"Flail the Rude Fresco?!" - It's Not the Technology

"Dilbert"
Scott Adams, Dilbert.com (February 9, 2011)



It's anyone's guess, what Dilbert's clueless manager meant by "burped the grope plow armistice" and "flail the rude fresco."

It's the Lemming's opinion that it's not the technology that's at fault here: it's the folks who use it. Or, rather, the cartoon characters. Some folks have a gift for garbling communication: and it's not always a matter of not spelling or saying words correctly. The Lemming's had supervisors who - but that's another topic.

Texting is in the news and views today, by the way. Somewhat seriously:

• "Auto-corrected text leads to killing"
  Technically Incorrect, CNET News (February 14, 2011)
• "Driving while talking on a cell phone will put points on your license"
  WIVB TV (Buffalo, New York) (February 14, 2011)

It's the Lemming's opinion that texting, like anything else that folks do, can be misused. But the problem isn't the technology: It's us. In the Lemming's opinion.

Not-entirely-unrelated posts:

• "Lemming Tracks: a Recovering English Teacher and the Dean's Spellchecker"
  (January 12, 2011)
• "FCC, the Internet, Regulations, Freedom of Speech, and a Ranting Lemming"
  (December 23, 2010)
• "'Manage - - - Like It's the 1800's!' "
  (December 5, 2010)

The Lemming modified the 'embed' code for today's strip. You're looking at a reduced-size copy of the original Dilbert strip, made to fit into this blog's format. The rest of the embed code is as-provided at Dilbert.com. Follow the link and you should see the original 640-pixel-wide graphic.