Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for February 04, 2012

They can leave laptops in their tents without someone stealing them?

Continuing with the “stealing the laptop” thing: besides, where would they plug in a stolen laptop when the Haitian homes don’t have their electricity hooked up yet once the battery needs recharging? (Speaking on my self-caught “recharge the laptop”, where DOES Evie plug in her laptop?)

Maybe they have a generator.

Or maybe they have one of those hand-cranked laptops.

I lived in Miami when the Cuban boat-lift was taking place in the 1980s and there were Haitian refugees coming in on overloaded dinky little boats and landing on the beaches. We were swamped with fleeing Hispanics and Haitians and everyone said they were criminals in their homelands. The only crime we ever experienced was from good old homegrown American types. From what I have seen, that laptop is safe.

I’m waiting for her familys meltdown ….

You’re stealing grandma away, why would there be yelling?!

Not a good idea…

Evie, you are a wise woman. Of course you know that with Arnold it will be a one way street, you will have to follow him on his adventures and lifestyle. At least, he admitted it in that casual proposal. It is exciting at first but eventually you will miss your family, and he doesn’t sound like he will follow you if you are needed at home for an extenede periods.

Have fun and enjoy but don’t make the commitment.

Besides, you are an integral part of the comic strip – you will have to be there on a regular basis.

Love Stone Soup – sometimes it is so real it brings tears to my eyes.

correction to comment above it should read

any extended periods

I’ve lived all over the world. People are people everything. Most good, a few rotten apples. I was once chased down on the street and had money forced on me because I had forgotten the equivalent of a few cents in change on the counter in a small shop. This was in a place where that few cents would buy food for the day.

And the countdown begins.

My parents vacationed in Haiti some years ago, and the staff in the hotel were so scarred of being thought to be a thief (their job was that valuable to them) that small things left behind by previous visitors stayed put. I think there was a comb and an old sock still in my parent’s hotel room.

Why do so many conservatives/liberals think that ALL liberals/conservatives think the same? Stereotype much? Idiots.

Seriously, I have wondered if a solar cell might be put on the back of a laptop, or used as a accessory. People work outside and have their machines go down away from home. Flash memory can be used for the energy hungry hard drive..Evie needs a satelitte connection without towers. All comments here are valid, but in the future it might be possible. Better solar than outlet power from a coal plant.

when I was a chaperone at a camp, I used a computer lock where the computer was tethered to the bed by a steel cable.

Who knows, Gramma’s family might just tell her: “Go for it!”

‘OLD YELLER’??? That’s a groaner.

Solar powered batteries are my guess of how their laptops work in Haiti.

Thank you for sharing your refreshing, unique, and warped point of view.

Ah ha! Now some secrets begin to emerge that may indicate why he does what he does.

The world can be as lousy as you care to make it. You certainly seem to be working to bring a ray of gloom to those around you.

NO ONE likes yellers, their insecurity gives them away. dblbaraje, you are right, of course, Edie has to stay in the panels. It would be like salt and no pepper. How about during summer vacation, the whole tribe goes down to help build houses. Alex would love all the bugs n stuff, but the meeting of Holly and Haiti would be an epic.