Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for January 27, 2013
January 26, 2013
January 28, 2013
Transcript:
Caption: The programmable VCR which no one's ever figured out how to program. The $600, z880x 720 dpi 6-color, photo inkjet printer with the .01 paper jam. The 500-function cell phone that will do everything except let you hear the voice on the other end. The surround sound dvd/cd entrainment system that would play hours of continuous movies and music if only its little door weren't stuck shut. The $1999.99 laptop with 30-gigabyte hard drive and a dead battery. The digital camcorder with 1.6 million pixels, a 3-way PC link and a 4500 page instruction book. The universal remote programmed for one touch command of every high-tech device in the house, now lost somewhere. The PDA containing 8MB of critical personal data with the blank screen and the missing stylus. The wonderful world of electron-icks. Cathy: Ick. Ick. Ick. Ick. Ick.
Lakegal about 11 years ago
I totally agree: especially about the smart phones. Ick.
lightenup Premium Member about 11 years ago
Aaack. What a waste of money!Hello nutty Cathy family!!
gmforde about 11 years ago
Yup, you got that one right! ICK!
crystalwizard about 11 years ago
Fixes: 1. remove the paper from the printer and clear the paper jam2. get better cell phone service3. either get a replacement if the warrenty is still good, or take to a repair shop and get the door fixed.4. recharge the battery5. watch youtube tutorial videos and learn how to use the camcorder that way.6. learn to keep your remotes in the same place all the time.7. learn to keep the stylus with the PDA and recharge the battery.
Electronics don’t have to be icks if the USER learns some common sense.
rgcviper about 11 years ago
A Sunday strip—woo hoo! (I had to click on the link reading “Cathy” to view it, but still.)
I can relate all too well to this one. Technology’s great when it works and I can figure it out, but otherwise …
For the heck of it, i just did a Google search for “Aaron profile GoComics” and for “Billy profile GoComics”, in the hopes of tracking down our friends. The “Billy” one didn’t result in anything, but the “Aaron” one led me to a profile of someone named Aaron—with a total of five comments. Therefore, I’m not sure if Aaron’s original profile is even still online. Strange.
I really hope we hear something from the guys soon. I miss them.
HI, MOM. Happy Sunday, nutty “Cathy” Clan.
lindz.coop Premium Member about 11 years ago
Hi other Cathyites!! Having gotten up on Friday morning to a deader than dead iphone, I can really relate. It wouldn’t charge, and nothing worked. Finally after making an appt for 2 days later to take it in, we called another istore and they said to push BOTH buttons and hold them, and it lit up. No problems since — anybody else heard of this?
lori brennan about 11 years ago
It’s funny how quickly things become dated in the tech world. 30 GB HD’s? 1.6 MP cameras? PDAs?
mafastore about 11 years ago
You do realize that Cathy is in reruns, right?
Cathy is using an early version of Palm PDA, as shown in the pictures of her device and the fact that she needs to write using the special alphabet for it. Cathy is using a VCR, not a DVD recorder or a DVR. There was no Youtube then. The only smartphone was, maybe, as I am not sure of the year, a Blackberry. I am not even sure that there was gocomics or Ucomics then.
I have recently had a reminder of how different life was around 2000. In 2011 my husband convinced me to let him build me a new computer. The one I was using was his old one which originally ran Windows Me (updated after I started using it to XP). It has been sitting on a typewriter table next to my desk waiting to be backed up and have a couple of folders copied to my current computer ever since (over 2 years). I never noticed it being slow, but it was so slow booting, etc. that I thought it was crashing. Oddly the reason he convinced me to get rid of it was that it always took 3 attempts to get it to boot, and this time it booted on the first try.