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1. about 21 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Vermillion looks red next to orange and orange next to red, so it’s a fine intermediate. I usually think of handtrucks as that color.

2. about 21 hours ago on Kevin Necessary Editorial Cartoons

   I used to be reluctant to go metric. However, my reason that I would stay with the English-speaking system in 1975 ended when I went to Montreal this month in 1976. The federal government was promoting the system at the time. So, I declared my independence from the system with Britain and the Commonwealth Nations. Had those cute calculators not come out that year, I think we would have gone metric, having to use slide rules! I have even changed to parsecs in place of lightyears in astronomy, using the metric prefixes, now up to Yotta (10^24) and yocta (10^-24). A parsec is about 30.5 Petameters, with Alpha Centauri about 1.3 parsecs. Galaxies are Megaparsecs apart, except for the nearby Andromeda.

3. about 21 hours ago on Kevin Necessary Editorial Cartoons

   Yes, it’s been a long time since 1977. Ironically, American Top 40 this weekend runs Saturday 23 April 1977, so I’m back there.

4. 1 day ago on Kevin Necessary Editorial Cartoons

   Of course they’re metric! This country was supposed to metricize in 1976, so I did. I grew tired of waiting for the change. My organic chemistry book from 1976 has all the temperatures in Celsius. The only change since then is that energy is no longer in calories, but in Joules.

5. 1 day ago on Henry Payne

   Why? To prove the Domino Theory is a logical fallacy or that Drumpf uses it? It’s also called “Slippery Slope” and Drumpf’s great at using it in his speeches.

6. 1 day ago on Kevin Necessary Editorial Cartoons

   Yes, Koch proved the Pasteur postulates, a rare cooperation between France and Germany at the time. Ethanol is the oldest form of anesthesia and disinfectant known. By the way, all alcohols are poisonous, but ethanol is the least poisonous. My professor said, “but what a way to go!” I was once in an organic lab with a huge bottle of ethanol on the desk. It was sealed because ethanol will take in moisture to an asymptote of 95%.Cholorform boils at 61º and the chlorine is carcinogenic. Ethyl ether boils at 35º and it’s flammable. However, it does provide a statement in summer that “It’s hot enough to boil ethyl ether!”

7. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Can’t Stupendous Man decide between a red or an orange flash, so it’s vermillion? Great moons of Neptune, there’re even more since this episode published!

8. 1 day ago on For Better or For Worse

   When our schnauzer died (and I buried her on this date in 2010), she was having trouble breathing because her heart was stopping. Should it be the case here, then the problem would be that Farley isn’t breathing because his heart had stopped. Does anyone know what to do in that case should an animal need CPR?

9. 1 day ago on Garfield

   Jon must be thinking of all the salads that never were.

10. 1 day ago on Francis

    Kudos to this comic which makes me feel good as a staunch Catholic.