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1. about 2 hours ago on Crankshaft

   I figure the way he says “are you kidding, I still have my 16mm projector” sort of implies that of course he still has his VCR. That’s about the only way the strip makes much sense… unless it’s the beginning of a “Ralph is senile” arc.

2. about 2 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Did the Valentine show “Phantom Empire” when Ralph owned it, or was that a Mxx and Hnnh thing?

   Of course I could see Ralph, old horn-dog that he is, showing the 1988 movie of that title, starring Sybil Danning in a tight leather outfit, plus a topless “cave bunny” in the final ten minutes. Hubba-hubba!

3. about 2 hours ago on Crankshaft

   You’re more ambitious than I am… mostly because I don’t have a couple months to ride the TAT. I did download the track for Arkansas, as most years (when I’m not getting joints repaired or replaced, which is unfortunately about every other year lately) I ride down to the Ozarks in the fall and play around in the forests. I have a half-formed plan to cross the state in one direction on the TAT, then the other direction by stringing together “dual sport adventure ride” tracks from the state’s tourism website.

   If you hang out on the ADV rider website, look me up under the handle ScottFree.

4. about 7 hours ago on Crankshaft

   I find it a bit weird that Ralph said it’s a Bell & Howell 16mm projector. That’s mighty specific. Is Batty hoping for product placement kickbacks?

   B&H is long gone, but like Schlitz beer its name lives on, adorning all sorts of cheap Chinese “security” lights and other doo-dads marketed on late-night UHF TV.

5. about 7 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Happy memories? In a Batiuk strip?

6. about 7 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Or his Edison cylinder player.

7. about 7 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Batiuk and Davis are big into recycling, especially when it comes to dialogue.

8. about 8 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Ralph just said he still has his VCR and 16 mm projector. He didn’t say that either of them still works.

9. about 8 hours ago on Crankshaft

   16mm was for the “adult” movies.

10. 1 day ago on Wizard of Id

    Back in my corporate days, I had two laptops: a company-provided PC and my own MacBook. Every morning, I’d come in at 8 and start doing useful work on the Mac, while the PC was tied up and useless doing mandatory software updates (almost all to applications I never used but were part of the company “standard” set) until about 10.

    I don’t think there’s anything particularly better or worse about either OS; it’s just that anything “administered” by a corporate IT department is going to be a bigger pain in the rear than something you can just turn on and use.