# XKCD 1190: "Time"---Randall's setting something up... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2013, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901 "2013-03-25T10:31:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/61 "2013-03-27T15:45:27Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > I think it’s a rather clever jab at inter-office politics, don’t you think? A[COLOR=#000000] commentary on contemporary mores. > [/COLOR] Vorshtein? ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/62 "2013-03-27T17:31:21Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Vorshtein? That’s not a word. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/63 "2013-03-27T17:49:19Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > I think it’s a rather clever jab at inter-office politics, don’t you think? A[COLOR=#000000] commentary on contemporary mores. > [/COLOR] [It’s a Ziggy!](http://images.fanpop.com/images/polls/41347_1198910458304_full.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/64 "2013-03-27T18:37:52Z")
Nothing happening now - everybody has gone home. I’m now predicting the tide will come in and clean the slate at the end of the day today and tomorrow it will begin with the boy and girl hanging out on the beach again. Repeat ad infinitum ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/65 "2013-03-27T19:11:57Z")
Or… he’s drawn frames for it slowly decaying, and it’ll add a new one every day or so. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/66 "2013-03-27T21:53:15Z")
Hmm… the most recent few frames appear to be ‘zooming out’ into a wider scale. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/67 "2013-03-27T22:17:42Z")
> [@Shadez](#): > > Someone at the XKCD’s forum link mentioned above has posted a capture of [all of them together](http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/) so far. Note the comic count in the upper left and the slower/faster option in the upper right. My major reason for this quote is so I can follow the thread and not have to return to page 1 to get that link. 133 frames so far. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/68 "2013-03-27T22:19:50Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > My major reason for this quote is so I can follow the thread and not have to return to page 1 to get that link. > > 133 frames so far. I bookmarked it yesterday. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/69 "2013-03-27T23:16:35Z")
Thank you, **kaylasdad**. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/70 "2013-03-28T00:28:48Z")
137 frames now. Something’s just come into view on the left. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/71 "2013-03-28T01:15:20Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > 137 frames now. Something’s just come into view on the left. To me, it looks like part of another castle! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/72 "2013-03-28T01:24:44Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > To me, it looks like part of another castle! 😃 Dueling Trebuchets! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/73 "2013-03-28T04:53:26Z")
A couple dozen more frames, then I think Randall will release the velociraptors. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/74 "2013-03-28T05:30:11Z")
I hope after all this build up that it leads somewhere pretty damn spectacular. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/75 "2013-03-28T05:56:34Z")
I think it’s already spectacular. A 24-hour\* 1-panel comic is pretty unique. Especially in that it really hasn’t gone anywhere, but it’s kept a lot of us glued to the internet watching it. We’re the performance, not the comic. \*I assume 24 hours. If he works ahead and keeps things really simple, he could keep it going for days. Years, though I wouldn’t wish that on him. ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/76 "2013-03-28T08:21:49Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > My major reason for this quote is so I can follow the thread and not have to return to page 1 to get that link. > > 133 frames so far. Heh, thanks. Even I was returning to page 1 to click on the link. I really should bookmark it too! It took me a full day to realize that in the lower right corner it mentions some other info, like you can use arrow keys to move it at your own speed. And yes, several times I have held down the right or left arrow key to see it go in “real time” - forwards or backwards. 😉 If you can remember the person’s name, it’s pretty easy to type in the url box - it’s just [xkcd.aubronwood.com](http://xkcd.aubronwood.com). ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/77 "2013-03-28T11:29:36Z")
I guess they’ve got time on their hands! ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/78 "2013-03-28T11:41:51Z")
I almost wonder now if the whole thing is procedurally generated and rather than having a fixed end they’ll keep building new sand castles farther up the beach forever. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/79 "2013-03-28T12:21:43Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > I almost wonder now if the whole thing is procedurally generated and rather than having a fixed end they’ll keep building new sand castles farther up the beach forever. What he should do is just have it stitch together all previous XKCD strips, so the end result is a landscape similar to the click-and-drag strip with a landscape of the last 1189 strips (which would of course contain the click-and-drag strip) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901/80 "2013-03-28T13:03:05Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > I almost wonder now if the whole thing is procedurally generated and rather than having a fixed end they’ll keep building new sand castles farther up the beach forever. I was thinking that as well. Maybe some sort of sand castle fractal… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-1190-time-randalls-setting-something-up/653901.md?page=5)