309: Shopping Teams - Revision history

FaviFake: Per the discussion at the community portal, Blondie and Miss Lenhart are being merged, just like Cutie and Megan

2026-05-09T15:08:02Z

Per the discussion at the community portal, Blondie and Miss Lenhart are being merged, just like Cutie and Megan

Lettherebedarklight: /* Transcript */ add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

2025-12-15T09:00:25Z

‎Transcript: add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

172.68.174.83 at 00:59, 11 December 2023

2023-12-11T00:59:03Z

Jacky720: rv

2022-05-04T21:08:48Z

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Ex Kay Cee Dee at 20:22, 4 May 2022

2022-05-04T20:22:57Z

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Davidy22: Reverted edits by X. K. C. D. (talk) to last revision by Alcazar84

2022-05-04T02:09:47Z

Reverted edits by X. K. C. D. (talk) to last revision by Alcazar84

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X. K. C. D. at 23:44, 3 May 2022

2022-05-03T23:44:18Z

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Alcazar84: fixed grammatical errors

2018-02-06T21:21:21Z

fixed grammatical errors

Alcazar84: fixed grammatical errors

2018-02-06T21:19:40Z

fixed grammatical errors

Kynde: New character Blondie

2016-09-10T13:53:27Z

New character Blondie

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 :Non-nerd 2: Okay.
-:[Above the second team consisting of a Blondie and a Cueball-like guy is written the following text (the first line written with larger letters):]
+:[Above the second team consisting of a Miss Lenhart and a Cueball-like guy is written the following text (the first line written with larger letters):]
 :<big>Good:</big>
 :Non-nerd + nerd
+:
-:Blondie non-nerd: Let's get that one.
+:Miss Lenhart non-nerd: Let's get that one.
 :Cueball nerd: Wait, I think that one might be a better deal.
-:Blondie non-nerd: Okay, that one.
+:Miss Lenhart non-nerd: Okay, that one.
 :[Above the third team consisting of two Cueball-like guys is written the following text (the first line written with larger letters):]
@@ Line 47: / Line 47: @@
 :Later
-:[The two Cueball-like guys are sitting on the floor in front of the counter, both having their laptops open and with lots of paper sheets spread around them, as well as a pen. Blondie from the second team comes in from the right and raises her arms:]
+:[The two Cueball-like guys are sitting on the floor in front of the counter, both having their laptops open and with lots of paper sheets spread around them, as well as a pen. Miss Lenhart from the second team comes in from the right and raises her arms:]
 :Nerd 1: I think our main problem is our unclear definition of value.
-:Blondie non-nerd: That is not your main problem!
+:Miss Lenhart non-nerd: That is not your main problem!
 {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
-[[Category:Comics featuring Blondie]]
+[[Category:Comics featuring Miss Lenhart]]
 [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]
 [[Category:Time management]]
 [[Category:Sysadmins]]
 [[Category:Comics with a Spanish translation]]

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 :<big><big>Shopping teams</big></big>
-:[Above the first team consisting of two Cueball-like guys are written the following text (the first line written with larger letters):]
+:[Above the first team consisting of two Cueball-like guys is written the following text (the first line written with larger letters):]
 :<big>Bad:</big>
 :Two non-nerds
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 :Non-nerd 2: Okay.
-:[Above the second team consisting of a Blondie and a Cueball-like guy, are written the following text (the first line written with larger letters):]
+:[Above the second team consisting of a Blondie and a Cueball-like guy is written the following text (the first line written with larger letters):]
 :<big>Good:</big>
 :Non-nerd + nerd
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 :Blondie non-nerd: Okay, that one.
-:[Above the third team consisting of two Cueball-like guys, are written the following text (the first line written with larger letters):]
+:[Above the third team consisting of two Cueball-like guys is written the following text (the first line written with larger letters):]
 :<big>Very Bad:</big>
 :Two Nerds
@@ Line 47: / Line 47: @@
 :Later
-:[The two Cueball-like guys are sitting on the floor in front of the counter, both having their laptops open and with lots of paper sheets spread around them as well as a pen etc. Blondie from the second team comes in from the right and raises her arms:]
+:[The two Cueball-like guys are sitting on the floor in front of the counter, both having their laptops open and with lots of paper sheets spread around them, as well as a pen. Blondie from the second team comes in from the right and raises her arms:]
 :Nerd 1: I think our main problem is our unclear definition of value.
 :Blondie non-nerd: That is not your main problem!

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 ==Explanation==
-[[Randall]] is comparing the ways different people look at choosing between similar products. In the first example, which Randall considers "bad", two "non-nerds" look at two products (without a description of any kind) and instantly decide which one they want. In the second example, which is considered "good", one of the two is a {{w|Nerd|nerd}} and the other one is a non-nerd. The non-nerd instantly picks one of the products but the nerd evaluates the two and decides that the other one is better because it's a better deal. In both the first two cases, the pair are able to easily come to a decision.
+[[Randall]] is comparing the ways different people look at choosing between similar products. In the first example, which Randall considers "bad," two "non-nerds" look at two products (without a description of any kind) and instantly decide which one they want. In the second example, which is considered "good," one of the two is a {{w|Nerd|nerd}}, and the other one is a non-nerd. The non-nerd instantly picks one of the products, but the nerd evaluates the two and decides that the other one is better because it's a better deal. In both the first two cases, the pair is able to easily come to a decision.
-However, in the third example two nerds are comparing the two boxes and both of them over-analyse the various merits and drawbacks on each of the two boxes. They are still there two hours later, unable to reach a clear agreement on which of the two boxes they wish to buy. One nerd comments that their definition of value is unclear, suggesting the discussion has gone on for so long because they are re-evaluating their definitions over something too trivial. Some might perceive this as typical "nerd" behaviour, over-analysing a problem which is in actual fact quite trivial, such as the decision whether to buy one box or the other virtually identical box. The non-nerd woman from the second situation (or perhaps the store manager in this situation), who has watched the two nerds compare the two products for hours, attempts to put this into perspective, by pointing out that an unclear definition of value is not their main problem. The implication is that their real main problem is that they are unable to reach an agreement on something that makes so little difference. Or their problem could be the one described in [[1445: Efficiency]].
+However, in the third example, two nerds are comparing the two boxes, and both of them overanalyse the various merits and drawbacks on each of the two boxes. They are still there two hours later, unable to reach a clear agreement on which of the two boxes they wish to buy. One nerd comments that their definition of value is unclear, suggesting that the discussion has gone on for so long because they are re-evaluating their definitions over something too trivial. Some might perceive this as typical "nerd" behaviour, overanalysing a problem that is in actual fact quite trivial, such as the decision whether to buy one box or the other virtually identical box. The non-nerd woman from the second situation (or perhaps the store manager in this situation), who has watched the two nerds compare the two products for hours, attempts to put this into perspective by pointing out that an unclear definition of value is not their main problem. The implication is that their real main problem is that they are unable to reach an agreement on something that makes so little difference. Or their problem could be the one described in [[1445: Efficiency]].
-The title text suggests that Randall entered a similar situation attempting to buy an air conditioner with his sysadmin, short for {{w|System administrator}}. The sysadmin is a person in an organisation employed to manage the computer system or network, a role which requires technical skills and intelligence. The suggestion here is that a computer programmer, like Randall, put together with a sysadmin, would spend as much attention to detail as the two nerds in the comic, labouring over which of two trivially similar products to buy.
+The title text suggests that Randall entered a similar situation attempting to buy an air conditioner with his sysadmin, short for {{w|System administrator}}. The sysadmin is a person in an organization employed to manage the computer system or network, a role that requires technical skills and intelligence. The suggestion here is that a computer programmer, like Randall, put together with a sysadmin, would spend as much attention to detail as the two nerds in the comic, laboring over which of two trivially similar products to buy.
 Randall deals with sysadmins again in [[705: Devotion to Duty]].