Waffle

If you've come here for the Skeptic's Circle installment Adam's running, you may find yourself scratching your head and wondering what the rest of this blog is about. Most of the other posts on the blog's front page right now are promotional announcements asking readers to "vote" for something called "Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan" on something called "Topwebcomics" and offering them sketches as bribes for doing so. Many of said sketches are of pointy-eared characters in the buff. "What does all this have to do with science or skepticism and why is this Reinder Dijkhuis person posting these messages?", you may find yourself asking.

Here are the answers: I'm Reinder, I'm a translator by day and a cartoonist in whatever stolen moments I can rustle up for cartooning. I own and run this blog. Adam (who sometimes uses a pseudonym) is a co-contributor; officially he is one of about seven, but all the others have dropped out over the years and currently do not even have full access to the WordPress back-end I switched to about a year ago. The blog, Waffle, was founded as an adjunct to the webcomic I make, Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan and as a vehicle for me and my cronies to talk about whatever we want. Sometimes, months go by in which I don't post about the comic, but it just so happened that my advertising budget ran out last month and I've been going back to traditional, free methods to publicize my work, and Top Web Comics, an old-fashioned topsitelist, is one of them. When enough readers 'vote', my comic gets pushed up in that site's popularity ranking, so that more people will (theoretically) take notice of it and visit it. Offering sketches as a bribe is allowed under its rules and so many of the sketches are of pointy-eared characters in the buff because drawing pointy-eared characters in the buff is easy and fun and I can do it during my lunch break if I am far enough away from the office.

None of this has anything to with science or skepticism - I have an interest in those topics but I mostly leave posting about that to Adam. I haven't figured out yet how to make WordPress display bylines properly (I used to spend a lot of time figuring out stuff like that when the blog was still on Movable Type, but these days I think life is too short), but you can see which posts are Adam's because we tag them in the subject line.

The connection between the blog and the comic means that the blog has a diverse (if small) readership, so when commenting, please everyone keep in mind that you're not preaching to the choir. There is no official moderation policy because the comment volume is tiny, but we do moderate.

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