To my mom’s credit, this event took place years ago and she has since become fairly technology savvy. She eventually got a computer made after the 90′s and even has an iphone. I don’t even have an iphone and I do all my comics work on a 7 year old PC. However she still does not have wireless and her connection is shit. Also a few months ago she called to ask if we could Skype on her new computer and I said sure and she said “ok, how do I dial your computer?” and I said, “have you downloaded Skype yet?” and she was all, “what? I have to download something?” and then I made fun of her on the internet. Hi ma! Love you!
ps. Have you read Lisa Hanawalt’s illustrated review of War Horse? Even if you hate horses and/or war, it’s still the best. (Lisa’s review, not the movie. I have no intention of seeing it, sounds like the worst)
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I’m with you. Horseys in peril during dumb, nihilistic, meaningless war that ruined civilization for four generations is not something I’m all that into.
I think you may have meant to say “dial-up” instead of “cable” in the second panel.
This reminds me of computing conversations I used to have with my Mom. She seemed convinced that Outlook Express was how she connected to the internet for the longest time…
Hi Jule,
Love you, too!
Like my new iphone. Signed up on twitter….keeping my eye on you! Love, mom
god, ma, you’re embarrassing me!
This is just like my father. He spent a year or two trying to figure out how to send emails without help.
Hahahaha I have conversations like this with colleagues of mine.
i like that you dressed up to hang with yr ma.
Actually, your mom was correct. She could put a wireless card in her PC and share the Internet over an ad-hoc connection.
Actually, your mum could put a wireless card in her computer, and give you wireless. You could use this to connect to her internet. You would still have the problem of a slow connection though.
Yep, I kinda agree. World war I was a war where, ground soldiers were really nearly defenseless to giant slaughtering forces IMO. IMO, it was kind of like watching 5 people having a slap fight with one guy…you just watch as the outnumbered + outmatched person(s) get pounded.
Hee hee! yeah, I have similar talks with my parents. My dad gets mad when we see a Clint Eastwood film, where Clint is a bad guy, so I keep R rated + “unhappy films” away from him.
My dad asks me if he should he see Pulp fiction? And I say: No, dad…just DON’T. You’ll feel better by not seeing it, dad!
Ah yes…families. Heh, heh!
Nah, get a nice wireless router from J&R, hook it up to the cable modem, create your own WPA2 protected network so people don’t hack your credit card to hell, and the trick she is done. You CAN just have it these days because TWC doesn’t give a shit so long as they only see one device, which is what your wireless router was meant to do, share the one IP with all the wireless devices.
The only problem here is that mums never want understand that you have to leave for any amount of time. That´s just mums