In Ray's Shadow  11/08/2002 « prev 1st rand curr next »


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matchedandnumbered » pro 1 years ago
Looks like it's time for me to finally take up piano.
Good God Damn.
deimosrising » pro 1 years ago
Five, Five, a thousand times Five. A true miracle of comic strip joy.
idsyen » pro 7 months ago
Amen!
sredni » neu 1 years ago
Ray's slightly raised eyebrow in the last panel makes it for me.
songbirdspectre » neu 1 years ago
i barely even saw that. so good.
apocowarg » pro 11 months ago
Further on down the line in the comment sections you'll see people crapping on comments like the above one. Sort of mocking someone who points out little details and then gets a bunch of chubbies for it. That's part of the reason I like these earlier strip's comment sections. The raised eyebrow does add different tone to the last panel and someone who missed it the first time probably appreciates having it pointed out. Uh...guess what I'm trying to say is well done.
deusoma » neu 9 months ago
Ray has all the talent in the world, but has no idea of its power.
william » neu 1 years ago
The cat's code is a dog's code.
nessotron » neu 1 years ago
I don't know, he impressed Molly with his coding acumen. He codes like a fox.
riazm » neu 1 years ago
Indeed, like he was playing a piano.
lightupafatty » neu 2 months ago
OOOOOHHHH *moment of revelation followed by sense of peace and one-ness*
cameasiam » pro 1 years ago
mind blown.
centipede_damascus » pro 1 years ago
Beef shouldn't be so down on his own code.
peterjoel » neu 11 months ago
He probably doesn't realise how badly being homeless affects your credit score.
heccibiggs » pro 9 months ago
Chubby for making me chuckle.

Although I think this may be worthy of a groan. But still, kudos.
delzhand » pro 1 years ago
My code is a dog's code, too. All using too many temporary variables, all uncommented with no JUnit, all free of Javadoc, all running in O(n^10000)...
zem » neu 1 years ago
beter than 10000^n
zem » neu 1 years ago
wow I just noticed I completely fucked up typing "better"
waldo913 » neu 11 months ago
Half a year later? That's raw.
laserblade » neu 9 months ago
Still better than n!
killerlimpet » neu 1 years ago
all programming in an object oriented language the same way I programmed in BASIC

all leaving parantheses open and wondering why I'm getting errors
1000hz » neu 1 years ago
All if(boolean == true) instead of just if(boolean)
rotating-dog » neu 1 years ago
I wish I could add something to this thread. Once I made a 'turtle' rotate in degrees on a Commodore 64. It remains my crowning achievement.
cdtm » pro 1 years ago
I made colored lines on an apple IIC once. ^_^;;;

Chubby, just because.
farqussus » neu 10 months ago
dude. i at least got that turtle through a maze.
senseihollywood » neu 1 years ago
10 Print "Ohhhhhhh Shhhhiiiiiitttt"
20 Goto 10
evolume » neu 1 years ago
it sounds to me like beef has a little...
[i]pianist envy...[/i/]

evolume » neu 1 years ago
oh crap, looks like my code is that of a dog's.
latterman » neu 4 months ago
Be straight with me, sexual homeboy: did you cold fuck up your BBCode purposefully in order to set up a chubby worthy post?

I actually admire your commitment.
farqussus » neu 10 months ago
i don't know how to lame that without laming that. It's so lame it's not a lameable lame.
presterjohn » pro 1 years ago
Making ladies weep and giving hope to the hopeless are the goals of all art. Maybe more often the former, though.
dirtyonethirty » neu 1 years ago
I can so hear the intonation in Ray's voice in the italysized line "I had just never tried" all dragged out like he's explaing a simple yet revolutionary idea to a child.
endoftheworld » neu 1 years ago
I'm feeling the ALT text on this one. Will and Grace is mostly gone now, but I still feel this way about Charmed. Sitting down to watch a Law and Order rerun only to have Charmed come on the TV is about the worst thing ever.
farqussus » neu 10 months ago
DUM DUM
ashoykh » neu 1 years ago
it could if the lady and homeless man were also programmed.
peterjoel » neu 11 months ago
I think Google has a webservice for that now.
fmercury » neu 1 years ago
Loving beef's enjambment at the end there.

(And they said English Lit was a waste of time.)
charchar » neu 9 months ago
sheer poetry from Beef.
hawaiian_robot » neu 7 months ago
Would Ray's music ever remind me when I need to buy eggs and milk?

Actually fuck that, I'm writing a song called Dogg You Need To Buy Eggs and Milk (Sunshine Push)
sirfrederick » pro 5 months ago
Anyone else felt the pure pain of being in a pit of depression and having someone try to tell you you're good at things, such as Beef exhibits in panel 4?
chuchurocket » neu 3 weeks ago
yeah, it's always marvelous to encounter such folk as beef, who react to compliments in a manner similar to being punched in the stomach.
ssddr » pro 1 months ago
This is it. I wish I could find more occasions to quote Roastbeef in this one.
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