Comments on: #442 - Clawsin

By: Torg

Torg — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:44:35 +0000

I actually do take notes on a laptop in class now. This comic is now my desktop background.

By: Dark Nexus

Dark Nexus — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:27:13 +0000

a mate of mine got an electric typewriter and typed his essay on it then asked me how to print…

the following asthma attack put me in hospital

By: Shawna

Shawna — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:17:46 +0000

A guy I dated awhile back had a laptop when he was in college. He’d take notes on it in class, but the keys really clicked loudly, and he knew he was pissing people off.

So he made a “paper keyboard”. He took the laptop apart at the keyboard level, took two pieces of paper, drew out the keys and letters and numbers on one piece, then sandwiched the sensor membrane that the keys hit to send the message to the computer what letter was typed between the two pieces of paper, and then put some sort of thin clear covering over the whole thing.

It was absolutely silent. He used to take it with him when he had to go to the bursar’s office and had to wait in line for awhile. It’s so weird, but it worked.

By: nikie

nikie — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:50:57 +0000

i used to doodle like mad throughout elementary school and one day in the third grade i was going to town on some amazing piece of third grade artwork with a marker so that it was loud enough for the teacher to hear while he was giving out intructions. he told me to stop once and went on with his lecture. so i stopped and then started again when i deemed his lecture unworthy of my attention. he told me to stop again. this repeated itself at least three times.

By: Clayton

Clayton — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:19:35 +0000

OMG!, thats soo funny because a friend of mine in college, actualy brings a typewritter to his classes, and all of his teachers flip out on him!!

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:09:09 +0000

i just saw yesterday that one of the art teachers at school has like and early typewriter in the supply closet
ya know, the kind tht were invented just after electricity?

By: Reg

Reg — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:21:43 +0000

I sense a theme this week…
I guess he doesn’t need all those pencils he chucks into the ceiling because he has a typewriter!

By: R.A.

R.A. — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:53:50 +0000

I’m young enough that my only ‘real’ experience with typewriters is playing with the one that we had in my high school’s props department. I know how to use one - I’ve seen plenty of movies where they’re used - but I’d never really used one. The theater teacher thought I was funny, with how fascinated I was by it. It was really cool, especially since it still actually worked.

@Felix - hey, it’s still kinda worth getting up on Saturday mornings. CW has a pretty good Batman show on Saturdays. You’re never too old for Batman!

By: Felix

Felix — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:36:41 +0000

We used to have an old manual typewriter. Damn, that thing was heavy! But we never used it, so Saturday mornings, as well as all other times or the week, for free from it.

On a side note, I remember when it was actually worth getting up Saturday morning (:

By: PsychoDuck

PsychoDuck — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:22:32 +0000

My grandma had an ancient, 100% manual typewriter at here old house. It’s the first and last one I’ve ever seen, and I wonder where it’s gotten to…

The Duck Has Spoken.