My family is pretty clumsy, so if we’re ever out at a dinner and someone else spills something my mother thanks them for making it so she won’t be the first to spill.
It is random, but the site is a touch overzealous when it comes to browser caching. For example, I always have to refresh to see if there’s a new comic.
Same with the random comic redirect: the site instructs the browser to remember what it received from the browser, which also means that it won’t ask again to which comic should the random comic URL redirect. You click the URL, the browser says “aha, the server once told me to redirect to this comic and that I should remember it” and opens the same comic again, without bothering to ask the server what comic to open this time.
For the record, (Adam), I believe that if you were to use javascript to set the link query param “nocache=” to a random number (e.g. “nocache=1539713523”) on every page load, or even every click, that it would accomplish its purpose much more effectively. The reason, AFAIK, is that by adding a random new garbage value to a url, the browser is like “well, this is a different link than I’ve seen before – guess I can’t use the results I cached earlier”. I believe this is fairly standard practice in such cases.
“the courtesy to bicker with each other” – I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, here. “the courtesy of bickering with each other” would more clearly indicate that the joggers are bickering, but “to bicker” sounds to my ears as though it *might* mean our protagonists are invited to bicker.
“extend us the courtesy” ha!
My family is pretty clumsy, so if we’re ever out at a dinner and someone else spills something my mother thanks them for making it so she won’t be the first to spill.
Just a heads up. Your random comic bar is no longer random. It always links to your “Candy is Dandy, But Liquor is Quicker” comic.
I also get directed to a same comic repeatedly, though mine is different than what you mentioned.
It is random, but the site is a touch overzealous when it comes to browser caching. For example, I always have to refresh to see if there’s a new comic.
Same with the random comic redirect: the site instructs the browser to remember what it received from the browser, which also means that it won’t ask again to which comic should the random comic URL redirect. You click the URL, the browser says “aha, the server once told me to redirect to this comic and that I should remember it” and opens the same comic again, without bothering to ask the server what comic to open this time.
For the record, (Adam), I believe that if you were to use javascript to set the link query param “nocache=” to a random number (e.g. “nocache=1539713523”) on every page load, or even every click, that it would accomplish its purpose much more effectively. The reason, AFAIK, is that by adding a random new garbage value to a url, the browser is like “well, this is a different link than I’ve seen before – guess I can’t use the results I cached earlier”. I believe this is fairly standard practice in such cases.
Hahahaha, the double death glare in panel 2.
“the courtesy to bicker with each other” – I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, here. “the courtesy of bickering with each other” would more clearly indicate that the joggers are bickering, but “to bicker” sounds to my ears as though it *might* mean our protagonists are invited to bicker.
Fun fact: Removing the other guy’s shoe and beating him with it was considered a victory in my college dorm’s wrestling matches.