Lio by Mark Tatulli for March 15, 2014

Sometimes technology assists us in ways the designers hadn’t thought of.

I hope that pencil doesn’t snap under Lio’s weight.

Lio has great taste in literature.

Another good use for the Laptop 9000. YAY for real “hard copy” books, too! Wise choice, Lio.

SOME DETECTIVE WORK

In the first panel, the laptop reads “Laptop 9000”. At the last panel, he’s reading a book entitled “K is for Kubrick”. Sort of a nod to the1968 (and often lampooned) movie2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by the late Stanley Kubrick..

No HAL 9000 on Lio’s watch!

Love it !!!

Buying a Laptop PC instead of a Notebook PC is like buying an icebox instead of a refrigerator. There’s quite a difference.

Little bit of Trivia….where the name, ‘HAL’ came from.Find each of the letters of the alphabet that come after, ‘H’, ‘A’, and, ‘L’

Such a waste on technolgy.

Lio knows to point the computer’s camera away from him! It can read lips!

Got a cell phone that keeps great time.

Re: HAL, IBM, Clarke & KubrickI’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding you or you misunderstood Skywatcher68, but it was Clarke and Kubrick who didn’t want the name HAL to be taken as a slam against IBM. Here’s a letter from Kubrick about HAL and IBM.

A kid who would rather read a book than stare at a computer screen… Great!