Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 20, 2024

I guess this passed for recreation in Seattle in the early naughts.

Can the business survive without her?

Oh, to be a kid again, not!

This would be called “woke” these days, since she’s focused on something other than “being a good wife and mother” when she grows up.

She’s over twelve. She’s a teenager now. Childhood’s End…

The nightmare of Gibson’s Cyberpunk is starting

Nerds!

Or share hacking tips.

Probably a “science camp”. There is such a thing. And she ended up at MIT

The fun stuff she’s talking about and the inventory management system sound pretty similar to me.

Her facial expression speaks volumes.

She looks more like Zonker there…

Is this the same woman that later has two kids and no career?

I’m reminded of one of my college professors. We’d had a conference of some sort and, as I was picking up my stuff to leave, he was going back to work on a project with a printed circuit board and a bunch of computer chips.

I made a remark about it looking like he was having fun with his project. He got a somewhat huffy look on his face and announced that he never did Anything for FUN.

It was like he thought Fun was a dirty word.