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Re-Inventing the Millstone

9 January 2008 - 3:00am — Christopher Wright
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BOSS: I despise the new year.

BOSS: By October it seems like we've managed to drain the hope from our customer base -- destroyed their hopes, their dreams, their ambitions. They look upon the encroaching winter and imagine it to be a reflection of their souls... bleak, cold, unforgiving, full of darkness.

BOSS: And then? By January, suddenly people are full of HOPE. They sense possibility, opportunity, they look to the horizon eagerly believing that the new year will be better than the last, even when there is nothing to indicate that ANYTHING will ever change for the better! And so, instead of pushing the world to new heights of despair and hopelessness, we must instead work to bring them back to the same place they were before this new year undid all our hard work from the year before!

ALEX: Apple and Linux gained marketshare, did they?

BOSS: I despise the new year.

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Comments

Oh boy, oh boy, a new comic!

9 January 2008 - 3:08am — rhl2000

I'm so thrilled I won't even point out the typo I spotted... <;-)

Thank you, thank you!

Thanks, and welcome back!

9 January 2008 - 7:27am — MarkHB

I hope your New Orleans experience is going well!

AND, since I know that you are driven to perfection in your art, I'll point out that you wrote "reflection" as "relection."

I love you.

9 January 2008 - 10:43pm — Angie K

Thank you.

Yes! he is back

10 January 2008 - 12:22pm — Anonymous (not verified)

Welcome back!!! You were missed!

he's baaack

11 January 2008 - 9:08am — Neli42

Woo hoo! Welcome back!
I was out sick so didn't see the new strip until today - what a nice surprise.
Happy New Year.

Unrelated news item

11 January 2008 - 10:14am — MarkHB

This comic is currently linked at the top of Groklaw, with PJ's comment "Was Christopher Wright a prophet or what?"

For some reason, the word technojeremiad comes to mind. Or better yet, eJeremiad.

Relection...

12 January 2008 - 4:17pm — David Nale (not verified)

There is nothing wrong with the word "relection"... it is a perfectly good word... it is just that it has not been used and thus lacks a definition.

How about this? "Relection" is that for which we are glad that Bush is not eligible....

(It does sound a bit like a Bushism to me.)

Anyhow, welcome back to our midst, Chris. I welcome you with open and non-judgemental arms... (unlike some nit-pickers who could be named and shamed).

Bushism

13 January 2008 - 11:13am — Angie K

Actually, that's the first thing I thought when I noticed that word.

Also, I just noticed "hopelessness" is missing an "s" in the third panel. Not much you can do with that one, though.

Well it's actually supposed

13 January 2008 - 5:45pm — Christopher Wright

Well it's actually supposed to be "reflection." Gah.