Today’s comic features contest winner Andrew Poppelaars in the midst of squirrel-spawned hi-jinks involving Andy Clarke, his underpants, and a bathrobe.

Yes, there’s a bit of an homage from this to the very first CSSquirrel comic, which portrayed Andy in an underwear-related situation at AEA: New Orleans in 2008. (I swear I’m not a stalker.)

Andrew’s entry into the CSSquirrel contest did not include an AEA presenter as requested, but (a) it was funny and (b) it was the only entry. Note to self: one-day contests on the weekend don’t get much results.

I’m not at An Event Apart: Chicago, which is currently going as I type these very words. Yes, this makes me very sad. I can only dream of the pizza bar, or the MT party, or more importantly, the loads of awesome web peeps coming together for some sort of geek gesalt where good ideas are spawned.

Good ideas like A Feed Apart. I’m really grateful this thing exists, as it lets me live by proxy as if I were somewhere in one of the rows of the conference, freezing in the morning sessions and digesting lunch in the later ones. As a public request to the AFA gents: Any chance at blending in some sort of Flickr feed to this? I’m sure there’s plenty of iPhone pictures cropping up, and it’d help enhance the experience for those of us visiting by proxy.

To those of you at AEA: Chicago, continue to enjoy. And if any one of you did happen to slip into Mr. Clarke’s water closet…