Routing Algorithm
The original plan had been to post my interview with the artist of Go Get a Roomie during Roomie’s appearance in WAH. However, as you’ll find out in the intro below, the logistics made the deadline difficult. Since late is better than never in the world of webcomics, here is my interview with the only person I know with an acute accent, Chloé C:
Chloé and I met on the deck of a cargo ship in the Atlantic Ocean. It was cold, the water was very choppy and the crew was looking at me funny. Luckily, there was a Starbucks next to the captain’s quarters where we could relax in quiet comfort. Chloé enjoyed a cup of whale tea while I sipped a hot chocolate topped with freshly ground dolphin sprinkles. “Why did you want to meet here?” she asked me as the waves crashed against the hull, rocking the freighter violently back and forth and almost making me drop my hammerhead shark scone. “We’re exactly halfway between Columbus, Ohio and Brussels, Belgium,” I answered. “It seemed like the perfect compromise.” “Oh,” she responded. “I guess that makes sense.”
WAH: What was going on in your life professionally and personally when you initially decided that you wanted to create and publish a comic on the web?
CC: Go Get a Roomie started all small and unplanned on deviantart, on a silly impulse. I wanted to draw little stories based mostly on Jo’s bar, stories I was living myself at the moment, in Belgium. Professionally, nothing was happening, just went to school in-between beers (and quitting shortly after. Not the beer). Personally, I was curious as to what would happen if I started a webcomic I would regularly update. No need to say I hadn’t imagined just how far it would go.
WAH: What pop culture influences helped you to construct your theme and characters?
CC: Beer.
WAH: What is the main goal you’d like to achieve for yourself with your webcomic?
CC: Spiritual Awakening.
WAH: What is the main goal you’d like to achieve for your fans with your webcomic?
CC: They can spiritually Awaken with me (we’ll have a party).
WAH: What area of your webcomic do you think needs to be improved upon?
CC: I think I can always improve in all areas, and I wouldn’t have it another way. But if I’d have to pick a specific field, I’d go with enriching backgrounds.
WAH: What are you doing when you’re not working on your webcomic?
CC: Drawing fanart. Laughing with friends. Playing video-games. Relaxed drinks. Wild drinks. Reading. Imagining. Playing instruments…and apparently not resisting cute room-mates’ pleading eyes to accompany them to the grocery store. Welp! Gotta go.
Have a great weekend everyone.
– Ben
My dream one day is to do a Belgium brewery tour, and maybe try to find Jo’s bar.
That sounds like a good dream. I hope you get to do it.
or the third option where car A blocks all incoming traffic and tries to be nice and wave you by. This are NOT the rules of the road. Just get out of my way!!
Yes! I’ve had that happen to me many times. Hate that!
I usually encounter the fourth option: where I’m car B, and I let car A go past before I pull out, only to discover that car A is making a right turn into a driveway 6 feet past the intersection…. with no turn signal!
Or the sixth option: where car A is actually making a left turn, but no one can tell because there’s no turn signal. So car B sits and waits for car A to do something that car A will never do. And then when it’s obvious car A is making a left turn, car B has to decide if there’s enough time to make a right turn before the angry traffic behind car A is too close.
Yeah, I hate it when people don’t use their turn signals to communicate. That’s why I did this PSA a few years ago: https://woodyafterhours.com/comic/signaling-your-intentions/
1) Joesph is right. Car B needs to wait.
2) Choice C is only valid if there are only two lanes of travel occupied by both directions, and traffic is backed up to the intersection. Car A would wait at the entrance to the intersection, allowing Car B to enter as traffic starts to move and allows for cars in the opposing direction the ability to make their left turn onto the street, further unimpedeing traffic.
3) Choice D is for Car A to turn on their signal at the intersection while slowing down, which if there is no traffic behind Car A, allows for Car B to take note of the situation, and finish texting how much traffic sucks before pulling into traffic after stowin the cell phone.
4) However if there is a scenario E, where Car A turns right at the intersection, then Car A needs to have it’s turn signal on for at least 100 feet before starting to make the turn.
I’m amused that Car B apparently trusts that I’m insured an keeping my brakes properly maintained. I’d think that one look at my beater would indicate I don’t give a crap about it, and if I don’t care about my hunka then I certainly don’t care if it hits your $45K Beemer.
Where I live it is dependant on road situation… By law, traffic coming from the right, ALWAYS goes first, with the exception being : stop signs or other traffic regulating stuff (“sharkteeth” trinagular paint marks, indicating that if there’s traffic on the crossing road you have to let go first)