Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 01, 2011

Dang, this is exciting!

They’re catching up on the last month of Dick Tracy

Uh, oh! Dick Locker’s taken over Doonesbury!

I wonder if these two are armed? Can you tell just by looking at them?

Dick Tracey would’ve given his right arm for a BlackBerry or iPhone - the 2-Way Wrist TV is pathetic comparatively…I could tie mine into NICS, NCIC, III, and Interpol.

Easily.

Orion

It,s like watching paint dry and half as exciting!!

That’s some FourSquare session.

I like the way the overhead light moves to show the passage of time.

I must be terribly old, when I hear the word “foursquare”, I think of a game we played as children.

Did I miss a memo? Is the strip on hiatus?

No, sandfan, not hiatus, just irrelevance. It’s GT pattern to do a week or so of interesting, current events topics followed by a week or so of … something else.

@wndrwrthg - when I hear “foursquare,” I think of the Pentecostal denomination started by Aimee Semple MacPherson in the 1920s. So don’t feel bad.

They’re communicating by free association.

GT’s little allegory of us Doonesbury readers?

(The light moves for us, but not for them)

@rayannina and wndrwrthg - or a Craftsmen/Arts & Crafts style house. (but my first thought was of the game!)

Good catch, rhugins, like the sun moving through the sky. I missed that first time around.

I’d say lunch lasted from about 11:15 to 2:30 so far.

McFriendly’s

The two are following tweets of relevance. Jeff is following Egypt thinking of how he can weasel into it. Zipper must be following Alex’s blog.

Considering the way that the room they are in turned dark in panel 3 and light again in panel 4, those two must have been blackberrying all night!! The note in panel 4 should read “Next Day…”!

Thirdguy, Justice22 (followup from yesterday): No, it’s a co-ed school; that’s what makes it so much fun… As for confiscation, I sometimes confiscate phones and PSPs and such and keep ‘em till the end of the hour. In theory I could take the devices down to the dean’s office, but then the helicopter parents have a screaming fit (yes, much to my surprise as well, most of these kids are getting at least three or four texts a day from their parents, who seem to be micro-managing their lives). Not worth it.

BTW… one of the other teachers is an avid gamer, and when he confiscates a game device, he’ll spend a slack period setting himself up as the high score on as many of the games as he can before giving it back to the kid. I’m not a gamer, so I just tend to leave such devices turned on for the whole hour. With any luck, when the kid gets it back the battery is dead.

Puddleglum I know exactly what you mean about the parents. But if it is a district-wide rule, no exceptions, then the onus is not put on the teacher. If parents are made to understand, that any distraction in the classroom, either from them, or the smartphone, or the PSP, inhibits their childs education, they would hopefully comply. I realize, that I am preaching to the choir. :-) Let me just add, that it can be done if the will is there. As I said yesterday, that is the rule in our district. The parents understand it and comply with it, and help enforce it.

How on earth did we survive before 24/7 communications???

I take a city bus across lake washington is Seattle every morning. This morning, the Cascades were in silhouette with the sun coming up behind them, “The Mountain” (Rainier) was out. It was beautiful. And most everyone had their eyes on a technicolored screen. I almost said something to them, but didn’t.

And when I hear “foursquare” I think it should end in “meals in a day for cats.”

Sounds like a Tony Robbins spiel and has the same results, Radish.

I know someone who could use a good Tiger Mom.

It doesn’t look like 2nd sister is going to make it through the hoop.

The problem with Twitter: too many twits.

They ordered their meal by tweets and just got the bill in the last panel.

The ceiling lamp got all the action in this toon. It moved from the left side of the panel to the right.