Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 16, 2015

Here is where I write “Hey fist comment!” and it urns out somebody beat me by a second or something…

Oh, rats, I was wrong. Well, not the first time…..

So in serious business meetings we are no longer going to vote ‘yay’ or’ ‘nay’, but ‘like’ and ‘dislike’? And I suppose when something is defeated, we will see the boss telling the proposer of the motion that they’ve been ‘unfriended’…-Blech….

As far as the cartoon….The funny part is that he has five digits on the hand he has in the air…..Heeee!

-What was the question again? I didn’t hear it…

Death before going digital??!! Then we are surely not in his demographic, are we? Otherwise, how would we know?

my thingy, won’t inlarge the picture???

Once saw a 50ish guy and young girl (10-12) in a restaurant. I’m assuming divorced dad doing quality time with daughter. Both on their phones. No clue if they were “connected” to each other.

It’s even more scary when folks are “not there” when driving.I love being in the real world. Don’t Farcebook, Twitter twat, or text, other than a comment or 4 in cartoon sections or news. Don’t even have a stupid ‘smart phone’. Yup, I’m 79 and knocking on the door of 80.

So is that one person standing up to something? It does look like most on the board is very preoccupied.

My comment to this strip has been written on a slip of paper and put into what they tell me is a server.

How did he get all those documents?

Looks like just one using digits to vote, the rest are playing games and checking email on their phones.

Varnes: Your comment is the first “fist comment”. Wiley is one of the few cartoonists that has characters with four fingers and a thumb. (Look to the right where it says: Congratulations, Wiley!)

I’m sitting at a lake reading the morning comics on this computer, my pocket computer is plugged in here at the table.Of course if I was reading this comic in the paper I wouldn’t really have this chance to interact.

argy.bargy2: I know the feeling, but I have 81 as an excuse – for another three months.

“The Machine Stops”, great classic movie/social commentary for future generations.

Dear Wiley,The baby geeks who cut their teeth on the TRS-80 are now 50 years old or older. You are about twenty years too late with your humor. Now, you just look embarrassingly ageist.

palos, my second post was the one that ended up being wrong..It really did look like I was the first one when I posted it, not that that means anything, I’ve just seen many people say “Hey, first comment!” and it’s the second comment…just like what happened to me….It cracks me up…..

For someone who wrote his first computer program in 1966 and had his first cell phone in 1986, I’m remarkably behind the times. I don’t mind accessing information when I want it. I don’t like information accessing me when I don’t.

If I don’t answer my non-smart cell phone, there’s a reason for it. That’s what text messaging and voice mail are for: my convenience. I’ll deal with you when I’m darn good and ready to, dagnabbit!

I used to share an office with my immediate supervisor and he would tap me on the shoulder and say "Hey I just sent you an e-mail…’ I would just look at him and continue what I was working on… then he’d say ‘well aren’t you going to read it? I’d answer, ‘Later, if it’s content isn’t important enough for you to tell me vocally, it can wait.’ After a few similar exchanges he started to talk to me about what he needed and then send an email to confirm and for file.

I have a smartphone. Comes in handy after I have shut the computer down and then realize there was something I wanted to look up on the internet. … On the other hand – I have call display & voice mail. So if I don’t recognize your phone number, I don’t answer. That’s why the voice mail. But I’m with Mr Hand in the Air NEVER GOING TO!. I like the toys. They are toys. But I still end up dragging myself kicking and screaming on to the next century. Its always so much work to get things sorted and working!