Recent Comments

1. 7 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Heinlein put forth requiring a basic test of arithmetic (as language can sometimes be fuzzy).

2. 7 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I don’t forget the Egg Yo-Yo – Good, then Bad, then Good, etc.

3. 7 days ago on Frazz

   “Tra-La-La-Boom-Di-Yay!

   Did you get yours today?

   I got mine yesterday -

   That’s why I walk this way!"

   — George Carlin
4. 22 days ago on Working Daze

   X-Files genie episode Je Souhaite

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5. 22 days ago on Frazz

   If an hour is 1/24th of a day, then a day is necessarily 24 hours. But, if you start from this definition of a “second”:

   The second […] is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, ΔνCs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s−1.

   which is independent of planetary bodies, then you could possibly adjust the number of seconds per minute and hours for different worlds and keep the system in place.

6. 22 days ago on Frazz

   Ask people who had just gone to Costco before the Wuhan fear caused empty shelves whether they bought too much.

7. about 2 months ago on Working Daze

   The arrogance of youth (as opposed to earned confidence based on actual accomplishments)

8. about 2 months ago on Wizard of Id

   Sir Rodney is the Knight Protector of the Fourth Wall…

9. about 2 months ago on Wizard of Id

   Tolkien took his cues from the Germanic\Scandinavian mythos of the Nine Worlds (most commonly called Norse Mythology now), two of which were Alfheim and Svartalfheim. The Alfar (Elves) and Svartalfhar (Dark Elves) were man-height if not a little taller.

10. about 2 months ago on Frazz

    I hate “show your work”, especially when some new fad comes out, like “New Math” or “Common Core”, where the academics want you to get to the solution in a particular way, and will mark you down for using another method.

    Process over results is never a good method of doing anything, unless there is a valid safety concern as in manufacturing or engineering.