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Folks, you wouldn’t believe the sort of real-world demands that are being put on my time. To give you a sense of what I do for money until the ad sales pick up: Yesterday I spent the whole day writing a script for a “Webcast” that will be used by a major (well, not that major) printer company to train their sales staff about the features of their new printer (or, I’m sorry, multi-function product, ’cause it faxes and copies and scans and slices and dices too, don’t you know). So you can see why I was a little burned out so far this week. A Monday-through-Wednesday wrap-up post is coming soon, though. Keep hope alive!

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Back at the turn of the century, when I was working at a doomed San Francisco dot-com, our CEO used to say that everything was about “dollars and eyeballs.” Our job, as he put it, was to “monetize eyeballs.” (He also referred to revealing our troubled financial situation to potential investors as “opening the kimono,” but that’s a traumatic story for a different time.)

Anyway, it’s recently occurred to me that there’s a page on this site that gets an awful lot of eyeballs, but hasn’t been monetized: the comments pop-up! The way I see it, the lot of you compulsively-commenting bastards could be paying your way with lucrative ad impressions. So I’m going waste some time this afternoon trying to see if I can jimmy an ad strip onto that thing. What with my rudimentary HTML skills, you may notice that the comment page is thus a little screwed up. Don’t panic! I’ll post an update here when I think I’m done; if it’s still screwed up, then you can panic.

Update: OK, I think it’s working right. If you’re having problems with the comments page, though, please e-mail me and let me know. Screenshots are helpful.

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One of the fun parts of doing the merch photos is that you get to meet your fellow commentors. This model posts under the nom de blog of Zipper the Mule, and she liiiiikes her gin.

Keep them pics coming, kids!