Recent Comments

1. about 15 hours ago on One Big Happy

   About 22 people are killed in the United States every year by a cow as opposed to 10 people worldwide being killed by a shark. But I think pigs are the worst (even though there don’t seem to be any statistics on them), especially a sow with a litter. I remember being on my grandpa’s farm and one of my aunt’s then fiance was leery of the cows in the feed lot. We told him they were much safer to be around than the hogs/pigs, then my grandpa showed him the nasty scar on his leg where an old sow decided grandpa had gotten to close to her piglets. The fiance pretty much stayed close to the house after that and didn’t venture into the feedlots.

2. 3 days ago on JumpStart

   Yes it is (actually 6 picas is .00367 inches short of a full inch). And there are twelve points to a pica. I’m an old graphics nerd, having spent time in the graphics field, especially typesetting. Don’t know if they still teach younger graphics students that. When I was talking to a grand niece who graduated with a graphics design degree I mentioned copy fitting, picas and points to her and all I got back was a blank stare. Guess she just “wings it” on her computer. I have a bunch of old equipment (bow pens and compass, adjustable triangle, etc.) I offered her but she said she didn’t use any of it.

3. 3 days ago on JumpStart

   I once had a coworker who’s daughter would eat anything she could get her hands on. Or at least try. When the daughter was in the office one day (Mom brought her in for a couple of hours before a doctor’s appointment) her Mom asked me to watch her while Mom had to do a couple of things for the boss. (I knew about the little girl’s “condition”.) While I was on the phone for a few minutes, the little girl ate most of the flowers in a vase.

4. 3 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I like the flavor of blue cheese but I’m allergic to it. Every time I eat it I’ll have a splitting headache within 24 hours. The best way I can describe it is like the migraines I had when I was younger without the other symptoms (nausea, aura, light sensitivity, etc.). I’d suspect the tyramine in it as I know that can trigger migraines in some people, but tyramine is in other foods (including various cheeses) I enjoy and I’m fine with them. Maybe it’s the mold? A higher concentration of tyramine?

5. 3 days ago on Farcus

   Google “A Surprising Number of Bank Robbers Use Mass Transit for Their ‘Getaway’”. Bloomberg article (about ten years old) about people who try to use mass transit for their getaway.

6. 5 days ago on Prickly City

   At least Trump won’t be able to nominate/appoint Supreme Court Justices. Congress blocked Obama from doing so during his last term because he was a “lame duck” President so its now an established precedent.

7. 6 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Looks to me like the “right” mice are blocking the “left” mice from getting to the goal and doing nothing themselves to reach it.

8. 6 days ago on Marmaduke

   I’ve seen some potholes that seem that big almost every Spring. And always in the same locations. I would think they could find a “permanent” fix after a few years.

9. 7 days ago on Shoe

   Being birds wouldn’t it be three for a HATCH?

10. 7 days ago on The Born Loser

    Or squash pie. I recall when my mom had extra butternut squash from the garden one year and made a couple of them. One of my brothers said it was the best pumpkin pie she had ever made. When I told him it wasn’t pumpkin but squash my mom said I shouldn’t have told him. I forgot he didn’t like squash. Or so he thought.