Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 21, 2013
Transcript:
Danae: So what is this thing anyway? Robot: Hey! I'm not a thing! I'm a first-generation Meglin-PI! But my friends call me Nick. Jeffrey: The recycle bin that I rescued you from... is that where your friends put you when the second generation came out? Robot: Ok, that's what we call our retirement plan... Jeffrey: Actually, so do we, but that's not the point, Nick...
Linguist over 11 years ago
As the voice from the dumpster, I concur !
Darsan54 Premium Member over 11 years ago
OHMIGAWD!!! A robot NERD !!! We’re doomed !!!
Linux0s over 11 years ago
Looks like USB really is future-proof.
reatta45 over 11 years ago
Can’t be an iBot, it has a USB port.
bluskies over 11 years ago
Could he be “The Nick of Time”?
firedome over 11 years ago
the meglin bot is MAD!
AKHenderson Premium Member over 11 years ago
Danae needs to teach the robot how to spin.
Pretend I didn’t say that.
Varnes over 11 years ago
It’s nice to see Danae and Jeffrey doing things together…it’s sweet….
Varnes over 11 years ago
I wonder what sort of sound Nick makes when he’s running…?
jreckard over 11 years ago
Pi2 … like “Pi II” in today’s Brevity.Unless it’s pronounced “pitoo”
tripwire45 over 11 years ago
Jeffrey has a very astute sense of what retirement is for a kid, even if he is a genius.
emptc12 over 11 years ago
Once the recycle bin is full, it’s taken to Robot Resources, the various usable parts re-assigned..Remember when Personnel Departments switched their names to Human Resources? I had this mental image of drawers of body parts to be matched and assembled for whatever employee was needed. This strip shows the possible further evolution of that concept.
gosfreikempe over 11 years ago
That’s a good name, since Jeffery nicked him from the recycling bin and from the future.
FearlessFreep over 11 years ago
@firedome I just saw today’s strip. I got it right away. A famous name to some of us. ;-)
dabugger over 11 years ago
recycle or retirement? is there a difference? Wiley, what are ya really telling us? look at poor Danae, relegated to ‘observer’, or maybe a witness of historical significance …..
Linguist over 11 years ago
Retirement : Relegation to the Trash Bin of Time !
Ernest Lemmingway over 11 years ago
If Moore’s Law (the processing power of computers will double every eighteen months) is still true in the future, the rate at which one generation consumes the previous and assumes power will be ridiculous. Was Pi-squared here put out to pasture, so to speak, at two years of age?
Rickapolis over 11 years ago
Nick needs a happier face.
oarcoman over 11 years ago
Meglin-Pi squared makes me think of 2 really big Pizzas…..YUMMM
jahoody over 11 years ago
@Radish……….he should run for political office….he’d fit right in with all the other alien life forms.
Caddy57 over 11 years ago
Heaven help them all if Meglin meets that other creature that feeds on emotion…..it could be the end of life as we know it for those guys!