{"id":334,"date":"2008-08-22T22:11:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T05:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2008-08-22T22:11:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T05:11:56","slug":"the-deal-with-geek-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/08\/the-deal-with-geek-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"The deal with Geek Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&#8217;ve likely noticed the Geek Thoughts postings here. This is an experiment on a few different levels.<\/p>\n<p>What makes comics special? To what extent are pictures, often little more than stick figures, a critical part of the web comic experience? Can a web comic still be funny and thought-provoking with only words?<\/p>\n<p>Specifically with regard to yesterday&#8217;s posting, an homage to <a href=\"http:\/\/garfieldminusgarfield.net\/\">Garfield minus Garfield<\/a>, and slightly-more-than-homage to <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">xkcd<\/a>: what does taking away the seeming-essential part reveal? Is it of the same or different nature as before? On the plus side, don&#8217;t worry about this blog becoming an xkcd transciption service&#8211;that&#8217;s not the point. Thinking (and maybe laughing) is.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also an experiment in zero-overhead publishing. Setting up a dedicated blog, separate site, separate comment moderation, all that jazz&#8230;would be hard. Lower friction is the difference between a smooth running engine and a smoking heap of metal, and the same goes in life. If Geek Thoughts develops a huge following, maybe some day there will be all of that and T-Shirts too. But for now, it&#8217;s easy enough that I can actually do it, which is what matters in the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>If this line of argument seems faintly familiar, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve used it before, with my (still sporadically updated) <a href=\"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/tags\/patternalia\/\">Patternalia<\/a> series, inspired by Christopher Alexander&#8217;s works.<\/p>\n<p>If you appreciate any of this, the best way to show it is with a link. Thanks! -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you&#8217;ve likely noticed the Geek Thoughts postings here. This is an experiment on a few different levels. What makes comics special? To what extent are pictures, often little more than stick figures, a critical part of the web comic experience? Can a web comic still be funny and thought-provoking with only words? Specifically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,284,25],"tags":[65,340,336,338,337,1179,335,341,339,94],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-geekthoughts","category-ipr","tag-blog","tag-christopher-alexander","tag-commentary","tag-funny","tag-garfieldminusgarfield","tag-geekthoughts","tag-introspection","tag-patterns","tag-time","tag-xkcd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-5o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}