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haha i love the dialogue in your comics...
Also...that's at least two Sassy Cavy locations..right? which makes it a chain and therefor socially OK to eat obscure, not-thought-of-as-food-animal parts, right? cuz ive been having these cravings...and...NO, I dont have a problem!..sorry but its like almost 3 in the morning and im really bored..
Posted by Ryan at August 19, 2006 01:42 AM
205.188.116.12
See, without this context, I would have assumed one of a few things:
a) His computer has a tuner card or eyeTV-like device;
b) He uses a Slingbox client or similar attached to the digital television delivery method or PVR of his choice;
c) Templar, like many religious and some non-English-language broadcasters, got around the rights issues of online content delivery much faster than everyone else.
No, what got me was the widget-like UI presentation.
Posted by wednesday at August 19, 2006 06:00 AM
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The OS doesn't seem all that strange to me. But you should totally whip up some fake screenshots and example icons so someone can create some sort of X Windows or Windows theme to replicate the Templar experience. :)
Posted by Brian Sebby at August 20, 2006 03:09 AM
67.184.7.189
Kind of interesting that while everything else in Templar seems technologically behind the rest of the US, this is one area where they're ahead of the curve. I guess it just goes to show how much they must value their television there. :P
Posted by Mashuren at August 20, 2006 02:36 PM
70.105.147.110
Had I not read this first, I might have assumed that the TV icon just meant "video" in Templar, which could be a DVD movie or Flash animation or who knows what.
Which raises an [?interesting] question: Are we ever going to learn what kind of porn Ben likes?
Posted by Document at August 20, 2006 08:44 PM
68.44.13.236
STOP READING PEOPLE'S MINDS
IT'S RUDE
Posted by spike at August 21, 2006 12:38 AM
68.79.220.60
Actually, sometime in the distant, distant past, all computer monitors were typewriters. :) Check this out: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/teletype.html
The first graphical displays were descended from radar displays and pushed out vector graphics by scraping an electron beam across a phosphor screen. Some good videos of a PDP-1 display can be found here: http://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/index.php?f=more&s=5&ss=3&t=moving_images
At some point in the late 70's computers started coming into homes, and the cheapest display device that was available was the TV. For most of these computers, though, dedicated monitors were also available.
Interesting interface, it does look like something you'd find on a UNIX-like desktop. No taskbar, no desktop icons, just windows and widgets. It's also cool that the mouse cursor reflects his left-handed mousing.
Posted by bytex64 at August 21, 2006 01:08 PM
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Your use of the word "otherness" to describe Templar, and the way you've dstinguished it from science fiction above, has really cemented my attention.
I've never heard of Protektor Drei, but it might interest you to know that I was alerted to Templar, Arizona by a follower of Finder by Carla McNeil. I'm a dedicated reader of Finder, and now I'm a dedicated reader of Templar it seems. It's the "otherness" that you allude to that makes me so enamoured of both titles. I would _love_ to hear you comment upon that "otherness" further.
I can't belive I didn't know about you as little as a week ago. Now I can't wait for more.
Posted by Morality_play at August 22, 2006 11:42 PM
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