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Post by John Prengaman on Jan 7, 2010 22:25:26 GMT -7
Today's strip is going to be a bit late. It should be up by late afternoon or early evening, if all goes well. Sorry for the delay!
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Post by crosshair on Jan 8, 2010 5:55:13 GMT -7
Let me guess, Tundra chewed through your computers Ethernet cable? ;D
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Post by John Prengaman on Jan 8, 2010 8:30:03 GMT -7
No, he's not allowed in that room yet.  edit: ...and we're updated. Thank goodness for lunch hours. |
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Post by bigcatguy on Jan 8, 2010 12:57:14 GMT -7
Ha.. Love today's strip, especially the facial expression on the priest in the 3rd box.
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Post by cougarhearted on Jan 8, 2010 12:59:03 GMT -7
Oh my goodness... how embarrassing for both Scott and Ashley to have their union interrupted by Sandusky's big potty mouth.  And I don't want to know what thoughts are running through the priest's head at the moment.  |
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Post by campsoup1988 on Jan 8, 2010 14:52:40 GMT -7
Simply Hilarious!
(Granted I never been to a wedding...)
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Post by crosshair on Jan 8, 2010 18:58:21 GMT -7
No, he's not allowed in that room yet. Smart move.  Oh my goodness... how embarrassing for both Scott and Ashley to have their union interrupted by Sandusky's big potty mouth. To be fair, we don't know if it is Sandusky or not. (Yea, it probably is.) And I don't want to know what thoughts are running through the priest's head at the moment. I wanna know what happened to Bunker? The ceiling in that cathedral looks quite high. I hope they don't need a scaffolding to get him down. *Puts on techie hat.* (Because it's Friday and I have nothing better to do.  ) What we see here class is that Scott has made a critical mistake. He has failed to follow the rule of "When in doubt, hardware it out." He likely disabled the microphone on Sandusky's end via software, but failed to take adequate measures to disable the speakers on his end. Software solutions are always inferior to hardware ones. Hardware solutions almost always require physical access to override where software solutions can often be overridden remotely given enough technical knowledge and sophistication. Not all hardware solutions are permanent or complex. Typically one would simply turn off the speakers in such a situation. This is a basic hardware solution. It cannot be overridden without physical access to the speakers no matter what kind of remote access one has. In this case, the speakers are integrated into the laptop. Older laptops had a physical volume knob that one could easily set to 0, but nowadays this is done through software on the computer. This software of course can be override with the right technical knowledge and sophistication. All is not lost however. A very old solution used back in the days of dial-up modems was to simply put a 1/8" headphone jack into the "External Speaker" port of the modem to disable the speaker. This had the advantage of being quick, temporary, and impossible to override, as some dialers were known to do.  Such a solution would have worked here. An empty headphone jack inserted into the jack on the laptop would have physically disabled the speakers by fooling the speaker hardware into thinking it was sending the audio to an external source when in fact it is going nowhere. Thus Scott would have definitively disabled the speakers with no way for Sandusky or Achilles to get around it. |
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Post by lynnskay on Jan 8, 2010 19:29:45 GMT -7
crosshair... and Scott says "NOW you tell me!!!"
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Post by Panzerschreck on Jan 9, 2010 0:18:30 GMT -7
Didn't expect there to be quite that wording! XD
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Post by crosshair on Jan 9, 2010 18:10:19 GMT -7
Didn't expect there to be quite that wording! XD You spend 10 minutes staring at someone's butt, waiting for them to move, and not be saying the same. ;D |
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Post by whisperpntr on Jan 10, 2010 8:15:40 GMT -7
lol I love Dusker's last response!! It was hilarious!
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Post by crosshair on Jan 11, 2010 6:18:21 GMT -7
Awwwww, poor Sandusky looks like he needs a hug so badly right now. He tries to be helpful and now everyone is mad at him. Sandusky is right though. It did get Bunker to move. Unfortunately, you are right Kashmir, Sandusky never has been very subtle. Fortunately/Unfortunately it makes life very interesting. ;D |
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Post by cougarhearted on Jan 11, 2010 8:25:36 GMT -7
Sandusky's expression in the second panel is so amusing... it's the perfect blend of confusion/frustration/confusion, the typical "I'm just trying to help!" sort of face. ;D Also, it also seems that Achilles was totally into the whole ceremony and never said a word to Sandusky about his outburst. But then again, he seems to be the "If you can't say anything nice then don't say nothing at all type of cougar." Speaking of which, now that the wedding is finished, I wonder how Sandusky is going to try and coax Achilles outside? |
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Post by Rogue3 on Jan 12, 2010 13:08:41 GMT -7
AAAAH! It's the BBC Pride and Prejudice Wedding Ceremony! With a very cougar-licious twist!
Couldn't find your email, John, so just had to post. What inspired you to use THAT wedding of all weddings? ;D
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Post by John Prengaman on Jan 12, 2010 14:10:46 GMT -7
I wanted the ceremony to be very traditional in its wording, as I felt that Sandusky's interruption would play best in that context. That wording is the most familiar traditional wedding wording to me, even though I have never seen (nor have I any desire to see or read) Pride and Prejudice. The fact that they copied me on the verbiage was merely coincidental. By the way, my e-mail address is john@sanduskycomic.com. I suppose I need to put that back on my website, huh? Although it has cut down on the amount of SPAM I receive. |
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