Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 13, 2020

I haven’t seen that symbol in God knows how long!

The sign above says, “Loading 2021 – the better year”.

The universe is getting ready to upgrade. Standby for the reboot (hopefully she boots up clean).

Better than ‘Error 404 – not found’. Just hoping it is not hacked…

Har. D. Har. It’s even worse: That thing isn’t moving AT ALL !!

I thought that the monoliths were mating as in 2001.

If that’s the sun, is the moon the Spinning Beach Ball/Pinwheel of Death?

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One of the more original desert island shipwreck cartoons of late. Congratulations.

What – 11 minutes to midnight .. ?!

what gave that away.

Do you have any Bufferin?

Have to buff up the old brain cells to recognize it.

But preferable to this sign:

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I just updated to macOS Big Sur and stared at that symbol for what seemed like hours.

That’s what it does when it has a virus.

At my age, I don’t tolerate download slugs well.

Leave it to big tech to mess up a good thing and call it an upgrade

If it’s anything like waiting for the latest Windows 10 Update to correctly upload, then those guys are going to be there for a really long time !

Really? That’s a DMV symbol? I had no idea. Where is that at?

At least it’s not the MacOS spinning beach ball of death…

They must be in the Matrix, and somebody asked to have pi calculated precisely

Push ‘Restart.’

⟳ … ⟳ … ⟳, darn it! … ⟳⟳⟳

The whirlpool of death would be appropriate here, but cannot easily be drawn.

Once the hallucinations start, your time is short.

Loading….. please wait.

“All customer support agents are helping other survivors, please wait and the next agent will ignore you too!”

What designers of system “upgrades” don’t understand is that every user then has to spend hours reconfiguring their system to work the way they want it to. Once it’s installed I want it to work and keep working and not have to spend time nursing the system. That’s time not well spent. Or maybe they do understand and laugh at us users

YEOWK! I just realized Friday the 13th comes on a Friday this month!

I honestly don’t remember ever seeing that symbol at my DMV in Pa. If it is there, I’ve never seen it. I go in, get a number and look at the number count on the wall, not unlike a Supermarket deli. Where does this symbol occur?

Until the election is certified?

This would have been the perfect comic for a gif animation. Some comics were doing that for awhile, but now no one seems to do it.

You guys know what the technical name of that is? Throbber!

Definitely a sign of AT&T internet.

That just looks like some big fan. I get now what it is, but it was poorly drawn.

The number system reminds me of the Tim Conway skit where the person walks in and he’s the only customer. He goes to the counter and is told to take a number. He gets the number 89. Conway looks up to the counter and says “ now serving customer 47”.

As I told my computer technician the last time I needed him, I told him I call that symbol “The spinning wheel of death.” He concurred, because it means your hard drive is dying and needs replaced.