March 29, 2024

XKCD Web Comic #964: Dorm Room (described)

 

A web comic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

 

Panel One: Drawing of a stick figure wearing a back pack and holding up a piece of paper with the number 117. In front of the stick figure is a door marked with the number 117.

Panel Two: Drawing of a dorm room. Against the right wall is a long, bare-mattressed bed with an empty desk at the foot. Against the left wall is a bed with rumpled bedclothes and pillow. Clothing and books litter the floor next to it.  A different stick figure wearing glasses is seated at a desk at the foot of the left bed, looking at a computer screen. On the far wall is the famous “Dark Side of the Moon” Pink Floyd poster–solid black background with a triangular prism about a third of the way down from the top. A single thin beam of light comes up at a slight angle from the left edge of the poster, enters the prism and is refracted into a rainbow ray of light, widening slightly as it gently angles downward to the right edge of the poster.

Panel Three: The first stick figure is standing in the open doorway, the piece of paper still in one hand, the other up to his face as if thinking.

Panel Four: The empty doorway.

Panel Five: The first stick figure enters through the doorway, carrying a large black poster.

Panel Six: The first stick figure has begun setting up a laptop on the desk on the right side of the room. Now on the wall next to the first poster is another copy of the same poster, but upside down so that the rainbow ray from the first poster is aligned with the rainbow ray in the second. A lens has been added on the left edge of the second poster that refocuses the rainbow ray back into the prism in the second poster.

Hover text: I was going to record an album with that cover under the name “PINK FTFY”, so it’d come after them on the store CD rack. But at this point music stores are just rooms where CDs are set out to age before they’re thrown away, so probably nobody would see it.

 

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.

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