#708; Everything needs a Metric

Comic Transcripts

RUDY: Nice haircut!
KEN: Thanks, you too! I love my barber. He just knows my hair. It’s amazing what he can do.

RUDY: Do you go to some expensive place? I can never justify spending more than about eight dollars on a haircut. Haircuts make me anxious.
KEN: Maybe it’s because you’re not getting sufficient haircut value! Here’s how I figure the math on the subject…

KEN [narrating an illustrated mathematical formula]: If you spend eight bucks and the haircut looks good for two weeks, that cut has a Haircut Value Index of point five seven.

KEN [still narrating]: But if I spend forty dollars on a primo haircut that’ll look good for two months, that has an H.V.I. of point six five. When you amortize the cost over how long you’ll look sharp, it’s not so expensive after all!

ARVID: I cut my own hair with an old steak knife that I dip in tractor oil ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU CAN PLACE A VALUE ON THAT
KEN: I – I do admit that the model cannot accommodate a divide-by-zero error

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{{alt-text: most things you do with tractor oil don’t really fit into traditional ways of thinking about haircuts}}

#708; Everything needs a Metric transcribed by in

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!