Recent Comments

1. 4 days ago on Basic Instructions

   Going to school in the 1950’s and 60’s, I often said that school was to train us to work in the factory – show up and be bored all day. But now that the factories are gone, are the schools any different?

2. 3 months ago on The Knight Life

   What kind of device is that? Something from the year Y2K?

3. 5 months ago on Monty

   He should have gotten anti-bug spray instead of bug spray.

4. 6 months ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   Similar to Twitter changing its name to “X Formerly Known as Twitter”.

5. 6 months ago on WuMo

   Will anybody under 30 get this joke? When you take a picture with your phone, why would you need a darkroom? What is she washing and hanging up with clothes pins?

6. 6 months ago on Frazz

   Couldn’t buy a potato at the supermarket – each potato was INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED in plastic. Plastic wrap world.

7. 8 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   I’m reading this with a cardboard box under my monitor. With Amazon swooshes on the box.

8. 10 months ago on The Buckets

   I have some fortune cookies with FTX on the back, right before the FTX disaster. With fortunes like “Your journey to financial freedom begins today.”

9. 10 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   1957

10. about 1 year ago on Arlo and Janis

    The original Butterfly Effect was a weakness of a climate model having too few data points. i.e. if I make a climate model and have only 100 places where I collect data, each of those 100 points has a huge effect on the model. Hence a butterfly flapping at a collection point makes the model go haywire and extreme, and predict a huge storm.

    Since then, chaos theory does seem to show small changes in a system sometimes have huge real consequences. And the Butterfly Effect seems to be accepted by the public as real, and not as a flaw in climate modeling.