Recent Comments

1. 6 months ago on Wizard of Id

   I love metric, powers of 10 for everything… oh wait, what about seconds, minutes, and degrees? Hmmm. ;-) Perhaps metrification only went half way. Another thing, all that 1/2 " pipe we have now becomes 12.7mm, lovely! When I was in grad school (electrical engineering) I was teaching assistant in electronics lab, I found the most common error was misplaced decimal points. So much for powers of 10 being the best.

2. 10 months ago on The Grizzwells

   So many people misuse “your”, try “you’re”.

3. over 1 year ago on Aunty Acid

   Centigrade is the old term, officially Celsius now.

4. over 1 year ago on Big Nate

   There was also the movie “Aragon”.

5. almost 2 years ago on Tarzan

   Yes, lodestone, but even worse is this idea won’t even begin to work. Magnetic attraction is inversely proportional to the distance squared, so it would never even get started.

6. about 3 years ago on Ziggy

   “fewer” is used for things that are counted, “less” is for things that are measured, but this has largely been forgotten.

7. over 3 years ago on The Grizzwells

   You may not agree, but Trump did make decisions. Biden makes his decisions based on reversing anything Trump did. Hardly a good reason!

8. about 4 years ago on Agnes

   Fewer teeth. Less for measures, fewer for counts. Nobody seems to know this anymore.

9. about 4 years ago on Dark Side of the Horse

   As a mathematician, may I point out that there is such a thing as 110%, and 200%, and 300% etc. It is just a mathematical convention of expressing 1/100th parts. I.E. 110% = 1.1.

10. over 4 years ago on Andy Capp

    My dad always said it was caused by PTSD from serving in the military. But I don’t recall ever seeing him talk about anything like that, but then my dad didn’t like talking about any war either.