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1. 7 days ago on B.C.

   I don’t have a TV. I did get a used one when I had a Commodore VIC-20 – but it was never attached to an antenna. Later my son found an old tv somewhere and used it for his game station. When 9-11 occurred I hooked up a long wire to that tv and we watched very grainy (“snowy”) footage of whatever channel was good enough to see what was happening. Later after a couple gifts of VHS movies, I ran down a used VHS recorder to watch the tapes on.

   Wish my family would let me read 6 or 7 hours a day. They complain oft enough as is. We have several thousand books, all of which I have read, or significant portions of (including our World Book Encyclopedia dated 1981).

2. 10 days ago on Dick Tracy

   I’d say there was a need to – because it is the polite thing to do.

   At least, presuming that it was a spoiler. Now if you just pointed to some previous strip with something you thought interesting, then no spoiler needed.Since you didn’t specify why you pointed to that particulr trip, people could easily infer (without the kind spoiler alert) that it was for something else that you were suggesting people go there.Of course NOW you’ve indicated that it was a spoiler, and needed the alert. But that you didn’t alert people.

3. 12 days ago on Dick Tracy

   You should’ve marked your comment as a SPOILER.

4. 12 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Since not all infinities are the same size, Infinity + 1 does seem to fit these two fellows.

5. 14 days ago on B.C.

   Actually, operations in the brain are analog. And instead of a simple neuron firing it’s lots of neurons firing at the same time.Yes, your brain does actually multi-task, rather than time-slicing and task-switching. Computers do the latter two (separately) because they are binary.

   PPE wants to take it a step further and claim that multi-tasking isn’t really multi-tasking unless it’s something significant. Wrong, and even the lowest IQ people do actually multi-task, but he’s correct that we tend to FOCUS on one task or another. But you (and your brain) are actually all the time firing lots of synapses simultaneously – or you would be dead.

   And some people are more obvious at multi-tasking.

   Edison was famous for being able to send one message on the downstream telegraph line while studying the encyclopedia, and carrying on a conversation with someone, and writing a letter, all at the same time.

   If hypnotized by an expert, he can get info out of you about your surroundings at a store you were at for a few minutes last week that can be demonstrated to be accurate, though you yourself have no conscious knowledge of most of the details. Your body is taking in more bits of info every second than the best computer in the world has room for, and dumping most of it in storage (or totally dumping it over a realtively short period of time). That’s because all your senses (last I checked, neuroscientists claim we have over 30) are firing off info into the brain, so your memory of a particular moment might be from smell, and touch, and vestibular, and vision senses all are working literally at the same time (multi-tasking) to make up the memory. Suddenly a sound occurs dragging your focus to that loud noise, and technically you are still multi-tasking, but you may feel you are task-switching.

6. 18 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Is he feeling guilty about something, or is he thinking she’ll get him a good present for his helping?

7. 19 days ago on Ziggy

   In 2020 when they sent the workforce home in March they said they’d be back in April. I was considered an “essential worker.”

   Come May it was obvious they weren’t coming back soon. I started going through the fridge freezers eating the “TV Dinners” that were up to 6 months out of date, and through out stuff more than a year past the date. Eventually I dumped the way out of date condiments. One bottle of salad dressing had a date of 2012!

   The fridges were pretty empty by the time the bosses insisted on RTW (Return To Work).

   FYI – there had been a few hundred people spread across several floors, so even though most of the food places were closed down town, I had enough food for quite a long time.

8. 19 days ago on Andy Capp

   QV never amused me – no surprise since we never met ;)

9. 21 days ago on Tarzan

   (I’m an IT guy) I’ll have to add your Dad joke to my Dad-a-Base.

10. 21 days ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    Considering GoT is fiction, their IS no original. Just a few replicas* made for the show or because of the show &/or the book.

    replica in this case means replicating the thought in the book or the prop in the show.