Wednesday, January 28, 2003Hot off the email from the J to the B:I hope Isaac gets this in time to post it. -- He won't appear in a comic because he's hard to draw. -Isaac. Monday, January 26, 2003Wow, look at JB's MS paint skills. I'm impressed. I can't really be annoyed that he didn't make it over to my place and give me a comic. I can't get anywhere either. My car is a solid block of ice. I park in a shady spot, and so my car isn't really thawed out yet. Anyway, the rest of the news post is from JB. Hello, this is the quality of comic I can produce in a state of emergency. I had planned on bringing a real comic Sunday, but it was cold. I started going to work on Sunday, but on Sunday's I drive around that is my job so I said screw it and went home. Gibson County, my home, really is in an official state of emergency. No one has told me what that means. I'm pretty sure it involves duct tape and the national guard. May be it's anthrax. -JB |
Friday, January 23, 2004On a Friday, no news is good news. Wednesday, January 21, 2004Wow, another update. I can tell this is going to be tough. It's a bad joke that if you have to read the newspost to understand the comic then the comic sucks. Well whatever. Some of you aren't going to get the poop car reference. I don't really get it either. Ya might be crazy if you make little cars out of your own poop. Or you might just be creative and talented. It's hard to tell, really. JB and his brother have been making up ever more elaborate poop-car tie-ins, for example, "Man, I bet that guy's got a nice lift kit for his poop truck." Recently his brother was at work and said something like, "Yeah, that guy's poop car must have broke down on the way to work." He is probably still trying to explain the inner workings of poop cars to his co-workers. The reference really comes from Saturday Night Live, I dunno, I didn't see the episode. Anyway we're stealing it. Explaining this crap is a lot of work and I don't think I'm going to make the effort anymore. So from now on if you don't understand what's going on just pretend it's really funny. And tell your friends. And if they don't believe you, run them down with your poop car. Anyway we're still working on that T-shirt thing. Well, I'm not. But JB might be. And the story section is underway. Or will be soon. I'm looking for a good video game. Preferably a MMORPG. Email me. There's this link at the top, it looks like a little envelope. That's the email link. Clickety clickety. Also I am working on a way for JB to make a newspost. Dunno how that will pan out. I told him he can email me anytime and I'll post it as news, but he hasn't. Check out the Reviews section for Kevin and JB's list of good movies. -Isaac |
Monday, January 19, 2004Ugh, I thought it was still Sunday or something. Don't worry, it's allright, it's still Monday, I still got the update up pretty close to on time. I haven't gotten much email feedback on the site lately, though a bunch of people have told me personally they like it. I assume everyone has seen the splash page, and the cool "team" art that JB cranked out to make it all pretty. I think that that pic is a little too bland to be on a T-shirt, not that it's bad art, not at all, simply that it does not convey in and of itself any of the spirit, the greatness that is $5Job. In other words, I want the T-shirt design to be funny. Some of you guys have sent in blogs, which is really cool. The blogging is more popular than I suspected it would be, but it's not really blogging. A blog, or a weblog, is a sort of daily diary deal. I expected to be updating it every day with what was happening in electronics. That would have been a lot of work, and really not very interesting. What we're getting now aren't really blogs, they're interesting stories. Which really is way better and more entertaining for everyone involved. So I'm planning a revamp of the whole blog/story section, and I've already got one story from Michelle Tuley. I'm waiting on a story from Jarrod. He said he'd gimme it, and he described it over AIM and it sounded good, but Jarrod, buddy, you still need to email that to me. So you see, Michelle, I didn't forget, I'm just waiting on Jarrod. Also I think when the T-shirt design is finalized I'll give a T-shirt to everyone who submits a story... or really anything to the site, including guest comics. As always, email me with questions or comments. -Isaac |
Friday, January 16, 2004Look, it's friday, I'll do a newspost later. -Isaac Wednesday, January 14, 2004Our first scheduled update! I'm excited. Maybe the site will go somewhere after all. Look for big changes soon. And eventually you guys will see my non-walmart character design. Good stuff. Maybe even get rid of the annoying ad that some of you see at the bottom. I haven't heard much news from walmart. JB got kicked out of Family Dollar the other day. I guess his ninja skills need some work. Nin-JA! He should have kicked the guy right in the head and ran out of the store. In some non-walmart news, I got a guitar. And it's all cool. It's got this tuner built in, so it doesn't even matter that I'm tone-deaf. I can't really play it yet, but I'm getting there. I love carrying it around in the case. It makes me way cooler. Ultra-sweetness. I think I want to go carry it around the mall. JB and I should go walk around public places carrying our stringed instruments of coolness. In case you're wondering who the huge hulking ninja robot vampire is in that comic over by JB, that's Jason. Don't laugh, he'll kick your ass. And then maybe drink your blood... unless robots don't drink. We're not really sure on that point. We do know that he kicks ass though. Lots of it. Keep your eyes open for a T-shirt design. I imagine everyone who is a character will want a shirt. You guys can probably just bring a shirt and I'll put the junk on it. Yknow. So it can be any kind of shirt, T or other. |
Sunday, January 11, 2003Well, another comic, imagine that. I wasn't sure there would be anymore. Not just one comic either, but two! So check back on Wednesday for another update. Wow, a scheduled update. Maybe big changes are on the way for fivedollarjob. So classes start tomorrow but it's hard to muster up any anticipation. I really just don't like going to school. Work is worse, ugh. So I sure hope we can make money off the webcomic or something. Wouldn't that be nice. We're thinking of selling T-shirts. I dunno what people would want on a FivedollarJob related T-shirt. A remake of the where's the batteries comic? Maybe big and in color? I dunno. Any ideas would be helpful, just email them to me. I want a T-shirt with my character really big on it, but I'm sure I'm the only one. I'm watching Hollow Man, because it's on... and I just heard the greatest quote ever. "Where'd she go?" "She needed blood!" "She went alone?" "He would have died!" "... He's dead." Hehe. I hate this movie. So remember, check back Wednesday. |
Tuesday, December 2, 2003I dunno if you guys will get this one. The comic really needs to be animated or something. We should send it off to Cartoon Network. They're already doing that Clone Wars stuff, maybe they'd put some old characters in Star Wars type roles. So the last update was a month ago. And that sucks. Any regular readers we had are surely gone by now. We really could use some kind of regular update schedule. Except that's work, and it's not like we're being paid for this. JB tells me that he had fun on the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest single day in walmart history. A few days later I tried to go in walmart to bug JB. I barely got in the door before I had to leave. The place was nuts. No way I was going to fight the dark hordes of shoppers to buy anything. Anyway, JB claims he actually enjoyed working during that, which as far as I'm concerned makes him certifiable. Let's see, any news from walmart? There's some new guys in electronics, I dunno who they are. JB gets to be the store ninja! and go over and comp shop at Target and stuff. I'm pretty sure thats a violation of something somehow. There's some new manager that's really lazy and is being a jerk... something about trying to make everyone put their real names on their name badges. How annoying. I'm hopefully heading over to a showing of that Samurai movie with Tom Cruise tonight at USI, I'll probably be back next month with a review. |
Sunday, November 2, 2003Wow, been a while since an update. You'll have that, I guess. School and everything. Not really sure what to do about that. I could quit school and just do the webcomic, i guess. I dunno what has happened at walmart. Nathan got moved to toys, or something. I'm pretty sure he's not happy about that. I was calling and asking if he was there for weeks before they told me he wasn't in the department anymore. We got some new blogs, including one from my old friend at Purdue Caleb. Caleb works at Lowes and is as upset as I am that their slogan is no longer "Lowes knows." I got this Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game FFXI the other day. It's a really good idea that sort of fails in execution. It is on both PC and PS2 and both systems can play on the same servers which is amazing. Also Japanese and American players play on the same servers which is amazing also. This helps make the social aspect of the game much more varied and interesting. It also has pretty good graphics. Now for the problems. The User Interface is horrible. Maybe the worst UI since Hitman. I should qualify the "good graphics" statement. The character/creature designs are awesome. Inspired. The game engine is a mess. It looks kind of like a really awesome PS2 game. And all that crap about not being able to change your server. That sucks too. It needs a complete UI overhaul and a retuned graphics engine. Then it will be awesome. Anyway it's good enough to hold me until World of Warcraft comes out. |
Thursday, October 16, 2003.It's not that Nathan and Jarrod are short, really. They're normal size humans. It's just that JB and I are big. And JB isn't drawing them short, just relative size. Just look back a few to the one with Jarrod behind the counter. I mean, he's not having any problems seeing over that counter. And I'm not saying he does in real life, let's just say we're being a lot nicer than we could be. Be sure to check out the blogs page. Thats one of those links up at the top there. I'm not going to link to it in here because I want you guys to get used to clicking on those things. So go ahead. Another blog from Jarrod and one from first time submitter Nathan's Girlfriend. So tell me what you think and feel free to send me one of your own. I imagine they're mad at me because they gave me those blogs forever ago and I didn't post them on the site until just now. But I couldn't. I didn't have a new comic. I could use some reviews too. I think I'm going to force JB to write a review of Kill Bill because he loved that movie so much, but who knows if he'll ever actually do it. So we filmed some funny crap for Nathan's show thing, I dunno how it will turn out or if Nathan will ever actually post any of it on his webless web site, but as soon as he actually gets a website you'll be sure and get a little linky linky from me. |
Friday, September 19, 2003I've wondered for a while if this would work. There must be a better way to clock in and get paid than to actually go to work. Because work sucks. We're going to try to keep updating more frequently. Like I just wrote a newspost on wednesday, and now I have to write another one two days later. I'm not really in the loop anymore. The last time I went some new employee asked me if I was lost. I said yes. Then I went over to electronics and played the game demos that I kept getting in trouble for playing when I worked there. JB has this writing class, where he has to, yknow, write stuff. So I'm thinking of making him write newsposts. It'll be good practice for him. And, of course, less work for me. So we're thinking of seeing Underworld tonight. It looks good. Hot chicks, vampires, werewolves, neato weapons, etc. I dunno though, it has definite suckage potential. It's been a while since I saw a good vampire movie. I'm watching Monk... now that's a good show. Hmm, still a few more lines to fill. I just did a search for walmart on Google and got a bunch of anti-walmart sites. People calling for boycotts because of walmart's unfair employment practices and junk. Fun stuff. In other news, walmart represents all that is souless and wrong... so it's a good thing they have low prices or i wouldn't shop there. |
Wednesday, September 17, 2003I really like this comic. We've been talking about doing this strip for a while, but it was just really hard to do. I mean, look at that. That action stuff, that's hard to draw. And it's especially hard for people to understand what's going on. You remember the boob comic? Those are some very well drawn boobs, but for some reason everyone thinks it's a plumber's crack. These comics take skill, determination, hard work, practice, inspiration, paper, and of course, pens. I think we need to update more, and so does JB, but it's kind of a hassle. It's fun to draw comics for yourself for a few close friends, but once you start talking about putting comics out there, on the web, for everyone to see, you have to hold yourself to a higher standard. And that means you have to work harder on them. And that's a different kind of fun. The work kind. Anyway we'll try and update more often. In other news... Matchstick Men is good. You should see it, and see it soon before someone ruins it for you. Someone like me. I finished Tron 2.0 for the PC. It's very pretty and a good extention of the Tron universe and story, but I don't really feel the urge to replay it, or play it multiplayer. So it's too bad that you can't rent PC games, I guess. Not that I paid money for it. Anyway if you're looking for an interesting and pretty but short fps, and you think you might play it multiplayer, Tron 2.0 would be an ok choice. |
Monday, September 8, 2003This manager's name is Richard Headly. Heeee. We call him Dick. I'm so glad I don't work at walmart anymore. I don't have to deal with this crap. This stuff really does happen almost every day. Usually different managers will tell you to do different things at the same time, this is to be expected. Less frequently, but much more frequently than the laws of physics should allow, the same manager will tell you to do different things at the same time. I think it's just that they made up some busy work for you earlier, and forgot about it, and now they have something that they really do want you to do. God forbid that you make yourself available for a customer to ask you a question. No standing around! You should be putting stuff away or in the stockroom or cleaning or whatever. Not helping people! No! Helping people bad! In a related story: USI is so easy that it scares me. I haven't had a graded assignment yet. You ever take an exam, and you think, 'wow this isn't hard at all' and then later you get it back and you failed because you totally missed the point? I'm thinking maybe I'm missing something and it really is kind of difficult and I'm just going to fail. I told my friends in class about the harder stuff I ran into at Purdue, like one of the main equations for an engineering project is wrong and so you're working for a month on a project that can't possibly work and then 2 days before it's due they find the error, but they don't give you any more time. I guess I'm just paranoid because, "At Purdue, you would already be dead!" |
Tuesday, September 2, 2003Today is my first day of classes at USI. My film class let out very early today, and I'm sitting in the classroom for my next class... about an hour and a half early. Woo. I came in here because they have these outlets on the desks and I could work on the comic to my heart's content without running my laptop batteries down. Unfortunately those outlets don't appear to be working. Ah well. So JB has been slacking lately. People have been giving him (and me) suggestions for comics, and he hasn't been following through on it. And these are good suggestions, mind you, things that would make very good comics indeed. One person (who unfortunately shall remain nameless) even went so far as to write down the suggestions on a piece of paper. They even included a little drawing of the JB character. Well since JB is slacking and I'm bored I went ahead and posted the suggestion, after no little editing. So here you have it, our very first guest strip. I think JB may be planning a comic around the same idea. If so I'll post that too. In JB's defense he's been playing lots of Soul Calibur 2 and he spent the night before last wooing women, and as JB put's it, "I've got priorities!" How's USI? Well thanks for asking. USI is cool. The scenery is great, the campus is really small, the parking is cake compared to Purdue, and the only class I've been to so far has people I know from High School. If my CS class is interesting and my World Civ class (ugh) isn't too horrible this whole deal could go well. |
Thursday, August 21, 2003So I still haven't quit yet. Or I might have. I dunno. JB is on vacation and he's been coming over to my apartment and playing videogames, while I'm supposed to be covering his spot or something, I dunno. I called yesterday and asked if they wanted me to come in and they said No, so I dunno what I'm supposed to do. I have mentioned to JB that just because he's on vacation from walmart doesn't mean he gets to be on vacation from the webcomic too. I didn't really realize that this would make him give me comics and then I'd have to work too. Grr. So JB did this comic way back when he started his vacation. He gave it to me the next day but I haven't done anything with it, mostly because people have been over at my apartment every night since JB's vacation started. And actually, that's cool. I'll just start working on the site when people are there. No biggie. It would probably really help the site to have all that extra input. Anyway after ragging on JB about not giving me enough comics, I still haven't posted this one. I have decided that from now on when JB gives me a new comic I will have it posted within 24 hours, regardless of whatever else is going on. I might not do a new newspost, but I will have the comic up there. I have heard reports of people having to fill out something to get a $25 Wal-Mart gift card before being able to access this site. I don't know where this ad is coming from, possibly some adware. If anyone else gets this ad email isaachawley@mac.com with info about it. If we can somehow get money from an ad we can get JB a computer of his very own to do post production on his own comics. That would be very cool. A story from Michelle the cashier is going up in the blogs section soon, check it out. |
Friday, August 15, 2003Based on A True Story® that actually even happened! JB went to lunch at Taco Bell, and saw a sign for some chicken thing, I dunno. Multiple, large signs. He ordered the chicken thing, and the lady told him they were out, and it was a temporary item, and they didn't have any more. And JB is going, "Well, you might wanna take the sign down then." But there's a miscommunication, and she thinks he doesn't believe that they're out of this chicken thing, and she gets all pissy. She's like, "Let me go check -- Yup we're out." And JB is going, "No really, there are signs out here, big ones too!" And she says, "No there aren't, somebody went out there and took them down." And right there are these big signs with this chicken thing on them and it was all too much for JB and he drove off without getting any food. I would have gotten out of the car, grabbed the big signs, and drove by the window with these big signs prominently displayed about my vehicle. "Oh, these aren't the signs? For this chicken thing? Are you sure?" Which, of course, is followed by the implied, "Who's the idiot here now, huh?" Y'know that scene in Austin Powers (the first one) when Dr. Evil's son Sean walks into the room and tells about the almost fight in the arcade, and when he finishes... yeah that's how I feel right now. I'm just glad I'm not in the same room with you guys when you read this, so you can't stare at me like I'm some weirdo. In other news: Freddy vs. Jason comes out tonight, hopefully the first of many high quality, well written, deep, emotionally fulfilling, big budget versus movies. I'll try to write a review of it and post it on here. Who knows if I will actually accomplish such a feat, but I'll make an effort. Also if you would like to submit your review (of anything), just email it to me. |
Saturday, August 9, 2003So I'm quitting. And I said I would be happy to stop working anytime between the 20th and 24th. So I expected to work a pretty normal schedule until then. Maybe a few less hours. Yeah, I'm scheduled 6 hours next week. On Wednesday. Only six hours. That's ass. Then the week after that, I'm scheduled my full on normal schedule. So today I told the CSMs, which are like shepherds to the herd of cashiers, that if they expected me to show up the week when I'm full-on scheduled, they should give me some more hours the week before. Because I want to work, and if I don't get hours from Wal-Mart I'll work somewhere else. Go to a temp agency if I have to, whatever. So JB is asking me if he can do much more complicated and involved comics, like six panels or more, but it will take him more time to do. This would mean that you guys have to wait longer between comics. Lemme know how you feel about that. Also, JB keeps whining all the time because we don't get much fanmail. Lots of people come up to him and tell him that they saw the website and it's cool and stuff, which seems like it would be enough. But I guess it isn't. Anyway, JB would like you to send email. And I would like you to send suggestions, of any kind, because I don't really know what I'm doing. One more thing. That ad in the separate frame at the bottom that's probably for Register.com or whatever, don't click on that. Ever. I don't get any money if you click on that. I already paid them some money, and now they want to put this ad on my site unless I give them more money. No way. So don't click it, ok. |
Thursday, August 7, 2003This comic is a work of pure genius. Well, I guess. If JB meant to spell my name wrong, it's genius. If he did it accidentally, it's even better. I know my character is quitting the store, but I assume he will continue to make appearances in the strip. I dunno what sort of stuff he will do. My darkest fantasies involve acts of gag vandalism, like buying a bunch of rolls of toilet paper, T.P.ing the outside of the store, and going back in to say I dropped it and it was defective and I want my money back. I guess my character might do stuff like that after I do it. I got a webcam. It's fun. I can flip my friends the bird long distance. I can also do really cool stuff like use it like a DV camcorder (if I lug my laptop around with the webcam plugged in), and make stop-motion movies and stuff. While I was testing it out I looked at a bunch of webcam video chat programs, like cu-cme, ivisit, etc. Turns out there are a critical shortage of women on these things. It works like this. 90% of the early adapters of a new technology or tech-related junk are guys. The last 10% are "Other". So ladies, please, buy webcams. Buy new stuff in general. Geeks are lonely. |
Monday, August 4, 2003Concerning the comic: Oh yes, I wish we could do that. Oh God yes. For those of you who don't know, I'm quitting Wal-Mart between Aug 20th and Aug 24th, assuming I don't get fired beforehand. As I get closer and closer to quitting, it becomes harder and harder to deal with customers. If I'm paid an estimated $5 an hour after taxes, for around 18 more days at an average of 6.7 hours a day, we come to about $603.00. So if I beat the crap out of this customer who is annoying me now, I lose that amount, and I have to be much more careful with my budget as I attend USI. Over my last few days, that number will get smaller and smaller. At some point screaming abuse at an idiot customer will be well worth the $120 I'll lose for it. I'm like a ticking time bomb... Well, not really. When it's not worth it anymore, I'll probably just walk out. Don't underestimate the calming power of laziness. So I'm quitting Wal-Mart. I'm still willing and able to keep working on this website, but I'm not sure if I should keep doing these newsposts. After all, I'll be out of the loop. So I might need someone else to take over. The employees currently working in electronics are: Me, JB, Jarrod, Zach, Nathan, a new guy I haven't met, and some managerial-type people. JB, Jarrod, or Zach would be the best choices to take over for me, if I quit. Nathan would be good but he's really busy with his own website, not to mention the comic he has to make for it. Anyway, some fan email would be really helpful on this subject. Who do you want to write the newsposts? Email your pick to skeld@insightbb.com or isaachawley@mac.com (they both end up the same place). We could also switch to multi-posters. If other people send in news I'll start putting who posted the story, like: Monday, Aug 4, 2003 Under which would be the comments from me. Other people could then send in newsposts which would get added, with the date and time of their post, along with their JB-drawn icon. |
Friday, August 1, 2003People seem to do a lot of walking around with their heads up their asses. You wouldn't always know it to look at them, but they do. Almost every single person who comes into electronics says they're in some kind of life or death rush. Since everyone is saying this, it becomes meaningless. Rush is normal. And sorry lady, your rush is no more important than anybody elses. Occassionally people will tell me they're not in a hurry. To me, that means they don't really want help. They're just sightseeing or something. We also don't have a very well defined line area in electronics, and I understand that might make it hard to understand what's going on if you have your head up your ass. People tend to stand in an arc about 6 feet from the counter, staring expectantly at me and the other, rival, customers. Before I stopped caring, I wanted to tape a line on the floor or something. Now I just find it amusing. This hosting stuff is getting annoying. Keenspace has ads. Keenspace is also free, so this isn't really a complaint. More of an observation. With free must come ads or whatever. But they're actually paying server fees and stuff and so I can respect the ads. It's cool. Some of them don't even suck. However, most of you will be seeing another kind of ad. There will be this bar at the bottom with an additional ad in it. Annoyingly enough. This ad isn't from Keenspace, it's from the place where I registered my domain name. Since my domain at Keenspace isn't www.fivedollarjob.com anymore, I have to redirect my old domain www.fivedollarjob.com to point at http://fivedollarjob.keenspace.com. Which, yes, blows. So this domain registry service, which I paid for, is slapping ads on there now. This is not ok. I'm going to do something about this. And whatever that is, it won't be giving my registry service any more money. I'll go register with someone else before I fall into that trap. Anyway the site does load faster and it's free hosting. And I might get noticed by some other comic artists at Keenspace, which would be cool. |
Monday, July 21, 2003Women are the silver lining of working retail. You wouldn't believe the women that come into Wal-Mart, wearing as close to nothing as permissible by law. Lately I've been trying to dress up when I'm working a register up front. It seems like I get more fine ladies in my line when I'm wearing a dress shirt. I certainly get more smiles. I think I'm going to start writing my phone number on some receipts. I wonder if I'd get fired for that. Jarrod, another guy who works in electronics, seems to think that it's real funny to go tell girls that I want to talk to them but I'm too shy or something. That's not really it. I work at Wal-Mart. When you're meeting women you don't want them to know you work at a five dollar job. Gotta go to work. Will continue this later. Work sucks. Continued. So yeah, the ladies. I'm constantly getting stopped by stockmen and other guys who point out the latest change in the scenery. I swear if a hot girl bends over in jewelry I have 10 guys telling me about it before she moves. Sometimes all the guys in electronics will be paralyzed like deer in headlights by a really hot chick. Let's talk about Axe Angels. The fragrant deoderant, Axe, will hire real actual models, with agents and stuff, to stand in various stores and hand out little samples of Axe and generally just attract looks to the Axe display. It's very effective. The last time an Axe Angel was in our store she set up her display right next to electronics. Nothing got done all day. Good times. Silver lining. Yeah. Right now I'm trying to get us hosted by KeenSpot, a free host for webcomics. Hosting the site in my apartment is cool and fun, but I can't afford to buy the server from my friend, I'm sick of sigecom and I can't switch to insight and keep hosting the server, and I'm sick of getting lagged during Counter-Strike when someone visits the site. Anyway I might have to add banners and stuff, but on the upside the site should be faster. We'll see how it works out. Drop me a line skeld@insightbb.com. |
Monday, July 7, 2003I told JB that in order to make the strip fit in a sideways format he has to make the panels taller than they are wide. PvP Online for example. Instead, he gave me panels that are much wider than they are tall. This makes for a vertical arrangement. Tell me how you like it. Introducing Nathan. He might be my boss, sort of. I'm not sure. Y'know that scene in Office Space where Peter says, "I have eight bosses right now, eight! That means every time I screw up I have eight people coming around to tell me about it!" At Wal-Mart, JB and I have 10 bosses. This is just counting our shared bosses, not the bosses that I have from working the front every few weeks. So I have more than 10 bosses. I'm not sure how many, I don't want to think about it. Nathan, though, is not too bad. Usually by the time I get to work in the evening there isn't much he can tell me to do, and he watches anime so he's allright. Insane, but allright. Like he refuses to touch doorknobs and stuff. And he's weird about touching money. And he really has goggles like that. And he likes pokemon (digimon, sorry Nathan). He also looks like Harry Potter but a character that looks like Harry Potter is a one-trick pony in a strip like this so we'll make him look like an anime character instead. I will eventually link to his site. It will be right here. Some of these words will be blue and underlined. You may click on these. We are trying to increase the amount and variety of content we offer here. Therefore, if you have something you'd like to submit, such as a movie review (*cough* Kevin *cough*) just email it to skeld@insightbb.com. I'll make it look like the rest of the site and throw it up there. And I'll make sure to give you proper credit for your submission. Also email me if: 1. the site is loading slowly. It's hosted out of my apartment so if you're having problems there might be something I can do, or at least something I can complain about. 2. You are offended or otherwise dislike the comic. Any feedback is good feedback. 3. You are bored. Fanmail makes the artist feel liked and this makes him more likely to make better cartoons faster. I'm not going to give an email address for JB because he most likely won't answer the email. But I'll tell him though, trust me. |
Friday, June 27, 2003Once again, it's time for a newspost. I hope you guys appreciate this. This is work. For a better explanation of who we are and what we do, try the Old News link up at the top. For those of you unwilling to do that, I'm Isaac. I run the webpage. JB is the artist. So you'll see a bunch of crap on this page. JB is the origional creator of this crap. I take the crap from JB and filter it, refine it, process it, and slap it up here for your viewing pleasure or displeasure. And yes, we do work at Wal-Mart. I will, probably, infrequently, post a little diary or blog about something interesting that happened at work. This will be found in the Blogs section. Go figure. The site is still very much a work in progress. I will be changing the format constantly back and forth until I like it. The problem is that I might like it a way that you don't like or doesn't work on your browser or something. If that should happen, drop me a line at skeld@insightbb.com. In other news: Star Wars: Galaxies is in stores now. For those of you who missed the bus, this game will be huge. This is a destroyer of lives. A wrecker of homes and marriages. A game so addictive that it will soon be registered as an illegal narcotic in 17 states. I'm not going to buy it, and I honestly wonder how many of our customers will. Most of the guys we sell to are trying to buy Pro Buck Sucker or something. Anyway it should be an interesting weekend in electronics and I might have something to blog about later, so check back. |
Monday, June 23, 2003 (later)We have a new name and we should (soon) have our own domain (www.fivedollarjob.com). This name hardly demands explanation but I'm going to do it anyway. JB and his friends from the good old days at Wal-Mart used to call working there a "Five-dollar job" because that's what it works out to be after taxes. Having a five-dollar job is a head trip. If you can avoid quitting or getting fired for long enough, you'll realize how worthless you are to the company. You're not a valuable employee, you're literally some guy who walked in off the street. If you can't hack it there are plenty of guys left out on the street over there. And all of them are qualified for your job. And if we run out of guys on the street, we can train some monkeys. That's how easy your job is. So forget about asking for a raise. And everyone who comes in there for any reason knows you're working at a five-dollar job, and judge you accordingly. If they ask a question and don't like the answer, then you must be wrong. "Are you sure it won't work? Are you sure? Are you really sure?" They could make a verbal slip in their question so they honest to god just asked you for an adapter for an electric diaper, and when you say, "Excuse me, what?" they yell, "Are you deaf, moron?! Listen to what Ah say boy!" You soon learn to hate customers and managers and almost everyone who isn't a five-dollar job employee. I wanted to name the webcomic "Walmart: the Webcomic" or some crap like that. I figured we'd get sued and the lawsuit would get us enough publicity to reach critical mass. Instead, JB has managed to crank out a comic that I think might be able to stand on it's own. So we're going to take a few wobbly baby steps here, send out some links to the webcomic community, and see what people think of it. As usual, drop me a line at skeld@insightbb.com PS Hey, JB, you see up at the top, above the comic, where it says "Five Dollar Job" and it looks all crappy? You need to draw me something that can go in that space. It should have Five Dollar Job on it somewhere but other than that do what you want. If you want me to photoshop $5 and use it there somehow let me know. I consider that an artistic decision and I'm not qualified to have an opinion on those. |
Monday, June 23, 2003So there's nothing really new today, I'm just throwing out some info for Stoney. Yeah, he has some paper due and he needs to talk about hacking his cell phone. Or cell phones in general I'm not sure. Either way. http://www.cellphonehacks.com/ would be first on the list, I imagine. I think that's the only place I actually found useful information. Also try http://www.cellularsecrets.net. Actually that looks more like cloning and stealing service than the kind of hacking I want to do, but still relevant to Stoney's project. If nothing else he can say, "look how easy it is to get info on hacking cell phones! It's like they just don't care or something." Your average english teacher would be outraged at something like that, I think. I will now quote directly from the junk I copied so you don't even have to follow links. This won't work without some codes you don't have but it looks impressive anyway. Samsung N300 I have this bad habit of starting these newsposts with the word "so". It's probably because I don't know what to talk about. |
Tuesday, June 17, 2003We have a new comic up one day after the old one! That's record time! And no, JB didn't suddenly have a burst of creativity. He's been cranking out the comics pretty steadily. I was really lazy and didn't put up the last comic for something like a week. So I had his notebook and I really wasn't expecting a comic this soon. After all, how can you draw a comic if someone has your notebook? JB, that wiley rat, has multiple notebooks on which he can draw. Needless to say, when I went to give JB his notebook back and he gave me a new comic on a different notebook I was amazed. I was going to be lazy with this comic too but it rules so I decided to go ahead and post it. You will have a big line of people waiting patiently for you to help them with whatever. This is bad enough. Then you will have the sidlers. They will actually sidle right up to the side of the counter and wait there expectantly, sometimes even leaning onto the counter. You must not look at them! If you make eye contact, even glance in their direction, they will ask their question. Regardless of how many other things you are already doing or people you are already helping. They don't care. They're evil brain-eating zombies who want nothing more to rip out your brain and drink greedily of your precious knowledge. So how exactly do you kill zombies? A stake through the heart, like vampires? Silver? I think a shotgun blast to the head does a pretty good job, but that can't be the only viable method. This demands research! |
Monday, June 16, 2003So let's talk about how it works around here. I'm Isaac. I don't do the comics. JB does the comics. Sometimes I come up with an idea but not usually. I take the comics from JB and put them on the internet. So I made the crappy webpage that you're looking at now. It'll get better, I'm working on that. I also do the newspost. That's what you're reading right now. It's wonderful, I know. It's really filler. There's this stuff called "content" that people expect from websites. Apparently, a funny, well-written comic isn't enough content for you people. So a few paragraphs of my dribble makes it all better. I guess. Anyway I looked at a successful site (www.penny-arcade.com) and did what they do. Except whoever designs their websites has talent. Anyway, enjoy, and lemme know if something could use some work skeld@insightbb.com. |