Original Commentary

Did Mrs. Taylor know Kimberly was sick? probably not... she only needs to know when people are there when she needs them and that's it... so theoretically you could get away with never being at work, just as long as you're there when it counts... I think... well, it's only a theory, and not a very good one.

I don't know how to text message... I do believe Terrence knows how to, more or less, but is slow at it. The young people in my family can text message like they were using a computer. It's scary, really.-Isabel

Modern Commentary
Yes, that's a 12-button flip phone. There's an art to texting on those things. I held on to mine longer than I should have because I like having physical buttons.

But Brisbane is decidedly not a tech guy. One of the main reason for that is that there were a LOT of webcomics about tech guys doing technological things, and we could either try to be on the cutting edge of things or pointedly decide not to do so.

In retrospect, making Brisbane computer illiterate was a bit of an overreaction, but it works for his character - Terrence