SEE ALSO: Prevalence of Smart Phones / Pee on Toilet Seats in Men’s Rooms

While “carpe diem” is normally translated as “sieze the day”, this is actually not an accurate translation. “Carpe” is better translated as “to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather”, so it would be a better (though less catchy) definition to say “Pluck the day”. Of all the possible days you could pick for the day you might have, try to choose the best one you can. Or, in this case, do your best being careful with picking your gadgets.

See also: The Six Stages of Gadget Grief 

San Francisco Bound

For those in the San Francisco area, I’m leaving tonight with cohorts of the Super Art Fight crew to head to Macworld | iWorld, to participate in our first ever west coast Super Art Fight appearance. If you’re attending Macworld, be sure to come by and check us out! If not, you can watch it LIVE. Details on the show and how to watch live here. Basically, at 2pm PST / 5pm EST on Friday, go to the Macworld uStream feed here (until 6pm): http://www.ustream.tv/macworld

While I’ve been to SF before, it’s been a while and I’m looking to find some good coffee, have some In-N-Out, and generally have a great time with the rest of the SAF crew. If you want to follow how that’s going, or share any local insight, be sure to follow along on Twitter as we post under #superartfight and #SF_SAF. Or just follow my general hijinks on Twitter @rosscott.

So much for cordless devices.

SEE ALSO: The Full Gadget Ratio

Something about this post description was messing with the RSS feed, so I had to delete it. It wasn’t that clever anyway.

Can you see the family resemblance?

Happy holidays, all!

Happy holidays, all! And sorry for the lack of consistent updates, but the new System website work is in full swing, and I’ve prioritized it ahead of comics lately. It’ll be back on track soon I hope, as we’re entering the time of year where I actually have some time.

Meantime, go spend time with your family! And by “family” I mean “video games”.

I tried this, and Siri only found a Monastery. Come on, Siri! Get with it!

I also considered:

• Googling the nearby kingdom for nearest horses
• Photoshopping out damned spots!
• Google: “thesaurus: rose”
• To put my computer to sleep, perchance to dream
• “@sampson: Hey @abraham! #bitemythumb”

Any other jokes in there I missed? Post them here, or on Twitter under #updatedshakespeare. I’m watching!

Also, all shirts still on sale through the end of this week! So before the end of the day Saturday, all shirts are just $15 plus shipping! Check it all out over at HilariAwesome.com.

This week is “use all the icons I haven’t used yet” week, and “camera icon” was on the list.

Also, if you own this camera, you should probably own this shirt.

Speaking of shirts, you’re running out of time to preorder the new Professor Internet shirt. Support Caldwell, myself, the Internet, and Sandwiches all in one go!

I was collecting my thoughts on Google+, the new social media OMG media social twitter facebook friend place thing, and came across this XKCD comic. I get Mr. Munroe’s point (also seen above in the first three panels) but had to add on my take on the situation. I’m sure you’re already familiar with XKCD, but of course, credit where it’s due. Go check it out.

Also, posted this on my new Google+ (link to my profile). Yes, I signed up anyway. I mean hey, it’s not Facebook.

Post your Google+ thoughts in the comments.

Oh, and I do sell this t-shirt. Just sayin’.

Did you see the monster post I wrote below? You should check it out. I’m redesigning the site, and all that is a way to look at not just making it look nice, but thinking of a better way to make this and other webcomic sites work. Check it out, won’t you? HERE »

In other news, here’s an interview I did with the Art Directors’ Club of Metropolitan Washington. Check that out too! HERE »