2011-02-17
Original: 2011-02-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: THE DIFFERENCE:
Panel 1 (banner header: COMPUTER SCIENTIST)
An older balding man with white hair, glasses, and a gray jacket gestures toward a large green alien computer.
Computer scientist: "This alien computer has an architecture entirely foreign to ours. We have much to learn from it. And we may have much... to fear."
Panel 2 (banner header: COMPUTER ENGINEER)
A younger man with glasses leans over the same green alien computer, holding a screwdriver. The computer scientist looks on from the foreground.
Computer engineer: "Bam! I got "Doom" to run on this thing!"
Votey:
Thought bubble above a smiling bearded man (the cartoonist): "A "Doom" joke. Gold!"
Panel 1 (banner header: COMPUTER SCIENTIST)
An older balding man with white hair, glasses, and a gray jacket gestures toward a large green alien computer.
Computer scientist: "This alien computer has an architecture entirely foreign to ours. We have much to learn from it. And we may have much... to fear."
Panel 2 (banner header: COMPUTER ENGINEER)
A younger man with glasses leans over the same green alien computer, holding a screwdriver. The computer scientist looks on from the foreground.
Computer engineer: "Bam! I got "Doom" to run on this thing!"
Votey:
Thought bubble above a smiling bearded man (the cartoonist): "A "Doom" joke. Gold!"
Alt text
Comic titled "THE DIFFERENCE:" contrasting a computer scientist with a computer engineer. Top panel, labeled COMPUTER SCIENTIST: an older balding man in a gray jacket gestures gravely at a large green alien computer and says, "This alien computer has an architecture entirely foreign to ours. We have much to learn from it. And we may have much... to fear." Bottom panel, labeled COMPUTER ENGINEER: a younger man in glasses leans over the same alien computer holding a screwdriver and exclaims, "Bam! I got 'Doom' to run on this thing!" while the scientist looks on. The joke: where the scientist sees awe and danger, the engineer just wants to make the game Doom run on it. Votey: a thought bubble above a smiling bearded man reads, "A 'Doom' joke. Gold!" — the cartoonist congratulating himself.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.