For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 24, 2025

I heard a guy once who was loudly ranting that new programs were purposely developed by computer makers to be unrunnable on older, weaker computers, and that the entire and only purpose of new programs was to require people to buy a newer computer. He was adamant that there ought to be a law that all programs be usable on any old computer.

…and gets back after your body does.

Elly looks amazingly like Michael in the last panel.

By the time you get there, your mind has had 3 fruity rum drinks with a paper umbrella.

Fisher Price has made toy computers since the 80s

I never had a problem with going, just with coming back.

Once you are on vacation the only thing on your mind will be the return to work.

And the anticipation lasts longer than the vacation.

So to anyone who was working with computers in the mid-nineties (while I only played games on them), I gotta ask: Is that something a person might actually say? “I’ve lost the file on adventure novels, classic”? As in, did people lose files?

It’s call “Vacation mode”. Your brain goes on vacation a week or so before your actual vacation and sometimes stays a week or two after it’s over. Hoppen’s to me all of the time.

I was a programmer for a company that was a software vendor for insurance. I approached my boss and asked why don’t we make the software more user friendly. He said if we did that we wouldn’t have to keep “improving” it and lose money. I also got in trouble for actually helping the client when they called me. I was supposed to tell them to go to their contact with the company and pay extra for the privilege of my help.