[[An infomercial salesperson carrying a board marked "busy bee (tm)" hawks the company's wares while an elderly individual displays their frustration with a phone in the background.]]
Salesperson: Seniors! Tired of whiz-bang phones with tiny buttons and too many beep-boop functions?
Senior: I just want to call my grandkids, not launch a moon mission!!
Salesperson: Now there's Busybee (tm), the phone that DOESN'T have apps... DOESN'T have games... it JUST calls your grandkids!
[[The senior is now working with a computer.]]
Salesperson: Confounded by computers?
Senior: I just want to email my grandkids!
Salesperson: Busybee (tm) now has a computer, too! It has big, bright buttons that let you email your grandkids in just seconds!
[[A camera.]]
Salesperson: And introducing the Busybee (tm) camera! NO confusing functions that you DON'T NEED!
Senior: It... it only seems to take pictures of my grandkids?
Senior: Everything else in the image is completely black
[[A car whisks the senior away.]]
Salesperson: And for seniors with active lifestyles, it's our brand-new Busybee (tm) CAR!
Senior: PLEASE... this car will only drive to my grandkids' house...
Senior: I need to get to my doctor's appointment
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{{alt-text: "I need to go pick up groceries," you think, but there's just a single button on the dashboard, and the car has other ideas. }}
''I need to go pick up groceries,'' you think, but there's just a single button on the dashboard, and the car has other ideas.
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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