Recent Comments

1. 20 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   They made a movie out of Battleship.

2. 6 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   We named our Bichon Pooka, after the mischievous Irish spirit. The name turned out to be all too accurate. He’s now going on 15, which is 3 years beyond the average life expectancy for Bichons.

3. 8 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I remember noting at the time when teenagers were challenging each other on social media to eat Tide pods that the company’s response was to make the package harder to open for small children and old people. It did include instruction on how to open it on the package but it was still a strange response the problem.

4. about 1 year ago on Over the Hedge

   The thing is, a CD is just a physical storage medium for the music’s digital file, which can be stored anywhere, including your phone. An audiophile who wants to listen to the analog version of the music has to listen to it from either a vinyl disc or a high quality tape. Hence the declining interest in CD’s and the steady or increasing popularity of vinyl among a certain audiophile community.

5. about 1 year ago on Betty

   One professor characterized AI written papers as impressive sounding gibberish that would be convincing to someone who didn’t know the subject.

6. about 1 year ago on Arlo and Janis

   Reminds me of a line from a comic I heard many years ago: “We live in an age where people keep their $40,000 piece of precision machinery on their driveway so they can keep $400 worth of junk in their garage.”

7. almost 2 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   I learned of Hanson when “Weird” Al Yankovic included MMMBop in one of his polkas. I thought it was kind of catchy, so I looked up the band and added MMMBop to our pop favorites playlist. I found Tubthumping by Chumbawamba the same way.

8. almost 2 years ago on Arlo and Janis

   “The thunderstorms on the weekend were something of a surprise. Especially to those of you who listened to my forecast on Friday.”

9. about 2 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Someday Calvin will learn that Tyrannosaurus Rex means “King of the Tyrant Lizards.”

10. almost 3 years ago on Betty

    I tend to think of them as educational videos as well, and all drivers in training should be exposed to them. Aside from the voyeuristic aspect, they can give you a feeling for all the things that can happen if you’re careless or inattentive, and just how easy it can be to lose control of the vehicle and how bad things can get if you do.