We now have to worry about computer hackers taking over our toilets.
Seriously. When I heard this this morning I thought for a moment that I was listening to the Onion’s Radio News, but no, I was tuned to NPR’s real news show, Here and Now.
Smart Toilets? They exist. How did I miss this trend? Even more important, how can a cartoonist make a living when real life is now more absurd than anything I can dream up?
Before the biggest worry I had about my commode was a pet alligator being flushed down a toilet in New York crawling through a toxic waste dump in New Jersey, then making its way over the continental divide, and finally, grossly mutated, it pops out of my toilet in Oregon
License Plumbing Cartoon 5962
Get it Printed on Stuff @ CafePress and Zazzle
B.T.W. I’m not sure if it’s still the case, but when I worked at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History in the 1980s the only public toilets on the second floor were at the end of Western Civilization … exhibit that is. It somehow seemed fitting that they were sort of the culmination of all our achievements. And now we have to worry about them being hacked!
License Rome Cartoon 2423
Get it Printed on Stuff @ CafePress and Zazzle
It’s enough to make me want to go to bed and curl up in the fetal position, but according to the same interview, our mattresses can also now be hacked.
If you’re afraid to go to bed, take your mind off things by reading some Computer Virus Cartoons and Plumbing Cartoons.