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title: Calvin and Hobbes transcription
date: "2002-09-11T12:00:00Z"
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description: I'm transcribing every Calvin and Hobbes comic strip into text to build a searchable archive. This lets me quickly find specific moments, from Tracer Bullet’s noir monologues to Dad’s creative explanations for how the world works.
keywords: [calvin and hobbes, bill watterson, transcription, text search, tracer bullet, comic strips]
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My current project: transcribing every Calvin and Hobbes into text. Because I'd like to search, using text, for the strip in which Tracer Bullet has "six slugs, one of lead and five of bourbon" or where Dad explains why the Sun rises.

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## Comments

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- **[The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown | s-anand.net](http://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-takedown/)** _21 May 2010 11:55 am_ _(pingback)_:
  [...] So I set out to build one. I can’t remember when, exactly, but it was before Sep 11, 2002. [...]

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