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Passage of time in QC...
AprilArcus:
Hey everyone! Here's the latest version, with an extra week interpolated into late July, as we discussed upthread. This gives us agreement with Henry's line in 2373 about the wedding being in two weeks, pushes back Marten and Claire's date to Labor Day, which makes sense of it being on a Monday, and means that the Friday library debauch Tai is flyering for in 2869 will take place after classes are back in session. Additionally, I've switched to a rectangular layout and added dates from the 2006 Smith College academic calendar, and eliminated subpixel anti-aliasing artifacts. I haven't prettified January-March yet, but I will eventually.
FunkyTuba:
wow...that's a lot of work... thanks for undertaking this!
MooskiNet:
--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 21 Jan 2015, 21:17 ---wow...that's a lot of work... thanks for undertaking this!
--- End quote ---
Agreed in spades.
I chuckled, though, reading "Claire flirts with Marten at Work." followed by "Marten asks Claire Out." - these statements, while accurate, are hilariously understated considering the Marten/Claire squeefest that happened between statement 1 and statement 2.
Welu:
That's impressive, April.
AprilArcus:
Okay, here we go again! Fixed an off-by-one error with the real world dates and reformatted again. Now containing all the work in this thread so far, January-September (strips 1311-present). To explicate the tortured logic of this document:
* Mark Tai's party as the Friday of Smith's real-world finals week (dialogue evidence: strip 1933), taking place May 12, 2006
* Note the completion of Espressosaurus II the following day (strip 1978, May 13, 2006)
* Backdate six weeks to its commissioning date (strip 1645, April 1, 2006).
* This fits the timeline of Marten getting over the breakup with Dora, but only barely — it means that his remark that it's been "weeks" since the breakup (strip 1861) must refer to exactly fourteen days. This is the least comfortable fit in the current analysis, but it does fit.
* Count two days forward to Wil's first appearance with a mustache (strip 1650, April 3, 2006).
* Backdate seven weeks to the commissioning of Espressosaurus I (strip 1439, Feb 11, 2006), rationalizing that the first one may have taken longer to make.
* Count one week forward to the Saturday of Smif Nrrdcon (dialogue evidence: strip 1511), taking place Feb 18, 2006 (presidents' day weekend), and Wil's final appearance sans-mustache (strip 1529), leaving him the bare minimum 6 weeks and 2 days to grow it.
* Count four days backwards to the sledding party (Feb 7, 2006)
* Note that the Gina Riversmith concert was on a Saturday (dialogue evidence: strip 1320). Can't fit in to Sat, Feb 4, so place it at Sat, Jan 28.
* Count back one or two days to Cosette asking Marten out (strip 1322, Jan 26, 2006). She's checking out books for the upcoming semester, and this is either the Thursday or Friday before classes start, so that fits.The only events I haven't placed yet are the talk about Dora moving in with Marten and Faye (two days, spanning strips 1558-1586) and moving day itself (another two days, spanning 1587-1596). Is there any evidence to pin these down?
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