Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 21, 2021

The housemates were too busy sitting naked at their computers working on their ideas.

I went to MIT, but I guess it was before coding was such a big deal.

And if this were taking place in the present instead of a couple of decades ago when the strip first appeared, she’d be trending on TikTok.

Sometimes when I was coding, I’d get a tingling feeling in my hands.

When you “code” in the hospital, they call for the crash cart.

Alex later went to MIT. Wonder is she did the same thing.

Isn’t Mike more than 20 years older than Kim? A 40-year old guy transferring to MIT so that he can watch a 19-year old code in the nude seems more creepy than romantic.

I attended college in Honolulu. We would have noticed and passed you some suntan lotion. Kamaaina care little sister.

When I was there, there were 4 women in my class. They tended to keep out of sight.

Judging from Mike’s downward eye angle in the last frame, I’d guess he’s fantasizing right now.

Mike needs to let her know that is company policy also.

Hang on, how do we get baby tech geeks if tech geeks are so asexual..?

It’s true…I went to visit some high school friends at MIT and almost everyone we encountered were engrossed in study…

No fooling around there. They stick the garden hose in your ear and turn it up full blast!

What is coding?

I’m with Mike. Just wished my campus had coed dorms. Lol

The old joke is: when you go to commencement at MIT, RPI (Name your favorite technical institution; RPI happens to be the oldest in the US, and where my son received his master’s in nuclear engineering.), etc. and count the professors who do NOT have Asperger’s (or to be up-to-date, are not high functioning on the autism spectrum), they will be in the minority. Then go to a liberal arts college commencement and try to count the professors who do have Asperger’s, they will be hard to find.

I never tried coding while naked. Perhaps it might have increased my efficiency.

I really didn’t understand what he was saying until I read it out loud, with both variants. /tair/ didn’t make sense but neither does tear (in my eye). But IN GERMAN, “Tier” (pronounced like the eye-water tear) means “animal” and would be perfect. Does this word exist in the US as Tier?