now, all I know is that I want a Calle of my very own. Maybe a small one I could keep in my pocket and take out to cheer me up whenever I'm sad.

(7/23/2007) Homeless in San Diego. So Comic Con is a mere two days away and I just found out that I don't have a place to stay! (The friend I intended to stay with just said "Sorry, no can do.") And San Diego pretty much sells out completely this weekend of the year months beforehand. Oh well, I'm resourceful, I'll figure out something. The important bit is that I'm going anyway, details be damned, and I hope to see a great lot of you there. If I look mentally exhausted, you'd probably be doing me a favor by not asking me to draw something for you right then and there. Every year, it's just sketch after sketch after sketch after sketch. I love the fans, but I really have only so much "drawing energy" in me each day. And I get really irritated when it becomes obvious that the person who has requested the sketch has no idea who I am and/or what "Nukees" is.

Here's a tip: When I ask you which character you'd like me to sketch, it's really a trick question. If you answer, "Oh, any of them is fine," then I know that you don't read my comic and I will put almost no effort into the sketch. If you really don't care, then you should still answer something like, "Oh Danny, King Luca, Suzy Gee--any of them, it doesn't matter."Anything to let me know that you actually read my comic.

Also, I'm sorry, but I have some kind of mental disorder that gives me subhuman image recognition skills. Even if I've met you at the last six conventions, I won't remember you (though I will fake it). Pepper into your conversation as many reminders of who you are as possisble, including your name, your comic if you draw one, and whether or not we've had sex.

(6/27/2007) AUUUGGH! This has been, by far, the worst couple of weeks in Nukees auto-update-crapout history! Now what happened? Nukees didn't update on Wednesday?! I haven't figured out why yet. I was in Washington D.C. last week, and I drew Wednesday's comic on the plane on Saturday and scanned/uploaded it at a friend's house on Sunday.

So where did it go? Pleh.

Somehow, the tech gods know that my cell phone has been broken for the past few weeks, so my text-message-based missing-comic notification system h as not been working.

This is so particularly infuriating because, as you must know by now, I go through some really great lengths to ensure there is a new comic three days a week. I've never not drawn a comic on time in the ten years I've been doing this thing. It's all I have left to be truly proud of.

So if you missed it, please go back to Wednesday

(6/7/2007) D'oh D'oh! Well, it looks like I screwed up again, this time in the opposite direction. I'm currently at a physics conference in New Hampshire and I had to draw three comics ahead of schedule in order to come here. But I misnamed the comics, so each of this week's comics updated a day ahead of schedule.

I've corrected it now, so those of you that checked Thursday morning got a sneak peak that the rest of you didn't. If you normally check Monday, Wednesday, and Friday then you may have missed Monday's comic, which updated a day early on Sunday, so you'll probably want to go back and read it.

Well, let's just say that evens out the comic that inadvertantly updated a day late last week.

(6/2/2007) What the hell? Sorry for the lack of comic on Friday. I always have one drawn, but every once in a great while, some technical glitch or oversight gets in the way of the site updating (like, I might inadvertantly mis-date the comic or simply forget to upload it or something like that).

So, long ago, I wrote a monitoring program that sends me a text message if the site ever doesn't update for any reason.

So why did it fail this time? According to the logs, the program functioned fine, but my phone never got the text message.

I'm mighty pissed. Anyway, Friday's strip isu ploaded now.

(1/21/2007) Nukees turns ten!!! Holy crap! I've been drawing this thing for ten freaky years?! It's true! Sunday, I celebrate the tenth anniversary of the very first Nukees strip, which appeared in the UC Berkeley student newspaper (and still does!), The Daily Californian on January 21, 1997.

Since that day, when my schedule was two days a week during the school year and one day a week during the summer (holidays excepted), through the day that I declared I would be drawing three per week regardless of the paper's schedule (December 1, 2000), through to today, Nukees has never missed a strip!

I was sorely tempted to take a week or even a month off on this momentous occasion, but... I just can't do it. It would feel too icky. So here's to another ten years without a break! Woo hoo!

It would behoove you, however, to celebrate by reading each and every freakin' Nukees strip and get yourself caught up on the nuclear-powered madness!

(1/21/2007) More FunArt from Maritza in honor of Nukees' tenth anniversary. Check it out on the forum!

(1/15/2007) Dude! That seems to be the common sentiment to Eric Burns' proposal to Wednesday, of which I played a bit part. It's almost too bad that I got to join such an all-star cast of talents, as now that I see the final product, I think mine might very well be the worst artwork in the series (and I didn't fully grasp that everyone else was going to be doing it in color). But still, very cool, and she said yes, which is what's important.

(1/12/2007) Thanks for the randomness! Twenty four people participated in the Random Bag of Fun this year. Why not discuss your experience with the bag? Get something good? Give something good? Was it random enough? Was it fun enough?

(12/19/2006) Drabspotting? It's been pointed out that there's an apparent Gavspotting that looks just like me in Mad About U. (A great strip also about mad science!) However, he's drawn me with naturally-colored hair, which is a bit odd. And I'm getting socked in the chin for no reason I can figure other than just being in the way, which just isn't fair! Otherwise, nifty likeness, though.

(11/8/2006) Antspotting? Not that I pioneered the realm of giant robot ants or anything, but I have to wonder about this giant robot ant at "Lio" comics. Homage or coincident concurrent thought process?

(10/27/2006) Appreciate today's strip! ...because man it was a difficult time getting it to you! I'm at a nuclear physics conference in Tennessee right now, and had to draw a strip here at the conference. Well, the in-hotel business services scanner was broken, and the closest Kinko's is 8 miles away and I don't have a car. In the end, I could've taken a taxi, I suppose, but it's hard to mentally justify a $30 trip to upload a comic strip. In the end, I had the bright idea to enlarge each of the four panels on a photocopier to a full 8.5x11" sheet of paper each, then fax them to an online fax-to-email service. While fax quality is poor, enlarging the panels took care of that. Then I reconstructed the strip panel by panel once I got them in PDF format from the email. Unfortunately, the first fax attempt didn't end up in my in box, and the business services company charged me $10 just for that. At one point, I got so desperate, I was borrowing a camera phone and taking photos of each panel, but then we couldn't figure out how to email the photos from the phone. It was nuts, let me tell you. But, yay! I got the concierge to fax the panels once more and that time it worked. This strip took two hours to draw and three hours to get onto the web. So, you'd better enjoy it!

(10/11/2006) Gavettespotting? Our favorite evil mad scientist was transformed into a chick in an El Goonish Shive guest comic by John Troutman.

(9/6/2006) Back from the Burn and I must say it rocked. The best description I can give is that it's a cross between Vegas and Mad Max, only no one is trying to take your money. There was even a Thunderdome. Unfortunately, what I found is that, contrary to what I'd been informed, there is really not a lot of "sitting around time," at least for a first timer like myself. Plus, the wind can be something fierce. It was virtually impossible to get any drawing done while I was there, due to lack of time and the elements. I did manage some pencil work and took some photos of reference material I needed to finish the sketch for the Nuclear Burn Raffle. However, I'll have to finish it, and the other sketches I presold, this weekend or perhaps a little later. Thanks for bearing with me.

(8/29/2006) Off to Burning Man! Well, I just got back from a weeklong business trip in Ft. Worth, TX and now I'm off to the Nevada desert for another week in the hot, hot sun. I've been working my butt off this whole month to get four strips ahead, the last of which I just finished an hour before my departure. So, as always, there will be no break in Nukees. So this isn't really newsworthy to you guys. But I'm coming back with sketches! Yay!

(8/18/2006) Thanks for entering the Nuclear Burn Raffle. The winner was "CodeGuy." And my mom.

(8/3/2006) EXTENDED BURN I've decided to extend the deadline of the Nuclear Burn Raffle one day to August 7, 2006. It suddenly occured to me that having the final ticket-buying day be a day I don't update didn't make a whole lot of sense.

(7/31/2006) NUCLEAR BURN! Hey Nuclides! Want to help Darren create art in the desert? I'm selling a yet-to-be-drawn Nukees at Burning Man wallpaper and raffle ticket to help a Burning Man camp that is being kind enough to let me stay with them this year. You can win an original piece of artwork drawn by me featuring your favorite Nukees characters at Burning Man! And all entrants get a high-res wallpaper suitable for printing or displaying on their desktop! You can either get more details or just enter the raffle immediately (and buy the color print/wallpaper) with the button below:

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Offer will be valid for only one week (closes August 6 2006)! Enter as often as you wish (but you'll only get one wallpaper/hi-res image). Winner will be announced August 7.

(7/17/2006) Countdown to Comic Con! Let's see, that would be "3, 2, 1" as of today. Comic Con is in just a few days and I hope to see lots of you there. Drop by the Keenspot booth when you get a chance, or come to our panel on Friday at 6:00pm.

(4/4/2006) UNLEASH... THE UNHOLY FANART! HEE! Maritza Campos, of the marvelously wackazanical College Roomies From Hell!!! posted an awesome pic of Gav inspired by Monday's strip (imagining Robo-church) on the Nukees forum. Go check it out. Oh, and she's probably not "Campos" anymore, but that's how I know her and I'm sticking with it.

(3/21/2006) Gavspotting on the Ides of March. This is a long one, so I'll put off adding it to the Gavspotting page until after it's done. But there's our famous gang, starting with our favorite robot in If Then Else.

(2/3/2006) Transcription update: You guys rock. Thus far, over half of Nukees has been transcribed and I had a chance to catch up on reading, correcting, and approving them last week. So if you're looking for that particular Nukees strip, there's a good chance you can find it at the Nukees search page at OhNoRobot. That's also a good place to see comics that still need transcribing. Go Nuclides!

(1/29/2006) Someone sent a gift from UBID.COM to the Random Bag, but unfortunately didn't indicate who they were or theri address. If it was you, please write to me at randombag [at] agnostica.com and tell me what the object was, and then give me your address. Otherwise, I can't send you your selection from the Bag!

Hopefully, everyone else got their gifts. If you haven't received yours by now, something must have gone very wrong at the post office, and I'd be very interested in knowing about it.

(1/16/2006) The Final Random Bag Gifts were wrapped and boxed today! Thus endeth the Agnostica season for me. They will be mailed on Tuesday. I had mistakenly thought fewer people were participating this year, but actually, there were just more mailed-in gifts and fewer cash entrants. A total of 19 people participated this year, and more than half of those people sent in a gift, so the odds are that you'll get something from another participant than something I picked out. Happy Agnostica to you all!

(1/4/2006) More OhNoRobot transcription instructions:

1. First off, please proofread your transcriptions before submitting. I'm overjoyed that there are over 300 comics for me to "approve of," but it's taking me quite a while to edit them all because of the number of typos.
2. Second, it was asked, "What about original text typos? Do them as-is or correct?" Please transcribe mispellings and typos exactly as they appear in the comic! This will be a great way for me to spell-check my own strip. However, so that I know it's my typo and not yours, you can go ahead and put [sic] after the typo to draw attention to it.
3. Third, for consistancy's sake, let's always list Luca as King Luca and Suzy as Suzy Gee.
4. Finally, I'd rather not EVERY bolded word be capitalized in the transcriptions. This can be a tough judgement call, I know. Sometimes in comics, a word is bolded because of "vocal emphasis," and other times its bolded because of "contextual importance." I only want to bold in the transcriptions those words that need "vocal emphasis." That means those words in which the sentence seems to mean a different thing when the word is capitalized.

   As an example, in the third panel of today's comic, "bards" is a word I wanted to draw attention to, but King Luca wouldn't really be EMPHASIZING it in his speech, so it would remain lower case. The word "THY," however, WOULD be emphasized in his speech, so it WOULD be capitalized. Make sense? If not, don't worry about it.

Also, the OhNoRobot boys took a suggestion of mine that now provides a way to allow you to transcribe today's comic and not just the ones in the archives. Thanks, boys!

(12/21/2005) A clarification on transcriptions: Even though my comic "font" is all uppercase, please don't transcribe the comics entirely in uppercase. If you want, you can use uppercase for bolded or emphasized words, but it's fine either way. If you see "Improve this transcription," then it's probably something that needs to be converted to regular case. Thanks.

Otherwise, thanks so much to everyone who has done transcribing thus far. It's really appreciated. And you can go to Oh No Robot to search through the current-transcribed comics (about 40 as of this writing).

(12/19/2005) Want to give me an Agnostica gift this year? As you may have noticed, I never ask for money, but I would always appreciate anything that reduces my workload so I can spend my time working on the comic.

I've signed up for OhNoRobot, which is a service that lets you guys, the infamous Nuclides, transcribe my comics for me into text so that they can be searchable in their database. I've also tweaked Autokeen to allow me to put this text on the archive pages themselves, so that they will show up in Google searches, which is the more important thing to me.

But I need your help to do the actual transcribing. I could do it myself, but it would take weeks and weeks of typing. But if each of you just did a few each, it would be a minimal effort for any of us. So if you have a free moment, any time you see an orange button reading Transcribe this comic, why not go ahead and type a few scripts? Thanks, and a Happy Agnostica to you, too.

(11/16/2005) Oops, missed it! I did a guest strip for General Protection Fault on Monday, only I didn't notice that it'd gone up until today (been quite busy, you see...). Go give it a looksee and let me know what you think. Some may be disappointed to see none of my characteristic "sketchy art style" in there, but I had more fun trying to imitate Jeff's style than trying to adapt it. I've always felt that if I have only one artistic talent in this world, it's "human photocopy machine."

Oh, and also, there appears to be a Gavspotting in today's GPF 'Interpretation'. I haven't added it to the Gavspotting page yet, because I'm not sure which strip to attribute it to...

(10/4/2005) Happy Birthday to me. I am probably unusually depressed for a Tuesday.

(9/12/2005) Exposed, I am, apparently, as a closet evangelist in the Bizarro universe that is Nukees. The clash between science and religion as depicted here was discussed at the Modern Humor Authority. I appreciate any discussion of Nukees that uses the metaphor "...mandibular gnashing of two American stag beetles..."

(8/15/2005) Foiled by my own safety measures! Unbelievable! So, over the weekend, I moved Nukees to a new server with a working sendmail, so that the server could warn me if the site wasn't updated for any reason. And because of that move, Nukees didn't update today! Boy, do I feel stupid. Apparently, I forgot to check that my FTP program was uploading to the new server (it wasn't) and I forgot to actually activate the program that warns me if Nukees isn't uploaded! How stupid am I? Dreadfully sorry about that. The payoff is that now everything is in place so it won't happen again.

(8/12/2005) Sorry for the late update this morning. I can only blame my own stupidity. I used to have an automated system that would page my cell phone if ever a Nukees strip didn't update on time. Unfortunately, we moved Nukees some time ago to a server that doesn't have sendmail installed. This is the last straw, though. I'm abandoning ship and transferring Nukees to another server with sendmail. Theoretically, this should never happen again. Theoretically.

(7/25/2005) Missed a review of sorts. A blog called The Living Comic made some nifty comments about Nukees about a month ago, inventing terminology called a "Lightning Bolt Moment" to describe the moment a comic (in this case, Nukees) really grabs your attention. I find this funny, because at Nukees, a "Lightning Bolt Moment" is decidedly different, of course. It's when anti-karma catches up on you just after things start going your way.

(7/20/2005) I'm in El Goonish Shive again! This time, it was a strip which I got to preview, in blue pencil, at Comic Con. I'm always tickled to see myself in EGS, but I have to admit, I'm a little annoyed by this one. That's because he slipped Gav_character into a picture hanging on the wall. Even though I've appeared three times in EGS now, the race for Gavspottings is now effectively cancelled out on the EGS site. :)

(7/13/2005) And now I'm off to Comic Con! There will, of course, be no interruption of Nukees. But you knew that. Hope to see lots of you there!

(7/9/2005) Did I mention Comic Con is in just a few days? Look for me at the Keenspot booth, or hosting the two-hour Keenspot panel. For those few of you that don't already know, I'll be the guy with the blue hair. I like the fact that that's not necessarily enough information for you to uniquely identify me at Comic Con.

(7/1/2005) Another Tangent, and I'm not talking about the storyline, but rather another review thingy over at Tangents. In his last review (was it really eight weeks ago?), he was obviously exacerbated by the slow build-up to the final meeting of Ma'at, but for this review, he's obviously relieved that we're finally here. I love reading these kinds of comments about Nukees to see that the details I've been working on for so long are actually being noticed by the readers.

(6/22/2005) For the first time ever I think my buffer is larger than Howard Tayler's. In other news, I'm back from Japan. I bought an abacus at a street antique fair in Tokyo. This crazy old guy, who reminded me of the guy that sold the mogwump thingys in Gremlins, at the next spot pulled me aside and in mostly-impossible-to-understand english said something along the lines of "Very good deal! No cross bar! End of period!" I don't know what he was trying to say, but I'm not feeding it after midnight.

(6/15/2005) Domo Origato, Giant Ant Roboto I'm off on a business trip to Tokyo! It turns out my thesis research paid off after all, as a Belgian accelerator company has hired me as a consultant to help them design a cancer therapy facility for a Japanese company. I'll be in Tokyo until Sunday. At one point, there is an official ceremony (the Japanese are big on official ceremonies) which will be attended by, among others, the Prince of Belgium. Maybe I'll meet him. Anyway, I've worked very hard and have drawn Nukees through Monday, so even if something delays my flight, Nukees will update normally.

(5/10/2005) There is a tradition here at Nukees that a news item may not be posted without screwing up the link within. Yesterday, I posted about a review of Nukees at Tangents in which I neglected an equals sign in the "href" part of the link tag. Thus, even though, for once, I got the link URL right, the link ledback here, anyway. Also, I didn't read the other review on the page, and only very briefly glanced at the strip itself when I mentioned it was Suburban Jungle. Apparently, it only looks like SJ out of the corner of one's eye. The first review on the page was for "Fur Will Fly." Not that that matters to finding the Nukees commentary.

(5/9/2005) Reviewzies over at Tangents (scroll past the Suburban Jungle review), echoing what perhaps many of you might be feeling now, which is essentially, "Goddammit! I want to see Ma'at again!" Ma'at appreciates your support. It's still good commentary, though.

(4/20/2005) A Quark-Gluon liquid? Wow! The scientists at Brookhaven, who for years have been accelerating and smashing together gold atoms with a combined kinetic energy of 40 TeV (about 40,000 times the rest mass energy of a proton), have finally come to a consensus about their results. This energy is high enough to recreate the conditions of the very early universe microseconds after the big bang, when the basic components of matter (quarks and gluons) had not yet solidified into ordinary matter (protons). They expected to find a "quark-gluon plasma." What they found, instead, was a "quark-gluon liquid."

Apparently, free quarks and gluons act as a kind of strongly-interacting nuclear liquid (this is a liquid 100 times more dense than a nucleus). Apparently, it acts almost exactly like a classical liquid with very low viscosity, though not like a superfluid (which has zero viscosity and whose flow properties are dictated by quantum mechanics, not hydrodynamics).

This means the early universe was a kind of hyperdense liquid. I always find it interesting when our cosmological discoveries seem to match the oldest mythologies. Virtually all the earliest religions (from Finnish to Egyptian) say that in the beginning, there was a vast undifferentiated sea. Then the gods would pull order from the sea to create the land and the heavens (Ma'at's job, actually).

This is exciting stuff, for reasons I'm not even sure I can explain. This has been a decade of ginormous cosmological discoveries, from the discovery that the universe is accelerating, to the mass of the neutrino, and now this. Meanwhile, our president wants to spend trillions of dollars sending two or three of us to Mars to do less than our robots have done already.

(More Information Here)

(4/19/2005) Gavspotting again! Very cool. Today, I appear as a character in El Goonish Shive, which is an excellent and fun strip, the wackiness of which I'm proud to be a part. It's hard to describe that strip without resorting to words like "wacky," "zany," or "befuddledingerzornkish." But I think fun describes it best, which is amusing, because I look ready to kill anyone so much as holding a balloon. That's me, the single raincloud on an otherwise sunny day! But really, the joke in this strip is hilarious and very apropos.

(4/14/2005) Operaheimer? Oh, I have got to see THIS debuting at the San Francisco Opera right around my birthday.

(4/8/2005) Snarking WebSnark. We need more people honestly and publicly critiquing webcomics. It's not just that we're attention whores (we are), but it improves the entire field to get real feedback. That's why I really liked WebSnark when it first debutted as a daily blog offering an honest daily review about specific strips, the wrongs and the rights. Plus, Eric started the thing off with about seven snarks in the first month about Nukees, and all of them were embarrassingly, glowingly positive, so it's no wonder I loved it. True, we must always keep in mind that it's only one opinion, and that we could use more, but his opinion was that Nukees kicks ass, and I'm inclined to support that.

But lately, I'm inclined to believe that the attention has gone to his head, like how new movie starlets get the first time E! News chases them and their agents haven't had a chance to tell them what they should and shouldn't say when 20 million people are watching. I just couldn't help but notice that on the front page today, there isn't a single snark about a webcomic. Does anyone else think that's just not right? I'm also not entirely certain what Wednesday's role is there, but she seems to be taking over (and says so in her subject lines). That's not necessarily a bad thing--she entertaining in that kooky but cute Sarah-Jessica-Parker-from-L.A.-Story kind of way--but she seems to talk about pretty much anything that hasn't quite been filed into long term memory yet, and only very rarely is a webcomic actually involved. Furthermore, they launch into these sidebars like I'm already deep in the issue's fan club and receive a regular newsletter, when in fact, I'm not even 100% sure what the topic is.

And finally, Something. Has. Happened. To the WRITING STYLE. I mean, I know it's the Internet, but one of the great points of WebSnark is that Eric wrote well and was articulate. But maybe he writes too much. Because. NOW. It's. All. About. EMPHASIS. And no complete. Sentences.

To top it all off, I feel the site's been cheapened recently by both the launching and plugging of Eric's own webcomic, thus removing him from the realm of objectivity, and the recent overpowering begging relating to his new Paypal donation button. Apparently, we're supposed to buy them speakers and electric kettles now that they have our attention. When did panhandling revert back to the barter system? I'm not sure how I feel when someone says, "You don't have to get me anything" and then provides a long list of the things I shouldn't get them.

Okay, that's a lot of snarking but it's been building and I had to get it off my chest. I still like the site, even though it had seven good things to say about Nukees the first month, then never again. Maybe I haven't done anything good since then, but I'm chalking it up to the fact that Eric himself hasn't snarked a single webcomic in all of April so far (I'm not counting the Queen of Wands snark, which wasn't really about the comic, but Aeire's commentary). Anyway, to reiterate, I still think he's providing a valuable service to us all and I thank him for it, but I feel like it could be sliding ever-so-quickly into "First and Ten" Syndrome in only a few short months (and by not explaining "First and Ten" syndrome, I'm giving you an example of how I feel when they launch into issues without providing sufficient background). And if that ever happened with Nukees, I'd want to know.

It's got me, but it may lose me.

(tell me I'm just a bitter old curmudgeon in my forum).

(3/30/2005) CRAP CRAP CRAP! It happened again! Somehow, the comic didn't get uploaded for today. By saying that in the passive voice, I somehow absolve myself of responsibility, but it was really just my stupidity. Sorry for the delay.

(3/10/2005) NukeeWiki Boom shakalaka! I've been thinking that, while I appreciate that someone took the time to enter a Nukees Wikipedia Entry, that the content of said entry is rather lacking. It could really stand to be expanded with a character list, storylines, mention of Agnostica (And there's no Agnostica Wikipedia entry!), etc. By the rule of the Wikipedia, I'm not allow to enter data on my own creation, so the burden is on all of you Nuclides to keep them updated. Someone might help them out, maybe?

(3/7/2005) Error fixed. There was a typo in the URL link below to the interview with me and Engineering News. It's been fixed, so if you tried to click on it before and failed, try again.

(3/5/2005) I was interviewed recently by Engineering News, a weekly newsletter of the U.C. Berkeley engineering school. Go take a read.

(3/4/2005) Feeling much better Just thought I'd let you all know that my Übermune system is doing its job, and aforementioned flu was mostly booted out of my system before its 24-hour deadline.

(3/2/2005) Ugh! So I caught the flu this afternoon. Fever. Tired. Sore all over. It's times like this that make me really regret not working without a buffer. As you all should know, I'm still holding on to my perfect eight-year record despite, by and large, not working ahead, and tonight was a clear indication of the huge disadvantages of working that way. Maritza Campos recently brought up my update record on the Keenspot Forum and it made me feel pretty decent.

For the most part, my patented Übermune system has been pretty good at keeping this kind of misery away, and I'm certain I'll be better by morning (no flu is allowed to spend more than 24 hours in my body, I HAVE SPOKEN!). And when it happens (and I suppose over eight years, this wasn't the only flu I had to work through), despite the hours of pain, when I'm done, I somehow feel just a bit more proud of myself. I can actually rejoice in the aching comfort of the viral battlefield of my body. But it does make me fear the day I get hit by a bus or something. I'll keep drawing so long as I can hold a pen in some kind of appendage, but I suppose there's always the possibility of coma. And if it happens the evening before an update, there may be trouble. Guess I should really get at least one strip ahead. That'll be my goal next week. Along with cleaning the house, fixing the forums, transferring half of Keenspot to a new server, rehauling the advertising system, calculating a D-D ion beam neutron spectrum... ;)

But maybe not right this second.

(2/17/2005) Hee! Today's Schlock Mercenary is funny. In case you haven't been following it lately, the multiplicity of me has made many appearances lately.

(2/11/2005) All the random bag gifts except for one were sent out over a week ago, but I forgot to mention it. That one lone gift will get a special sketch in addition to a gift to make up for the lateness. Anyway, it turns out that I wasn't able to accept a number of payments for random bag presents because I guess personal Paypal accounts can't accept credit card payments. I still sent out random presents to all those people, though. Yeah, that means I'm out about $100. I would like to ask anyone who had a payment returned to them to please re-donate using actual money instead of paying by credit card. If you can't get real money into a Paypal account, you can send it by check or something to P.O. Box 4735, Berkeley, CA 94704. But if you don't get around to it or don't notice, it's no biggie.

(1/27/2005) Snarked again, a week ago. While I was in Hawaii, Eric Burns snarked on Nukees again in this month's Comixpedia. I love this guy. He makes me feel all warm and gooey inside. Also, he gave Nukees an award this year. I got A Shortbread Award for "Bringing the Funny:Character Driven" The funny thing about this award was that, as thankful as I am to be recognized, my first thought was what I should do to improve in the other catagories in which Nukees didn't win. Such is the mind of a webtoonist.