Recent Comments

1. 5 months ago on Brevity

   I think The Dude mistook the burning building for someplace a little hotter. :)

2. 5 months ago on Baldo

   Why does the life of the tires matter, since the point of the strip is about father son bonding?

3. 5 months ago on Prickly City

   I’m not sure that the debates matter. From what I’ve seen & read everybody has aleady decided who they will vote for and nobody seems willing to change their mind.

4. 5 months ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   “When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.” R. A. Heinlein

5. 5 months ago on Andertoons

   There are a number of parents who have attempted to dump their responsibility for teaching their children how to behave properly in public onto school teachers. This may have been pointedly directed at them.

6. 5 months ago on Non Sequitur

   Proper gammar and semantic correctness are not the same thing. For example, “The sky is blue.” is grammatically correct. However, it is not semantically correct. “The volume of space immediately visible above us is a frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum usually refered to as part of the color grouping ‘blue’.” is closer to a semantically correct statement.

7. 6 months ago on Non Sequitur

   I somehow seemed to have missed the request for that. Otherwise I would have started my original post with the phrase "To the best of my ability to recall such things, "

8. 6 months ago on Non Sequitur

   I have yet to be in a coversation in which anyone wanted me to speak semantically correct English. :)

9. 6 months ago on One Big Happy

   Things get lost in the Cloud as well, and the various companies that supposedly maintain clould storage are not required to inform you of the loss. Not to mention the lack of strong enough security to prevent unauthorized access. Sigh.

10. 6 months ago on Kliban

    When I’m in a restaurant that states items are home made, I usually ask whose home they are made in. :)