Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for March 24, 2022

The simple pleasures

Made by the same people that made the clocks for VCR’s

yeah like …. what’s the use of smart phones? I mean, why do they call it phones anyway

I have the same problem with smart watches. I never know what time it is, unless I check my smart phone – you know, the one I’m still trying to figure out how to use to make a phone call.

Go boil some water and have some tea. It’s a lot simpler to do.

You need to tell it your wifi password so it can connect to the cloud before it will make coffee.

But some guy in Japan just called to complain.

Oh, for the ‘good ole’ days in the Q.C. Lab with our original ‘Mister Coffees’ ! ! !

I remember ads for the Coffee Mate coffee maker with a built in timer. It was all the rage, long ago. But, I don’t recall them touting the taste of the coffee.

One of the six beverages that shaped world history. . .

Hence his visit to this fine establishment.

It is one of the large class of gadgets that I call “feature encumbered” devices.

I’ve been making coffee in my ancient but functional (just plug it in) percolator. I don’t know what I’ll do when it finally quits, since they don’t seem to make them anymore. But, at my age, it’s merely a question of which of the two of us will expire first. (The odds makers have that bet currently at “too close to call.”) 8>)

There’s an easy 17-letter code you have to use to make it do coffee.

Modern tech. Give your product more functions every year, that way you can charge a lot more for every “new” version.

“How’s the coffee?”

“Expensive.”

Keurig forever! Mine will last nearly that long because I only use distilled water in it.

Since it was ground just a few seconds before it was brewed, it probably tastes like mud.

Trouble brewing.

Shoe paid for an expensive new coffee maker?

Sounds like Qwilleran’s “computerized coffee maker.”

I like my coffee dark and bitter… just like my first military supervisor.

A simple case of overcomplicationitis.