Dear part time colorist…THE COUCH IS PINK, ON WEEKDAYS AND SHOULD BE, EVEN ON THE WEEKENDS!! ..Did you ever read the strip? Somebody call the Sheriff…. Mordecai you out there?
She can’t read it on the phone, so she has to go to a bigger screen. I’ve had to do that, and go to either my iPad or my computer. My eyes never were what they should have been. I can’t imagine watching TV or movies on the iphone, although I have watched baseball and football, due to no other options.
Lens replacement surgery only replaces one’s clouded-over natural lenses with clear plastic ones. It doesn’t restore the ability to adjust for distance, which only the natural lenses of persons younger than in their 40’s and 50’s can do. So there’s no getting around the need for reading classes, bi-focals, or tri-focals in later life. Swallow your vanity and get used to it.
Additional things like post-production color should be unobtrusive. No colors would be far superior to wrong colors. I’m waiting for an artist to do something like have his characters identify wildly different colors for a flower, and see what the colorist does.
In my early 40s I had 20/15 and 20/17 vision. Can’t afford glasses, so never went to a doctor. But now I need 250 reading glasses for close up work, 200 for general purposes, and 150 – 175 for (limited) distance. I’m only 57.
LOL. Anyone who can’t see the classic signs is definitely not over 40. It’s eyesight and growing older. I go through it everyday. I would swear they were making text smaller, if I didn’t know better.
Yes, diminished vision is the cause of her needing a larger screen, but the “punch line” is that she does not want to admit that she needs the computer instead of her smartphone. She has consistently touted to Arlo the phone’s advantages. She cannot afford for him to catch her in her dependence on the larger computer screen. It’s not her eyesight that she is embarrassed about.
Agent54 almost 12 years ago
@beviekI do not know, I have seen her wear reading glasses before while reading on the couch, so I think it is a something else.
alviebird almost 12 years ago
She does not want to let on that the computer is better at something that her smartphone.
Varnes almost 12 years ago
Dear part time colorist…THE COUCH IS PINK, ON WEEKDAYS AND SHOULD BE, EVEN ON THE WEEKENDS!! ..Did you ever read the strip? Somebody call the Sheriff…. Mordecai you out there?
Kvasir42 Premium Member almost 12 years ago
She can’t read it on the phone, so she has to go to a bigger screen. I’ve had to do that, and go to either my iPad or my computer. My eyes never were what they should have been. I can’t imagine watching TV or movies on the iphone, although I have watched baseball and football, due to no other options.
cabalonrye almost 12 years ago
She is ashamed to be caught using a dinosaur computer instead of a hip and trendy smartphone. I have friends like that (sigh).
rockngolfer almost 12 years ago
Maybe she just needs longer arms.
jimmeh almost 12 years ago
One of the joys of aging. Bi-focals can’t be avoided Janice!
BRIPHILL almost 12 years ago
She took a picture of herself and sent it to the desktot to view
poihths almost 12 years ago
It’s the fact that your eyes get worse as you get older. That’s why the grampa box is still so popular among, well, grampas.
Burnside217 almost 12 years ago
The bigger tablets will be the new smart phones for the 40+.
716PMedGuy almost 12 years ago
@Varnes…IT"S A CARTOON!!!!!
QuietStorm27 almost 12 years ago
Sometimes bigger is better.
George Alexander almost 12 years ago
Lens replacement surgery only replaces one’s clouded-over natural lenses with clear plastic ones. It doesn’t restore the ability to adjust for distance, which only the natural lenses of persons younger than in their 40’s and 50’s can do. So there’s no getting around the need for reading classes, bi-focals, or tri-focals in later life. Swallow your vanity and get used to it.
Ermine Notyours almost 12 years ago
Additional things like post-production color should be unobtrusive. No colors would be far superior to wrong colors. I’m waiting for an artist to do something like have his characters identify wildly different colors for a flower, and see what the colorist does.
unca jim almost 12 years ago
I still go with BEVIEK’s explanation of the strip. I bought a new ‘smart phone’ and for all the aggravation, I shoulda got me a smart TABLET !!
alviebird almost 12 years ago
This isn’t about vision. She has been touting the superiority of her smartphone, and does not want to admit she needs the computer.
Skylark almost 12 years ago
Thanks all, for clearing it up for me…I did not get it at first. but not having a ‘smart phone’ to judge by…what did I know???
renewed1 almost 12 years ago
Smart phone, old eyes. Not a good combination.
wrigleyvillain almost 12 years ago
The PC is not dead yet!
RonBerg13 Premium Member almost 12 years ago
It does creep up on ya…
alviebird almost 12 years ago
In my early 40s I had 20/15 and 20/17 vision. Can’t afford glasses, so never went to a doctor. But now I need 250 reading glasses for close up work, 200 for general purposes, and 150 – 175 for (limited) distance. I’m only 57.
sammydee3 Premium Member almost 12 years ago
I think Arlo sent her a pic that she wanted to see better…
The Life I Draw Upon almost 12 years ago
LOL. Anyone who can’t see the classic signs is definitely not over 40. It’s eyesight and growing older. I go through it everyday. I would swear they were making text smaller, if I didn’t know better.
alviebird almost 12 years ago
Yes, diminished vision is the cause of her needing a larger screen, but the “punch line” is that she does not want to admit that she needs the computer instead of her smartphone. She has consistently touted to Arlo the phone’s advantages. She cannot afford for him to catch her in her dependence on the larger computer screen. It’s not her eyesight that she is embarrassed about.