QUILTBAG Queries: Ask T and Jason

[TCampbell]

Whoever it was, kudos to them. It looks good. (*sings about purple*)

Primarily Chris Crosby, with support from Kisai. And yeah, I think it looks pretty great myself. Page design has clearly never been my strong suit and it's a rare gift to work with someone else who understands the ideas and can translate them to their most effective visual form. I've gotten it on Guilded Age, but some of my other series have just kind of made do with minimalism.

[retrophrenologist]

What song is the musical notation in today's strip from?

[Zanosuke Kurosaki]

Whoops. Hey, T, I just noticed, Friday's strip has the wrong year in the filename. Just thought you'd like to know so it doesn't cause replacement issues.

The new site looks great! Looking forward to seeing it get filled up.

[TCampbell]

What song is the musical notation in today's strip from?

No fair entering the Facebook contest after this, anyone who reads this.

It is "Nocturne" by Chopin.

[TCampbell]

Whoops. Hey, T, I just noticed, Friday's strip has the wrong year in the filename. Just thought you'd like to know so it doesn't cause replacement issues.

Got it fixed on the new site, thanks!

[bunnyThor]

What song is the musical notation in today's strip from?

No fair entering the Facebook contest after this, anyone who reads this.

It is "Nocturne" by Chopin.

There are 21 Nocturnes by Chopin. This one is Nocturne in F-sharp major, Op. 15, No. 2.

And it sounds like this.

[undomielregina]

In the 1990s Princeton was thinking about getting rid of tuition altogether. They backed off on that, but an influx of poorer students might not hurt them that much.

This is a bit late, but yeah. Until 2009 or so, the few schools in the country with very, very large endowments (basically, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and I think Stanford, maybe a couple other schools) had been faced with a problem -- their endowments were growing faster than they could spend the money and it was starting to threaten their non-profit, tax-exempt status. There was a very real possibility that they would have to move to a tuition free system as a result. This is also what all the construction on those campuses was about. Princeton hired Frank Gehry to design their new biology library, for example, because they needed a money sink. From what I've been hearing, they're starting to see runaway growth again too, so we may see free tuition from these schools within the next 20 years.

The problem with this, incidentally, is that the amount of funding these schools have available puts tremendous pressure on everyone else to supply the same kind of facilities and financial aid without the same means. Well, that and that it leads them to make bad choices. The Gehry library is reportedly less than popular and I believe I've heard that it's already leaking.

[Lia S]

Is Lisa tricking thunderbolts in panel 2 of http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20120105.html ?

[TCampbell]

Is Lisa tricking thunderbolts in panel 2 of http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20120105.html ?

I think that's a reasonable interpretation.

[Freemage]

Love the new site, but you might want to put an actual link on the current page of the P&A site, rather than just a "now on Keenspot" thing. After all, it'll take time for the word to drift out to all the folks who link to you that there's a new site up, and you want readers to have the easiest time possible getting to the proper site.

(I can't believe I'm the only one out there who goes to one site, uses the links there to go several others, and then just chains through most of his webcomics that way.)

[Alice Macher]

1 ) After her "was it or wasn't it" date with Fiona, Sara comes back to her room alone, despite Fiona having said yes to coming back with her for a bit. While I realize that Sara being alone with Lisa in the room was necessary for the next few strips to unfold as they have, what did end up happening after Fiona's "double date" suggestion? Did Sara concoct an excuse for not being able to bring Fiona by after all? Did she bring Fiona just to the dorm lounge to hang out? (I assume, from her not being sure the evening was a "crash-and-burn," that she didn't do anything hasty like fleeing on the spot, screaming and flailing, without saying goodnight or offering to see Fiona back to her door. )

2 ) Did Sara notice that Lisa had been crying? I assume, from Lisa's abrupt switch to manic "let's dress slutastically and go party" mode, that they didn't have anything like a lengthy conversation about it, but did Sara manage to get anything out of Lisa as to why she was upset and wanting to party it off?

[TCampbell]

1 ) After her "was it or wasn't it" date with Fiona, Sara comes back to her room alone, despite Fiona having said yes to coming back with her for a bit. While I realize that Sara being alone with Lisa in the room was necessary for the next few strips to unfold as they have, what did end up happening after Fiona's "double date" suggestion? Did Sara concoct an excuse for not being able to bring Fiona by after all? Did she bring Fiona just to the dorm lounge to hang out? (I assume, from her not being sure the evening was a "crash-and-burn," that she didn't do anything hasty like fleeing on the spot, screaming and flailing, without saying goodnight or offering to see Fiona back to her door. )

2 ) Did Sara notice that Lisa had been crying? I assume, from Lisa's abrupt switch to manic "let's dress slutastically and go party" mode, that they didn't have anything like a lengthy conversation about it, but did Sara manage to get anything out of Lisa as to why she was upset and wanting to party it off?

1) Essentially, what happened was more of the same. Fiona continued to send mixed signals, at least from Sara's point of view. Sara made an excuse after about half an hour of this, mostly figuring she'd blown it but at least needing a break to process it all properly.

2) Sara wasn't at the right angle to see the tears on the pillow, but she started to get a feeling that something wasn't quite right with that situation, especially since it was only 9:45. Lisa was too stubbornly focused on the party plan for Sara to even ask many questions about it, though.

[TCampbell]

Love the new site, but you might want to put an actual link on the current page of the P&A site, rather than just a "now on Keenspot" thing. After all, it'll take time for the word to drift out to all the folks who link to you that there's a new site up, and you want readers to have the easiest time possible getting to the proper site.

(I can't believe I'm the only one out there who goes to one site, uses the links there to go several others, and then just chains through most of his webcomics that way.)

I'll be making some more comprehensive changes to the P&A site tomorrow: fixing the archives, deleting the QUILTBAG stuff, that kind of thing. Link will be made then!

[Tamar]

Fiona continued to send mixed signals, at least from Sara's point of view. Sara made an excuse after about half an hour of this

Fiona: (stroking Sara's finger) Sara, I think you're cute...

Sara: (thinking) Woohoo!

Fiona: ...icles could use a manicure. They're a bit jagged, don't you think?

Sara: (thinking) D'oh!


(Sorry. Had to.)

[Ollie]

Whoever it was, kudos to them. It looks good. (*sings about purple*)

...I don't agree.