Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 30, 2012
January 29, 2012
January 31, 2012
Transcript:
Zonker: Whazzup, y'all! And welcome back to the ol' mail silo! Mike: Let's get right to it, shall we? "Dear Mike, how come you're standing in the mail silo? I thought it burned down. Best, Tom from Lansing." Zonker: It did indeed, Tom! That's why we're now using green screen technology! Mike: And that's not all... Zonker: We're also in 3-D! Check it! Mike: So go get your glasses - we'll wait!
I hate the 3D craze. Alas, my eyes don’t work like that. For me, 3D just means “fuzzy”. Watching a whole movie like that would give me a headache. Never ever could see anything in one of those “magic eye” images either. Good lesson though: just ‘cause you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Technology is leaving me behind. I don’t have a cellphone, and every time I think of getting one, they seem to have gotten even more complex and expensive. (Of course, I don’t have a wristwatch, either, but that’s a different story.) When the switch to digital TV came, I practically gave up watching broadcast TV since the signals are too weak in my area to be reliable, converter box and power-assisted antenna notwithstanding. Half the time the pictures breaks up too often to make the TV watchable. Most of what I want to see is on PBS and I’ve always contributed to that, but I am not going to be forced into paying for cable in addition, which seems the only viable alternative. At least for now, there is still Netflix; but when they phase out DVDs for streaming exclusively (as is inevitable) … Ah, well, the fate of all old fogeys.