I enjoy comics. Most that know me know that I enjoy comic books, but I also enjoy newspaper comic strips. In fact, when I go to a new city, one of the things on my list to try is the local paper and the comic strips. Judge me how you may.
In this digital age, I don't need to be bound by my geography in order to appreciate comics that aren't featured in the quite limited listing of Jacksonville, FL. I could reach out on the interwebs (its just a series of tubes) and get most comics without spending a dime or leaving my chair. I haven't embraced this paradigm, as I still like the feel of ink and paper, but a friend of mine has. He sent me two strips that posted the same day, Hi & Lois and Pearls Before Swine
So first: Pearls Before Swine
And now, Hi & Lois for the very same day:
King Media wasn't as accommodating as United Media for the image. Click this link to see the 9/8/2008 comic as hosted from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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About Jonathan Bates
Jonathan Bates is involved in the local development community, once even serving time as the President of the Jacksonville Developers User Group.
He has had a long and storied path on the way to I.T. work. At one point, Jonathan had a near Neo-Luddite position about computers, believing them at worst to be the means to humanity's eventual slavery and at best tools for general evil. After landing a job powered by such advanced technologies as Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and MS Access, Jonathan began to change his opinion on computers. He began to believe that they might be for more than just improving the display and sound qualities on his Laserdisc movies. In time, he came to see that computers were nothing more than tools, not much different then a hammer (though not as good to drive nails with).
Jonathan Bates is an industry-certified and proven developer and trainer, facilitating the transfer of knowledge from conceptual client request to delivered and implemented solution. Jonathan enjoys sharing his knowledge and understanding about development principals with like-minded people. You can generally find him enjoying good company discussing his personal Unified Theory and how programming can be used to describe it. And if you can't find him, drop him a line with a time and place and he'll find you.
Contact him at jonathan.bates@batener.org.