Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 09, 2012

enough to drive ’em all MAD!

God I’m glad I don’t have folks looking over MY shoulder for every line of code I write…Of course there was my first day when I accidentally deleted the entire interface engine…in live…That didn’t need an instant-reply…

Orion

Sergio’s spying on Meglin as we speak.

If this was like in pro sports, he’d still get his $5 million, even though he blew the “big play”.

Bring on the cheerleaders.

And the clip would be played over and over again.

Is that channel part of the basic cable package?

It makes more sense than real life….

and i am still waiting for Groo, The Movie

I disagree about this strip being always political. I won’t say it’s never political, but many people seam to read politics into this strip even when it’s not there.

Don’t remember (and can’t find quickly) which NHL goalie said, in an post-game interview, something along the lines of: “Just be glad that in your job, when you mess up, you don’t have a big red light over your head and a siren go off and 20 thousand people stand up and yell at you.”

Didn’t I see this on an episode of “Pete v Life” (BBC TV)?

Beer Signs! Where are the Beer Signs!?

If real life were like sports, then, one could fail seventy percent of the time and still earn millions doing it. (RE : A baseball player who hits for a 300 average is considered very good)

Replay…in SLO-MO…there goes the cursor, arcing up to commands in a near perfect flickering arrow…slipping just over the Send, and CLICK…oh my, Delete is activated! Delete is activated! The cursor jerks back onto Send! Clearly onto Send! Meglin was definitely on Send! Or…was he? It’s very close to call, Sergio. Could be a programming glitch. Either way, the Aragones account seems gone; maybe unrecoverable. Let’s look at it again in SUPER-SLO-MO and freeze it on activation…(on seeing the replay, the crowd goes “Yaaawwwwnnnn.”)

Omicron = degreesType 0186 while holding down the ALT key.Can’t do it now. No ALT key on my iPad.

What’s next? Danae’s smart answers to stupid questions?

Lol! Love this strip, thank you Wiley.

I met Sergio Aragones at the 1973 Comic Art Con in New York City. He wasn’t just signing autographs, but doing small cartoons for everyone as well.(At that con, I also got the autographs of Batman’s creator, Bob Kane, and C.C. Beck, creator of Captain Marvel, as well as a signed sketch of the Green Goblin by John Romita! And all for free!)

This strip reminds me of the classic “New Horizons in Music Appreciation for orchestra & commentators” on The Wurst of P.D.Q. Bach, I believe. Commentary on Conductor v. Orchestra playing Beethoven’s Fifth.

bmonk: The Beethoven (first movement only) was Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding.

Meglin! Go to your trash! Go to your trash!

“Is there anywhere we luddites can go to find these “º” shortcuts?”As a pretty honkin’ Luddite, I don’t use shortcuts – just go to Google, and in that blank spacey-type thing, put “degree symbol,” or “degree sign” would work. Then the page of url’s will come up, and there’ll be a ° sign for you to copy and paste. Takes a little bit of dexterity, but it’s not that hard. Sometimes I have to copy something around it, then erase the unwanted space or letter or whatever and just leave the ° after pasting it.

Well said! I concur completly

And for that level of competence they get paid how much?!!!!!

@Trusted mechanic. From Copier Mechanic.The character map has all the special characters. The codes will be at the bottom of the window when the desired char. Is selected.Go-Start-All Programs-accessories folder-System Tools.In Vista that is where it is. I think XP had it in the Accessories folder.

Wow! I kept expecting you to say, “I’m married to him.”

Trusted, just google Alt characters….a bunch of sites come up. Take your pick… I usually print out a copy and keep it nearby….

So many jobs are ruined by bad officiating!

If math class would sometimes be like that, it would be so much more interesting for me.