Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 22, 2013

Where reboot means another swift kick.

We can explain it to him, but we can’t understand it for him.

Looks about right to me …

I would have actually liked that system when I was a foot courier.

There was a time when bike couriers were literally the fastest way to transfer data in the Bay Area (automobiles got into traffic jams too often)

Yes, but what happens when it crashes?

“You see, the internet is like a bunch of little tubes…”

What’s my line…..?

♫ ♪Zipity do da.!… ♪♫ zipidy ay….♫

Is it bring the zip file or take it?

It’s a system that’s harder to hack, too. Just keep safe!

Transfer shmansfer… This is just more fun.

Just like Dish, it goes down in bad weather.

Never be allowed. The Government can’t tap in.

This cartoon is kind of a good analogy to explain data transfer to children. The people are like electrons. Even Einstein found it necessary to think in analogies. Douglas Hofstadter says that analogies are the core of cognition..Anyway ….In our nearest big city, there is still a pneumatic tube delivery system among the older buildings. It’s really cool, as I saw it demonstrated. The closest thing I see to it in everyday use is at bank drive-ins. Eventually there will be magnetic tube transport of people and other cargo when super-conductors can be made to work at higher temperatures.

This is so 1970’s. And is it really easier to understand what happens when you put that floppy disk into the computer?

gimmicks don’t really make it….

It might be a better way to guard data from being taken by the White House!

I don’t mean to start a political discussion, btw. just making a joke.

How true this is. Execs usually aren’t too tech savvy. That’s why it’s so easy for those of us who are to arrange for things to “get lost in the system” or cause “random computer errors” that could lead a lot of really bad places. Or, if you’re a fan of Brickleberry, what Malloy did to Woody in the episode “Two Weeks Notice.”

Puffy buffer. Puffy buffer. Love it :- D!

You’d be surprised, Gaunt. I managed to shock a former boss by telling him that he could have more than one e-mail address. He thought his office one was the only one he could have, ever.

A lot of physicians’ offices (esp. the older ones’ offices) get all flustered if you suggest that they could communicate with patients via the Internet.

If you see the name Omnius, just flag.I don’t even read it’s posts anymore.

that’s my line

That looks like an opportunity for full employment to me.

Not political today?…We can’t even ask the difference between a computer and the current president’s predecessor?

This brings back memories as a child when I use to go visit my Grandma in the Bronx .The back of all buildings faced each other and there was a clothes line connecting one building to another called a clothes line. Grandma use to hand her clothes out there.

One slip and it’s all downhill ..better yet falling never hurt anyone….it’s the sudden stop at the end that gets you!…..fear of heights? No not at all GET ME OUTTA HERE!!