Wow. I'm getting a good amount of initial entries for Confessions. Almost two dozen so far, and I'll probably be able to use at least twenty of them in this project. It might be able to be launched midweek next week.
Things to do tomorrow that relate to the comic strip/web site: finish the dice bags and mail them by Saturday; do a 2 guys update; draw a comic strip for Friday and actually have a punchline for that one (you guys deserve one after today's); find Matt Kowalski's contact information.
Oh, and I've been reading the new Harry Potter book. I must say, House Hufflepuff gets slammed in this one. In the first book, it was Gryffindor for the brave, Ravenclaw for the learned, Slytherin for the devious pure-bloods, and Hufflepuff for the just and loyal. In book five, apparently they split everyone up into the first three houses and everyone who wasn't good enough to get into those got lumped into Hufflepuff. It must come as a shock to those in Hufflepuff to find out that they weren't chosen to go there because they were just, loyal, or true. They're there because they're a bunch of cowardly idiot gullible race traitors.
Geez.
That Sorting Hat is a right bastard.
Posted at June 26, 2003 04:34 PM
The sorting hat's just lazy, if you ask me. "Oh, not another batch of students. Where do they scrape up these kids? Eh, I don't feel like choosing now, I'll just put the lot of them into Hufflepuff, and hopefully no one will notice."
~Quartz
Posted by: Quartz at June 27, 2003 09:25 AMHey, lay off the hat. It's not his fault he's stuck with a bunch of worthless students to sort. Why don't you guys try thinking up a new song every year for a millennium. It gets old, trying to say something nice about those whining, smelly children. If the Hufflepuff students are upset about being called losers, maybe they should stop acting like the refuse they are.
Posted by: Stephen at June 27, 2003 09:50 AMLike I said, was there ever any doubt which house Stephen was in?
Posted by: cartoonlad at June 27, 2003 10:11 AMPoor Hufflepuff. I always thought the traits of Hufflepuffs were rather like the ideals of hobbit society, myself - not really sophisticated, but still a very good thing.
Of course, according to every single test I've ever taken on the subject, I'm a Ravenclaw. So oh well.
Posted by: Sosiqui at June 27, 2003 10:35 AMI don't see them as being the leftover house so much as the house for people who aren't elitist jackasses.
Posted by: Morris at July 1, 2003 01:22 AMActually, I'm not so sure that the Hat's song is as relevant as all that. If you look closely, all the Hat says is that Helga Hufflepuff agreed to take all the spillover students. Earlier songs have said that when the Founders created the Hat to do sortings after they were gone, the founders gave the Hat the ability to pick out the students with the quality they most valued. So while Hufflepuff was nothing but a spillover House while Helga was alive, when they created the Hat, she could have told it to go for the just and loyal and hard working students, as that was what was important to her.
I'm probably thinking about this too hard, but I *like* Hufflepuff, so.
Posted by: Camwyn at July 1, 2003 07:34 AM