One of the founding principles of this blog is that a good cartoon spurs not just laughter, but thought. Today’s lesson is on how little the intent of the cartoon directs the tone of those thoughts.If you read the comments (and this is one of the few web sites where they won’t send you into […]
So the latest thing is using fingerprints instead of passwords, and passwords will now become as passé as blogs and laptops, according to the Great Gods of Silicon. Which is like Gatorade announcing that it has some great new flavors and the basic green flavor simply isn’t cool anymore, except that there aren’t a lot […]
On The Fastrack often features geek humor, but it acknowledges the culture without kowtowing to it. And, in contrast to the wildly popular but still niche-y Penny Arcade, it does so on a level that is accessible to the general public, assuming the general public is somewhat computer literate.Which is to say, those who may […]
So I’m pretty much okay with growing old, and, no, not “older” in the chipper, gray-haired Peter-Pan jogger sense but in the sweaty, foam-flecked “past the clubhouse turn and into the stretch” sense. I was taking a shortcut through the cemetery yesterday and noted that there are people there who were kids for the War […]
If it worked as easily in real life as it does at On The Fastrack, I’d have been a video star at one paper.As it was, management did have someone go around identifying and marking spots for cameras and we all got appropriately indignant and paranoid, but it never happened.I suspect they discovered that it […]
Between Friends bemoans what is, IMHO, not the degradation of our culture so much as the revelation of it.I suspect we’ve always had roughly the same total number of brain cells globally, but simply weren’t hearing from everyone.Think of it as a liquid, once kept in a tall vase with a narrow neck, the exposed […]
Today’s On The Fastrack cracked me up.A million panhandler cartoons have gone for topical jokes about the economy, but they’re so expected that it’s hard for them to come out of hiding with a punchline. Panhandler with a sign, read the sign, get a laugh, sure. Nothing wrong with them, but nothing surprising, either.And, of […]
Bill Holbrook is incredibly prolific, with three different daily strips going, two (On the Fastrack and Safe Havens) in syndication and one (Kevin and Kell) on-line.Fastrack is the geeky one and, as I struggle with a new computer, this gag rings just as true as it did in 2007. Yes, I know I can probably […]
On the Fastrack, one of Bill Hobrook’s three daily strips (!), is office humor, which tends to be a little tedious, but Hobrook has mitigated that threat by centering on high tech humor and letting the Dagwood/Dithers cliches at least play out in a more focused arena. There are days it is incredibly geeky […]