Exotic Birds and Fruit | Updates Mondays <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.6" />  <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/wp-content/themes/white-as-milk-10/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/feed" /> <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/feed/rss" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/feed/atom" /> <link rel="pingback" href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/xmlrpc.php" /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2008' href='http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/date/2008/10' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2008' href='http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/date/2008/09' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2008' href='http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/date/2008/08' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2008' href='http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/date/2008/07' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2008' href='http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/date/2008/06' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2008' href='http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/date/2008/05' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2008' href='http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/date/2008/04' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2008' href='http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/date/2008/03' /> <link rel='archives' title='February 2008' href='http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/date/2008/02' /> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd" /> <link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" /> <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.6" /> </head> <body> <div id="page"> <div id="header"> <h1><a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com">Exotic Birds and Fruit</a></h1> <p id="blog_description">The webcomic, not the prog rock album</p> </div> <hr class="hrhide" /> <div id="content" class="narrowcolumn"> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> <h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for August, 2008</h2> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-62"><a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/62" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to #016">#016</a></h3> <small>Wednesday, August 13th, 2008</small> <div class="entry"> <p><img src="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/high_tolerance22.jpg" alt="High Tolerance" /></p> <p><b>Jon:</b> Sir Edmund Hillary’s first words to George Lowe after summiting Everest with Tenzing Norway: <i>“Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.”</i></p> <p><b>Nick:</b> The altitude/tolerance effect is one of those things I can never keep straight in my head, like the difference between near and far-sighted. I’ve worn glasses because I can’t see far-away stuff for like 10 years, but I still can’t tell you what kind of eyes I’ve got. I also can’t tell the difference between butter and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, but I think that’s a separate problem.</p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/category/comic" title="View all posts in comic" rel="category tag">comic</a> <strong>|</strong> <a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/62#respond" title="Comment on #016">No Comments »</a></p>  </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-128"><a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/128" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to #017">#017</a></h3> <small>Monday, August 18th, 2008</small> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/id_subscribe.jpg"><img src="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/id_subscribe.jpg" alt="" title="17_id_subscribe" width="600" height="733" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-129" /></a></p> <p><strong>Nick:</strong> When you’re in Amsterdam, it’s important to get a bike right away. Mine was a rusty, beige, beat up Gazelle <em>Premier Luxe</em> from the ’70s, and I got it for less than 100 euros. I used it every day for four months, sometimes for hours a day, and it never gave me a problem. </p> <p>About two weeks before my study abroad program ended, the front brake went out, which was fine, since I still had the rear one. Then the rear brake got mushy from overuse, so I tightened up the cable a bit. When I squeezed the brake handle, the cable snapped. For my last two days in the city, I rode with no brakes. (Of course, this was the only time a child ran in front of me–I didn’t hit him.) </p> <p>My rear tire also started losing air, so I had to fill it up once in a while. But it kept deflating faster. On my last ride from school to my apartment, I filled the tire about a half-mile from home and it was flat when I got back. I left the bike outside my building with the chain around the seat and the key in the lock.</p> <p>More on bikes in Amsterdam <a href="http://bygonebureau.com/2008/02/22/netherlands-the-bicycle/">here</a>.</p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/category/comic" title="View all posts in comic" rel="category tag">comic</a> <strong>|</strong> <span>Comments Off</span></p>  </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-141"><a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/141" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to #018">#018</a></h3> <small>Tuesday, August 26th, 2008</small> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/back_to_school1.jpg"><img src="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/back_to_school1.jpg" alt="" title="back_to_school1" width="500" height="500" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-146" /></a></p> <p><strong>Jon:</strong> It’s back to school for me this week. </p> <p>From now on, when there’s a week where I don’t have time to draw a full strip, I’m going to start doing little one panel bits like this. Sometimes they might be related to the plot, other times not at all. I guess it will depend on how much I’ve had to drink that night.</p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archives/category/comic" title="View all posts in comic" rel="category tag">comic</a> <strong>|</strong> <span>Comments Off</span></p>  </div> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <ul> <a href=http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com><img src="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/wp-content/themes/white-as-milk-10/ebafblack2.jpg"></a> <strong> <li class="page_item page-item-77"><a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/about" title="ABOUT">ABOUT</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-74"><a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/archive" title="ARCHIVE">ARCHIVE</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-10"><a href="http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/characters" title="CHARACTERS">CHARACTERS</a></li> <li> <ul><a href=http://exoticbirdsandfruit.com/?feed=rss2>SUBSCRIBE</a></ul> </li> </ul> </div></strong> <div id="footer"> Exotic Birds and Fruit © 2008 Jon Swihart and Nick Martens <br />  </div> </div>  </body> </html>