I too, fondly recall the whole design process that Nathan went through in designing the house that is now emerging from the ground, flashing its footings at the world. In fact this week’s strip transcribes pretty much word for word a converversation that was had during this period. It was a long time ago, so there may be some inaccuracies, however, Nath’s pony tail is historically accurate but it probably was not as girly as depicted…

Its funny to think that up until pretty recently , we had prety much no idea what the hell we were doing with these computer things. When our people began looking for real jobs, meaning those jobs that didn’t involve making pizzas or stacking shelves in some supermarket, the offices that we were walking into still had drawing boards on the desk and we (us, the Nintendo generation!)were still more comfortable drawing by hand than by mouse. Now, bearly three to four years on the mouse has replaced the Rotring and drawing boards are only used by those still wearing the bow-ties and even they don’t really exist outside of Harry Seilders office. Some people passionately defend the pencil as a drafting tool and whilst I would like to ramble on about the relative merits of graphite and charcoal in comparison to single button and three button mouses the truth is right now I couldn’t care less. I am tired after a long weekend lounging around a beach house on the South Coast and it is enough for me to know that Nath once upon a time aplied his trademark slap dash style to the rigours of CAD and that we are now to be witness to the fruits of this grand experiment. Will the builder’s tolerance cancel out the drawing’s inaccuracies, creating some kind of divine order? Some perfect act of architecture? Maybe. Just maybe.