Here was the deal- when I put up The Tip Jar on the site, I figured I’d do a couple of bonus strips every fifty bucks or so. This is the third of four bonus strips I owe you guys (and I’m very pleased to owe it to you, believe me. I sort of worried that we’d never achieve the requisite numbers. Now, it looks as though I’ll owe you another couple of strips pretty soon) Keep up the frankly flattering work and I’ll do the same. Enjoy!
I’ve managed to get another ‘Thank You For Tipping’ comic strip finished. It’ll run tomorrow, so don’t forget to check back in then.
And, of course, drop a tip in the jar if you want to keep seeing extra cartoons every so often!
You guys are great. Also, if you have the chance, you should come to HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC next month. I’ll see you there.
In case you’ve never been rafting- You can’t just sit on those big ol’ wet rubber boats. I mean, you’re taking what amounts to a lever and shoving the big flat end into something that pushes back, and then you’re expected to propel a big heavy raft with it. If you don’t wedge your feet under the thwarts or into some footstraps or other wise pin yourself in that boat, you’re gonna fling yourself out now and again. Not that such a thing can’t be fun. It’s just that it’s more fun for the people who remain in the boat to see you fly out than it is for you to fly out yourself. And let’s face it, they’re smug enough for having kept their seats… there’s no reason for you to provide any additional entertainment for them. So don’t make it easy for them to get you back in the raft. Flounder and sputter a little. Gasp and drift with the current away from the raft a bit. Maybe pull a couple of would-be rescuers in with ya. Make it the MOST fun for as many people as you can.
It’s an advertising strategy (also a logical fallacy, the list of ad strategies and the list of things that aren’t admissible in a logical argument are very similar) to dangle a hero figure in front of someone to get them onto your wavelength. Hopefully, a few of you could be talked into taking a whitewater trip solely because that particular river is Hubris’ favorite. I have big plans to one day allow, for a considerable fortune, some very hip company the use of Hubris’ likeness to lure people into dangerous outdoor pursuits. It’s logically fallacious, and a darn good-ish and nearly guiltless business model. Right?
Running shuttle used to irk me. You could run a front-end shuttle or a back end shuttle. And you usually weren’t lucky enough to be camping at the put-in or the take-out. If there were a lot of vehicles moving a lot of boats, you had to figure out who was driving what with what boats strapped on and whether you were going to the put-in first to drop off boats or the take-out first to drop off shuttle vehicles, which had to have enough racks to carry away all the boats unless you wanted to leave one vehicle there with which to take all the drivers back to their vehicles at the put-in… Oh, it’s baffling.
Running shuttle is a logistical mess, at least the way we used to do it. I particularly don’t care for shuttling that involves hitching back to your vehicle, either at the front or back end of the paddling. I’ve been very lucky and gotten rides from some very nice people, but I still feel goofy standing on the highway in paddling clothes with my thumb stuck out. Which isn’t to say I mind picking up other paddlers. That’s never bothered me. Weird.
Here’s your second extra cartoon this week! Thanks again to everyone who dropped coin into the tip jar (that’s the ‘You & Hubris’ button in the column down the left hand side of the page). I’ll mail out thank-yous to those who have told me your snail-mail addresses. Everybody else, say “Thanks for the extra cartoons” to the folks who clicked and paypalled and all that stuff.
Today’s cartoon might confuse anyone who’s not familiar with rivers that provide Dam Releases for recreational purposes. The Gauley and The Ocoee are a couple that do this. The first time I went to the Ocoee, I assumed my chain was being yanked when told that the trickle of water in the riverbed would become a full-blown river “when they turned the water on in the morning”. Since then, I’ve sat at the put-in of the river with my kayak, and watched the Surge. It’s very nice.
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