Garfield by Jim Davis for November 05, 2013

I had to go back to the store to learn how to turn on my new Mac.

I spent 8 years trying to teach my old business partners wife to turn on a Mac, she finally got it a week before I quit!

This dilemma is reminding me that I need to re-learn how to activate my video DVD/Blu-ray player.

Garfield is so right.

Every year when switching from summer to winter time (and vice versa) I have to check the manual on how to change the time on our microwave.

There was a long involved joke a few years ago about a seemingly illogical process on a computer (I wish I could remember what it was) that ended when the newbie asked the tech how to turn it off and was told, "Go to ‘Start.’.

Thankfully, these comments is my sole knowledge of Macs. Any computer that requires more than an on switch to start it would be trash in my book.

You’ve also forgotton to switch your brain on, Jon.

Oh wait… Is it ever on in the first place?

LOL xxx

Oh, so true Garfield!

Old-fashioned dumb, yes. Ignorance, no, it exacerbates that.

If it’s a desktop, Jon probably just forgot that you need to turn the tower on first.

Somebody, while from time to time enjoying a cup of joe placed in the handy cup holder on their new desktop computer, called in to tech help asking where to put their installation DVD discs.

I could show Jon how to turn on the computer first the CPU then the monitor it’s so simple geez

Turning a computer ON is usually pretty straightforward, no matter the make. But the all-wise programmers of Windows really made Mac users do a double take by deciding to put the shut down command under a “START” menu!

Wrong Garfield. Modern technology enhances and complements old-fashioned dumb.