Comments on: Mad Science Is Decadent and Depraved: July 5-10, 2004

By: Mental Mouse

Mental Mouse — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 02:11:13 +0000

In reply to David W (dww). In BASIC that's inevitable. Which is, unjustly, one of the reasons many programmers despise BASIC. There are things BASIC is fairly good for, mostly because it's lightweight and easy to tweak, or to translate into something else. The real problem with the language is no standard, so zero portability.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 19:56:42 +0000

@Pygar: Something weird happened last July. I wasn’t involved or even reading the comic at the time, so I don’t have firsthand knowledge of it, but I think the site was sort of taken down and rebuilt? At any rate, that’s why all the comments older than July 8, 2015 say they were made on July 8 2015, because they were reposted then. But when that happened, not all the strips were posted 100% correctly. Several that had been rewritten were posted in their original form, rather than the final versions, and a few are missing (mostly Sunday strips, luckily). So what probably happened here was Version 1 of the strip says Army, and Version 2 says Air Force. Shaenon posted Version 1, then replaced it with Version 2 shortly thereafter. When she wrote the commentary, 6 years later, Version 2 was up, so that’s what the commentary refers to. When the site was rebuilt, Version 1 went back up, and the commentary no longer looks accurate. You can see the same thing happening in a few other strips if you look for it.

By: Pygar

Pygar — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 05:39:50 +0000

The comments say Air Force; the comic says Army…

By: Edwin Quantrall (reynard)

Edwin Quantrall (reynard) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:26:43 +0000

If I recall correctly, this comic or the next is where I discovered “Narbonic” and — like a hit of crack — it turned me into an addict for the works of Shaenon Garrity. Thanks Shaenon!

By: Derek Burrow (derekthebard)

Derek Burrow (derekthebard) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:26:42 +0000

@Diana: I'm not one for fanfic, but a Narbonic-SG 1-Atlantis crossover would be made of hilarity.

Mel just joined the Air Force, though, to find a way to infiltrate NORAD.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:26:41 +0000

(TUNE: "Walking After Midnight", Patsy Cline)

And so I'm talking
To a gerbil,
Who I'm sure will
Ex-plain a thing or two!
And so I'm talking
To a gerbil,
How do you do?

I've got some questions
'Bout Mad Science,
And defiance
Of the laws of Man and God!
I've got some questions
'Bout Mad Science,
Isn't that odd?

Now by my editor I've been sent;
My name's Zeta Vincent,
Cute gonzo jour-nal-ist!
I'll even buy a teeny-weeny
Gerbil-sized martini,
Golly, how can you resist?

So now I'm talking
To a gerbil,
Pardon, sir, will
You grant an interview?
Yeah, now I'm talking,
Mister Gerbil,
Talking to you!

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:26:40 +0000

Etazeta!

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:26:39 +0000

Saturday:

It's been too long since we've seen Ms. Vincent. Finally, after toiling amidst the outcasts and dregs of the Narbonic cast, she's been promoted to a central story arc. Now her greater purpose will begin to manifest.

By: Diane Castle (deecee)

Diane Castle (deecee) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:26:38 +0000

Now I see Mel as a natural for the Air Force. Right after Jack O'Neill introduces her to Sam Carter and Rodney Mackay.

Sam: Well, I blew up a sun.

Rodney: I blew up most of a solar system.

Mel: You had me at 'blew up'.

By: Sean Duggan (duggansc)

Sean Duggan (duggansc) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:26:37 +0000

^_^ Personally, I think it’s interesting how Zeta changes drastically from a side-view giving her a plain-looking secretary aspect, and then in the last panel, BAM, we see the gonzo journalist. Perspective, she haz it.