November
by Jeff
Image text: November marks the birthday of Charles Schulz, pioneer of tongue awareness.
This comic is an homage to Charles Schulz the creator of the comic Peanuts, who was born on November 26, 1922. Here's the comic in question by Schulz with Black Hat playing the Linus role, in a way and Cueball, the Lucy role. In both comics, when you start thinking about your tongue, you can't stop thinking about it. Similar in the way that if you start thinking about your breathing, you stop breathing unless you consciously think to breathe.
(ed note: And now I can't stop thinking about my tongue and have to think to breathe...)
This link also indicates that Schulz's comic is not completely about tongue awareness, instead has deeper meaning about one's existence in the world.
iPhone or Droid
by Jeff
Image text: It may be a fundamentally empty experience, but holy crap the Droid's 265 ppi screen is amazing.
More existentialism for your Friday!
The iPhone is a portable computer device and phone that has millions hundreds of thousands of applications or "apps" that can be downloaded to add functionality to the phone. The iPhone commercial tag line is: "There's a app for that" which the question in panel 2 is a reference to. That explanation was for anyone who has been living under a rock for 4 years or is possibly reading this from the past. The iPhone store is notoriously strict in seemingly random times. Some apps will get approved and other similar apps will get rejected.
The Droid is a new portable computer device and phone, the software for this one was developed by Google to go head to head with the increasingly popular iPhone.
Everyone - Am I right about existentialism? Is my forgotten college philosophy failing me?
Collections
by Jeff
Image meta text: You know what really helps an existential crisis? Wondering how much shelf space to leave for a Terry Pratchett collection.
Existentialism is a philosophy revolving around the individual and trying to understand and derive meaning through society and the world at large is an impossible task. The Existential girl in this comic in speaking about the struggles of the individual and the other character is talking about his Kindle.
Kindle is a eBook reader sold by Amazon.com.
Discworld is a fantasy series by Terry Pratchett, there are 36 novels in total. Because there are so many books in the ever-expanding universe created by Terry Pratchett, the image text mentions that one can never have enough space on the shelf because there will always be more novels written.
DRM is short for Digital Rights Management, which is a way for content providers to protect their content. The use of DRM is widely criticized by consumers.
What do you think? Am I right about Existentialism? Do you hate DRM or love Terry Pratchett?