The Best

One of the challenges about creating a comic strip is giving each cartoon a name that is descriptive, but does not give away the final punchline. Today's is a good example of that challenge. I suppose I could have named each one of the auto-complete series a name starting with Auto-Complete and then the mistyped word. However, when I started it, I did not know it would be a multi-day series. So, I could have called today's strip "Good Week," but I decided a better name would be the final text and the ambiguity introduced there. Why? What would you have called it?

Piers

Today's auto-correct idea came straight from a pair of messages passed through our internal company Facebook-like application. As always, when auto-correct is turned on, and you mistype even one letter, you never know what word will be suggested, I guess someone typed in 'pi' and accepted the proposed word of 'piers' when they wanted to write 'peers.'

Pop In The Shower

Spell-check is a wonderful thing. I know it has saved me a number of times from sending out misspellings, although I rarely accept the grammatical corrections it recommends. Still, there are times when the auto-complete function is not as thorough, especially if you fat-finger words anyway.

Next Great Thing

Here's an example of me digging until I found something buried. The only idea listed in my file was Windows 3 X 3. So I needed to decide why the characters would even bring that up and then where it would lead. So I wrote that joke in, then added something about Mac OS, then finally found that it was about predicting the next great thing that would come along in 2011.

Cabinet on TV

I don't know. Somehow, I was surfing the interweb last night and found a news story about a legal ruling that could allow boobs to be shown on TV. So, the idea of an alternate definition of the word came to mind and I decided that could apply to a lot of different groups of people. Obama's cabinet seemed to be an easy target, even though I had to look up some names to even know who to reference.

Dongle

The term dongle, while common in an I.T. setting, may be unfamiliar to the average computer user. According to Wikipedia, it first came into use in the U.K. in 1980 referring to a piece of hardware you had to plug into the back of a computer to use a certain software. It has now become more generic and it defined as noted in today's cartoon. A friend and I were talking about having taken the corporate Harassment class and wondered what they would want us to call it. So, that became today's CoV.

Business Intelligence

A lot of people talk about business intelligence, and I know that it is an important corporate strategy for US businesses. However, the two separate words can also be applicable to help businesses. Today's cartoon explores the misinterpretation these words can cause.