Last night we had one of those T-storms that spend hours building. You don’t know where it’s going to hit but somebody’s going to get blasted and you hope they have really good lightning protection. And that it’s not you.
When the rain finally came the wind pushed it in so many directions I finally ended up closing all the Lair’s windows, and then I started getting spray from the loft’s vent windows. Not enough rain to send the gullies flowing, but enough to remind me I haven’t dug out the drain ditches yet.
Sigh – so Monsoon catches me with my pants down yet again. I can paint while it’s cool, or I can dig ditches. I won’t be sitting around staring at sticks, that’s pretty much sure. The real question is whether I dare have some coffee first.
By ‘Dilbert goes off the grid’ Adams apparently meant ‘Dilbert sits in a field and stares at a stick.’ And yeah, it’s a comic strip. Don’t read too much into it, Joel. But for the record you usually stay too busy to worry much about boredom.
Well, Dilbert the character is a thoroughly citified individual. I don’t find it surprising that he’s not terribly clued in on what “going off the grid” actually entails:-).
More than merely a “thoroughly citified individual“, Dilbert is a computer geek. Adams is merely following the typical computer geek script. You can find another example here:
userfriendly.org
Browse the archives for that comic and you will find examples where the tech staff go camping with similar results to the current Dilbert.
TUAK does not seem to be a computer geek, so one should not expect his “off the grid” life experiences to even remotely resemble those of Dilbert. Just as one would not expect TUAK to go to Elbonia to destroy their “Internet”.