Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 27, 2024

Lick off the salt first, treat in itself.

I still marvel at how televisions work.

Me, too. They bring garbage into our homes.

Indoor plumbing.

I still marvel at nature. Like a few days ago when I was sitting outside enjoying the sounds of nature and I spotted a turkey walking on my driveway. Nothing unusual about that, but it then decided it needed a better vantage point and flew about 125 feet up to a tree branch about 30 – 35 feet above the ground.

I still marvel at old Atari games.

I marvel at human biology. How can I eat an 8 oz bag of junk food and then have the scale show that I am one pound heavier the next day?

I know Arlo is a bit of a free thinker, but his thought today is more random that most….

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I am always amazed that a single cell and sperm will grow to a complete human (or other mammal).

I marvel at salt free saltine crackers.

I miss pay phones and Checker cabs

He also has a Janis mannikin.

Never lose the wonder Arlo.

I still marvel that I’m still alive after all the dumb things I’ve done in 71 yrs.

I marvel that God still loves us

Still Marvels at a box of saltine crackers. Must have been a bird in a previous life.

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov

My toddler son was certain that he could watch “Bernie” (Bert and Ernie) any time he wanted, that they were inside the TV and all I had to do was turn it on.

Arlo is fascinated by a box of crackers, I’m fascinated by a bug zapper.

I saw the universe in my newborn son’s eyes.

Meh, just watch an episode of “How It’s Made”… ☺

Listen to Dylan’s ‘Idiot Wind’:…Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coatsBlowing through the letters that we wroteIdiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelvesWe’re idiots, babeIt’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves

I wonder why I wonder………….

That’s what I forgot to buy when I did groceries yesterday!

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

What is so fascinating about Saltine crackers? Easy shape to make. Now Bugles are much harder to make, they are more fascinating.

Wait til he finds out about aerosol cheese in a can.

I still marvel that people think creation was an accident.

I still marvel (once I knew what was involved) that anyone managed to invent making bread.

My wife has the ability to turn me off when my conversation rambles. Much as Janet is doing now.

And I marvel at the lady in my GPS sitting on the truck dashboard that says, " turn left at the next stop sign and proceed 1.6 miles to Luckney road." How can she see that from the dash of my truck?

I know it saves JJ some work, but the only difference between these four panels is the slight zoom in for panel 3 and the change in Argo’s face and arm gesture. Everything else is identical—even Argo’s hair is the same in panel 3, just zoomed in a bit. He manages to turn his head without turning his hair—pretty good trick!

The main result is that Janis is completely static; we have no sense of her having any reaction to Arlo. We really have no sense of her as a sentient being at all; she’s just a cardboard cutout for all the response she shows. Would it really be that hard to give her a little life?

I like to marvel at flowers and butterflies. Keeps things whimsy.

He will now read you the ingredients.

Saltine crackers are the best.

When I’m downtown, I marvel at the skyscrapers, new and old. I wonder how they stay up and support all those people and equipment.

Life is full of marvels.

“Why it’s the Uneeda Biscuit made the trouble

Uneeda, Uneeda put the crackers in a package, in a package

The Uneeda Biscuit in an air-tight sanitary package made the cracker barrel obsolete, obsolete

- Meredith Willson, The Music Man

I have a PhD, I have had a commercial radio license from the FCC, I worked at companies in Silicon Valley, I started designing my own computers at age 8, and I still marvel at all the technology we have these days.

But I do get upset at how many people take it for granted, And I very much dislike Apple’s “if you need to think to use something, that is a design flaw” preaching, that has led us to this. You should not need to have advanced education, but you should surely think before using a smart phone, or a computer, or a car!