Fred Basset by Alex Graham for April 29, 2021

Fred, you always look good, humans just need a little help!

‘Faffing’ is a cool word; ‘palaver’ is cool too!

Put a piece of tape on the camera …. now no problem ;-)

It’s why I hate any type of video chat.

I’ve heard about ring lights. Do they make them for laptops, or just phones?

Over here there was a futuristic cartoon show called “The Jetsons”, where everybody had Zoom-like picture phones. People could put on masks before answering the phone if they weren’t looking their best. Pretty prescient…

However awful or awkward video chats may be, it has saved my family some heart break during these hard times of separation.

faff (third-person singular simple present faffs, present participle faffing, simple past and past participle faffed)

(Britain, slang) To waste time on an unproductive activity.

Gotta find the sweet spot. Too high and a receding hairline is front and center. Too low and it is chin and nose hairs.