Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for February 04, 2025

i.e. Twitter.

Wait until he sees the internet.

Ask not for whom the cyborg hunts, Gordon. It hunts for thee.

if Gordon looks long into the abyss….

/// Gordon never had been very keen

on an interface with a machine.

Soon he grew to despise

screens; he liked human eyes

and, while talking, to see and be seen.

When he looks through his window, he sees an apple with a bite out of it, and a large evil web ruled by mice and riddled with bugs. He sees Paradise Lost.

Good morning, Ballard Dears!

The internet isn’t so nice,

On a desktop or handheld device.

Trolls are so mean,

Their comments obscene,

They hide behind keyboards and mice!

There once was a troglodyte, Gord,

a computer he wouldn’t go toward.

Unable to dam, that river of spam,

he decided to just cut the cord…

Gordon is an optimist.

Wait til poor Gordon is introduced to Bitcoin!

It appears Gordon prefers to take the path less traveled.

The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

Good morning Balladeers!

He be correct!

A fair description of the information ‘highway’.

This strip aged well

When Gordon looks over the ruts/

At the the pitiful brain-damaged putz/

The committee just passed/

In its ignorance (vast!)/

He concludes that committee is “nuts” !

Gordon…. Goooor-duuuuunnn………..

Technophobic much, Gordon?

his nickname is “flash (in the pan) drive” gordon…

Shades of “The Three Body Problem.” And amazing trilogy. And the Chinese film adaptation is quite good. I think so far it just covered the first volume or so.