Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 12, 2015

Many people are already buried alive behind their smart phones.

Great idea, Rat — entomb yourself, and leave no air holes!

True, Stephan, but it won’t get through to the people he is referencing.

What? No pun today?

Bye, bye, Rat! Can you say narcissist?

I’m sorry goat….what did you say?/

“MY Computer” “MY Documents” “MY Network Places”It’s no accident one of the worst operating systems ever is “Windows ME”

Goat described someone I know all too well. My sister. My cellphone is a literal dinosaur, it’s something like ten to fifteen years old and extremely limited in what it can do. When I got it smartphones were still pretty much in the future and it’s sole purpose for me was to be used in case of an emergency. I don’t need anything more than a basic cellphone. But she’s gotta have a smartphone that she would be on practically eighteen to twenty hours a day if she didn’t have to work. When I’m around her she’s almost always on it and I’ve been around her at night when she’s gone to sleep only to see her not really go to sleep but wake up every few minutes to check her phone for messages.

So, if you want it to be about me, me, me, rule #1 is that you can’t have any social media apps in your wall of smartphones.

Being “not fully present” for the people around you is a great way to hide your insecurities and avoid allowing others to get to know the real you. Taking pictures and being behind a camera lens is not being “fully present”. Alcohol consumption is another way……..please pass me a beer.

Guess what folks! I do not, and never have owned a cell phone, and I’m alive to tell the tale. Or should I say tail…

To the comment about Windows ME. That is the reason I went Apple. My wife got a Lenovo laptop with Win 8.0 up (up? graded to 8.1) after having XP for years. She hates it and now will move to Apple first opportunity.

For phone OS’s – Microsoft is not nor ever has been a player. Google Android is a force but my wife with her Samsung struggled with the setting to turn off the way Google would post pictures and other stuff she didn’t want done. Apple requires a bit of digging to get your privacy back also.

Is that electronic device your servant or your master?

Wisdom from out of the mouth of Goats!

I ‘love’ watching people so absorbed in their smart phones walk into lamp posts and trees. Although I will try to stop them from stepping into on-coming traffic. But I think the worst display was one day on the subway when I saw this young couple both enraptured with their smart phones. The guy laughs at something, makes a few motions with his finger and two seconds later the girl laughs – and they’re sitting side by side with each other. Those people and their ilk should be put in jail!

Ahhh Rat. how is this no surprise.

Good for you, Goat!

xxx

Man, Rat’s just been getting everything so RIGHT lately.

don’t know where they are going, or where they have been

Relax Rat you only need one.

i created a picture for my yearbook with me sitting behind a wall of books. be careful what you wish for

Rat’s totally got that Cask of Amontillado look going on with that setup there.

My space.

That’s one expensive wall