FoxTrot by Bill Amend for April 10, 2011
Transcript:
Peter: I need to use the computer. Paige: Hold on. Let me see if anyone wrote on my Facebook wall...nope. Now let me see if anyone replied to me on Twitter...nope. Now let me see if anyone started following my Tumblr...nope. Peter: Done? Paige: Let me check Facebook again. Someone could have written something in the last 30 seconds...nope. Now let me check Twitter again...now Tumblr... Peter: Our sister has gone infinitely loopy. Paige: Now Facebook...Now Twitter...Now Tumblr...Now Facebook...Now Twitter...Now Tumblr...Now Facebook...Now Twitter...Now Tumblr...
freeholder1 over 13 years ago
Mobius Loopy at that.
garfield246 over 13 years ago
Thank god MY sister has her own computer.
whims over 13 years ago
A manual implementation of a ‘busy-wait loop’…
kraftjeff over 13 years ago
Wow I’ve done that… gotta go to facebook now and see if anybody wrote anything now in fact. Except I don’t have twitter (and won’t) and have no clue what Tumblr is…
lewisbower over 13 years ago
Thank God I told my wife of serious electrical shocks from the key board unless you wear pink rubber hip waders
RonBerg13 Premium Member over 13 years ago
Yeah - what the heck is Tumblr?
Drakken over 13 years ago
No idea either. Likely if we have to ask, we’re not “pop culture enough” to use it .
wjuhnke over 13 years ago
pretty sure Tumblr is a blogging site.
Chepi89 over 13 years ago
Another social site thingy?! I have no idea what this one is. I think if you have to ask what Tumblr is you have to ask yourself, ‘Do I really need it?’ or ‘Do I have time for it?’. And better yet, ‘Do I want to know?’ My answer is NO, NO and NO.
Callie Ray over 13 years ago
Hey, Paige! either get a smartphone or your own computer.
DougDean over 13 years ago
She’s executing a simple polling algorithm. The problem is that you’re supposed to do it on a separate thread
DerkinsVanPelt218 over 13 years ago
If you want people to notice your social networking, you have to post something yourself.
starlilies over 13 years ago
Yes, Tumblr is a blogging site. Similar to Twitter in that you follow people, but it’s not as restrictive to the number of “characters” you can post (like Twitter). My 15yo daughter uses it all the time. It’s a little too extreme for me.
Colt9033 over 13 years ago
Should have everyone graduated by now and moved out?
Lawrence Stetz Premium Member over 13 years ago
Yes, if this was real life or everybody aged in real time. But sadly, this is a comic strip. Every birthday is Paige’s 14th birthday. Every year of high school is the same one.
vldazzle over 13 years ago
I don’t twitter (though I’m a bird person)- don’t evenn like the limits that FB puts on status messages. If I need more space there I just add in a comment. Just checking email, FB and the various comics forums takes too much time to deal with some days. People are staarting to complain that I don’t answer emails as promptly as before, so I’m opting out of may group emails and stores (even where I shop often).
Nate Arbuckle, Quincy and Hobbes. over 3 years ago
The internet is a dangerous thing, Paige.
me_the_polish_gull over 3 years ago
And GoComics… lol.
Natedawg10 almost 3 years ago
Paige is finally using an ACTUAL computer! no more Apple shaped one!