Recent Comments

1. 34 minutes ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The exception that confirms the rule.

2. 34 minutes ago on Peanuts

   A lot of parents push the boat out for the first baby, and the following siblings get less and less celebrated. They say the first child is a poem; as the youngest of a large brood I guess I was very prosaic prose. I remember the debates around school pictures, whether it was worth bothering about or not.

3. 36 minutes ago on Buni

   I’ll never forget having a clear-out and finding a box of 3M floppies in a desk drawer. They were backup copies of translations I had done. I haven’t seen a 3.5" disk reader for decades.

4. about 1 hour ago on Buni

   No SD card?

5. about 1 hour ago on Peanuts

   Oh goody. Thanks for the earworm.

6. about 2 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Goat, some people will remain ignorant no matter how many years of study they accumulate. I have known some very ignorant college professors. Take them out of their area of expertise and they’ve got nothing. For some disciplines, take them out of their chosen narrative and show them sources that contradict it, and they implode.

7. about 2 hours ago on Peanuts

   It was probably more expensive than they thought. You were the first, they’d been there done that.

8. about 23 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Feel better about yourself now? Sorry I didn’t read each and every comment when I made mine; it’s early in CET.

9. 1 day ago on Peanuts Begins

   SEZ YOU!

10. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    The Box of Secrecy sounds a lot like the Cone of Silence from Get Smart.