Tech cartoons

[Stefto]

well, i think the wally parts is worth reading, i love his procastination behaviour :laugh:

#region(start signature) Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it! \#endregion

[GStrad]

I use that Bobby Tables reference a lot with teams when talking about defensive programming ideas. I find myself surprised how few people have come across it.

[B Clay Shannon]

Possibly your English is not advanced enough to appreciate it; I don't mean this as a slight, just an observation based on my own experience. When I read "Tortilla Flat" in its original and my native language, English, I thought it was the funniest thing since Twain. When I recently re-read it in Spanish (which I understand pretty well, but not at a native speaker level), it was not nearly as funny.

[svella]

For the 20 years I worked for a largish company, Dilbert so closely mirrored what went on in that company it was like Scott worked there too. Now that I'm working at a startup I can still relate but mostly just from past experience.

[Kirk 10389821]

RyanDev wrote:

You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. :-\

Here Here. I worked in an office with a Pointy Haired Like manager, and a guy who WAS TOTALLY WALLY. While some of the humor is a little bizzare, I find I totally relate to it. My daughter is Alice. So much so, that this Halloween, we are doing it Dilbert Themed. I also think it is "irony" based humor. Just look at the "Watch that predicts when people will die in a few minutes", and the companies decision to use Scare Tactic ads (that confuse the users into thinking they may die). Ironic. Almost Realistically sad. And funny because you know the watch will fail because the business can't figure out how to get the ads to make revenue. (Truth portion was that good engineering can be undermined by bad companies. Xerox and the Mouse, GUI, etc.)

[Doug McFarlane]

Here's one I started reading, very tech funny. http://MetaphoricalInking.com[^]

[Bruce Patin]

Please send a link to a video of you tripping over a network cable or something. I've been practicing my Viking guffaw, with some tips from my wife. :-)

[patbob]

We get older and the jokes aren't new (to us) anymore, so they stop being funny. I noticed that as I matured, the other comics got less funny and Doonsbury got funnier.

We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.

[Chuck OHalloran]

RyanDev wrote:

Ron Anders wrote:

I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny

You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. :-\

A sense of humor and a job. In my 20s, my friends would look through my Dilbert and complain that they just weren't funny. Then one of them got a real job (ie, not cleaning pools or making pizzas) and suddenly they started to understand Dilbert and why it's funny.

[obermd]

Dilbert, non Sequitor, and Unshelved are the only three I follow. All three range from outright hilarious to h'uh, I don't get it. Unshelved is Dilbert for librarians.