Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 07, 2015
January 06, 2015
January 08, 2015
Transcript:
Frazz: So Sensei is enjoying the empty gift boxes? Caulfield: The only thing that gets her out of a box is the next box. I spent most of my break juggling the cat from box to box! While my brand new iPhone sat unused. Frazz: I'm guessing your folks are absolutely fine with that.
What, I wonder, makes whiling away one’s spare moments playing with a kitten somehow “better” than whiling away one’s spare moments playing with an iPhone game? It is a serious question, since as far as I can tell neither activity is particularly productive, nor particularly harmful. Both are just passing some time doing something moderately amusing. So why is one “good” and the other “bad”? I say this as somebody who has neither a cat nor a smartphone, and who hasn’t played a digital game since, oh, the days of “Colossal Cave Adventure.” (I have petted a cat more recently.)