Recent Comments

1. about 12 years ago on The Dinette Set

   @X-tech – I’m curious – Where did that newspaper page come from? I’m still new to some of this stuff. Thanks.

2. over 12 years ago on The Dinette Set

   This is a very touching strip today.

3. over 12 years ago on The Dinette Set

   I see myself in this strip occasionally, But even I’m not this bad. The kids get a lot of candy in our town parades and my wonderful grandchildren will share their Tootsie Rolls – the only thing I ask for. The biggest treat the parade passes out are cans of Coke.

4. over 12 years ago on The Dinette Set

   I thought I found the arrow, but it was just my cursor :)

5. over 12 years ago on The Dinette Set

   I think Burl is making a point – since you said 30 minutes, I think I’ll just stay a bit longer than 29 minutes and see what you do about that. Joy is always calling him on his comments. I know several people like that – he’s probably thinking, I’m a paying shopper, I can see the signs, don’t tell me stuff like I’m stupid – I can just see that in Burl.

6. almost 13 years ago on Cathy Classics

   Thank you Aaron, I know I could go back and re-read every one of them, and I may have to.

7. almost 13 years ago on Cathy Classics

   Not a comment on today’s strip, But does anyone remember the strip where Irving is leaving Cathy’s apartment and she offers him a piece of pie before he leaves. He declines and after he leaves, Cathy eats the rest of the pie. The next panel, Irving is back stating he thinks he WILL have a piece of that pie. I want to “pin” it to Pinterest, but have no idea where to find that particular strip.

8. almost 13 years ago on The Dinette Set

   @Dave HussellThe Compugraphics I worked on were probably later – 1980s. I had the computer machine and a monitor. The type showed up on the computer machine and then we would “send” it over to the preview screen. Then I worked for a company that didn’t have the preview screen and as you said, you didn’t really see any mistakes until it was printed out if you didn’t have the preview. But I loved it. I was the best “forms” person around. We worked in points and half points and quarter points. The tabs were awesome.

   Actually, though, when I went to PageMaker – I was petrified. It took me forever to work with it. It seemed so unprecise. But now I still use it at home and love it.

9. almost 13 years ago on The Dinette Set

   @Dave HussellI believe on the IBM Composer the document did have to be retyped unless a paste-over could be used on the galley. I’m trying to remember – I used the Composer, a Varityper, Compugraphic and PageMaker on the PC and Quark on the Mac. Most of those allowed corrections.

10. almost 13 years ago on The Dinette Set

    Reading the comments about supervisors and computers reminded me of a couple of supervisors I had several years ago at a printing company I worked for. One had just gotten a computer for her desk. One day she called me in and asked me how to make lines on her document. I had to tell her to use the underline key just like on her typewriter. I figured that using the “draw” key might be too complicated at that point.

    A few years later we got a Mac with a 200 mg harddrive (our office had PCs and when they got the 200 mg Mac, they thought they’d hit the jackpot – never mind that we had to get a larger external harddrive, anyway) and this Mac could DO everything. A customer brought in a disk with a PageMaker file (for Mac) on it. We had PageMaker on the PCs but not the Mac.) My boss could not understand that we had to have the PageMaker for Mac program on the Mac to read the file. He thought that because it was a Mac, it didn’t need programs, it would read anything.