Every once in a while, I’ll type “sheldoncomics.com” into Google or Technorati, and see what folks are saying about the strip on their blogs.

Today, I read one of the nicest li’l write-ups on the strip I’ve ever seen. It’s over here, if’n you’d like to read it.

I suppose I don’t mention it much, but I should: If you’re enjoying the strip, one of the kindest things you can do is mention it to friends online or offline, or take a minute to mention it in your blog or favorite forums. You might think a few kind words don’t make a difference, but you’d be amazed: I bet most of you found Sheldon from a friend or from another site kindly linking in.

And in the meantime, thanks to Blake for the kind write-up!

Is it odd that Sheldon’s asleep in his glasses?

For that matter, have we ever seen Sheldon *out* of his glasses? You’d think I’d know…but I genuinely can’t recall after all these years. My strong guess is “no,” but I may be wrong.

If you do know of such strip in the archives, then by all means share the link in the comments! I’m just as curious as everyone else! 🙂

For those who enjoyed Monday’s strip, allow me to point you to past installments of “Punctuation Marks That Never Caught On…”

Examples 1, 2, and 3.

ITEM THE FIRST: We haven’t forgotten about the tagline contest! Steph is collating all the many hundreds of entries, and we’re going over them this weekend. Rather than just pick my favorite, though, I’ll put up my top ten and solicit feedback before I choose. That way, it’ll be another mix of delegates and superdelegates. 🙂

ITEM THE SECOND: Don’t forget that the first Sheldon collection, “Pure Ducky Goodness,” is 50% off over at the Sheldon Store! It’s a great way of testing out the full collection to see if it’ll will help you get that raise, lose that weight, and find a new understanding of life’s mysteries. (Hint: It totally will.)

ITEM THE THIRD: Finding a common thread as to why some people got the newsletter while others didn’t is proving maddening. I’ll be individually e-mailing everyone that didn’t get it…but the overall process is proving my old dictum true: “Technology: It Sucks Lemons.”

The Sheldon Newsletter went out to all parties who signed up for it, but we had 150 bounce back as undeliverable.

If you signed up for the newsletter, but didn’t get it, drop me a line to let me know, and we’ll see what happened.

My first guess, though, is that you’ll need to check your spam filters to see if mail from “[email protected]” has been flagged as spam. ‘Cause it’s not. It’s totally not! 🙂

Good news for folks itchin’ to start their Sheldon book collection: From now until June 8th, the first books is 50%-off! That means you can get Pure Ducky Goodness for just $7.50. That’s less than a gallon of gas! 🙂

The printing in the Sheldon books brings out a lot of fun, little details you may not have noticed online — and they’re bound with vellum matte covers that are soft as a Parisian summer breeze.

I kid, but the truth is we work really hard to make these books awesome… so it’s fun to see whenever a new Sheldonista starts to dive into the collection.

If you haven’t picked up a book yet, head on over to the Sheldon Store and grab the first volume at the lowest price ever!

Yikes! I almost forgot!

I’ll be at Book Expo America this Sunday afternoon at booth #4005 — signin’, sellin’, sayin’ hi, sendin’ high-fives your way, sketchin’. All the usual S’s.

BEA is a huge, expensive trade show for the book world, so if you’re not already going for bid’ness reasons, it may not be worth it for you to go. BUT! If you’re a Sheldonista who’s already going, please come by and say hi! I’ll be giving out free sketches in all the books, and we’ll have Original Art from the comic strips for $25 off the normal price! (If you have a specific one you want me to bring, e-mail me.)

Come on out! Booth #4005! Sunday afternoon! have all the books, some shirts,

Apologies to all who have e-mailed after Wednesday, 8:30 AM PST — looks like my mail server took a well-earned vacation and brought the wife and kids down to Cancun.

The mail server left a very nice note before his r-and-r break, which is to say, technicians are apparently working diligently to fix it.

Sidenote: Man! Am I having technical difficulties lately, or what? Bets on how long it takes for my phone line to go dead.

I’ve loved all the e-mails I’ve gotten from Texans the last few days. They’ve been among some of the funniest I’ve ever received — Texans have a great sense of humor.

My favorite part of all these e-mails, though? Almost every e-mail has ended with a “P.S. Oh, and by the way, Texas DOES have the legal right to secede any time we want.”

They can’t let it be. 🙂

[Edited to note: Thursday’s toon was just one big setup for the tiny little Austin addendum. I got invited down to Austin a few years ago to speak at SxSW…and it ain’t nuthin’ like the rest of Texas. It’s more like Seattle: But instead of it raining, you just sweat a lot.]

So a bit about me.

My name is Stephanie and I am from southern California. I’m a junior at LMU and LOVING my major (…which is English. Read! Whether it’s Shakespeare or Sheldon.) This is my first internship, so in the beginning I was a bit apprehensive. But no, Dave is not making me bring him a double-shot latte with extra foam from Starbucks every morning, and I have never seen his dry cleaning bill. Instead I’m doing all this amazing stuff! Transcribing is fun, and after doing it for just an hour I already appreciate those of you who take it upon yourselves to contribute to transcribing all of the strips. Not only are you helping out the site and making it easy for other readers, but you get to re-read some of your favorite Sheldon strips. I’ve also done some light book packaging — so if you purchase the books you can enjoy my hard labor. Just kidding. And finally I’ve done my first business-type project that has taught me the process of publishing and distributing (and only on my second day!). Also, the place I work at is amazing. The studio is so well decorated, cozy, with music on and a constant supply of tasty beverages.

And Dave! You know those cool adults that are in movies like “Juno”, and you think “Wait — what? Those people don’t actually exist.” Well I was wrong; they do exist and Dave, my boss, is one of them. He’s funny, intelligent, and super nice. He continually asks me politely if I would like something to drink (manners are practically non-existent in my generation). And his wife and new baby are amazing, too (I know she’s only a couple weeks old – but the awesomeness from her parents are clearly present). If you worship Dave and his art, your praise isn’t crazy – but well directed.

Well I think that’s it! Again, thanks to all of you who have welcomed me.

— Steph ([email protected])