Using Smartwatches

WOW.  I can't believe that this was the first XKCD I saved, that's almost as crazy as not having found a Dilbert yet. I was reading both of them long before I left Google Reader and started this collection.

This was was long before the Apple watch came out, but it's good to see that Randall used the Smartwatch as an accessory for an Apple iPhone.

I sing the chargers electric

The second half of March was pretty lean as well, but it did contain Abstruse Goose's take on our struggle to keep our gadgets charged.

Driving in Lebanon

The start of March was a bit lean, but does include my first entry from  Sareen Akharjalian's ongoing strip Ink on the Side about middle class life in Lebanon. It's funny seeing how so many of her concerns are shared with "the West" while some are manifestly issues of her homeland.

Anyone who's ever used the Auckland Motorway system will appreciate this view of the Lebanese motorway system.

Dumb Phone February

This is interesting. February 2014 was a month where I only kept enough in my archives to do one page. Obviously I wasn't planning this blog back then. It's been very rewarding reading back through all the strips I kept. Some I had forgotten and others revisited on a regular basis. Some, naturally I no longer understand why I kept them, but you don't get to see them.

The best of the month again goes to Wrong Hands for this piece on the Vintage Smartphone.

That first cup of coffee

I have to admit that I'm a great fan of coffee and not just for the caffeine. When I was a child and long before I drank coffee the grocery shops had large grinders where people selected the coffee they liked and then ground the beans. When I accompanied Mum to the grocers I loved standing by those machines and breathing the coffee aroma.

Wrong Hands gets the first place again on the last day of January 2014 for the caffeine causality loop.

Monotony: an epic tale

A fortnight's worth this time, leading off with an epic tale from John Atkinson's Wrong Hands, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported licence. I like the way he's taken cliche's and turned them into ordinary aspects of everyday life.

Have you had your 'flu shot?

If he's been there long enough to have ripped clothes and grown a beard that long he won't be up-to-date with the flu shots. Sure the desert island gag is a standard, but I'd not seen this specific treatment before and so it worked for me.

Last Minute Gifts

 John Atkinson's Wrong Hands finishes the year with this guide to last minute gifts.

It could almost work if you combines the slow cooker the origami ball and enough blenders :)

Express Queue Panda

Another from Mr Lovenstein is my pick for this week. I know we shouldn't but it's really hard not to agree with the Panda :)

Alphabet of the obsolete

John Atkinson's Wrong Hands published this little memoir of past technologies from the 20th century.

 As I lived through the last 40 years of the 20th century most of these were familiar to me.

A Zillion Dollar Comic

In late 2013 and early 2014 this single frame joke comic registered with me a lot. In November December 2013 ended up saving 8 of them, with a few more in early 2014.

Winning the game

J. L. Westover's Mr Lovenstein made its first appearance in my saved collection this week with this sporting entry.

Every competitor knows this but the press are too dumb to understand what constitutes winning at sport so they insist on asking the dumb questions.

Last kiss for Ant-man

Moving along into November 2013 it's obvious that I discovered John Lustig's "Last Kiss"  around this time.  I saved several of these strips, in their "Go Comics" incarnation. Moving over to his own site much later. Also of note were Chaos Life and The System.

And So It Began

 In the beginning Google shut down Google reader. I was used to getting my news, blogs and web comics via reader so I found myself a replacement. I chose Feed-on-feeds and created a test installation. Around 2 years later I am still using that original install.


At some point in the process I started saving cartoons (web comics) that I found especially poignant or otherwise good.