Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for January 14, 2011

I wonder if they’re going to stumble across the secret that Phyllis was going to tell Walt the night she died??

Good question!

Still eating Slim?

ladyfingers86 took the words right out of my mouth!!!

I foresee that years from now - instead of being unable to read handwritten entries in a family bible - future generations will be frustrated when their computer can’t decipher the format of Clovia’s electronic family tree.

Who’s writing this? Abbott and Costello?

Clovia’s been married to Slim for how long? And she’s just now asking how to make Order out of Chaos?

BuzzDog said, 41 minutes ago

“I foresee that years from now - instead of being unable to read handwritten entries in a family bible - future generations will be frustrated when their computer can’t decipher the format of Clovia’s electronic family tree.”

You know-you are absoutely correct. Today we have the hard copy, the family Bible, available to read. But all my genealogy records are on computer, and you need a certain program to look at them that will not be available in even 20 years.

It’s due to the internet that I discovered part of my family tree has been traced back, forth and sideways, and can all be seen on line…I learned of interesting ancestors I would never have known of otherwise. But like so much else on computer, to be safe, the information needs to be backed up on paper. There will never be a completely paperless society.

and, if you print it all on paper, make sure it is acid free and store it in a controlled atmosphere environment. As to obsolete computer programs, you could print the information as pdf files. As long as Adobe is around, these files can be read.

Walt and Skeezix learned Phyllis’ secret several months after she died, when they found a cache of her old letters. The secret was that Skeezix’s birth mother, Mme. Octave, was Phyllis’ sister–meaning that “Aunt Phyllis” really WAS his aunt all that time.

Only a month to go until Skeezix’s 90th birthday!

paperless toilet is here…it is called a bidet

People want to use computer to store information. You all remember floppy disk? Those are now obsolete. How long until cd roms are absolute, blue rays are starting to happen, soon Bill Gates will come up with something more different. I wish I knew how to computer hack.

After a week of this, “who’ll care?”

Clovia, got to the county records office!

Someone threatened to flag my daily link to Annie, claiming it was spam. I had no intention of offending anyone. Is my daily Annie link that unwelcome here to the rest of you? I really want to know, because like I said, I have no intention to offend. I do know that several people expressed their thanks to me for directing them to the strip.

davidf42, I’m not an Annie fan, at least not yet, but the links are no problem for me. If Leonard Starr’s work were being reprinted I’d have to take a look, because Starr was great on Mary Perkins, On Stage.

Oh, come on! Spam? ? ?

Spam is those ‘bot posts in almost unreadable “English?” that are ‘bot posted on 50+ comics at one shot. They’re about a company trying to sell you something.

davidf42 is just inviting people to his spot. No sales allowed, but invitations are only for the people who wish to take them.