Thanks a lot YouTube. I just loved this weeks B&W comic so much I just spent the last three hours watching every TMNT cartoon clip and vintage video game clip I could find.

Oh the iPad, you beautiful gadget that won't really do anything for me. So a lot has already been said about the iPad, but I'm here to offer my two cents because,... well because I can and because, like Dave, I used it as material for one of this weeks comics. First and foremost though, as an ex-Apple employee, I want to to state something that my time in Apple retail taught me. Apple has two consumer markets. First there is the industry geeks a.k.a. your graphic designers, sound techs, musicians, artists, anybody that uses Mac hardware and software for their creative tech job/hobby. The second market group is everybody else: the fifteen year old ipod/itunes customer, the 45 year old iPhone exec. who has never even synced his phone to his computer, a.k.a. the large overwhelming population that knows jack about the technical side of their favorite products, but knows how to buy music, apps, and thinks that Apple Care will bail them out of any stupid thing they do. The iPad is made for this second group. AND THEY WILL LOVE IT. I personally need something I can run Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver on. I am not content with games from the app store, how can I get my WoW fix in? The point is, Apple over the past few years has gotten bigger. Bigger than the nerds, but I believe they will never neglect us nerds fully. There will always be a sweet Macbook Pro for me to drool over, or a iMac with a big beautiful screen, perfectly designed in every way. But Apple's bread and butter has shifted. My girlfriend has a Macbook, and what does she do on it? Photos, Facebook, Email. She is one of millions and the iPad is the future. Will Apple one day make a tablet for the rest of us? I sure hope so, until then my Macbook Pro is just fine, and my old G4 I use at work, and my iPhone, and my old Nano I take to the gym (if I ever decide to workout again). Apple I still love you. Apple I want an iPad... but listen folks, look at all Apple products historically. How many ipod models have their been? Hell, look at how many iPhone models have already been made. There will be a new better iPad next year and I bet you a million dollars it is better, faster, has more storage, and caters to a bigger audience. All the nay-sayers out there, I here ya. I agree completely, but I've always been content waiting for the second version of Apple's next big thing...

-Andy

19 Rejected names for the iPad

Yep, so you may have noticed I've been kind of ripping on Avatar Monday and Wednesday and it's all in good fun. If Mr. Cameron doesn't like it, he can just look at all the money he made and laugh in my face. But to be serious I don't really know how it got the Golden Globe for best drama! Was it really that emotional of a movie? For all you that don't know, I can't see in 3-D, so maybe you have to see it in 3-D to be moved by it. I don't know! From my perspective, the CGI was still awesome but the characters and story were so forgettable. You may hate what I'm say but you know what you can do? Get your own website and blog there! No, seriously! Do that! That's what's so great about the internet! Any idiot(me) can have their on blog and type whatever the crap they want!! What's even better is your grammar can suck like mine and no one can do a darn thing about it! Sure they can leave a comment saying, "your a idiot" or something more colorful, but that's it! Words don't hurt people! Besides, if you confront them in person they're going to cower at you, just like I would if James Cameron confronted me about this blog. What I'm trying to say is "I'm a coward!!!"

-Dave

So if you saw this weeks Black & White comic, you might be wondering if it's based on a true story, and I'm here to tell you that yes, it is true.... well to a degree. I really do have a butt rash that's going on for 5 years. I do not however have any health insurance. So come on Obama let's get this health care bill passed. Now I don't pretend to know that much about the goings ons in politics.... I mean the real goings ons. And I know all you rich folk and upper middle class peeps think your precious health insurance is going to.... frankly I don't know what your scared of. You can still go to whatever doctor you want! You can still get insurance through your work! So why not just give a little extra on your premium or whatever so I can get some dad gum prescription strength help for my butt. Seriously, sometimes it feels like I am crapping razor blades. So let your senator know today that.... we want public healthcare, and we want it now!

-Andy