A change in direction.

Introducing... Insomnia Comics

QUOTE:PoeBicycle @ Mon Dec 17, 2007, 3:10 AM

"I'm Poe and this is my Deviant Art page thing bloke.

Yeah. I'm an insomniac who has strange whimsical ideas, and when I can be bothered I draw them down using a horrible applet, with a mouse, on my home computer, in my room, next to my bed.

People (i.e. my sister) seem to like them, so I thought I'd start putting the more memorable ones up here.

Besides, it'll give me something else to do at night."

Okay, I'm putting the comics here as well, so people who aren't web2.0 compatible can look at them. My search for the mysteries of the great Edgar Allen Poe will have to wait a little longer yet.

Nicked!

I've been clocked!

Apparently my internet has been giving me trouble, or so accords my guru with regards to such things. Anyhow, I was going about my way, in the bicycle lane of the information superhighway, when I was clocked by a flash applet. It wrote me a ticket which appeared thus:




It appears I was moving slowly in America, which evidently is a ticketable offence. Anyhow, I appear to have wangled my way out of a fine, which is nice for me. But, it made me curious as to my connection's latency upon roads closer to home, so I booked in for a speed test, the results of which are shown below.

[`[*Test Results from Oz Broadband Speed Test*]`] ----------------------------------
Mirror: [*OptusNet*] Data: [*70 KB*]	Test Time: [*0.34 secs*] Test run on [*15/12/2007*] @ [*02:46 PM*]
Your line speed is [*1.67 Mbps*] (1673 kbps). Your download speed is [*209 KB/s*] (0.2 MB/s).

Lovely, eh?

Anyhow, once I sort out my problems with the internets, I will be able to get back to my search.

And so it begins.

Greetings. If you have found your way to this page by accident, I sincerely apologize for wasting your time. Please, go on your way and think no more of this interruption to your ordered lives, lives that are in fact built upon a fallacy.

To whomsoever is still around after the above note, my name is Poe.

This journal is in place to serve as my record, detailing my travels in an attempt to uncover a conspiracy that I fear has been working its' way into the consciousness of the Western world. I am of course talking about the Poe Bicycle conspiracy.

I am sure you will have heard of my namesake, the so-called Master of the Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. But what you may NOT know is that the man famed for creating many disturbing tales of the paranormal had a facet to his life that was yet darker still.

I aim to prove, through ridiculous sweeping generalisations, uncredited hearsay, fabricated sources and of course, a healthy dash of Google Image Search, that Mr. Poe dedicated a large portion of his life to attempting to derail the development of civilisation, beginning with his early attempts at the sabotage of the most popular recreational transport of the day, the bicycle. Fear not, my dear readers. For while your faint spirits quail, mine will stand strong and unwavering against my (as yet nonexistent) detractors as I lay bare the facts of this most heinous scandal.

Until next time,

WOOOOOOO! WOOOOO! WIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

-Þoe