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[Drygioni]

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=11222006

I think Ray has a point here. Does anyone here still use a fax? Is it powered by it's own internal combustion engine or steam? I remember we had one once and it was a chunkity ass piece of equipment.

Also, Ray always dresses up for the phone but is kinda comfortable to let his rad chillies dangle around half-freely in front of his respected friends. I like a man of priority.

[theinevitable]

man, fax machines. I guess they've gone the way of the car-phone.

I remember my mom telling me that she'd die before she got one of those goddamn car-phones. what could you ever use something like that for?

[wombat]

Oh Ray, so true!

[jough]

Man, I had this conversation with my landlord before moving here.  They needed me to fax all sorts of stuff, and I'm like "Hi, I'm living in the year 2006.  We don't have fax machines anymore.  Come join us."

They did allow me to print out a form, scan it, save it as a PDF, and email it to them, though, so they could print it out on their end and put it in a paper file.

People are funny.

[Carlos del Vaca]

We have a fax machine in the office.  I use it once in a blue moon.

I was expecting this strip to be along the lines of when you call your credit card company to ask a question, and then as long as you're on the phone they go "Can I interest you in our credit protector insurance?  Blah blah blah identiy theft..." and then they read some damn script that takes like five minutes until you can finally say "No."  I've started cutting them off, actually, which may be a little rude, but at least we're not both wasting our time.

Also, credit card companies completely suck and they're evil.

[CortJstr]

We have like 6 fax machines in my department. We contract to the FDA and they only accept faxed signatures, no electronic signatures and nothing scanned. Plus a suprising number of hospitals and clinics aren't online at all. Or they have like one computer in the admin center that the techs and nurses can't use.

[linnea]

Isn't the level of paperwork required for silly things just...retarded? It's like our litigious society is so terrified of someone accomplishing a transfer in a non-cumbersome manner that we're all crippled by ridiculous, Byzantine rules. I hate it.

I tried to get my medical records sent up to Alaska from my doctor in Colorado. Talk about retarded. II ended up saying "Fuck You" and just leaving them there because it was such a goddamned hassle. 'm sure that Onstad had to deal with something similar.

I love this strip, it's now one of my favorites.

[innes]

I take issue with this strip. Firstly, the falcon is a classic that will never go out of style. Secondly, fax machines are rock-solid basic it-just-works chunks of instant-on technology. Thirdly, polio is probably hugely back in fashion in the developing world although I didnt check this.

Other than that I liked the free cartoon.

[V-Adore]

I like how this one is only three panels. It being any longer really wouldn't have served the joke, but as it stands it's a nice miniature.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I take issue with this strip. Firstly, the falcon is a classic that will never go out of style.

Not to mention that he does have an owl, which ain't all that different.

[innes]

Not to mention that he does have an owl, which ain't all that different.

Good point. I'm actually surprised Ray doesn't own a falcon, SUPPOSEDLY.

Are you listening, Onstad!?

[wombat]

Plus a suprising number of hospitals and clinics aren't online at all.

Isn't this scary?  Like you go to your doctor, and their file on you is a bunch of pieces of paper, scribbled on illegibly. It doesn't give one a lot of confidence.  Wouldn't you want the people in charge of, like, life and death, to be a little more up to date?

[Carlos del Vaca]

Isn't this scary?  Like you go to your doctor, and their file on you is a bunch of pieces of paper, scribbled on illegibly. It doesn't give one a lot of confidence.  Wouldn't you want the people in charge of, like, life and death, to be a little more up to date?

My last checkup, the doctor had a laptop with wireless internet.  He PRINTED the prescriptions, rather than scribbling something indecipherable on a pad of paper.  Pretty sweet.

I also thought:  after the vasectomy, if I have to come in here and give a sample, I could ask to borrow his laptop for a few minutes.

[AugustWest]

Isn't this scary?  Like you go to your doctor, and their file on you is a bunch of pieces of paper, scribbled on illegibly. It doesn't give one a lot of confidence.  Wouldn't you want the people in charge of, like, life and death, to be a little more up to date?

My doctors office uses tablets (computers, not pills) which are linked via a wireless network.  They rock.

[evan]

Isn't this scary?  Like you go to your doctor, and their file on you is a bunch of pieces of paper, scribbled on illegibly. It doesn't give one a lot of confidence.  Wouldn't you want the people in charge of, like, life and death, to be a little more up to date?

I also want them to be able to save my life if the power's out.