Cornered by Mike Baldwin for March 19, 2024

They fell from “Clod” Nine.

Dang AI musta kick em out eh.

Russia?

it must be partly cloudy…

“Cloud computing”: You put your data on our server, then you pay us in perpetuity for access to your data.

Putting your photos in the Cloud…..I think the new generation is calling it eternity. We’ll see how long that last.

I love how unfazed they look during the fall!

Those guys are all AI.

I asked my local fortune teller about my future, but she said her crystal ball was looking cloudy.

Hey guys, did-you-see-my-car-keys

I guess not…

Okay … but they should, at least, still provide some kind of a safety net.

Today’s strip has a mildly Monty Pythonish look about it.

It expels what it deems full of hooey!

Yes, that’s pretty close to what happened to a lot of people running large main frame computers when we got pc desktops in our research lab. Anyone remember how fast DEC Computer collapsed? Disappeared in a little over a year.

Looks more like the sort of fallout one might expect from mushroom cloud computing.

Today’s song: “It’s Raining Men” by the Weather Girls.

You’re thinking of thermonuclear cloud computing (mostly subtraction).

Just upload those falling folks to the cloud.

Clean windows!

There is no cloud. It’s just someone else’s computer.

what a nimbus!

However, the bottom could fall out with the arrival of newer technology……

Sales have been plummeting, as have salesmen.

Astrology forecast looking better all the time!!