Must be something there?!
Not to be confused with this classic:
That one especially made me laugh way back when it ran because 30+ years ago in a small, struggling software company, we hired a new business development guy named Neil. He was surely told a pack o’ lies about the opportunity, and came in full of attitude about his importance.
At the time, the latest processors were Pentiums, and laptops were relatively rare. I had inherited IT and our one IT worker-bee, who dutifully got him a 32MB Pentium laptop. After delivering it, my guy dropped by to comment that Neil had been dismissive of the machine “only” having 32MB. So I wandered down to his office and introduced myself. In the process, I noticed that there was still a tower PC under his desk–one of our workhorse 4MB 486 machines.
“Shall I get that out of here?” I asked. “Sure”, Neil replied scornfully, “It’s not it’s good for anything.”
“Around here, that’s a developer machine.” ” Yeah, right.”
“Neil–I’m not kidding.”
He never complained about his laptop again! He actually turned out to be an OK guy once he got over his original attitude, but the name “Neil” has made me snicker slightly ever since.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Terence Stamp, who played Zod, died recently, and that is likely the reason for the blank screen.
I think Usual John has it, but Lio might also be commenting on television’s insisting upon itself. Lio said “No” and turned it off.
Terence Stamp died on August 17, and this (Sunday) strip is dated August 24. I would be surprised if that was enough time for Tatulli to get a new strip in. (And if it was meant to be a tribute to Stamp, it wasn’t much of a tribute.)
Yeah, “TV insists Lio pay attention to it or is otherwise being a bit Too Much, Lio turns it off” is something of a recurring bit.
“Around here, that’s a developer machine.”
I remember at a required all-company Town Hall meeting the CEO was listing his accomplishments, which included the fact that all employees now had a PC.
Much groaning in the back. The IT department generally did NOT have PCs because at the time the production code was all mainframe, so developers and DBAs had green-screen terminals only.
Only the sales / client service staff all had PCs. But that’s where the CEO had come from, and that’s the group he paid attention to.
zbicylist: MUCH groaning? Back in that era, most of the mainframe devs I worked with weren’t much interested in having a PC. “Never trust a machine you can lift” and all that! (But I can believe at least some wanted one, and at a minimum would feel dissed at not being part of “all employees”, of course.)