Scott Meyer

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How to See Your Heroes in a New Light

The documentary is real, and it is very good. If you have any interest in Phil Collins, I highly suggest it.

If you just want to see if I am exaggerating, 2025-02-03 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post

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How to Figure Out How They're Screwing You

Yeah, after I posted my comment about having started out wanting a Mac and never gotten one, I received just enough encouragement here (which, if I’m being honest, I may have been fishing for) to nudge me off the Mac cliff.

I’ve had My 13-inch MacBook Air for a few months now, and it has become my primary computer.<...

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How to Share Your Knowledge

I sometimes get almost finished with a comic and become convinced that I did a comic on that exact subject, using those exact jokes, years ago. I would just write this feeling off as paranoia, if it hadn’t actually happened, twice. In both cases, I scrapped the new copy of the comic and started over.

I got that creepi...

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How to Learn From Other People's Poor Choices

I was born and raised in Washington state. The Seattle Seahawks have been a source of pain to my family for generations. Literally! There is no exaggeration there. My earliest memories of sports are my father shrieking the name "Zorn" as if it’s the greatest curse imaginable. Decades later, I saw the look of bitter disappoi...

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How to Proceed When a Technology is Not Mature

The original draft of panel one ended with Rick saying we wanted a William Shatner future, but the one we’re getting is more Charlton Heston. I decided the reference was too dated and obscure.

Omega Man. Planet of the Apes. Soylent Green. When you look at the vision of the future Heston seemed to gravitate to...

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How to Evaluate Advances In Pet Care Technology

I think the greatest value of pets is that they bring unconditional love into the house. They just don’t all do it in the same way, or from the same direction. I know people who have dogs, dogs that seem to adore and shower them with affection no matter what they do.

We have cats, whom we adore and shower with affecti...

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How to Face Reality

I wish it happened more often, but it is rare that a conversation I have in real life will make its way, verbatim, into the comic. When it does, it’s pretty easy to decide who should say what to whom.

I assure you, this comic was NOT one of those cases.

No, in this case, I came up with the dialog from the first ...

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How to Honor the Intentions of Those Who Came Before You

I have known enough scientifically inclined people to understand their general sense of humor. I believe that forcing scientific journals, news anchors, and NASA spokespersons to repeat butt puns would qualify nicely as “a larf.” As such, not only is changing the pronunciation of Uranus disrespectful to the original inte...

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Just to mention one last time, in case you missed it before ...

I have a new novel out!

It is entitled That's Not Right, and I am extremely proud of it. It is available on Kindle, an...

How to Take an Interest in a Subject You Usually Don't Find Interesting

I have a new novel out!

It is entitled That's Not Right, and I am extremely proud of it. It is available on Kindle, and on 2024-12-02 08:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

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I have a new novel out!

It is entitled That's Not Right, and I am extremely proud of it. It will be available in December on Kindle, and can downloaded now on 2024-11-28 10:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post

How to Evaluate Someone Else's Plan

NOTE TO YOU, THE PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE:

Because of the lag time between when I create a comic and when it runs, I am writing this message to you from Monday the 4th, the day before the US presidential election. Needless to say, I am having difficulty concentrating. Also, I have a great deal of admin to d...

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How to Find the Cause of the Problem

I’m not going to get into a lot of detail about Henry Ford’s reasons for promoting square dancing in public schools, because I find it distasteful. I’ll just say that it seems like any time you want to know why Henry Ford did something you don’t understand, you can assume the answer was likely either “increased effi...

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How to Learn a Language

BRIEF PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

I try to keep politics out of the comic. I want people from every point in the spectrum to feel welcome here, and frankly, I just don't find the government very funny. Also, I suspect the majority of the comics readers have a good idea where I stand. That said, it is e...

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How to Expand Your Palate

One advantage of coffee, as a hobby, is that it is something you can enjoy every day. Another advantage of it is that it can be managed in a way that actually saves you money and delivers a superior product, compared to buying a coffee from a shop every day.

The chief downside of coffee as a hobby is that making it well...

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How to Think Critically

This comic posed me with an ethical question.

Not about bombarding hibernating bears with gamma rays (which is a real thing we 100% did, btw). I think we all have a very clear idea where we stand on that issue.

No, I had to think long and hard about an ethical question related to comedy writing.

I heard abou...

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How to Open Your Mind to New ideas

I’ve been on a diet for several months, with some success. I see now that the problem keeping me from weight loss was mental. The key was accepting that I was going to be unhappy no matter what I did.

I wasted a lot of time looking for a way to lose weight that allowed me to eat large quantities of food I liked, witho...