Dilbert: 2010 Day-to-Day Calendar
by Scott Adams
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Book Reviews of Dilbert: 2010 Day-to-Day Calendar
Book Review: The perfect cube for your cube
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're new to Dilbert, he's a small guy who works in a highly bureaucratic engineering firm. The comics satirize office politics beautifully.
The 2010 Day to Day calendar is a small block of 365 dated comic strips, designed to be torn off on a daily basis. Each page is printed in color - the overall color scheme is green and purple. This year a new addition to the Day to Day calendar is the "daily extra" printed on the back of each page. Sometimes it's a small brain teaser (eg a sudoku puzzle, a word search or a maze). Or it might be a riddle, a joke, a piece of trivia or an inspiring quote. There are also occasional household hints. On the weekend pages there might be a template to write notes for the babysitter or just a blank space to jot notes.
Unlike previous years, the 2010 calendar is not internally shrinkwrapped, but it still arrived without damage.
I give the Dilbert day-to-day calendar to my father every year for Christmas. He very much enjoys having a new Dilbert strip to read everyday and often saves cartoons to pass onto others. If you work in an office environment - or have escaped from one! - this is a wonderful calendar.
Book Review: The only thing that gets me through the day...
Summary: 5 Stars
Seriously. When you sit in a 8x8 cube of doom that was designed with "soul crusher" gray walls for 8-10 hours a day you could use a good laugh every now and then. Dilbert just has me figured out! Granted I work in IT - I also work for a fortune 500 company so a lot of the corporate jokes that Dilbert makes are DEAD ON. Examples of this include goal setting, project management, office weight loss, redundant meetings, etc, etc.
Every morning I hurry to my cube with a little bit of excitement knowing that I get to tear off a new comic! My only complaint? occasionaly the paper tops hang a little bit when you tear them off and it looks kind of sloppy, but the manufacturer made little perforated sections that can tear off at 1/8 increments through the comic to remove all of the excess paper left behind.
If you know someone who works in an office - preferable with cubicles - they will truly appreciate this little gift. It makes my day!
Book Review: a great way to get a daily dose of Dilbert
Summary: 4 Stars
I just realized I've been using Dilbert Day-to-Day Calendars for at least 5 years.
The only calendar I might give it up for is one that doesn't exist: 'The Calvin and Hobbes Day-to-Day Calendar'.
But this one usually gets at least a chuckle out of me when I sit down to breakfast, and that's not a bad way to start the day.
My only complaint is that the back of the pages now have some puzzle or quiz or something; I don't know who thought of doing that, but it's totally unnecessary - Dilbert can stand on his own and doesn't need any little extras.
Besides, I often used to use the back of old pages to make notes to myself for the day, but now it's a drag because of that stuff being in the way, so I've had to switch to using the back of pages from the 'Zen Page-a-Day Calendar'.
It's a little late for this year, but check it out for next year - it's still a great way to get a daily dose of Dilbert!
Book Review: Love the Color-Love the extras, where's the Sunday?
Summary: 5 Stars
I get this calendar every year (yes, I work in a cubicle in corporate America) they get better each year.
For 2011, Wired: full color, cool Dilbert cartoon content. Tired: they combined Saturday and Sunday into one page (only printing the Saturday panel, which in my opinion is the suckiest of all days to read comics)! Where are the big beautiful Sunday versions of Dilbert?!@! I hope this decision saved a lot of money, because it really, really blows!
2010: I love the return of color. New this year are extras on the back fo each tear-off page. Extras include Sudoko, a handy little form for the babysitter, helpful hints, etc...
I will 'still' buy this again next year.
Book Review: Gotta love cubeville
Summary: 5 Stars
Every year I buy a dilbert calendar from the kiosk at the mall. This year I bought a close to home calendar, and it didn't measure up.
I waited until february to chase down a dilbert calendar. I guess it makes sense that most pace were out of stock, as a calendar is something you'd buy near the end of the year.
I did find one for a little more than msrp, not that much more though.
It was still cheaper than a trip to the mall.
Only thing I don't care for is the daily extra, I used to use the pages for scratch paper, now I just save them in the box the calendar came with.