Portland is at the same latitude as Ottawa and Montreal
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Me too, since I live here! 
But seriously, it might very well be much closer to the shore in a rather short period with the way things are going…
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Grand Marais, Minnesota, is pretty nice, and that coastline will not move an inch
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And it’s soon to be in Zone 10 climate! Palm trees and amaryllis in your front yard!
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Oh yeah, I didn’t even think of that
Buy real estate in Duluth!
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There are a couple of nice islands on the lake here in Ohio which have a cool, weird vibe to them. They have the same advantage! 
It’s just until the winters go away they are somewhat pesky; and the islands are virtually unreachable after the lake freezes over for the winter, except by air. (Although thinking about it, I wonder if a hovercraft would still work?)
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You can’t just drive a Hummer over the ice?
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From the Bloomberg article:
At both the bank and the phone company, Adams has said, his professional advancement was thwarted by diversity hires. “There was no hope for another generic white male to get promoted any time soon,”
He graduated from college in June 1979 and was already working at the bank a few months later.
There were no diversity hires in those days.
So now we know he was such a loser he couldn’t even advance as a white man with an economics degree (and an MBA) at a time when only white men were able to advance freely in their careers.
The insult sounds positively tame in comparison to what could be said about him.
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Well, there are certainly no white guys working at banks and phone companies now, since they were all purged in 1980 and that’s how we got the all-woman ruling class we enjoy today …/hardsarcasm
“There was no hope for another generic white male to get promoted any time soon,”
Utter bs.
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I’ll be honest, I’m a land lubber who isn’t too sure. I know the ice on Erie gets blown around a lot; it’s about five miles from the island to the shore. I know people use snowmobiles on the lake once it freezes, but I’m not sure if they make it all the way out to the islands or if they normally stick close to shore. I bet it would work in the middle of winter, but there would probably be a lot of time when it wouldn’t work because the ice was broken in the middle?
Ok, off to research!
Thank you boing boing! So i deleted Dilbert from my daily comics folder (don’t judge, there are 8 others in there). Today on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach recommended Ph.D. comics. Perfect upgrade replacement for the long in the tooth Dilbert.
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He has always identified more closely with the boss, even if he hasn’t really admitted it before. He has no engineering background, and his only corporate jobs have been in the Pointy Haired Boss role. He is infamous for stealing strip ideas from readers without giving them credit.
To me, Dilbert has never been “funny” funny, nor has it been witty or engaging. At best, it’s been relatable in a “hey, something like that happened to me this week!” sort of way.
Not only are they not funny, and they make even less sense than they usually do, but they look like whoever drew them was on acid. Seriously, what the fuck?
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Atlanta can get lost. It’s hot and humid and it stinks.
Named after our 46th President, Vladimir Put In
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Nazi Party standard philosophy 1.A: I can’t get what I deserve because the untermenschen have cheated me.
And of course, the fact that at the bank and the phone company he was a big-mouthed, arrogant, pushy braggart who made everyone else hate him had nothing to do with it. No, it was all someone else’s fault. Everything is always someone else’s fault. He’s a victim. He’s an underdog that everyone else is mean to.
Jesus, it would be a miracle if this guy wasn’t a Trump supporter. He shares the Trump pathology.
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I’ve worked with many people who have earned MBAs with fewer years of work experience than they should have. It’s always the same: “Why doesn’t this work the way it works in the case studies from B-School? Because it’s wrong! WAAAAH! It’s wrong and I’m the only one here who knows how to fix it!”
And these kids wonder why they can never keep a job for more than six months to a year.
Hence him centering his strip around Dilbert, even though he’s actually more of a Pointy Haired Boss kind of guy.
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Adams has taken time off and the strip is currently being “drawn” by Jake Tapper, who is to art as a blocked nostril is to an operatic tenor.
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I just went back and read the last month of strips.
Oh. My. God. I think I figured out the problem. (I’m an analyst, it’s what I do.)
My guess is that Scott Adams isn’t in on the joke that he himself writes. The “straight bits” are what office dwellers find funny; the “jokes” are the parts that fall flat. It’s not that it’s an inverted structure comic, it’s that he’s a very lucky. Reading that strip with the knowledge that he’s a MAGAot makes me wonder if the lampooning of corporate America and the exposure of the absurdity of corporate culture which is what made the comic funny wasn’t what he intended. He is the PHB and his comics work but he doesn’t understand why; and the more he tries to make them work the less they work and the funnier they get because the fail is greater.
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