Close to Home by John McPherson for June 11, 2020

Bleeb is having a big chuckle. After his alien tech blew up all of their computers.

Should have paid the ransom.

A literal “Bolt out of the Blue”(screen of death)!

If only there was an app like that for spam callers.

Did Bleeb drop his glasses?

This is what really happens the day after Microsoft Patch Tuesday.

EMP! Nearer than you think!

But we saved so much by going with the lowest bidder.

I need a new screen saver.

The computers are getting rid of Coronavirus.

The one guy looks shocked to be there and everyone else is burnt out.

Is this some form of Quickening? (Highlander fans would understand this) ;)

“IT Department, Dave speaking.” “Um, hi Dave, all our computers just blew up at the same time.” “Well, did you try a reboot?” “Um no, they blew up!” “Try this step, CTL-ALT-DEL.!” “Dave, you dolt, they ALL blew up!” “Okay, okay, then I want you to type in this command script: SHIFT•OPTION<<*we\\®•IT•\\&//((dont))<||{give}||<<@>>{{crap}}•ESC

The blue screen of death is getting a bit physical.

IT tech: Can you recreate the failure?

This is why you don’t use 2-prong adaptors on your surge protectors!

Does anyone here get what’s going on? Why are the monitors all breaking?

CRTs used to do this sort of thing when they got old: build up a shockingly good charge on the screen. I have yet to see it with the LCD/OLED monitors.

That’s what happens when everyone in the office is binge watching old tv shows at the same time.

“Did you try rebooting the computer?”