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Date: fall 1999
Medium: colored pencil on computer paper

A required course in my high school if you wished to take computer science was Typing, in which an eager student learns all about how to use a keyboard, raise their average WPM, and use vital programs such as Microsoft Word. Of course, by this time, I had been a rabid IRCer for years, and my fingers were quick-like-ninja, the same as a good friend of mine who took the class with me, Ashy. Unfortunately, the teacher, "Mrs. Smith", knew next to nothing about computers. She needed Ashy's and my help to copy/paste a file into a different folder, for instance. This led to much hilarity, and we wanted to do several one-shot pages of a comic about her but the idea kind of petered out.

This unfinished comic page is one of two unfinished pages (the other is very lightly penciled, so it didn't scan well, and I can't be arsed to go over it again) - all based on true events that occurred in that classroom. Yes, this dialogue is pretty much exactly what she said.

I have some notes on the back of the second page about its text, which was based on some strange analogy Mrs. Smith made about how centering text in Word is like using a map, but cannot for the life of me recall how she said they were similar. Most likely because during all the lessons, I would be on a messageboard writing digital notes back and forth with Ashy. We'd lower the taskbar so it couldn't be seen, and just alt-tab between our windows - she never knew.

Description
Date: fall 1999
Medium: colored pencil on computer paper

A required course in my high school if you wished to take computer science was Typing, in which an eager student learns all about how to use a keyboard, raise their average WPM, and use vital programs such as Microsoft Word. Of course, by this time, I had been a rabid IRCer for years, and my fingers were quick-like-ninja, the same as a good friend of mine who took the class with me, Ashy. Unfortunately, the teacher, "Mrs. Smith", knew next to nothing about computers. She needed Ashy's and my help to copy/paste a file into a different folder, for instance. This led to much hilarity, and we wanted to do several one-shot pages of a comic about her but the idea kind of petered out.

This unfinished comic page is one of two unfinished pages (the other is very lightly penciled, so it didn't scan well, and I can't be arsed to go over it again) - all based on true events that occurred in that classroom. Yes, this dialogue is pretty much exactly what she said.

I have some notes on the back of the second page about its text, which was based on some strange analogy Mrs. Smith made about how centering text in Word is like using a map, but cannot for the life of me recall how she said they were similar. Most likely because during all the lessons, I would be on a messageboard writing digital notes back and forth with Ashy. We'd lower the taskbar so it couldn't be seen, and just alt-tab between our windows - she never knew.