Recent Comments

1. 4 days ago on Speed Bump

   Rather a boaring diet, wouldn’t you say?

2. 6 days ago on PreTeena

   You’re quite correct… but that was part of the joke. I was making a play on words… transforming a common complaint about “illiteracy in America” into a comment on Teena’s use of alliteration. Teena’s not illiterate, but she does alliterate (and so do I, as it’s often a great way to make a pun).

3. 7 days ago on PreTeena

   With a shake of the head, and a sad comment about alliteracy in America. (“alliteration” would fill the blank nicely; “rhyme” would do although it’s less specific; “panel” is valid but it misses the point I think you’re trying to make)

4. 9 days ago on Speed Bump

   Did the Hotel California have Swedish meatballs?

5. 13 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   From what I’ve heard, “Bob” was actually sabotaged by its jealous predecessor “Clippy”. Clippy had been derided and rejected by the Microsoft user base for its sluggish performance and intrusive behavior, and less-than-helpful “suggestions”. Nursing a huge grudge and seeking revenge, Clippy deliberately tampered with Bob’s teleprompter, causing Bob to insult users’ writing styles and grammar, make inappropriate suggestions involving melons and cucumbers, and recommend “hot prospect” stock picks such as a recently-condemned spoo ranch. The end came when Clippy tricked Bob into insulting Microsoft’s own software developers… seeing computer diagnostics such as “You learned to program in COBOL, didn’t you?” and “You’re going to Hell for this coding style” enraged the programmers and brought an end to Bob’s development cycle.

6. 14 days ago on Pooch Cafe

   It’s not so much dog intelligence we need to worry about… it’s dog philosophy and fundamentalist dog religion and all sorts of dog-propagated political “alternative facts” taking over public debate. Dog dogma dogging us will do us dirty.

7. 14 days ago on PreTeena

   But the young people today, they’ll never believe you… (sipping his glass of Château de Chasselas)

8. 14 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   When I was working for TiVo about 15 years ago, there were five of us in one small section of the software engineering department. Any time somebody said “Hey, Dave!” in that area, heads would pop up into view all across the room… it looked like fun time in a meercat colony :-)

9. 15 days ago on Non Sequitur

   That’s why you should buy The Doctor’s Chronological Creme Rinse. It will de-tangle your tenses and get rid of all those timey-wimey grammatical snarls and temporal knots. Guaranteed to restore causality, or twice your wasted time cheerfully refunded.

10. 18 days ago on F Minus

    I spent all of last night dreaming that I was a butterfly… and wow, my wings are really tired today!