Thinkcage

I’ve been reading this comic strip for years. I have always identified with Jason, the youngest son of the Fox family (especially because of his pet iguana, Quincy — I had small reptiles as pets for much of my childhood).

But what has most delighted me of late is cartoonist, Bill Amend’s embrace of the geek. With increasing frequency, Amend has begun to speak to a very select community (geeks) from the confines of one of the most popular mainstream comic strips. Surely he knows that many of his readers will not appreciate the geek jokes to the extent that your typical slashdot reader might. But then, maybe to a non-geek these cartoons are funny from a completely different point of view. The point of view where geeks are from another planet.

A little bit of browsing took me to the current Foxtrot website, which for all intents and purposes is Amend’s weblog. I was particularly amused by a post discussing that he had received several corrections to the programming code that appeared in a recent cartoon!

Good stuff.

P.S. I can’t help but wonder where Gary Larson is in all this.