Pickles by Brian Crane for June 15, 2013

Earl will “boot” it right out the door.

Then it will snicker at you, Earl.

Earl’s computer can’t be any more worse than the Foxes’ computer with an attitude from “FoxTrot.”

Grandma used to slap the side of the old TV when it acted up.

Would those be your engineer boots, Earl?

One brand of ancient mainframes used to have several levels of “reboot” named “6 boot”, “9 boot”, etc to indicate the size of the boot being applied. I kept expecting someone to sneak in a 12 1/2 DDD boot

I’ve felt that way more than once. :)

It might fit in a size 13 1/2.

My first computer was a Commodore 64. One had to be precise in typing instructions, and I’m not detail-oriented in that way, always making just one little mistake, and getting constant error messages. .Several times I very nearly, about this close (I’m holding my thumb and index finger about a millimeter apart), threw the thing out the window. My next computer, with Windows 3.0, was much better..Computers today practically run themselves, and once people get past the strange metaphors for actions and commands they should have fun. I think Earl’s grandson put something in to make that snorting sound. I once put in some Three Stooges sounds — and that lasted about 30 seconds before I yanked them off.

Earl and I think alike. Although, at times, I like a trip out of the second floor window for my computer, myself.

I don’t think Earl understands or speaks computereese.

Earl’s computer literacy reminds me of that of Grandpa from The Boondocks.

look at the monitor. No wonder it snorts, it’s about 20 years old.

It’s either the NSA or IRS snorting at Earl’s attempt at Angry Birds.

Having had to learn to operate a computer, out of self-defense, in the old green-screen DOS days, I am ecstatic about how much simpler systems have become. My grandson has no idea that you once had to “write” a program and that short cuts were by using the CTRL and ALT buttons plus a number sequence. Instead of pointing and clicking with your mouse, you actually had to write out the entire URL in order to get to a program.To find GoComics you’d have to write a search that looked like this: https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&rlz=1G1TSNDCENUS513&q=gocomics&oq=goc&gs_l=igoogle.1.0.0l6j0i10j0l3.25487.42395.0.45223.6.5.1.0.0.0.182.490.4j1.5.0…0.0…1ac.1.9p79_1CsF7UMaybe not quite that long but you get the idea. Earl should quite complaining.

My history with these things goes back several years before PC’s with CRT monitors. Human interface was commonly a panel of blinking lights, a typewriter (the old kind with bars that whacked the paper through an inked ribbon), and a card reader. I’ve been snorted, honked, beeped, and even sparked at. Never met one that loved me.

My first computer was a Texac Instrument TI.God, I’m old!

Is it hard to beleive there are people like him in this world, great to read in a cartoon but to stay away from in real life.

Your Doc Martens, Earl?

LOL xxx

I think Nelson is under the desk playing a prank.

I used to have software a long time ago, that made it sound like a toilet flushing when you used the disk drive. They used to have several practical jokes you could use.

I’m so old I remember when you’d tell a computer what to do and it did it. Today the computer tells you what to do (and too bad if that’s not what you wanted! )

I took a class where we wrote 1401 machine language. What a pain! It used B for branches, and you had to branch to an exact address. If you changed the code, you had to update all of the branches.

Assembler wasn’t much fun either. For a simple add statement, we had to move both values to registers, then add them, then move them back.