Mar 19
Click for full imageTom Noir Comments: Lady, it’s time to get a Macbook Air.
Published 1986
(Average: 8.50 out of 10)
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Tom Noir Comments: Lady, it’s time to get a Macbook Air.
Published 1986
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March 19th, 2013 at 10:17 am
“Do you know, I think I’d prefer a mouse.”
March 19th, 2013 at 10:21 am
ZERG RUSH!
March 19th, 2013 at 10:31 am
I’m pretty sure that the computer is leering at her.
Also, something about her pose is off.
March 19th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Yep… that’s what you get for programming in Java….
One for the coding nerds! I’m here all week 😀
March 19th, 2013 at 11:06 am
In the 80’s, this computer was the future! Because obviously in the future, everything will be bigger. Like women’s hair!
March 19th, 2013 at 11:24 am
Apple’s failed iStick prototype? Needz moar floppy disks.
March 19th, 2013 at 11:31 am
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty… ant?
Her PC monitor doesn’t seem very ergonomically positioned. I’m certain that this, and the fact she is being attacked by a giant insect, must have been key factors in the introduction of the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992.
March 19th, 2013 at 11:48 am
Because 80’s RT@GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: The Cunningham Equations http://t.co/T6BE08QSen
March 19th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
@Ewan wins the thread. My hat is off to you sir.
March 19th, 2013 at 12:57 pm
That modern computer looks alot like Rosey from the Jetsons…
March 19th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
“I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.” – Professor Frink
March 19th, 2013 at 1:59 pm
She’s riding that computer sidesaddle. If only horses came equipped with swivel-chairs a thousand years of inequality could have been averted.
March 19th, 2013 at 2:16 pm
“You try to switch over to Google Chrome again and Windows8 will be updating YOU…permanently.”
March 19th, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Happy Days sure went off in a weird direction after Fonzie jumped that shark.
March 19th, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Prototype Light Pen, Mark 1.
Observations:
1. Seems unwieldy. Can we make it smaller?
2. Green colour and weird flanges clash with established computer “beige box” design. I know Design Unit was keen on the asparagus concept, but see if they can try again.
March 19th, 2013 at 2:54 pm
Fine, if nobody else is going to say it, I’ll go ahead and jump on the joke grenade.
That’s one nasty computer bug!
**FUMP**
Tell my…*gasp* tell my wife I loved h……………………….
March 19th, 2013 at 5:55 pm
Chat forums of the future….”Lady, when I say ‘take off your clothes’, I don’t mean your socks!”
March 19th, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Yoss SURELY wins the thread. And makes me think that this cover could also be re-used for Norman Spinrad’s BUG JACK BARRON. If Jack Barron was a woman.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:19 pm
Is she pregnant?
March 19th, 2013 at 8:48 pm
I agree about the ergonomics… but it would make a great computer for that African tribe where women elongate their necks with bracelets.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:49 pm
It’s Casual Dress Friday at the office, apparently.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:51 pm
Attached keyboards. What will they think of next!
March 20th, 2013 at 5:38 am
Great thread. A couple of questions: Who’s getting the “greater intelligence,” so sought after by “thousands,” out of this exchange, the insect or the woman? And if money is the smallest part of the price to pay, what is the greatest? Looking at the cover?
March 20th, 2013 at 7:12 am
Maybe the cover was a very early version of those anti-piracy ads?
“Don’t copy floppy discs because WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE…”
March 20th, 2013 at 12:16 pm
Don’t copy that floppy!
March 20th, 2013 at 2:17 pm
@B.Chiclitz, the greatest part of the price is not looking at the cover, but perhaps having to read this book.
March 21st, 2013 at 10:47 pm
“That post made me so angry, I’m going to whack at it with this stick!”
March 22nd, 2013 at 4:28 pm
So THAT’S what happens when you feed the trolls.
March 23rd, 2013 at 11:00 am
I love this blog… http://t.co/Qb5ngi6bMA
March 23rd, 2013 at 11:21 am
In Stephen Hawking type voice:
“Would… you like… to… play a game?”
March 29th, 2013 at 9:52 pm
An amazingly accurate depiction of a person attempting to sync their iStick to a Windows-based computer.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:17 am
WHEN COMPUTER BUGS KILL – What this book should be called, judging solely by the cover.
And that computer does not look capable of supporting an AI.
August 25th, 2015 at 11:35 am
@Anna T.: Could simply be Eliza with asshole recognition..
November 30th, 2018 at 5:42 am
A metaphorical representation of the experience of reading Youtube comments.
November 30th, 2018 at 5:54 am
Thousands wanted greater intelligence, some just wanted big hair.
November 30th, 2018 at 8:01 am
Mr. xn and I only managed to splutter confused noises almost in unison, then I finally progressed to “what… is… that?”
Y’know, we’re all assuming it’s an insect leg, but if our old pal DSWBT was right about the computer leering at her, it could be some other appendage. She might be saying “HEY! I know I have a low-cut shirt and it’s cold in here, but no touchy!”
I might also make a case for the “mullet” tag. And “Haircut 100, Ozone Layer 0.”
November 30th, 2018 at 11:53 am
Thousands wanted greater intelligence – the rest voted for Trump. So, all in all, a surprisingly prescient piece of SF. And kudos to the artist for putting stormy Daniels on the cover even if the depiction of the appendage is somewhat inaccurate.
November 30th, 2018 at 1:30 pm
@FB—What, not mushroomy enough?
November 30th, 2018 at 2:25 pm
If this is ‘Happy Days’ reimagined then I want a Cthulhu Mythos ‘Gilligan’s Island’.
November 30th, 2018 at 2:39 pm
1986 you say? I never tried cosplaying while playing Bard’s Tale, but I wasn’t nearly as into it as some folks.
@fred: Gilligan’s R’yleh would be the the greatest sitcom every made, topping even The Pickman Bunch.
November 30th, 2018 at 6:23 pm
You know a computer is fast when it has a shotgun air intake from a ’68 Dodge Charger.
November 30th, 2018 at 7:09 pm
GSSxn’s remark about the leering computer makes me note that, looking at the whole thing below the monitor, it sort of reminds me of Alfred E. Neuman. I think the gap in the keyboard evokes Alfred’s gap-toothed grin, and they both seem to be a little cross-eyed, and leer a bit.
November 30th, 2018 at 8:20 pm
“And it refused to let go until I bought the penis enlargement kit.”
November 30th, 2018 at 8:25 pm
Maybe we have misinterpreted this cover and it actually is about a woman who got mad at 4chan insults about ‘80s hair and bashed in her monitor with a bamboo back-scratcher.
November 30th, 2018 at 8:33 pm
@Tor – I agree this cover has been misinterpreted. But I see it as a woman who likes to snack on an Alaskan King Crab leg while she surfs the internet in her lingerie.
November 30th, 2018 at 8:54 pm
@Bibliomancer—That’s it, you’ve nailed it. I hereby bestow upon you the Alfred E. Neuman Award for Outstanding Sc-Fi Cover Hermeneutics. It was the King Crab leg trope did the trick.
December 1st, 2018 at 6:16 am
@fred: I somehow feel I’ve seen or read that.
@BC: What me web surf?
@B’mancer: GSS! If a big-haired gal wants to kick back in her negligee and have some fine seafood while perusing CompuServe or Prodigy, by golly, she should.
December 1st, 2018 at 8:28 am
@B. Chiclitz
You said what I dared not. And what, thankfully, the artist dared not paint.
December 4th, 2018 at 1:10 am
Who the heck is Cunningham, and what do their equations have to do with an insectoid appendage/king crab leg/leering computer?