Abacus

19 Responses to “Abacus”

1. steve on June 24th, 2010 12:24 am

   LOL, awesome. better than awesome. pittsburgh!

   i work in IT, so this is fantastic. THANKS DOUG!

   : )

2. masyhur on June 24th, 2010 12:34 am

   
   This made my day!

3. Lee Hadley on June 24th, 2010 1:10 am

   Funny… the IT guy here tried shaking my laptop when it stopped working. Now I know he was using a tried and trusted method thousands of years old!

4. draracle on June 24th, 2010 1:15 am

   This one was just great.

   Could be even legendary, if “rebooting it” was substituted with ITC classic mem “turning it off’n'on again”. But that wouldn’t fit in, would it?

5. Norbert on June 24th, 2010 2:19 am

   Ah, the good old abacus – never used it.

   The comic made me laugh out loud – thanks.

6. Anon. on June 24th, 2010 2:43 am

   It WASN’T the Dark Ages afterall – they did manage to cope with Y1K bug …

7. Ben on June 24th, 2010 3:44 am

   My dad once got told by IT to try rebooting his computer and, being the techno-wiz he is, rang them up asking if they seriously wanted him to kick his computer (it works with my old-school TV, so why not with a computer ey?)

8. panzi on June 24th, 2010 5:00 am

   Awesome.
   Reminds me of this sketch:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ&feature=related

9. Eastman on June 24th, 2010 6:51 am

   Wanted: One Chickens World Cup Vuvuzela comic.

10. berns on June 24th, 2010 6:54 am

    lOL. thanks for making me laugh. I enjoyed it.

11. Justfew on June 24th, 2010 8:25 am

    Was this the stone ages or the feather ages. classic

12. Hugh Chatfield on June 24th, 2010 9:29 am

    Reminds me of the notion of “whack-a-cam”.

    Seems like hundreds of Sony CAM owner were receiving the same error message and could not get their CAMs to work – not even through Sony repair. Then somebody discovered that merely giving the CAM a good whack with your palm on one side would suddenly cause the CAM to spring back into life.

    Eventually someone managed to discover the underlying problem. A rubber pinch roller would ride up its shaft when the retaining ring failed…. giving the error. The whack would most times reseat the pinch roller… and it would spring back into action. This triggered all sort of discussion about how to permanently fix the problem with stuff around the house – sorry no duct tape.

    Key question though was why Sony repair had no idea about the problem.

13. karina on June 24th, 2010 12:24 pm

    And when that doesn’t work punch it in the neck. That was my favorite to tell people. “but it’s a computer there is no neck.” “well there’s your problems then huh.”

14. Raquel on June 24th, 2010 12:57 pm

    lol… too funny Doug, too funny :0)

15. henniemavis on June 24th, 2010 9:11 pm

    Ooo, this is a fun one! Think you can balance my e-banking checkbook with a similar move somehow?

16. Eric on June 25th, 2010 2:29 pm

    I love the obligatory arrogant eye roll of the IT chicken in the last panel. It’s just like a human IT guy! haha

17. EricDoesNotExist on June 27th, 2010 9:43 am

    must…. watch…. IT Crowd….(brains? no, TV)

18. vladimirb on July 18th, 2010 12:48 pm

    Hahahahah this is awesome

19. gary on August 24th, 2010 7:35 am

    hehehehehe….OMG! hilarious! glad i found ur blog, makes for great office reading

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