Still not individual enough. It’s only individual if I build my own phone from recycled spare parts and with my own custom kernel. And even then, it stops being individual as soon as it’s published on Make.
It just occured to me that if you turn Girl’s head upside down, she turns into a serious-looking bald guy with a goatee and a high forehead. Cat turns into a thoughtful Cubist vampire or something.
It seems to me that as long as you care that people perceive you as an individual, and believe that your possessions contribute to this perception, you will never be an individual.
But then, I haven’t watched a television advertisment in ten years. I”m a bit out of touch.
Ouch, You hipsters ruined apple for the rest of us. I liked their stuff before it was cool. (Irony level 10)
Love the comic and commentators, I think speculation under the comic might be an integral part of the experience of the comic itself. That and the little bit of me that dies inside whenever Girl makes a point.
I made my own phone when I was 16 years old. It was a little easier in those days because phones didn’t have computers in them. In fact, almost nothing except big office buildings and spacecraft had computers in them. Phones connected to a little box on the wall. That was even before plug-in phones.
Yeah, I’m that old.
PS – I also walked 15 miles to school, uphill both ways, in the snow year round. Now get off my lawn.
January 4, 2011
You can always be individual, as long as you’re willing to spend enough.
January 4, 2011
You could always just act different. What happened to the idea that people are not defined by their possessions?
January 4, 2011
I see that Cat works at In n Out. I’ve long admired their laconic menu.
Actually I take that back. I doubt Spartans ate much fast food.
January 4, 2011
Hey hey wait. Was Girl sleeping standing up? She really needs to get more rest– that would explain why she hasn’t gotten any taller over the years.
January 4, 2011
Girl needs to check more offers. Looking around these days, I cannot help thinking that individualism must be on sale somewhere.
January 4, 2011
@Lethargi: … or little enough.
January 4, 2011
Oh cheese, now I want a chamburgurgle
January 4, 2011
Nothing individual about iPhone. Pick out something running Android.
January 4, 2011
Still not individual enough. It’s only individual if I build my own phone from recycled spare parts and with my own custom kernel. And even then, it stops being individual as soon as it’s published on Make.
January 4, 2011
It just occured to me that if you turn Girl’s head upside down, she turns into a serious-looking bald guy with a goatee and a high forehead. Cat turns into a thoughtful Cubist vampire or something.
It seems to me that as long as you care that people perceive you as an individual, and believe that your possessions contribute to this perception, you will never be an individual.
But then, I haven’t watched a television advertisment in ten years. I”m a bit out of touch.
January 4, 2011
Oh, just knit your own phone.
January 4, 2011
The best way to be an individual is to not give a damn about being an individual.
January 4, 2011
Yeah, or just get a Motorola F3. It does three things:
It makes and receives calls:
It sends and receives texts:
It has an alarm.
That’s it. The battery will last about a month on standby. None of your friends will have one.
January 4, 2011
Last panel is hilarious.
January 4, 2011
Want to be an individual? There’s an ap for that.
January 4, 2011
I’d buy an upside-down-Cat-picture-T-shirt with “thoughtful Cubist vampire” written under it.
Dorothy, you’re a genius. This is a fantastic comic, an awesome addition to your portfolio. Oh, and your commenters are hilarious :-)
January 4, 2011
I would prefer no choice. One bread. One milk. One food. That’s all.
January 5, 2011
All her friends at school were non-conformists/ So she became a non-conformist too…
January 5, 2011
What Krimson said.
January 6, 2011
i dont own a cell phone! does that make me a failure as an individual? or maybe Im not even in the individual race at all! eeek!
Gareth
January 6, 2011
Ouch, You hipsters ruined apple for the rest of us. I liked their stuff before it was cool. (Irony level 10)
Love the comic and commentators, I think speculation under the comic might be an integral part of the experience of the comic itself. That and the little bit of me that dies inside whenever Girl makes a point.
January 6, 2011
@mdmadph: Henry Jenkins is squealing with delight.
January 9, 2011
Individuals use those old bulky cell phones that you wore or carried around in a bag.
January 19, 2011
Reject the terms offered by society! The issue becomes null and void.
January 24, 2011
I made my own phone when I was 16 years old. It was a little easier in those days because phones didn’t have computers in them. In fact, almost nothing except big office buildings and spacecraft had computers in them. Phones connected to a little box on the wall. That was even before plug-in phones.
Yeah, I’m that old.
PS – I also walked 15 miles to school, uphill both ways, in the snow year round. Now get off my lawn.
August 4, 2011
okay, Mr. Lapin… (stupid old man with his monoculture and sarcastic stereotype….)