Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 14, 2022

So the advice this guy is going to give Mike and Kim is to do nothing.

How’s that video on demand stuff working now? Handwriting recognition?

I used to date a seismologist. It was a pretty shaky relationship. It was tough because she knew about all my faults.

Some prognosticators use seismographs, some use Ouija Boards or Magic 8-Balls … Lars uses computer-based Solitaire.

And seismologists don’t predict earthquakes. They want to, but there’s a lot going on that’s too murky to calculate, fuzzing up the calculations.

Video-on-demand failed?? Never knew that!!

Kim had better fire that jerk, or Mike will have a “headache” tonight!!

Yeah, Video on Demand, AKA “streaming” was a complete bust.

So two of his predictions got lucky. How many have failed?

I used to date a fortune teller. She told me when we broke up she saw not future in it.

Video-on-demand? Oh yeah, that’ll never work.

of course, video on demand today is the #1 entertainment model.

Only in the movies, Kim, do seismologists predict earthquakes. If Lars is so good a predicting failures, why didn’t he predict Mike’s negative view of his work?

Plus, he obviously sucks at it. What’s not to like?

Video-on-demand has made a pretty strong showing at the Emmy nominations this year.

the failure of video on demand/ hello netflicks. streaming. disney plus ? mike close the garage door-after you turn on the car.

it’s not as bad as it sounds. there are people with a talent for picking out failures. advertisers love them when they can identify them it’s sort of “He liked that? oh crap it’s gonna fail”

Apparently, Mike has to produce something before Capt. Hairline can tell him it’s going to fail and earn his paycheck. Wait, he was her “boy” friend?!

Video-on-demand. And now we have streaming video.

Well, if you can stop yourself from doing anything that fails, you kind of set yourself up for success. Or at least mediocrity.

Sometimes they predict NO earthquakes…

I watched something about the failure of video-on-demand just the other day on Netflix.

Video on demand (streaming) and handwriting (and several other forms of) recognition are now commonplace, but seismologists still can’t predict earthquakes reliably.

At the rate it’s going, Mike’s going to smell flawed hiring in technology three months in hindsight!

JJ eventually graduated from MIT to make up for this failure it once produced.

So, of Lars stays quiet, you’re on the right track? You’ve hired a canary for the coal mine.

“Failure of video on demand”. Do we really have to get these old and out of date comics. Can we please get some fresh blood? Doonesbury gets his new stuff out on Sunday, let’s give the spot to someone else for weekdays.

video on demand was a failure?

“Stone brilliant”? Is that like stone deaf, stone crazy, or stone dead? If so, it doesn’t sound like much of a recommendation to me.

This has to be in the running for the most off-the-mark Doonesbury ever.

Then there was that intense discussion of cleavage and bedding relationships…

When I was in college, we geology majors had an intramural mixed volleyball team, whose name was (and I am not making this up): Are You Cummingtonite, or the Plutonic Affair. We did OK, but did not win the tournament.

Yes, Kim, that’s what a seismologist does. I’m sure there’s more to it but that’s the main thing. What’s Lars gonna predict, the failure of online Solitaire?

Pity he could only see 3 years in the future, instead of 30 (where Video-On-Demand and Handwriting Recognition are well-established and lucrative).