User:Daniel Carrero/Sandbox2

2nd-3rd Panes: Political Thing Branch

Laptop: "...and let's go live to the debate."

[Two politicians are debating on TV.]

Politician 1:

• In contrast to my oppponent, who I quote, "Never liked Firefly much to begin with."
• ...but even if you tied enough birds to the car, would you get them to take off in unison?
• And if elected, I vow to win this war on Christmas once and for all!
• I agree with my opponent all all [sic] issues and I think his economic plan is fantastic!

4th Pane: Tied Birds Branch

Politician 2:

• Tie a predatory bird to the car with a somewhat shorter rope so that it will scare off the rest of the birds without being able to reach them.
• Training. That's why I support the "Airlift Act", which would put more resources into the hands of bird educators everywhere.
• By opening and closing an umbrella near them.
• One word: Fiscal hawks.

5th Pane: Airlift Act Branch

Politician 1:

• But is "Airlift" an acronym?
• But you must agree that a bitd in the hand is worth more than three educators in the bush.
• Incredible!
• Wait... Is that like people who educate birds, or birds that teach?

6th Pane: Airlift an Acronym

Hairy:

• There are birds outside tied to a car.
• The owls in our barn are forming a union.
• Or course: Avian Implemented Reuseable Lifter and Ingenuous Flight Technology!

7th Pane: Car Branch

Knit Cap Girl:

• Cool, let's see who we should vote for.
• I know who I'm voting for.
• How many birds?

8th-9th Panes: How Many Branch (permalink)

Hairy:

• I call her "Serenity."
• So when you said birds...
• Liquefied bird fuel is the way to the future.
• Well, by “birds” and “car” I really meant a rocket. There’s totally a rocket in your lawn, man.

10th-13th Panes: You Said Birds Branch

Knit Cap Girl:

• Wait. The birds are inside!?
• I needed to escape from politics anyway.
• All terms are relative.

14th-19th Panes: Birds Inside Branch

White Hat: Want to forget your dreams? There's a pill for that!

14th-15th Panes: Escape Politics Branch

• ‘…And let’s go live to the debate’.

16th-26th Panes: Debate Branch (permalink)

We observe your speed to be 38.5%c, and your time is passing at 92.3% the rate of ours. Does this mirror your observations?

2nd-3rd Panes: BSD Branch

[Knit Cap Girl is confused, staring at his laptop.]

Knit Cap Girl: ??

Knit Cap Girl:

• Now I just need to look up what a "beard error" is...
• Wait. What's on this other partition?
• Why is Python importing Skynet?
• My keyboard has to support SSH over USB?

4th-7th Panes: Beard Error Branch

[Knit Cap Girl has ?? next to his head to signify confusion. Hairy walks in. (continue) Hairy is on the other side of the desk with his own laptop computer. Both the computers are connected through Ethernet cable. The two characters are typing on the computer. The two stop typing. Hairy has ??? next to his head. Hairy had stepped back while the character is checking on Hairy's laptop computer. The character is holding something rectangular.]

Hairy:

• The USB cable appears to be mono-directional.
• Kernel mites?
• I'm not sure rubbing butter on it will help
• Yep. It's haunted.

8th-12th Panes: Rubbing Butter Branch

[Hairy and Knit Cap Girl are handling their computers more aggressively.]

Knit Cap Girl: ARGH!

[They both stop. Knit Cap Girl walks away, his chair turned 180 degrees. Pushing aside the chair, the character returns with a fiery blowtorch while wearing goggles.]

Hairy: [holding up a finger] Um.

[Knit Cap Girl's computer was so burned, not only steam is coming out of the computer, but even the desk is noticeably burnt. The cable (apparently also burned) hangs from Hairy's laptop computer. The used blowtorch is clumsily laid sideways be the side of the desk. Both Knit Cap Girl (whose goggles are pushed off his eye) and Hairy are looking at the calamity. The chair is almost out of view. The goggles are on the floor while the chair is nowhere to be seen. Hairy and Knit Cap Girl are walking away from the scene.]

Hairy:

• Are you all of a sudden in the mood for Thai food?
• Let's try OpenBSD next time...
• If you'd done the other one, maybe the popcorn would have popped.
• Let's see if rubbing some bacon on it will work.
• Let's try Linux next time...

13th-14th Panes: OpenBSD Branch

[13th panel is of a panned view. Hairy and Knit Cap Girl are walking on a path away from a house.]

[14th panel is back to a "normal camera view".]

Hairy:

• Okay then.
• Let's go exploring!
• I love Windows.
• Guess not.

4th-7th Panes: Other Partition Branch

[Knit Cap Girl has ??? next to his head to signify confusion. Hairy walks in. Hairy is on the other side of the desk with his own laptop computer. Both the computers are connected through Ethernet cable. The two characters are typing on the computer. The two stop typing. Hairy has ??? next to his head. Hairy had stepped back while Knit Cap Girl is checking on Hairy's laptop computer. Knit Cap Girl is holding something rectangular.]

Hairy:

• Maybe if you cross connect the serial port to video port you'll be able to send the video directly in as an input for the password
• What's a segfault?
• I think the cameras need to face each other.
• I'm not sure spaghetti works as a USB cable...

8th Pane: Video Password Branch

[Knit Cap Girl and Hairy are at sea, both emitting ripples. A shark's fin can be seen close to Hairy.]

Hairy:

• It worked fine for the shark
• We're definitely getting closer though
• That didn't work!
• It would have worked for Solaris.
• Look, it made perfect sense at the time.
• Still simpler than it used to be, I guess.

2nd Pane: Facebook Branch(permalink)

Hairy:

• Google's at the door. They want to buy your... Well I'd rather you heard it from them.
• Come check out my neighbour's ball pit. It's full of balls.
• Oh, didn't I tell you? I got their database password years ago
• Do you think they'll care that the coffee machine doesn't work?