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1. 13 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   So, I go way back. I was punching holes in those IBM cards around 1970 and took a FORTRAN class in 71. You make a wrong punch anywhere and you start over. I then took classes in PASCAL, IBM Assembler, COBOL, Adv BASIC. Spent 3 years writing Assembler code for a Programmable Machine Tool company (Lathes and Mill/Drills). Wrote a huge PASCAL program for a bank check sorter of which maybe 2-4 were actually sold and used. Spent time during 1999 going over and maybe fixing lots of bank and corporate code for the Y2K program and spent the last several years of my ‘career’ fixing MS update issues (post update) at various GM facilities around Detroit. And I am still amazed at how the Voyager missions are still functioning. Think what it would cost and how much time it would take today to even repeat that accomplishment.

2. 5 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   The NBA has a G – League which is where Bronny is right now after 1 college year. How soon until the NFL gets a G league. Baseball has (or maybe now had) lots of very low level farm leagues for kids out of high school, and little to no college draft. I think that’s changing too as Baseball sees colleges as more or less a free farm league.

3. 5 months ago on Rubes

   Besides the curve of the marks intersecting the plane of his face do appear more parabolic like a standard heel.

4. 12 months ago on Frazz

   How soon we forget. There was an article in the news years ago when we moved the clock settings from the April to March dates, and it was all about the Putt-Putt Golf places and the Convenience stores wanting more daylight time so they could get customers who were afraid of the dark. If there was $$$ to be made by changing the system to whatever, it would have already happened. The fact it hasnt’t yet, means a lot of big money businesses haven’t yet got together to figure out a way to squeeze some more cash out of us.

5. about 1 year ago on Arlo and Janis

   Happened to me in boot camp. 2nd day of Basic and we’re having our first inspection of uniform, locker and cot, with all our civilian clothes supposedly stored away in a group locked closet, and nothing yet in our laundry bag tied at the end of our cots. Sergeant gets to one airman and finds lumps in his laundry bag and has the airman empty it on the cot which turns out to be his civilian clothes. And he starts giving the airman demerits for each item. Got to the pair of shoes and says for each, ‘1 demerit’, the airman says back, ‘Sarge, that’s a pair of shoes, that’s only 1 demerit.’

6. about 1 year ago on Arlo and Janis

   In 5th grade I sent away for a packet of things – sneezing powder – didn’t work, a few other things I forget, but 1 really worked. It was a fake ink spot to put under a fountain pen, and in class while the teacher was away, I slipped it on her open grade book putting the spot over my grades and her pen next to it. She believed it for a moment when she returned. ( A classmate friend brought in, um fake, uh, dog….ok it looked stupid even on the floor, and she guessed correctly that it was…fake) The pen spot wouldn’t work today because not only do most people not use fountain pens, but most today don’t even know or can only vaguely recollect them.

7. over 1 year ago on Non Sequitur

   ok, exactly how is the /supposed/ flag pictured here even remotely the Flag of the United States of America? It has 1!!! star not 50, it has 7! stripes not 13, and it looks to me like the color of the field behind the 1 star is black not blue. And I doubt that the red in the stripes is anywhere near the official red of the official USA flag. So who exactly cares about whether or not this presentation of some random design (you do understand that it’s just a beach towel with a fancy design, right?) has any significance…other than what people with very little true knowledge of proper flag etiquette seem to misunderstand. Oh, yeah, I’m of the age where flag etiquette was still taught in school…and in my Boy Scout Troop.

8. over 1 year ago on Arlo and Janis

   There’s also Burton C. of the Guess Who.

9. over 1 year ago on The Buckets

   My kids are all grown now, but for both of my daughters, I put up the glow in the dark stars for their own bedrooms. For the older at that time I only found a package that had various not particularly true to life designs, for the younger when she came of age I did the whole constellation thing with various size stars matching a little their night time magnitude (Orion, Big Dipper, Cassiopeia, etc), Years later she told me unasked that she really liked it and was glad I had done it. Made my day.

10. almost 2 years ago on The Born Loser

    If you’re going to talk Van Morrison, then ‘Bright Side of the Road’ is it. especially Jerry Garcia’s take