Intermittens Numbers

[AFK]

In other words, please don't let the fact that RWHN is a slowpoke taking time to get everything right hold you up.

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No, see, the thing is with a wife and daughter who I like to spend time with when I'm home, finding free time can sometimes be difficult.  So I try to find free time here and there at work but that's been difficult too because of certain developments.  It'll get done.  I think Law of Fives still needs to be #5, and I'm not particularly bent out of shape about the order they are released in.  But fuck, if one of you spags gets one done before me, call it #3 and I'll number mine whatever number seems appropriate.  Just don't let me hold you up.  If you can whip it out, whip it out. 

[Cramulus]

There are readers besides us?

surprisingly, yes.

The Intermittens page on bip.com has gotten 2000 hits.

& a lot of readers have taken it upon themselves to leave copies all over the place


but the whole thing is gaining speed
intermittens.org will help
as we produce more issues, more people will become interested

[Mu]

Intermittens is exciting 

I currently have a ridiculous amount going on at colledge and hardly find time to even come on pd but i would love to contribute later on. Maybe in the holidays, that would be cool 

Edit: Fail spelling 

[Sheered Völva]

what program they used to lay it out in, how they saved it in pdf, etc.  (I can save in pdf, but some programs require a whole lot of memory for a mediocre pdf file).

http://www.scribus.net/ is an opensource desktop publishing application (kinda like InDesign), it runs on Linux, Windows and Mac, allows easy control over the layout of a page (unlike MS Word) and exports to PDF.

Thanks. I will definitely check it out.

[Sheered Völva]

Intermittens is exiting 
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Exciting, or exiting? I hope it's not going away already.   

[Sheered Völva]

We can just tell them that the missing issues are super rare and coated in shiny foil.

I think doing issue numbers out of order might give us a laugh for a day or two, but very soon we, and more importantly the readers, won't be laughing.

This.

Explain.

I can see that the way I posted that might not be clear. Sorry about that. Let me rephrase it.

Doing things like telling them that the missing issues are super rare and coated in shiny foil might give us a laugh for a day or two, but very soon we, and more importantly the readers, won't be laughing.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I'm cool with whatever the heck we do, just as long as Issue #4 is kept under wraps. Titanium wraps. Under heavy guard.

[Cramulus]

I think Scribus makes the most sense for intermittens. This is why:

- everyone has easy access (yay open source!)
- not that hard to learn
- layouts can be shared

In Scribus you have these page templates called Master Pages. When you create a new page in the magazine, you can choose a "master page" template, and then just pour the text into the text boxes.

Over at intermittens.org there will be an area to post or download master pages and layouts


THE INFORMATION AGE KICKS ASS!

[the last yatto]

Second, skipping numbers could create problems for those who are doing series, continuing columns, etc. While it might seem funny now, readers are not going to want to have to figure out that to follow a series they have to read issue 2, then 5, then 3 and then 6. I mean we could request series of numbers to be kept in a block to prevent this, but tahts alot of effort.

Third, skipping issue numbers would mess with letters to the editor. I would like to have letters to the editor but what email address to use, should we include the urls. I think people like to feel that their comments (serious, humorous, whatever) can actually be in order to not confuse their weak minds. We dont want to scare off professional writers for future issues that way.

But if a letter to the editor in issue 7 refers to an interesting article that already appeared in issue 8, readers aren't likely to track down those interesting articles. unless of course they havn't read issue number 8

I think doing issue numbers out of order might give us a laugh for a day or two, but very soon we, and more importantly the board of directors, won't be laughing.

change my editorial to sound like whatever number I get is the one and only perfect number for that issue.

[the last yatto]

issue 3 is now the issue that shall not be named
issue 4
issue 5 law of fives
issue 6 RWHN's

this public service announcement brought to you by the concordia movement

[Sheered Völva]

Second, skipping numbers could create problems for those who are doing series, continuing columns, etc. While it might seem funny now, readers are not going to want to have to figure out that to follow a series they have to read issue 2, then 5, then 3 and then 6. I mean we could request series of numbers to be kept in a block to prevent this, but tahts alot of effort.

Third, skipping issue numbers would mess with letters to the editor. I would like to have letters to the editor but what email address to use, should we include the urls. I think people like to feel that their comments (serious, humorous, whatever) can actually be in order to not confuse their weak minds. We dont want to scare off professional writers for future issues that way.

But if a letter to the editor in issue 7 refers to an interesting article that already appeared in issue 8, readers aren't likely to track down those interesting articles. unless of course they havn't read issue number 8

I think doing issue numbers out of order might give us a laugh for a day or two, but very soon we, and more importantly the board of directors, won't be laughing.

change my editorial to sound like whatever number I get is the one and only perfect number for that issue.

I sincerely apologize for misquoting Sheered Völva. As punishment, I promise I will take off all my clothes, cover myself with 150 proof alcohol, and run into the nearest police station screaming, "I'm on fire! I'm on fire! Somebody please lick me!"

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[Sheered Völva]

In other words, please don't let the fact that RWHN is a slowpoke taking time to get everything right hold you up.

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No, see, the thing is with a wife and daughter who I like to spend time with when I'm home, finding free time can sometimes be difficult.  So I try to find free time here and there at work but that's been difficult too because of certain developments.  It'll get done.  I think Law of Fives still needs to be #5, and I'm not particularly bent out of shape about the order they are released in.  But fuck, if one of you spags gets one done before me, call it #3 and I'll number mine whatever number seems appropriate.  Just don't let me hold you up.  If you can whip it out, whip it out. 

How dare you have a real life! How dare you! 
By the way, where can I get one? 

issue 3 is now the issue that shall not be named
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I like this idea. It will mean that we aren't running later than expected; we're right on time.

[the last yatto]

I sincerely apologize for misquoting Sheered Völva. As punishment, I promise I will take off all my clothes, cover myself with 150 proof alcohol, and run into the nearest police station screaming, "I'm on fire! I'm on fire! Somebody please lick me!"

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[the last yatto]

but the point was this
change my editorial to sound like whatever number I get is the one and only perfect number for that issue.
was also your idea and wasnt changed. the box i just expanded on your ideas, still yours or not

[Sheered Völva]

but the point was this
change my editorial to sound like whatever number I get is the one and only perfect number for that issue.
was also your idea and wasnt changed. the box i just expanded on your ideas, still yours or not

Yeah, I know. But you made it sound like I said some things I didn't, so I thought I'd pay you back.
Anyway, I couldn't stay mad at someone who grew such a cool mustache.