Close to Home by John McPherson for September 14, 2023

No wonder there’s a chip shortage

Rich in minerals and trace metals

he is ram-ing those snacks down his throat Those are some nice memories!,

You should try the new nachol flavored chips

That’s a lot of bytes.

When I worked for one of the pioneer chip makers (too many years ago) I had a box of unmounted silicon chips. I probably tossed them somewhere in the Santa Cruz mountains. Still have a large silicon wafer from my very last job (oops).

MST3K Early Years, Joel fed the ’bots RAMCHIPS as a reward.

Bleeb is in the picture waving.

The Tinman in retirement watching Turner Classics.

Probably watching The Butlerian Jihad series now streaming.

Just take one byte!

I’m pretending that’s a window behind him, and there’s a cat trying to hide behind that tree.

Isn’t that like eating monkey brain chips?

Glad Bleeb’s out of harms way!

Bleeb is in the pasture eating buffalo chips!

Computer chips! That’s hilarious! Excuse me while I laugh in binary…

0110100001100001 – 0110100001100001 – 0110100001100001

They come in two flavours, Silicon and Gallium Arsenide.

I wonder if he showed up for the Chargers-Dolphins game

What. No can of oil to wash the chips down?

Bet you can’t eat just one.

That must be a rich android. Computer chips are expensive and those look like the cheese flavored variety. Very rare.

Ain’t data strange thing to snack on?

Would you like a bowl of grease for dipping, Sir?

Velly cleber cartoonman…

What flavor the chips?

Dynamic RAM (DRAM)

Static RAM (SRAM)

Non-volatile RAM (NVRAM)

Ferroelectric RAM (FRAM)

Non-volatile static RAM (NVSRAM)

Is there a choice of flavors??

Lots of good pun comments today. Some days ,they are as much fun to read as the cartoon!

“Ow! That’s my brain!” ~Bender “Bending” Rodriguez

AI has taken over Close To Home!!

Zombie robot? Eating brains.

Mmmm – computer chips sound good. I better clear the cookies from my browser pantry first to make room.