http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-21

Dogbert is the perfect lawyer for the opposition, isn't he?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-21

Trump story lines work well with corporate mockery.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-20

So the Collusion series still holds weight a year later? How sad!

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-19

I really don't know who the guy is, but he seems like a well meaning enough guy out to get Dilbert.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-18

Wally being Wally.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-17

Lies and such.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-16

CEO is a brutally honest jerk at times.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-15

Alice probably gave the best advice. She said it meanly.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-14

Of course PHB is the last person one should go to ask for advice... he gets everything backwards, at best.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-13

Why does Asok even try? Even Dilbert is a dick, it seems.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-12

Yesterday's Asok strip has nothing to do with the daily run during the week. Scott has said during his periscopes that they are separate entities. He is a couple months ahead writing the daily strip and further ahead when writing his Sunday comic.

Asok is a sad character. Why would anyone ask Wally for advice unless they are clueless to his being Wally? Wally almost seems passive-aggressive, until you realize he's just an ass who enjoys having fun at the expense of others when the opportunity lands in his lap. He's too lazy to be passive-aggressive.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-11

Weird how today's Sunday comic seems tied into the previous week's dailies, doesn't it? Last week Dilbert's project got screwed by not being given funding from the budget. Today is Asok's turn.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-10

Finding funding for a project seems to have endless possibilities in the 2D world. Just kidding, attending meetings to get loose change is verge of jumping the shark.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-09

Ever notice Dilbert is taking out his budget woes upon those he doesn't like? I thought the robot was long dead.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-08

Dilbert is passive aggressive, isn't he? I'm reading a book that my wife got out from the library, so I guess you could say I looked it up.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-07

PHB is surprised by his lack of foresight.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-06

I think most bosses hate admitting they are wrong. I think most bosses rather not fix their own mistakes if they aren't directly affected by them. PHB tell Dilbert to be creative, thus giving latter cover to be aggressive. PHB is sometimes good at delegating, isn't he?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-05

Seems Dibert vs PHB's budget minus Dilbert will be the theme of the week. Dilbert is passive... who can blame PHB for forgetting him?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-04

Not sure where Dilbert was going with his presentation, but PHB is rather smart not to allow the idiots to bunch together. Sometimes PHB does good things, just like Michael Scott did.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-03

The Wally sleeping note thing didn't last as long as I expected. Another day of cubicles being modular workstation garbage just so Scott can give a bad analogy joke.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-02

Dilbert's sarcasm is always lost upon PHB, isn't it?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-06-01

Very slow week... must use Doctor's note gag on Alice.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-31

Asok says the obvious, while Dilbert is very passive.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-30

Wally is good at playing along, isn't he?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-29

Seems a week of Wally being Wally is upon us.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-28

I swear I saw this comic just the other day. I think Scott had it on his Time Line and others were mocking it or giving examples other than the rubber duck. PHB is a good foil when it comes to making analogies become absurd.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-27

At least Wally is happy.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-26

Dilbert confronts PHB. Basically same comic as yesterday.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-25

PHB will be PHB. Randy is probably Robot 2.0.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-24

Fourth panel humor, meh.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-23

Asshat robot?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-22

Surely everything that was said about the robot will now be recycled with Randy.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-21

People will exploit you if you let them. Work friends aren't real friends and you should only expect them to be there for you while at work. You can be friends with coworkers, but you see them outside of work regularly when the feeling is mutually beneficial. Driving someone to the airport is the exact reason Uber exists.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-20

I, personally, have concluded the best way to stay busy is to do things on your own terms so too much isn't expected from you.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-19

If you don't take credit for a good idea, someone slimey surely will.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-18

That guy was pretty weak looking.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-17

Whatever happened to that guy?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-16

Free will is a joke in itself.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-15

More robot humor... perhaps the robot is a metaphor for undocumented immigrants? Just kidding, the robots are here and will soon bury us all.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-14

Probably the most controversal strip in a while given it's a trap.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-13

Political party systems create zombies.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-12

Whenever Van Halen replaced its frontman, it was still Van Halen, right?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-11

Robots need religion.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-10

Good question. Does anyone really care? What ever happened to that head ransplant guy?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-09

Nobody cares for PHB.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-08

It's dumb to threaten someone who has nothing to lose.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-07

I remember when Scott got the idea for this Sunday strip. Doesn't seem like it's been a month or 2 since that coffee session, but then again, time is funny to me.
Scott instantly laughed when he saw the avoiding people in the office comment. I think everyone has that feeling of dread when certain co-workers come to mind.
I use the term "time bandit" for people that stop you and talk inanely without respect to your need to be doing stuff other than shooting the breeze.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-06

If Wally were a former CIA programmer, he'd say the same thing with a wink and a nod, right? Then again, I think he'd say it anyway and not care if anyone believed he listened, not that he'd listen in the first place... unless coffee was involved.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-05

Wally is smart enough to know when "no" means "yes," right?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-04

May 4th means something to me. Used to be all about Kent State, now it's mostly about Star Wars, but I mostly recall fondly a night I kept a bar open past closing only to see my Pens lose in 5OT.
Anyways, I find it odd that anyone of any background would take a job offered by PHB. So new hire Erik, former CIA programmer, is a very unexpected hire. He's creepy, just as one would suspect.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-03

I often wonder what life was really like before mobile phones. Tina is losing her grip without hers. I remember being afraid to leave the house because I might miss a phone call from a prospective employer. My paranoia essentially turned into a form of anxiety disorder with agoraphobia.
Regardless, Tina's broken phone problem is dull.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-02

Germs. Phones have a lot of germs. Phones are also very valuable windows into the owner's personal interests and such. One should never feel comfortable enough to allow someone to borrow his phone, especially in an office were landlines surely exist or even voip.
Scott, you are missing the obvious problems with the phone sharing scenario thus far, though Dilbert mocking Tina's anti-phone case stance when she broke her phone due to aesthetics...

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-05-01

Germs are everywhere... especially of phones that have been used on the toilet.
I am reminded of the phone sanitizers from a certain book by another fellow named Adams. Or I could be 42 degrees wrong in my thinking.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-30

Scott is co-creator of WhenHub, which is some sort of app. Scott is all about persuasion. He talks about it and President Trump a lot on Periscope, his blog, and sometimes on his Youtube channel. Scott always seems to be working, but he's also using the various apps that I just mentioned almost always, it seems. Considering he feeds off his interactions for his creative ventures, I find today's strip ironic.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-29

Wally is shamelessly lazy, and he doesn't need the privacy of a cubicle to hide it.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-28

Scott is trying to milk something that I fail to see why. "Workplace Culture" is like boilerplate bs that a mission statement implies. 

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-27

Scott must have had a bad day... this week has been rather meh with the meandering workplace culture crud. Of course, today's is a twist of yesterday's strip. Maybe tomorrow will be worth the bs.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-26

Culture of lying to avoid conflict is a business culture I know oh too well.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-25

Following up yesterday's interview relating to business culture, today we see PHB tauting their culture as its strength. What is this strength? Fierce competitive culture... that is modestly hidden.
Meh.
Did I already mention I got "promoted" to team lead last week? Yesterday, my boss's "right hand" essentially asked me why I worried about getting things done well. I had to go on the road during the unload and nothing really seemed accomplished during the half-hour plus I was gone. I probably mentioned I almost hate my team.
I rather be on the bench of a championship team than the captain of a last place team. I have no sympathy for Milton's Satan. I just need to find a way to make my team to embrace a team culture. They lack the individual element of having distinction beyond being my whiny team member, my ditsy team member, and my slow minded member. Sure we get the job done when all is said and done, but there's so much room to improve.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-24

Dilbert interviewing a prospect seems odd to me. Is he HR? Is he management?
Perhaps as a project manager he gets to screen people, but how does he have any say when all the people they hire are either lazy or insane? May be I'm viewing Dilbert wrong. He's not a sane voice in an inane cubicle hell if he's part of the process luring newbies into it.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-23

I have a manager that micromanages and blames everyone else when his micromanaging fails. CEO tooting his own horn about the next version being great, gives buyers reason to wait until its release rather than settle for current meh. Zero sales means someone has to go, and CEO doesn't want to fire his ignorant self.
I've been fired/laid-off a few times. The last couple times, I was let go for reasons beyond my control by weak bosses who were probably rightfully fired or demoted within a month of my termination. Other boss probably was fired too, but not sure. She left a short time after firing me though, and my replacement replaced her.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-16

Easter Sunday and we find Dilbert out to eat with Dogbert... fries lack salt and minor twist of the 10 minute myth plays out in that waiters never return in timely manners due to their being waiters that get distracted. Scott throws in some health science stuff because he's a nut about how food relates to mood.
Not sure I understand why Dogbert and Dilbert are eating together, but I never felt the need to look up their dynamic. Not sure if I find it funny, but then I'm predisposed to not be humored by food jokes.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-09

Dilbert whines a lot. PHB is smart enough not to listen.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-08

Seriously, Alice is not a good human.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-07

How can anyone really like Alice?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-06

It's hard to understand the dynamic of some relationships as being viable. Alice is not a likely partner.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-05

Most relationships are doomed to a certain lack of equality.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-04

Love and robots is weird.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-03

Free will is funny.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-02

Scott stopped reading his email daily. He stole the idea off of someone probably smarter than himself. He realized that if he stopped the vicious cycle, he'd have more free time.that he found bogging him down would end.
When you are rich you don't need to read email, I guess.
Who sends email anyways? Sorry, I don't work in an office setting anymore, so...

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-04-01

Alice likes to whine, doesn't she? May be I'm wrong, but PHB has a good point. Regardless, Alice spending her time fixing a problem no one told him existed sounds like something Wally would say. Doesn't Alice like to grandstand and get credit whenever possible? If the problem truly existed, she would have mentioned it, unless it was her fault in the first place.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-31

PHB delegates his wasted time efforts to Dilbert. Dilbert jinxes himself.
Strips like this make me think the PHB is mildly competent and mostly selfish or cruel.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-30

Wally is the master at getting no where fast. His indifference is off-putting, yet admirable when you consider it's plausible and mildly excusable. Now granted a month is rather inexcusable amount of time to not bring up questions. Wanting to ask in person sounds plausible, but not writing any questions to ask is down right lazy regardless.
Did I ever mention I was fired for not calling my boss when I had questions? I worked weekends and she refused to check her email on weekends. I didn't feel like I knew her well enough to call her at home, but I didn't know she deliberately avoided email on weekends. I personally think she hated my politics and used my lack of communicating by phone as means to fire me.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-29

Laziness has its virtues. I hate when I put a lot of effort into something only to find I was misguided and have to start over.
I hate depending on other people to get my job done.
Communication is hard when people don't have a relationship worthwhile to develop.
I have to train a guy to do various elements of his job, but I know that the likelihood of his being around long term is marginal. Why train him in everything when he can just be good at one thing until he quits rather than marginally bad at most things until he quits?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-28

Wally has a system that works for him. When a system works, it seems wise. When the system involves Wally it's either about coffee or laziness.
I've taken to a systems approach where I don't try to have goals. I try to be the best at being myself and to seize each day as best as my bipolar disorder allows me until my carpal tunnel makes me to take life slow again.
I have found long ago that I don't like making plans... I get bent out of shape when my plans don't go as I hope. To avoid the treadmill of disappointment, I avoid making plans. I try to ride life in the moment like a reality surfer. I know change happens, so I adapt to it when it happens rather than change without cause. Why break something that works fine?
Sure I have vague ideas about how to go about my day, but I allow my environment to dictate 90% of my day. I got married to a planning type of person who is content with status quo on many fronts. I'm status quo on the daily stuff but am ambitious about vague stuff in the future, like saving for retirement.
When I had my accident on vacation, I stayed sane by shrugging it off and doing the best I could given the circumstance. I hadn't made the vacation plans, so I wasn't breaking my plans by being late from the delay and such.
My system has room for improvement, but it works for me.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-27

Not sure what to say about Dilbert walking with a woman in a non-work related setting. I have only been following the strip a few months, so I didn't know he was into women. Nothing remotely oozes relationship drama, so I find myself thinking that Scott was having a fart of time creating a strip in January.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-26

Nothing ever takes 10 minutes myth has been extrapolated to make a Sunday strip.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-25

Coffee can only get you so far in management, for Wally, at least.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-24

Wally sees management as being above doing actual work. Seems I've had a few of those sorts of managers in my day. Usually they were lifers that just became management by default. Wally seems to have a system that works for him. He has set the bar low and is content with his lot in life because laziness suits him.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-23

Wally sees being management as less than a curse.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-22

Alice is disturbed by Wally's accidental genius.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-21

CEO is luke warm thrilled by Wally's invention.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-20

Wally is an accidental genius when it comes to coffee.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-19

Mumbling is a gift for some and a curse to others.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-18

Opinions are funny when not given context. Nothing critical, really, so wondering if PHB knows what he's dissing.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-17

Vacations have consequences.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-16

Wally's view of work is hard to discern from other's vacations.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-15

Truthful views of vacation are different for some people.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-14

Vacation policies are inconvenient for a reason.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-13

Vacation leave has strings attached.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-12

Not sure who the guy is, but he's a poor man's Wally.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-11

Okay, Dogbert makes a line that is pure Scott Adams about politeness that mirrors fairness being for children and the stupid spiel. It's a re-occurring element I have noticed given my liking his coffee talks on Periscope.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-10

Dogbert gives a seminar on politeness.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-09

Alice abuses a politeness policy loophole.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-08

Analogies aren't exactly polite.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-07

4 hours wasted.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-06

Being polite isn't very business smart.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-05

Nothing ever takes 10 minutes.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-04

Wally makes a valid point that people will get used to his inane political nonsense if they got used to his laziness.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-03

Offending everyone, but the boss, doesn't mean that everyone else is the problem.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-02

More Wally abusing the memory of Gandhi...

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-03-01

If only Gandhi had coffee!

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-28

Wally makes a politically incorrect statement about Gandhi.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-27

Evidently, having a political view is something you keep to yourself.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-26

Asking for a raise to pay the rent means that you need a roommate...

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-25

Again, PHB tries to motivate Wally. Goals aren't for Wally when he was born to be content doing nothing.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-24

Pep talk isn't the sort of thing that works on Wally, especially from PHB,

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-23

Wally leaves daily at 4pm. Poor Alice doesn't.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-22

Clever Wally gives an extra month for a feature to be added to the legacy system as to when new system is complete.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-21

Can't add a new feature to the legacy system, DUH! Wally makes a solid argument.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-20

Wally wants to do nothing, so he volunteers to maintain the legacy system.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-19

Alice has secretly made the conference room her office. Dilbert passively obliges.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-18

Wally advises Dilbert to state to PHB an intention to stab PHB in the back once he's in management. PHB considers Dilbert for advanced management.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-17

PHB informs Dilbert of CEO's desire to put him into management fast track. Considering the company is run by morons, he's deeply insulted and felt hated.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-16

Confronted by PHB about being management, Dilbert calls CEO a monster.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-15

Complaints about treating co-workers as underlinings makes one a Natural leader?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-14

Keep an eye on Dilbert... he may be management material.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-13

By being obviously snarky Dilbert has made PHB to consider Dilbert differently.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-12

Heads explode when it leaks that Wally is paid the most.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-11

Not sure if the new software discussed is a continuation of the agile methodology sequence, hence label. Anyways, estimating when software will be done is hard to do. Dilbert gives an analogy for the PHB to use as an excuse for not knowing how long.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-10

Dilbert is being annoying like PHB to Alice.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-09

Fake names are assigned to allow less meddling from PHB.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-08

PHB tries to meddle...

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-07

Stand-up meetings are meant to be quick, but Wally rather sit.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-06

Agile Methodology...

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-05

Budgets. Planning ahead is seemingly silly given cost of everything being variable. When PHB asks Dilbert if the projected budget is right, well if you add $9, it is.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-04

Days off vs higher pay...

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-03

Tired joke about competition being better.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-02

Wally doesn't check his email. No mail means no work to do.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-01

Cheap robot lawyer does what you'd expect.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-31

Meh... robot replacing corporate lawyer...

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-30

Guess PHB didn't like being bald... considering past strips, Dilbert having casual conversations with PHB seems out of place.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-29

Dilbert fails to update staff of meeting time by assuming someone else will do it.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-28

Wally sees imperfections as a minor element when his "finished" software is full of bugs.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-27

PHB retweeting fake news gets him in trouble with Department of Education.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-26

In reaction to the blow back from anger over his racist tweets, PHB attacks protesters with sexist tweets, thus making everyone forget the racist one.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-25

Snopes.com? PHB retweeted a seemingly racist tweet about the Elbonians that Dilbert checked on Snopes?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-24

Guess Scott had a funeral home/zombie joke squirrelled away and needed to use it? Nothing set up today's strip beyond typical PHB being anything but trustworthy or bright. Meh.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-23

All of Wally's good ideas involve coffee.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-22

If you follow Scott on Periscope, he talks about word thinking and bad analogies a lot... basically people use words to sound clever but lack the substance to back up a logical thought. I'm not sure if Scott ever mentioned the Mandela Effect, may be I'll ask him... Anyways, today they have a meeting and a guy won't shut up whenever Dilbert says something about a minor fix. Regardless, jerk tries to win final argument by saying stale lines like you sound like Hitler or say the world is flat.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-21

Yes, more red file...

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-20

Another day, another red file... Wally tricks PHB into buying the importance through suggesting dementia.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-19

Another day, another story with the red folder.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-18

Wally gives great advice. He carries a red folder to give the illusion of actual work. When getting stopped and asked for assistance, he holds up the red folder and says "I have this red file to complete."

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-17

Dilbert tells PHB about the manufacturing problem of Elbonians jumping off the building to commit suicide. PHB matter of factly replies that it's a two story building. Dilbert further explains the problem is they are having to jump a few times to be successful.

The Plan for Immortality

Scott is hyping WhenHub again. Basically, he'll use it to further document his existence, thus when AI can be developed to replicate his essence, the material can be uploaded.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-16

Wally asks Dilbert if eating garbage is a better option than talking to the boss about his weekend. Dilbert asks about the quality of the garbage and the effort required to obtain it.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-15

It's budget cut time, PHB asks Dilbert to renegotiate all of the contracts with vendors. PHB gives him instructions to threaten vendors they'll go with someone cheaper unless they cut their price. Dilbert says they did that ploy last go around. He further states his poor negotiating skills, which was established when he whined about the new hire making more on Friday. Regardless of the obvious pending failure, PHB gives him until Tuesday to get it done.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-14

In continuation from yesterday, Dilbert complains to Dogbert about being paid less than the new hire. Dogbert essentially calls him a pu$$y for whining about fairness.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-13

Meh, straight forward strip with  Dilbert complaining he makes less than a new hire to PHB. Latter blames Dilbert for negotiating like a pu$$y. PHB gloats about saving money and shoos him away when Dilbert says he hates confrontation.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-12

PHB fails to make Alice quit like Ted, she cleverly called his bluff.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-11

I guess Ted isn't dead like Kenny from South Park, for today he quit after PHB tells him he'll be spending time with him, just as yesterday's strip suggested.

Is Meryl Streep Persuasive?

Not sure why Scott posts tweets to his blog. Maybe he feels the need to make a quota? He hasn't Periscoped (Coffee) as much lately. Meh. Must be working on his book.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-09

Today seems to be reverting to last week's series of events that concluded with "feng shui" joke. PHB being annoying while Dilbert continues to work on his time lagging project.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-10

PHB and Catbert are discussing Ted. I thought Ted had his ashes flushed down the toilet by Wally last year, but evidently he's alive and doing a terrible job. Catbert suggest PHB talk to him to make him want to quit. About what doesn't matter for PHB talking for two minutes made Catbert's tail go asleep. Other than my understanding that Ted died on launch pad on his rocket to Mars, today seems like yesterday's strip.
Of course, Catbert being in today's makes me think of "the moan," and "feng shui."

OCD and Creativity

Not sure what made Scott consider OCD and Creativity, but it is a change from recent topics. I don't suffer from OCD, at least I don't think I do. I have my quirks. I have my mild obsessions, but I don't feel compelled to do much of anything. I have a brain defect of some sort which makes having a mild obsession a good thing. I have generalized indifference 97% of the time. I supposedly have bipolar disorder, but it's of the variety that I have never been hospitalized and that I'm not compulsive. I'm prone to depression and to anxiety. Obsessing gives me a channel to concentrate that keeps the two at bay. I'm medicated, too. Probably the main reason I'm meh about most things is due to my medication. I've a thyroid condition which probably causes my mood swings, hence I'm skeptically of my diagnosis. I used to self medicate with alcohol and nicotine, but now I can't smoke or drink because of the meds I'm taking. I drink lots of coffee. I rarely have trouble sleeping, so I can drink coffee all day.
Prior to my diagnosis and subsequent medications, I was mildly creative. There are times I consider my medications as a restrictor plate, but I just assume not go there when I know my wife would kill me if I were to do such a silly thing as go off my meds.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-08

Yesterday, I was disappointed that Saturday's strip was about Alice. Today it's a presentation/meeting with a jerk sitting next to Wally* making comments that Dilbery is dumb and such for for his presentation. Strip concludes with him asking Dogbert, "What's wrong with people?"

Sunday is supposed to be better than the rest with the extra panels, but I'm not feeling anything of use from them today.

Last Sunday, the strip more or less set up PHB being annoying to get Dilbert to moan, yet there never was an actual moan. Perhaps the jerk in today's strip finds his demise this week?

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-07

So feng shui concluded the joke for the week with no "moan," or did I miss something?
I didn't know there were Saturday strips, I guess I was hoping to enjoy today to its fullest given my youngest turns 3. Sidenotes- 1/7/17 has a certian symmetry about it. We're gonna have cookie cake after visiting Build a Bear.
Anyways, PHB and the female character whose name eludes me* are discussing something and PHB takes credit for her idea. Absurd to lie about stuff but he's PHB so you can't argue, I guess. Is it persuasive to be a dick? Seems to be a move Mr. Trump wouldn't use but would be accused of utilizing.

How To Know Your Product Will Succeed

Look for unexpected positive physical action from potential customers.

Seems to be a blog about his book again, and it is. I read the book, so I am not going to comment further, but I will say Scott seems to be stuck on his success as being a fluke. Rationalizing success creates the notion of lightning being caught in a bottle and mass produced. Why are there so many damn 1 hit wonders? At least there used to be a genre of them. They had unexpected success and fizzled when their 15 minutes were up.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-06

The daily strip through Thursday was PHB interupting Dilbert about his project that took him a few days to set up a programming environment and more time dealing with technical debt. Then there was the flow problem when adding a project and the zone interruption.
Today, PHB asks why Dilbert isn't done with the software, to which Dilbert sharply responds in front Catbert the above mentioned interruptions. Catbert being clueless asks PHB "what did he mean by that?" PHB says "sounded like some sort of Feng Shei."

Feng shui — which literally translates to "wind and water" — is the ancient Chinese art of placement. The goal is to enhance the flow of chi (life force or spiritual energy), and to create harmonious environments that ...

I never knew the definition of the Chinese interior design philosophy had words "flow of chi" and "create a harmonious environments," so PHB actually seems clever in his response.

WhenHub: Movies Coming in 2017

Meh, WhenHub propaganda. I am not a people person, and I don't really do apps. I felt that way about Twitter until I read a book about Twitter. I'm not saying Scott needs to write a book explaining the benefits of WhenHub, but so far I'm just meh.

Is The Onion Advising Democrats Now?

Was this a Tweet before a blog post?

How About an American Expense-lowering Investment Fund?

Homelessness is perhaps a wild card to Mr. Trump's future legacy. He's a builder, so he could figure out ways to help those that need affordable housing, right? Blog almost touches my thoughts. Scott didn't veer into my idea enough... so let me just point out that tax dollars are given for food and shelter, while the Federal Government owns land and resources that could be allotted instead at no direct taxpayer cost. Maybe divvy out land as reparations? I could go further and explain ideas, but I'll just say solving the root of crime would eliminate prisons. Prisons feed and shelter with no return as far as I can tell. "Ex-convicts can't find real jobs," I found as an excuse for my career college grads not trying to find work.
Fed should give states chance to A/B test ideas by pitching ideas and tryingto be scientific model with the process like Freakonomics claimed about Roe v. Wade did to crime rates.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-05

Dilbert is in the coding "zone" and PHB wants to talk to him a minute which will cause D to take 15 to get back into his zone. Basically, another way of saying "flow," but today PHB doesn't suggest working longer for nothing. May be tomorrow will have the "moan."

Creating Economic Assets out of Nothing

Another blog about how Mr. Trump being Master Persuader. Economy will explode/boom from his positive propaganda, in other words.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-04

Today PHB gave Dilbert an extra project that would mess with Dilbert's flow. Yesterday, we learned about the technical debt problem and on Monday we learned about setting up programming environment.
Yes, I googled some more.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/27913/technical-debt

Given on Sunday PHB and Catbert spoke about Dilbert's happiness meaning he was primed for more work, today makes sense. I wonder if tomorrow brings a moan.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-03

Not sure what Dilbert means by "technical debt," but I could google it. Yesterday, I was ignorant of setting up a programming environment, and I've yet to google it. I shouldn't feel the need to google to understand a joke.

What if Climate Change Causes more CO2?

Another blog today? Scott has been in the contrarian mood about CC. I've not followed Scott much beyond this past fall, so I guess it may be a staple. Meh, I don't feel strongly about CC. Glaciers and dinosaurs suggest man isn't responsible for the Earth changing temps for long stretches. If you think I'm being simple, consider how warm it would be to allow a cold-blooded huge lizard to live year round.

Your Body is Your Brain Too

Today's blog basically discusses the Diet chapter of Scott's most recent book. I had a hard time reading the chapter, but I charged through it after Scott tweeted me that it's the most important chapter. I thought he was using his persuasion skills to read a meh chapter, but there really is something to the diet... much like those Snickers commercials about not being yourself when you are hungry. Funny that Scott no longer eats Snickers, but he names his dog after the snack.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-02

Remodelling my bathroom will take at least three days. I told my wife and she says, where do you get that number? I say, taking out sink and toilet is one step. Cutting out wall is another step. Removing floor tile is a step. Replacing floor tile is another step. replacing the wall and tiling is another step. Returning the toilet and sink is final step.
I say it will take 3 days.
I am not a quick worker. I just know it will take me time to do the steps, and 3 days is a conservative time frame.

The Master Persuader Filter and Bernie’s Ad

Really, the first blog of 2017 is about an ad by LOSER BERNIE SANDERS? Actually it's a red herring as a means to discuss Persuasion. Scott has a list that he says people should google. He even had a chapter in his book. It's his favorite subject, and he uses it as the explanation for Mr. Trump's success.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-01

I'm not a  Dilbert fan. I don't hate him or anything, I just never followed his existence beyond the last few months and the various subscriptions I had to the Dayton Daily News. I remember a News Radio episode with Matthew being obsessed, so I never felt the need to get too involved since Matthew was a loser, or at least Andy Dick played him. I'm looking to have a hobby in 2017, and studying the work of Scott Adams seems to be a worthwhile endeavour. Today's Dilbert seems odd to me because it seems like PHB has Mr. Burns qualities. I always thought he was an idiot that somehow got to be boss by dumb luck. I know nothing about Catbert beyond he's not a pet.

Catbert: The one called Dilbert is showing signs of happiness at work. Boss: That means we can give him more work and he won't quit. Excellent. Is anyone else exhibiting signs of unauthorized happiness? Catbert: No. Everyone else is in the narrow band of misery you want them to be in. If they were any happier, it would mean you're overpaying them. If they were any less happy, the would take their own lives. If you don't hear any laughing or screaming, it means you're doing something right. Boss: What about moans? Catbert: Moans are ideal. That's the sweet spot.
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