I decided to put my comment here, b/c I’m not so much responding to either article, but doing what Tom did, which is to have a different inspiration off that comic. … So there is the clear aspect said about “no pain, no gain” in the strip that the father is saying quite specifically. That when things become too easy there is a loss of appreciation. This is usually the mantra of the previous generation to the new ones. You don’t appreciate what you have. Or if life was harder you wouldn’t be so “whatever is bugging them now”.

But then the last frame brings it all to light. The old do try to join the new in some aspects of life and in those aspects they want it easy. “How can I turn this off?” “How can I set my VCR?” and many others face those of the previous generations. They say they want “no pain, no gain”, but what they are really asking for is respect for their own accomplishments and how those accomplishments have led to what we have taken over.

One day, we are going to look at our kids in the eye and say, “But I had to code my text-based blog so it worked with 20 different non-standard browsers. … You’ve got it easy w/ that new fangled multimedia-mobile based/administered thing you now call a blog! … Now, shut up and smile while I try to capture this moment on my video phone and send it back to my friends back home in Florida.” (for the international readers, Florida is famous not only for illegal voter tampering, but also as a place with a lot of retirees.)

You drew me all wrong! I’m not bald & I have a full beard. My glasses aren’t that shape, either.

Yeah, I guess it would make sense for Grandpa to have a UNIX beard. Although he doesn’t like FORTRAN or mice… so maybe he is even more old school than that!

It’s not funny at all

When I was a boy.. we had cassettes for music.. :p

(What’s a cassette?)

this isn’t funny:S

oh, c’mon people - 8-tracks
(make it stop!! it just keeps going and going!)