I’m quite fond of the electric grid. And I’d love to be part of the “fast internet” grid. But I’m strongly opposed to not only HAVING spies in my home but PAYING their vendors to place them there.
Reminds me, in 10 minutes I have to check the charge on the battery for my phone. I do it twice a day. My app tells me, I’m up to 12 or 15 minutes a week!!
I spent 38 years on the bleeding edge of technology. It got old having to learn a new field every 2-3 years. Now, unless I really need tech, I do without.
A family group was recently discovered who had died over the winter trying to live “off the grid”. My family spent generations trying to get “on the grid”. These days we are all interdependent. We have to make the grid more efficient and planet-friendly.
There was a National Lampoon parody song about a commune that wintered in the Rockies and “ran out of things to smoke and eat and say”.
Your smart phone is a tool, just like a hammer. You don’t carry your hammer around with you all day do you? When you are done with your job, put your tools away.
“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my phone.” —Bjarne Stroustrup
Premise: The average person makes many major purchases, such as a home, a car, a tv, a major appliance, shop tools, vacation home, etc.
?? _How is it that none of the sellers can later notify him/her that they must give up those things because there are new models and the mfgs will no longer support the original purchases?_
And yet, cell phone and software publishers are allowed to do that at will, resulting in massive discards of perfectly useful digital items, supposedly ‘outdated’ media, with great inconvenience and costs to users.
In case, you’re wondering, I’m agin’ it, and would like to see some regulation to prohibit that activity. Would also – with no hope of it ever happening – like to see those companies return unused fees and unit costs to those forced to make the changes.
H-m-m-m-m as I reread this I’m picturing a snowball in a environmental hot spot with no chance of survival.
Ratkin Premium Member over 1 year ago
pre-prepped
rmremail over 1 year ago
And remember, Eddie votes, and is a demographic actively courted by both parties.
sirbadger over 1 year ago
For cartoon characters, the grid is graph paper.
Erse IS better over 1 year ago
I’m quite fond of the electric grid. And I’d love to be part of the “fast internet” grid. But I’m strongly opposed to not only HAVING spies in my home but PAYING their vendors to place them there.
einarbt over 1 year ago
Back to the caves …
Imagine over 1 year ago
Ignorance is bliss?
Cornelius Noodleman over 1 year ago
Was this comic created by AI?
boniface22 over 1 year ago
Very apt.
cdward over 1 year ago
If you never had it, you don’t miss it. Fortunately, people adapt. Once it’s gone, you learn how to get by without. At least enough do.
keenanthelibrarian over 1 year ago
A cat, a pipe (that’s always lit) and a drink – Eddie’s happy. Oh, and a boat. Who wouldn’t be?
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 1 year ago
Reminds me, in 10 minutes I have to check the charge on the battery for my phone. I do it twice a day. My app tells me, I’m up to 12 or 15 minutes a week!!
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Don’t give in, stop buying expensive gadgets just because everybody else does….think about it! Just think how much more money you would have?
Points to ponder
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
LOVE the Kitty! ☺️
MS72 over 1 year ago
We’re in a diner, so it must be a GRIDDLE!
DaBump Premium Member over 1 year ago
Yep, best way to get off drugs is never to start in the first place.
david_42 over 1 year ago
I spent 38 years on the bleeding edge of technology. It got old having to learn a new field every 2-3 years. Now, unless I really need tech, I do without.
bclark42 over 1 year ago
If that’s true, it’s no wonder the Big Orange Head smiles all the time.
nosirrom over 1 year ago
I still have a drawer full of paper maps, just in case.
daynage21 over 1 year ago
As a New England native, I love the accent Wiley conveys so well.
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
You make Waffles on the Grid, eh yah’.
rugeirn over 1 year ago
What we have lost is the ability to entertain ourselves out of what we have within ourselves and the ability to endure boredom patiently.
ManiacEx over 1 year ago
Can’t miss what you don’t know is there.
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
A family group was recently discovered who had died over the winter trying to live “off the grid”. My family spent generations trying to get “on the grid”. These days we are all interdependent. We have to make the grid more efficient and planet-friendly.
There was a National Lampoon parody song about a commune that wintered in the Rockies and “ran out of things to smoke and eat and say”.
Bruce1253 over 1 year ago
Your smart phone is a tool, just like a hammer. You don’t carry your hammer around with you all day do you? When you are done with your job, put your tools away.
Alexander the Good Enough over 1 year ago
As the saying goes among the IT cognoscenti, “Dumb people use smartphones, smart people use dumb phones!”
ladykat over 1 year ago
Eddie and Paulie live a simple life.
DM2860 over 1 year ago
First, get a boat.
Second, start visiting other worlds with it.
KEA over 1 year ago
Just saw a story where a family of 3 tried to live off the grid and died of starvation.
KEA over 1 year ago
btw… James Burke did a TV series in 1978 that explained the Technology Trap we live in. (it’s only gotten “trappier”)
preacherman Premium Member over 1 year ago
Why even ask Eddie, the fossil fuel burning sailor, about living off the grid?
Can't Sleep over 1 year ago
We’d all be happier if we’d never heard of Elon Musk.
anomaly over 1 year ago
If you like reading a screen, you’ll probably like reading books, too.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 1 year ago
“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my phone.” —Bjarne Stroustrup
sandpiper over 1 year ago
While we are on the subject, here’s my question.
Premise: The average person makes many major purchases, such as a home, a car, a tv, a major appliance, shop tools, vacation home, etc.
?? _How is it that none of the sellers can later notify him/her that they must give up those things because there are new models and the mfgs will no longer support the original purchases?_
And yet, cell phone and software publishers are allowed to do that at will, resulting in massive discards of perfectly useful digital items, supposedly ‘outdated’ media, with great inconvenience and costs to users.
In case, you’re wondering, I’m agin’ it, and would like to see some regulation to prohibit that activity. Would also – with no hope of it ever happening – like to see those companies return unused fees and unit costs to those forced to make the changes.
H-m-m-m-m as I reread this I’m picturing a snowball in a environmental hot spot with no chance of survival.
haasmeister over 1 year ago
I’ve retired and I no longer work on any committees, public or private. I am very happy not knowing all those extra details. Yes, ignorance is bliss.
SofaKing over 1 year ago
I visited New England a few years ago, I couldn’t find this diner anywhere.
Jingles over 1 year ago
one power line, a telephone party-line (remember?), and one tv station we could barely pick up, 40 miles away. it wasn’t off-grid, but dam near.
dimndno over 1 year ago
I really love the conversations between these three!
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
You’re off the grid when you spend two thirds of your life lost at sea—-whether you’re on water OR land.