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| GPF Archive: Monday, November 2, 1998 | Nick: All right, Nick. If you keep your cool, this interview will be a cinch and you're a sure thing for the job. / Nick: Calm, cool, and collected. yep that's me I am an icicle. I am frozen solid. I am one cool cucumber. / Dwayne: Are you Nick?
/ Nick: I am a super-nova of nervousness... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981102.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, November 3, 1998 | DWAYNE: Nick, I'm Dwayne Duncan, president of GPF Software. I'm quite impressed by your resume. You seem to have all the qualifications we're looking for.
/ NICK: Thank you, sir. / DWAYNE: GPF is a small company, but we are successful, and proud of it. We've had some big-name clients who are very satisfied... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981103.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, November 3, 1998 | DWAYNE: Nick, I'm Dwayne Duncan, president of GPF Software. I'm quite impressed by your resume. You seem to have all the qualifications we're looking for.
/ NICK: Thank you, sir. / DWAYNE: GPF is a small company, but we are successful, and proud of it. We've had some big-name clients who are very satisfied... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981103.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, November 4, 1998 | DWAYNE: As you can see, Nick, we have quite an impressive benefits portfolio for a company this size: health, dental, 401(k)... any questions?
/ NICK: Just one... / NICK: Your company's name is GPF Software, but isn't "GPF" an abbreviation of "General Protection Fault," the most dreaded of Microsoft... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981104.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, November 4, 1998 | DWAYNE: As you can see, Nick, we have quite an impressive benefits portfolio for a company this size: health, dental, 401(k)... any questions?
/ NICK: Just one... / NICK: Your company's name is GPF Software, but isn't "GPF" an abbreviation of "General Protection Fault," the most dreaded of Microsoft... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981104.html |
| GPF Archive: Thursday, November 5, 1998 | DWAYNE: Well, Nick, after a careful review of your resume and this interview, I have come to a difficult decision.
/ NICK: Uh, oh... / DWAYNE: I must weigh the costs and benefits of bringing you on, as well as consider if you possess the skills we need. After long, careful consideration, I can only come... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981105.html |
| GPF Archive: Thursday, November 5, 1998 | DWAYNE: Well, Nick, after a careful review of your resume and this interview, I have come to a difficult decision.
/ NICK: Uh, oh... / DWAYNE: I must weigh the costs and benefits of bringing you on, as well as consider if you possess the skills we need. After long, careful consideration, I can only come... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981105.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, November 6, 1998 | [[Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals]]
/ DWAYNE: Welcome to GPF Software, Nick. I think you'll fit right into our clean,professional family.
/ NICK: Thanks, Mr. Duncan. I-- / < http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981106.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, November 6, 1998 | [[Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals]]
/ DWAYNE: Welcome to GPF Software, Nick. I think you'll fit right into our clean,professional family.
/ NICK: Thanks, Mr. Duncan. I-- / < http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981106.html |
| GPF Archive: Saturday, November 7, 1998 | [[Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals]]
/ NICK: Dear Journal: Success! Today's interview went extremely well. Come Monday, I officially start as a software engineer at GPF Software. / NICK: My boss, Dwayne Duncan, seems to be a creative man with incredible enthusiasm. He truly believes in this... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981107.html |
| GPF Archive: Saturday, November 7, 1998 | [[Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals]]
/ NICK: Dear Journal: Success! Today's interview went extremely well. Come Monday, I officially start as a software engineer at GPF Software. / NICK: My boss, Dwayne Duncan, seems to be a creative man with incredible enthusiasm. He truly believes in this... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981107.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, November 9, 1998 | [[Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals]]
/ Nick's first day at GPF:
/ NICK: Hi, I'm the new guy, Nick, and you're... / [[Fooker is picking his nose]] / FOOKER: Name's Jason Barker, but everyone calls me "Fooker."
/ NICK: Uh, there's a booger on your finger... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981109.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, November 9, 1998 | [[Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals]]
/ Nick's first day at GPF:
/ NICK: Hi, I'm the new guy, Nick, and you're... / [[Fooker is picking his nose]] / FOOKER: Name's Jason Barker, but everyone calls me "Fooker."
/ NICK: Uh, there's a booger on your finger... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981109.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 | Fooker: As sys admin here at GPF, I run the network and maintain the company web site.
/ Nick: Why does everyone call you "Fooker"? / Fooker: Oh, that? It's simple really... / [[Fooker stops to think]]... / Fooker: Come to think of it... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981110.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 | Fooker: As sys admin here at GPF, I run the network and maintain the company web site.
/ Nick: Why does everyone call you "Fooker"? / Fooker: Oh, that? It's simple really... / [[Fooker stops to think]]... / Fooker: Come to think of it... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981110.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 | Frankly, Nick, I'm not sure I really know the origin of my nickname "Fooker"... / I think it might have something to do with how we use the words "Foo" and "Bar" as variable names when we explain things in Perl or C, and the fact my last name is Barker... / Either that, or I was really drunk in college... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981111.html |
| GPF Archive: Thursday, November 12, 1998 | This here's your desk, and your PC, already loaded with every piece of software you'll ever need. Installed 'em myself. / Really? I need Visual C++, an ANSI C compiler, good internet tools like FTP and Telnet, maybe Perl, the latest versions of Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and the Java development... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981112.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, November 13, 1998 | How do you get anything done if all you have loaded on your PC is games?
/ Well... / Most of my work is on the Unix box. It usually takes me a couple of hours to throw out the scripts Dwayne asks for. I tell him it'll take a few days.
/ How do you get away with it? / I'm good. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981113.html |
| GPF Archive: Saturday, November 14, 1998 | Dear Journal: Today, I met a most... unique individual, Jason Barker, or "Fooker" as he prefers to be called. / He's crude, his hygiene is terrible, and he is the accomplished slacker. Yet, he seems to know his stuff, and he has an annoyingly likeable quality. I think I could learn to like him. / As... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981114.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, November 16, 1998 | [[Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals]]
/ DWAYNE: Okay, Nick. Your first project will be to design a user-interface for this Web application that Fooker and Ki have written.
/ NICK: Uh... who's Ki? / DWAYNE: You haven't met Ki yet?
/ FOOKER: I knew there was something I was forgetting... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981116.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, November 16, 1998 | [[Note from Jeff: Needs description of visuals]]
/ DWAYNE: Okay, Nick. Your first project will be to design a user-interface for this Web application that Fooker and Ki have written.
/ NICK: Uh... who's Ki? / DWAYNE: You haven't met Ki yet?
/ FOOKER: I knew there was something I was forgetting... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981116.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 | [[Nick and Fooker walk down the halls of GPF Software.]]
/ Fooker: I can't believe I forgot to introduce you to Ki. She's another one of our programmers. / Fooker: You'll like her. She's a girl and all, and not bad lookin' either, but she's a technogeek like us. She's practically one of the guys. / Fooker:... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981117.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 | [[Nick and Fooker walk down the halls of GPF Software.]]
/ Fooker: I can't believe I forgot to introduce you to Ki. She's another one of our programmers. / Fooker: You'll like her. She's a girl and all, and not bad lookin' either, but she's a technogeek like us. She's practically one of the guys. / Fooker:... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981117.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 | Here she is. Nick, this is Ki. Ki, this is Nick, the new guy.
/ Hi! I'm glad--
/ Shhh! / I'm in the middle of debugging. I have to traverse this circular doubly-linked list in a queue of B-trees while indexing an untested database driver over the Internet. I'll be with you in a minute. / I think I like... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981118.html |
| GPF Archive: Thursday, November 19, 1998 | Speak. You have five minutes while my program compiles.
/ Uh, I'm Nick, the new guy. I just wanted to-- / Wait a minute. Are you normal?
/ Well, aside from a touch of geekiness, I suppose so. / Thank God. I've been around Fooker so long I forgot what normal people are like. / Hi, I'm Ki. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981119.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, November 20, 1998 | It's nice to meet you, Ki. Of everyone I've met so far, I get the feeling we'll get along best.
/ Same here. / See you later.
/ Ditto. / Cute butt. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981120.html |
| GPF Archive: Saturday, November 21, 1998 | Dear Journal: Today I met another colleague from work, a programmer named Ki. / She tries to project and image of being "one of the guys," but I think I can see a real uniqueness about her. She is intelligent, imaginative, and no-nonsense, bu seems to be fun-loving and sweet to. / I wonder if I should... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981121.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, November 23, 1998 | This program will install new software on your PC. Do you wish to continue?
/ Ok. / Are you sure?
/ Yes. / Are you really, really sure?
/ Now what did I do with that warranty statement...? http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981123.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 | for (i=0; i<=5000; i++){
/ length += 5.167;
/ area = PI*rad*rad;
/ if (area >= 600)
/ big_flag = 1;
/ else
/ big_flag = 0; / switch(choice){
/ case 1: flag=7; break;
/ case 2: flag=14; break;
/ case 3: flag=7; option=4;
/ break;
/ default: flag=0; } / Ever get a song stuck in your head all day...?
/ putpixel(... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981124.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 | Ya know, Ki, if you quit smoking, I'd find you a lot more attractive. / Foof! / (cough) There's a message here somewhere...
/ A very subtle one... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981125.html |
| GPF Archive: Thursday, November 26, 1998 | General Protection Fault: Null Pointer Exception.
/ Uh, oh... / System Error: Device Failure. Hard Disk Not Visible. CMOS Corrupted. / Just kidding.
/ Fooker! http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981126.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, November 27, 1998 | Fooker, I was wondering if--
/ Fooker?
/ Up here. / I don't want to know.
/ Isn't super glue kewl? http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981127.html |
| GPF Archive: Saturday, November 28, 1998 | You play chess against yourself?
/ Problem is, I always lose... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981128.html |
| GPF Archive: Monday, November 30, 1998 | Gonna watch the new sci-fi show on channel six tonight?
/ I can't. My cable's out. / You can watch it at my place.
/ Really? / Yeah, I've got six days before the EPA shuts down my apartment complex, so come on over. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981130.html |
| GPF Archive: Tuesday, December 1, 1998 | Gee,... I'm speechless...
/ Humbling, isn't it? http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981201.html |
| GPF Archive: Wednesday, December 2, 1998 | Uh... Fooker, what's this green slimy stuff in your carpet?
/ Huh? / DON'T STEP ON THAT! / I don't know what it is, but it pays half the rent... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981202.html |
| GPF Archive: Thursday, December 3, 1998 | So, what do you think my "roommate" is?
/ It looks like a new species of slime mold. / It kinda smells funky.
/ Fooker, everything in your apartment smells funky. / You know, now that you mention it... http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981203.html |
| GPF Archive: Friday, December 4, 1998 | Fooker, when was the last time you actually cleaned this place?
/ "Clean?" / Yeah! You know, wash, clean... use soap and water?
/ Whoa... / They still make that stuff? http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981204.html |
| GPF Archive: Saturday, December 5, 1998 | So, you actually survived a visit to Fooker's apartment, huh?
/ I think "survived" is the accurate term, yes. / How a human being can exist in squalor like that is beyond me. / You mean Fooker is human?
/ Contrary to popular belief, I think so. http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/19981205.html |
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