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| BS | < http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-06-04 |
| Water | [[Morning at the house. JM is eating cereal when Matt appears. Matt is sleepy and hasn't shaved, unlike usual.]] / Matt: I hate not shaving in the morning. / JM: What's stopping you?
/ Matt: No water to rinse with.
/ JM: What? / Matt: The power is still out. If we use up our water pressure, we won't... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-06-07 |
| ibug | [[Ian is sitting back on a bench, listening to "Rolling" by Soul Coughing]]
/ < http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-06-11 |
| Higher Learning | [[Ian is at the table, reading a book; Matt sits beside him]]
/ Ian: So I'm paging through this psychology textbook, and I get to the part about how SSRI antidepressants affect the brain.
/ Ian: See this diagram?
/ Matt: Yeah? / Ian: And then maybe a hundred pages later, there's a section on the effects... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-06-14 |
| Hobbies | Helen: Everquest?
/ Micah: Happy birthday! / Micah: It has a prepaid card and everything, you just sign on.
/ Helen: Micah, the only game I ever play is Tetris.
/ Helen: What makes you think I like this? / Micah: Well, just building common interests and all.
/ Micah: You know... maybe moving towards something... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-06-21 |
| Pants | [[Malakym has walked into a store]]
/ Shopkeeper seems startled. / Shopkeeper: ? / [[Malakym has leaned on the counter]]
/ Shopkeeper: :)
/ Malakym: (pants)?
/ Shopkeeper: $ / [[The shopkeeper hands a pair of pants to Malakym]] / [[Malakym strikes a 'victory pose' while wearing the pants]]
/ Malakym:... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-06-28 |
| Old Ass | [[Helen, behind her computer, looks around]]
/ Micah: Hey, this isn't Everquest! / Micah: This is World of Warcraft!
/ Helen: Yeah, Ian hooked me up. / Helen: You wanted me to play.
/ Helen: I'm a' playin'.
/ Micah: The point was to do something together.
/ Micah: Why'd you change my gift? / Helen: Besides... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-07-03 |
| Leather Work | [[low-level Nigh Elf druid stands in Darnassus, a city in the video game World of Warcraft]] / Druid:"Hmm... I'm short leather for crafting" / [[lone deer walks by, she looks at him with interest]] / [[Druid zaps deer]]
/ < http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-07-07 |
| Working hours | [[At the newspaper office where Matt works, one of his coworkers, an editor, is answering the phone]]
/ Caller: Hey, you guys have a missing period on page three! Haw haw! Don't you have any PROOFREADERS at your paper?
/ Editor: Yes, you're speaking to one now. In fact, I read over a hundred stories yesterday.... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-07-12 |
| Connecticon 2004 | {{A recap of Connecticon 2004 from Matt, Ian, and Jes}} / Narrator: You meet the most interesting people at conventions.
/ [[A girl is walking by with a bitten-off piece of paper in her mouth. An arrow shows that it is a Mac Hall business card.]] / Narrator: Pete Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca,... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-07-21 |
| Process | [Matt is behind his desk at work]]
/ Matt: Ah, the start of a new day at work!
/ Matt: Shall I begin by making calls to suburban parents so they can lie about why they don't want poor kids assigned to their middle school?
/ Matt: ...or would I rather shoot myself in the head? / [[Matt is pondering]] / Matt:... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-07-23 |
| Deadlines | Editor: Matt, lately your heart doesn't seem to be in the job.
/ Matt: Fair enough.
/ Editor: You do good work, but you're missing more and more deadlines. When you miss deadlines, I miss deadlines. And when I miss deadlines, it costs the company money and scary people say bad things to me. / Matt:... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-08-03 |
| Alienation | [[Computer lab. Professor approaches Ian, working on one of the computers.]]
/ Professor: Ian, I think we have to talk.
/ Ian: OK.
/ Professor: I've been getting comments from my colleagues, and I think I might be the only professor in the school you haven't completely alienated.
/ Ian: Really? / [[Ian... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-08-07 |
| OS Girl Required | Professor: Also, it might be none of my business, but lately you've been getting more and more... single-minded.
/ Ian: How's that?
/ Professor: You're always in the lab cranking things out. When was the last time you, I don't know, went out and talked to a girl? / Ian: Can you run photoshop on girls? / Professor:... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-08-09 |
| Controlled Substance | [[Matt is standing next to Helen, who is at her laptop.]]
/ Helen: Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... / [[Matt reaches for the mouse.]]
/ Helen: RRRRRRRRRRRRRR... / [[Matt moves his hand back.]]
/ Helen: Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... / [[Matt reaches for the mouse again.]]
/ Helen: RRRRRRRRRRRRRR... / [[Matt stops his attempts... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-08-12 |
| Adult Swim | [[We see Jon halfway in a pool with his elbows up on the poolside.]]
/ < http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-08-17 |
| Day Care | JM: You know the semester has started in a college town when the streets are full of idiots again.
/ Ian: Yeah. I don't remember being such a dumbass as a freshman. / [[Male Freshman lights a stop sign on fire.]]
/ Ian: However, I do remember hitting a point where boozeahol stopped being the most amazing... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-08-25 |
| Action words | [[In the newspaper office where Matt works, a perky young woman with a clipboard approaches Matt.]]
/ Matt: So what's this all about?
/ Perky woman: Just a little workshop to help you present yourself to employers. / Perky woman: First question: What have you learned in your time here?
/ Matt: How to slide... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-09-01 |
| Sensitivity | [[Matt is sitting behind his desk, music is playing]]
/ Editor: Matt, you know how we're sharing office space with the National Down Syndrome Society?
/ Matt: Yes? / Editor: And do you remember how we've had to have a few talks about sensitivity?
/ Matt: Uh... / [[Matt is shocked as he realizes what his... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-09-06 |
| Best little palm-reading place in Texas | [[JM is driving a car, Matt is in the passenger seat.]]
/ Matt: I swear, that palm reading place is always full of customers. / Matt: It's sad that there's so much belief in that kind of thing in this country that businesses can support themselves doing it.
/ JM: It's a bordello. / Matt: Really?
/ JM:... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-09-10 |
| Boozles | [[JM relaxing on the sofa, Matt on the floor leaning against the back of the sofa, both drunk]]
/ Matt: The South Americans had it good, you know?
/ JM: What, constant conquest by empires both social and economic?
/ Matt: No, I mean before that. Like Aztec and Incan. / Matt: There are about one hundred... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-09-17 |
| Notice | [[Matt is sitting at his desk, one arm on the desk, gripping his hair]] / {{quietly}}
/ Matt: I quit. / Matt: I quit! / Matt: I quit! / Matt: ...in three weeks.
/ Matt: I mean, I'll finish my projects first.
/ Matt: And I can leave all my contact lists if you need anything. http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-09-27 |
| Your ideas intrigue me... | [[Jon holds the door to the house open for Matt. Matt is carrying a box of his belongings from his old workplace.]]
/ Jon: If you quit, how are you going to live?
/ Matt: Freelance work! Man, I should have done this YEARS ago. / [[Matt sits down at his desk]]
/ Matt: I've still got some connections.... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-10-11 |
| Glad I'm auditing that course | [[Excerpts from a CS 314 exam are shown. The typed questions are followed by written responses and doodles.]] / 1.) What does DOM stand for?
/ Dead on monkeys. [[A small drawing of something dead on a monkey is nearby]] / 2.) What is depreciated code?
/ Code that did badly in school? / 3.) Use the... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-10-18 |
| Mac Hall :: Archive | [[Ian at computer with controller in hand]] / [[City of Heroes Loading Screen]] / [[Ian's avatar, the Masked Slacker, joins the server. Scene is now in City of Heroes.]]
/ City of Heroes: Masked Slacker has joined the server. Welcome to Guardian, citizen. / [[The Masked Slacker spots a character... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-10-26 |
| Hail, citizen | [[Ian is holding a gamepad in front of a PC]] / [[City of Heroes is loading (86%)]] / [[Ian's avatar, 'The Masked Slacker', has entered the game]]
/ Message window: The Masked Slacker has joined the server.
/ Message window: Welcome to guardian, citizen. / [[The Masked Slacker has noticed another player... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-10-26/ |
| a class="searchlink" href="http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-11-08&ref=nf">http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-11-08&ref=nf | [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!] |
| Mad Loot | [[Helen, at her desk, with World of Warcraft Loading]] / [[Night Elf druid stands in front of Bear Spirit]]
/ Druid: great bear spirit of these lands, I have come here seeking your blessings.
/ Bear Spirit: Approach, druid. / Bear Spirit: you have proven yourself as a tru- / [[Gnome rogue squats on... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-11-20 |
| But I liked Halo... | [[We see a very highly pixelated comic frame.]] / [[Not so much now, but it's still incomplete.]] / [[We now see Helen as Cortana and Matt as the Master Chief.]]
/ Narrator: By the way, we're rendering today's comic in the Halo 2 engine.
/ Helen: Don't we need an ending?
/ Matt: Maybe they can buy one... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-11-24 |
| Duck Duck Van Duck | [[We see Helen, her mother, and her little sister in their kitchen. Helen's sister is picking at her food while her mom drinks coffee.]]
/ Helen's mom: Do you want to tell your sister what happened in art class?
/ Helen's sister: No.
/ Helen's mom: Can I tell her?
/ Helen's sister: Okay. / Helen's mom:... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-12-13 |
| Anytime minutes | [[We see Matt, sitting in the living room and talking on the phone.]]
/ Matt: No, it doesn't matter if... Yes, I agree we have to be constructive... / [[Close-up of Matt's face]]
/ Matt: Look, I just want an army of homosexuals humping in the conference committee rooms on Capital Hill live on C-Span. / [[We... http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-12-20 |