Anyone Remember/Have A Copy of An Old Comic Strip that...
Featured a family taking a car trip to Grandma's and the father telling the family how much longer it would take. The joke was that he was a Windows programmer and the time remaining of the drive would change drastically randomly. This referred to the inconsistency in the time remaining animation and dialogue in Windows (Vista I think).
(I'm going to assume you just misremembered some details, but it's possible this joke was recycled a few times. This is the only version I know about.)