Recent Comments

1. 5 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I was thinking the same thing but if I recall when there is code in Foxtrot it is usually Pascal, probably means Amend knew Pascal coding but wasn’t a C expert.

2. 28 days ago on Overboard

   It’s pretty much the same smell as pot.

3. 28 days ago on Overboard

   I stayed at a campground once where all evening skunks just kept marching right through our campsite, clearly completely unafraid of people. While we didn’t get sprayed, we also didn’t go back to that campground again.

4. about 2 months ago on Ben

   I found a big difference when we started to use high quality bird food from a specialty bird watcher store instead of the big box store varieties. We started to get a lot more birds including some really interesting ones. On the down side we go through the bird food much faster though, and the good stuff isn’t cheap.

5. about 2 months ago on Ben

   A shame because the picture and sound are still much better than streaming (even with a 4k stream), plus if you buy a Blu-ray you don’t have to worry about it being pulled off of the streaming service.

6. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Whenever I go to the US I’m astounded by the lack of credit card security. Here we can use tap for very small purchases but anything big requires a PIN. I was shocked to be still sliding my card through machines reading the magnetic stripe in a lot of places, can’t remember the last time I did that in Canada. Mostly now though I use Google Pay since that requires me to unlock my phone (higher security than just a 4-digit PIN and I don’t have to worry about card skimmers/cameras) and I believe the store also does not get my real credit card number that way.

7. 2 months ago on FoxTrot

   My mom is in her 80’s, read the Hobbit in school, has read the Lord of the Rings multiple times as well as watching the movies. She would not only know there are 4 but would be able to name them all.

8. 3 months ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Back in the day we had things called phone books where you could look up someone’s name and find their phone number :)

9. 4 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   It doesn’t help that there is a shortage of proper science journalists these days so the public reporting of these studies is done by people who don’t have the background to understand them or the context. Combined with the difficulty of doing good dietary studies – you can’t really do a randomized double-blind study where you assign people different highly restrictive diets, and if you did you’d probably get in all sorts of ethical trouble if one of your study groups had a higher rate of death, heart trouble or cancer than the others.

10. 4 months ago on Heart of the City

    I refuse to let bad people appropriate everything. It’s getting so if you display a flag you’re assumed to be an extremist nutjob. If we say we aren’t going to fly a flag or give an OK symbol we are effectively ceding these to racists and I’m not willing to do that.