Tyler [Member Since: October 17 '07]
Just a guy. I used to work at HeavyInk. Now I work at Scribd.
For some extra geekery, check out my programming blog.
Blurbs
Tyler, do you know how I can find a friend on Heavy Ink that is already a member?
Hey Tyler! Things are good, if busy… how is Cali treating you?
Tyler said:
Hey Pete! How are things?
Having to actually wait for comics, rather than Comics Monkey placing them into my hand, is pants!
you’re welcome. Hopefully I don’t end up confusing people more than helping them… :)
Tyler said:
Thanks for helping people on the forums. It’s quite handy for us… Hard to do support when the web site is ON FIRE! :)
lol, always pushin the limits:)
Tyler said:
Your user name makes me question how loose I made the restrictions on it. :P Nice though! haha.
It’s quite alright. I know you’re busy. thanks
Tyler said:
Sorry I didn’t get back to you faster. The interface could use some work. Glad you figured it out.
Thanks, I really like the gallery feature here.
Tyler said:
Hey Rob. Welcome to HeavyInk!
What can I say? I guess I just wasn’t ready for it.
Tyler said:
why did you break it, blue_j?
It’s about time! :) J/k. Now, if I can only figure out what you’re talking about in your posts. :) Hahaha. I would love to learn programming, but I need to get an established IT career started first. One step at a time.
Tyler said:
I finally put my programming blog back up! haha. http://codehallow.com
I think I good feature to add would be that the time and date would show by people’s comments or as you guys call them “blurbs”. I love this website, keep up the good work.
Waiting for you summon me from the depths of ennui you son of a bitch. HERE I AM WORLD! (explosion).
What are these “1 pts” things next to people’s comments? Like what are pts for? Are the pts for being naughty or nice or helpful? Cause I fiddled with someone’s pts and I hope it meant he was good.
Love the new features for Searching! Return to search results has been much needed and searching flows much better now.
if one good thing (besides our communal amusement) could come out of those threads, the world will truly be a better place…
Tyler said:
If “Threads” were one of the options you could choose to make lists of, I’d have a list of my favorite HI forum threads, and this would be in the top 5 at least three times.
That… is freaking awesome. I’m going to make that possible. I swear it.
“Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.” – Seth Godin
bahahahahaha
Hey Tyler! I read about Heavy Ink on THE COMICS REPORTER website and thought I’d give it a shot. I’m a long(ish) term (three years or so) Netflix member and really like how that site’s set up, so the comparison made in the TCR article/interview sparked my interest. So far I’m very happy with HI and looking forward to seeing what your guys do next. I wish you all the success in the world and hope that what your doing is as revolutionary for the comic biz as Phil Seuling’s Direct Market was thirty years ago.
I’m Punisher
you’re Punisher you blow stuff up!
Take the Which Comic Book Hero Are You? Quiz at HeavyInk.com
Dude, now who’s being uncreative? Come up with a new fantasy! :)
Tyler said:
As long as she’s in the “Return of the Jedi” costume.
you’re way too nerdy. ;)
Tyler said:
As long as she’s in the “Return of the Jedi” costume.
I’ll write you a big check and pass you off to Princess Leia.
Tyler said:
So I just watched that episode. Awesome. Where’s my $10k?
oh maybe I watched that episode of 30 Rock by myself… so you obviously don’t get what’s COOL!
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See… Now you switched to the other extreme. Followship? Quit making up words.
way to do as you’re told. you get the FOLLOWSHIP AWARD!!! X)
Tyler said:
Way to be uncreative. :P
how about… bag. dork.
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Well… It was either that or fanny-pack. And no one wants me to start saying “fanny-pack”.
did you really say KNAPSACK? who says that?
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Hey man, what’s the latest on the comic? WHEN WILL IT BE IN MY KNAPSACK!?
So Tyyyler… When I get on HI at work on FF (hiss) I notice that FF has a special feature that Opera doesn’t have… that big yellow arrow thing. I wanted to let you know that Opera has released its developer tools called Dragonfly (http://www.opera.com/products/dragonfly/). So, it’s just in Alpha right now but something like that wouldn’t scare someone like you, right? I mean, it may be HARD, almost TOO HARD, but you could still do the same thing in Opera, right? ;)
hahahahahaha! aahahahahahah all that mtn dew is getting to you.
Tyler said:
As in, he’s a Volkswagen.
Hahaha. And here I thought you had a rabbit with a metal plate in its head. :)
Tyler said:
As in, he’s a Volkswagen.
I imagine that Ami’s rabbit isn’t 20 years old, nor does it have significant body damage… :-)
Tyler said:
I have a rabbit.
Me too! Though I have my doubts that it is the same kind…
Ok, so it took me a while to understand the Will Smith reference, but I finally got it. :) Great job on the recommendations stuff. HeavyInk is lucky to have you!
Tyler said:
Indeed! I’m running Firefox 3 at work and home now for one reason… Memory usage. Firefox 2 ate memory like uh… Will Smith in Men in Black? Firefox 3 is much more stable.
Mine has gone pretty smoothly so far. I haven’t really had the time yet to take it out for a real spin, so to speak. But I’ve had no problems and so far, I don’t miss Vista. I’ve found replacement programs for most of my stuff, and I hope to continue my searches this weekend. The only thing I didn’t count on was I used to use FoxMarks (I think that was what it was called). It saved your bookmarks on a server. So I didn’t bother backing those up when I did the transition, thinking I would just install FoxMarks again. But alas, it doesn’t work yet with the version of FireFox I’m running. Of course, I could easily switch to the older version of FireFox. But where’s the fun in that? :)
Tyler said:
How’d the Ubuntu transition turn out?! I switched my MacBook over to 8.04 this past weekend. It went extremely poorly. Nothing like rebooting to find your 17” 1680×1050 screen running at 640×480. Ubuntu upgrades seem to be flawed… Reinstalling from scratch, however, went perfectly.
Hey dude, have you tried the new Ubuntu out yet? I think I read it’s coming out this week.
bah, was quoting from memory. I have it written down word for word somewhere, and I can always just look further down here to find it if need be… I’ll be sure not to mangle your words. Xp
I save that for people who’ve had the misfortune of knowing me since elementary school, and those who’re more than ‘just friends’. :)
Tyler said:
wanted to ask you if you’d mind me using your line about preferring a good word processor to human company
Sure! As long as you don’t misquote me. It’s “text editor”, not “word processor”. ;)
Who is people I know (kinda)...
btw, wanted to ask you if you’d mind me using your line about preferring a good word processor to human company.
ANYway…
What is just stupid lines like that in no particular story order.
Tyler said:
Hey! I think a webcomic is a great idea… but, especially in such a small format… the writing is incredibly important. Maybe you should figure out what or who or even just a theme you’d be writing about.
well, to get myself comfy with a schedule, I’m just doing gag-a-day shit thats actually happened… and I have enough of THAT to last me about a year, even if I do get up to 3x a week updates. That ought to be long enough to find someone to helpmeget an actual storyline together, no?
Tyler said:
Hey! I think a webcomic is a great idea… but, especially in such a small format… the writing is incredibly important. Maybe you should figure out what or who or even just a theme you’d be writing about.
aye, I have it put thru to my google homepage. :)
Tyler said:
Indeed. What RSS reader are you using? Google Reader is rather great if you haven’t tried it yet.
Heh. I figgered this was a good place to START using RSS… I’d never figgered out how to work it before, and what better place to try, than somewhere I check daily anyway?
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I did delete it… Blast you for using RSS. I forget why I did, but… Yep.
Dude… Did YOU delete your last blurb or is HI glitching? I see it on my RSS feed, and I snorted myself near off my chair… but ish not showin anywhere else.
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and 3 days is nothin when you have an excuse (marathons, box sets of a series you want to get thru, addiction to a series of books/comics, or being unable to peel your eyes off your computer screen for long enough to go to bed all constitute good reasons in my book).
Unless you work outdoors or fastfood, then it’s gross regardless.
Thanks, Tyler. I’m still looking for a job. I’ve done some handy work around town and I worked the night shift at Target for a spell, but that’s about it. I’m applying anywhere and everywhere. Sooner or later, something will come up. It’s my only hope. Where’s Ben Kenobi when you need him? :)
Tyler said:
Welcome back, dude.
XD Nah, that’s just programmer funk. My boyfriend gets that too! Only add ‘blind’ on top of it cause he never goes anywhere without his sunglasses.
Tyler said:
Yeah. I get that pretty often… “You smell like a smelly goth-dork!”.
It’s social, it’s just a different LEVEL of social.
Honestly, I kinda think conversations via the internet (NOT consisting of “LOL” “ROTFLMAO” and “OMGWTFBBQ”) tend to be a better level of socializing than in person- cause there’s none of that “You look like a dork” “You look like a goth” “you look/smell like you need a bath” barriers. -
Tyler said:
Eh… Interweb-related conversation doesn’t count as being social. In fact, I think it adds to the anti-socialness. :P
duuuude… it’s kinda creepy that the self proclaimed anti-social one is the one who’s posted the most on my blurbs…
weeiiird.
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I guess I should scroll down more often. Whoops. I miss Pennsylvania for my friends and family… for the rampant wilderness… and for Sheetz.
Otherwise, screw PA. :P
Heh, it’s alright I miss florida. 3 years gone, almost, and I still miss the people and the fact that I-95 was 30 seconds away. ^^
The humidity and heat can bite me tho.
Tyler said:
I guess I should scroll down more often. Whoops. I miss Pennsylvania for my friends and family… for the rampant wilderness… and for Sheetz.
Otherwise, screw PA. :P
I think that was the first blurb you left me, actually. :) I’ve never been to harrisburg. Hell, the only real “cities” I’ve been to while living here are Bethlehem, Allentown, and Gettysburg…
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Rev. War soldiers in pajamas, y’mean… I wouldn’t call some of those outfits ninja suits. Too bulky, movement inhibiting, and lack of silence in motion.
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Also, if I didn’t mention it before… I’m from PA. I grew up in Harrisburg. :)
thanks for the update but don’t spend too much time on it. I only have that glitch when at work and well, technically, I shouldn’t be on your site then, sshhhhh. ;)
Tyler said:
Argh. I went to fix your IE6 issue for the forums today, and realized we have not a single Windows machine running in the office. So, I’ll have to do it from home.
Just thought I’d give you an update.
aww, c’mon Ty… would “I prefer vampires” be better than Pirates? Cause that’s true too… Ninja’s are still awesome. My friends going gaga for naruto just kinda killed them for me for a while…
Tyler said:
Im partial to pirates anyway. ^^;
I think this friendship is over…
XD Only in the more recent varieties. \\ That and the stereotypic romanticized versions are easier to draw/dress as.
Tyler said:
Im partial to pirates anyway. ^^;
I think this friendship is over…
... wow. That is a scary thought, actually. MAI braaain… nu ninjas allowed.
Im partial to pirates anyway. ^^;
Tyler said:
It would only be a ninja blurb if you didn’t see it. I guess a ninja blurb would be like… telepathy. A post-it note on your cerebellum, if you will.
Ahhh… see, the slight differences are lost on me unless I’m the one using them to wheedle my way out of/into something. But wouldn’t that be a ninja blurb then…?
Tyler said:
You didn’t. The ninja left you a blurb. Slightly different. ;)
Tyler said:
I’ve been thinking lately that its been far too long since I built a fort out of the sofa, blankets, and various pillows.
I think I shall do that tonight.
Thanks for the inspiration!
...no thank you, luv… its been over a year since my last math course. I cant make heads nor tails out of it now… not without help, or at least a nudge in the right direction. Lambda prolly stands for something, we hadnt gotten to yet… f is usually the function in question… Id have to know what Im trying to do with it to even get my mind started.
Otherwise it’s just pretty numbers/symbols to me. :$
Tyler said:
Well, that notation is Lambda Calculus. Its not mind-bending in a mathematical sense, but in a computational sense. Try to read and understand it and you’ll get what I mean…
Awww… Short attention spans are wonderful, no? Heh. Thanks tho, cause none of my friends got on last night. The bastards got lives when I left FL. Not really mindbending… Math’s the one thing that if explained to me I actually GET. AP Calc. was a breeze. :D
Tyler said:
My obsessions are short-lived. This one… shorter than most. (3 hours)
I am blind… My glasses attest to it. I cant even make out the headings on my computer without the damned things. But also, I am completely coding illiterate, and I haven’t had a math course in over a year. Not sure what that is… I’m gonna go make my geeks explain it to me now…
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Its also not syllables, but sounds. But whatever. I may not be able to talk about love with regards to programming… but I can certainly talk about beauty.
Y = λf·(λx·f (x x)) (λx·f (x x))
Yes. The Y-Combinator. I had this written on my arm for a few weeks. If you cannot see beauty in that.. you truly are blind.
Haiku! XD Why dont you make it easy and add in Tanka, too? Or harder and try to make it all rhyme! A traditional Haiku is usually tied into balance or nature or love or all of the above or something, tho… so… Kinda hard to do in programming, no? I don’t care WHAT language you use…
Because he sucks and he sucks because both his titles stink? Hello! Are you not versed in circular logic?
Really, after I attempt my first critical review (of Prufrock, dear god), I’ll go for Astonishing. Which is far worse than Runaways.
Tyler said:
why do his big titles both stink? ;)
heh… can I add that line to my little hoarde of “quotes from people that make me laugh” notebook? Cause it’s true. Of all but one of the programmers I know.
Tyler said:
You won’t hear me complain about anti-social behavior. Come on, I’m a programmer. I prefer the company of a good text editor to that of people.
Oh, Im havin fun. :D Just mostly by browsin around drooling over issues I want to get the money for or readin thru the forum and laughing at everyone. ^^ I’ll get social eventually, I swear!
Tyler said:
Way to be from Pennsylvania! I’m from Harrisburg, PA. In fact I’ve only been gone for a year, since I moved up here to Boston to work on HeavyInk.
So, welcome. Have fun. :)
Cool and thanks. I’m burning a vacation day from work for the City of Heroes Double XP Weekend, so I will get my receipts and add the improved non-winter-holiday shipping times to the thread soon.
Tyler said:
You’re more likely to get an Iraq timetable from the current administration than you are to get a timetable from me. (ba-dum-ching)
But, in reality, my time is going to be taken up for the next few days (at the least) in graphic novel hell, getting all of the available gns into the system.
Let me think about it for a little bit, and if it seems short and useful enough I’ll throw it together before I start on the gns. Otherwise its gotta come afterward. :)
Tyler, I was thinking of posting some more shipment times, especially since the time in transit has been going as low as two days, but I wonder if that date dropdown might be right around the corner, in which case I could wait. Any early word on this?
What ever happened to spine crushing? Did shooting rockets completely displace that?
I see. . . FRAUD! Still your paltry attempts at building a communiy around your silly comic “books” amuse me. Speaking of comics, when do I get my Spawn???ME WANT SPAWN!
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Your mom is most like me as well. For what its worth. The forum is the one thing on the site we didn’t do from scratch… it comes from here: http://beast.caboo.se/
This is bullcrap! How did I end up most like YOU. I am so NOT you it’s not even funny! Lol. Nice forum btw.
Yeah, it’s good having a friend that’s a photographer. Except when you’re at a party, and he’s getting it all documented.
I’m so totally here. I just read the first TPB (is right when it’s hard?) of Mouse Guard and it’s fantastic.
Yeah, it does stink. I do desktop support mostly. The last full time position I had was at a help desk for Pfizer, but that got outsourced to Costa Rica. I’m looking to get additional certs though, so that kind of thing doesn’t happen again.
Tyler said:
Thats one serious bummer man. I’ve been in that position before, as have most people. Hope you get out of it soon.
What sort of work do you do?
Hey Tyler, just want to say great job on the shipments and orders pages. Too bad I’ve been off the radar for a bit. I’m out of a job, and had to cancel all my orders, which stinks. But I’ll be back. In the meantime, I still follow what’s going on in the forums and such via RSS. Anyway, great job once again.
ooh and thanks! I’m glad my little ideas can make you laugh! we’re gonna be working hard on teamgenius.biz this year!
I think I found one… But I always need artists… When I get this thing published do you think we could do something special? like let everyone read the first seven pages or so?
I always need artists…the talent search thing would still be awesome…
have you read anything on my comedy blog? www.thoughtsthatihavehad.blogspot.com
Maybe we could do some sort of “Todd Michael needs an artist” contest..or open call thing…. something everyone sees on the front page for a couple of days..SOMEONE out theres gotta be looking for a shot…
Hey man, thanks! Publishing is looking like… I just don’t know yet… today I start the great artist and publisher search of 2008..you guys wanna help?
Oh crap. I watched that video on your blog. Why is that there??? Someone is going to poke an eye out on videos that bad! The zoom in on bad dancing men in short shorts??!!?? Gack!
Well I guess I can stop waiting for my friend Tom to get back to me on Myspace then too… doh!
Tyler said:
You know, replying to your own questions is a sign of insanity. :) But yeah, the three “founders” are set as friends for everyone who signs up.
What?? I’m not signed up for 10 whole minutes and you found me and set me as friend??!!?? You’re powers are impressive, most impressive….
Listen, it’s this way. Ubuntu is an army of Cybermen. Slackware is a couple of old Daleks with their batteries running low. Linus is The Doctor.
Slackware is still kicking everyone’s ass until Linus gets involved.
Yeah, I don’t know where that came from either. :-)
Tyler said:
The Daleks look horrifying. I’m sure they taste good… I’m just afraid it’d eat me before I eat it.
Also, Geno prefers Slackware to Ubuntu. Heresy!
Yes! I can make horrifying food!
Tyler said:
The Daleks look horrifying. I’m sure they taste good… I’m just afraid it’d eat me before I eat it.
Also, Geno prefers Slackware to Ubuntu. Heresy!
1. Booyah! Saddle up! 2. :-0 3. Never used it, but any OS with latex clad booth babe hotties is okay by me!
Tyler said:
- Slackware is too hardcore for me
- Volderking looks like a giraffe
- What are your thoughts of FreeBSD?
No wireless at the store. And I’ve no problem with athiests celebrating Christmas… except that they tend to be the same athiests that get offended when you say “Merry Christmas.”
Seriously. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays? I’m screwed no matter what I saw so BAH FUCKING HUMBUG!
Tyler said:
“Oh but there are a lot of athiests that read comic books!”
That almost works… except that every atheist I know celebrates Christmas. The insanity of which makes my head a-splode… but ya know. :P
And I’m guessing no open wireless networks nearby and/or no laptop?
;-)
Tyler said:
I understand. I have to talk quietly… Pete and TJIC are both using KDE.
.....on SUSE.
I knew you were the smartest founder. ;)
Tyler said:
I understand. I have to talk quietly… Pete and TJIC are both using KDE.
.....on SUSE.
Amen. My campus is filled with linux users… KDE DE linux users! AAHHH! In the end, I end up not being “that linux user that’s a girl,” like in a normal, well rounded geek circle, but “that linux user who puts Gnome on her computer, what is she thinking.” I fight for gnome nearly every day!
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Not that theres anything wrong with Kubuntu…
I mean… Other than the fact that it uses KDE. ;)
Yes, you are correct. Ubuntu does ship with a pdf reader. And I actually managed to not screw things up and use that one instead of installing Adobe. :)
Tyler said:
Sure. One note first though, you shouldn’t need any PDF reader from Adobe. Ubuntu ships with one… I think its called Evince. I don’t remember exactly… but just double clicking on a PDF should open it.
Or wait, you said Konqueror. Are you using Kubuntu then? (Ubuntu with KDE, rather than Gnome)
I’m actually writing this from my newest Ubuntu installation. I’m trying out Konquerer, but it’s not working out as well as I had hoped. For example, when I click on the reply link for blurbs, nothing happens. I had to open HeavyInk with Firefox to get it to work. The only reason I was going to use Konquerer was because of a pdf reader that works well with it. I didn’t want the huge Adobe reader. But I guess I’ll have to go with it. Anyway, I’ll probably hit you up for help with Parallels. If it would be easier for you, perhaps we can take the discussion to personal email? You can reach me at Brian at DurninFamily dot com. Thanks Tyler.
Tyler said:
If Daynah hasn’t, I have, and I’d be happy to help if you need it. Parallels is sweet.
Hear the weather’s getting nasty up there. Did you guys get any snow there? Too bad you can’t share. We’re drought stricken down here in N.C.- Later.
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Ah I miss working 3rd shift. I did tech support on 3rd shift for a while. It was just a lot of sleeping and gaming between calls.
When going to the forums, I got a page that was titled 502 Proxy error and one of the things said was “Reason: Could not connect to remote machine: Connection refused” Good Morning! ;)
(Deleted my blurb by accident… It said: This “View Context” feature is awesome! Thanks Tyler!)
Tyler said:
For what its worth: Its often a good idea to stick with what Ubuntu dishes out in the repositories.
The stuff that is in the repositories, you can be almost certain will work on your system. Its also dead simple to install and uninstall. And you can be fairly sure you’re not getting bamboozled into installing some sort of malware.
