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1. 1 day ago on Bottom Liners

   That’d be a new kind of double-wide!

2. 1 day ago on Frazz

   Ah, I was going to say deep groundhog!

3. 3 days ago on Prickly City

   You mean Bob Ferguson? Just a quick scan of news on him brought up his announced 3 executive actions at the beginning of his term:

   Direct the Department of Health to convene a roundtable of experts, medical providers and policymakers to strategize ways to bolster the “robust legal protections” that already exist in Washington surrounding reproductive health.

   Direct state agencies to take a look at regulations on housing, permitting and the construction of new housing. Agencies are directed to identify regulations that can be “streamlined, deferred or eliminated.”

   Reform the current permitting process and to “speed up government,” and direct state agencies to refund application fees for late permits and cut down permitting and license processing times.

   How Trumpian! But where’s the bit about taking over Greenland?

4. 8 days ago on Working Daze

   Jay angry? Perplexed, perhaps, maybe even a bit confused, but not angry. Rita must have really ticked him off!

5. 8 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   The real issue is whether to explore by sending humans vs just machines. At our current rate of automation I believe the argument to have humans on the trip is minimal and headed toward zero.

   Here is the best piece of writing I’ve found expressing this, in the context of Mars.

   idlewords com /2023/1/why_not_mars.htm

6. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   One of my favorite comments on GUIs from back in the day was from a conversation about what constituted an intuitive interface. One commenter offered “face it, folks, the only truly intuitive interface is the nipple – after that everything is learned.”

7. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I wrote a modest essay called “The New Hieroglyphics” a few years back decrying the overuse of icons in graphical interfaces. I pointed out that this was a retrograde movement and runs completely counter to the sweep over the last century of Asian written language toward rather than away from an alphabet.

   It was interesting that when posted, I found folks were even more irate over emojis.

8. 11 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   I wonder whether Bucky has tapped the “birds aren’t real” theory yet.. seems like it would be right up his alley!

9. 12 days ago on Bottom Liners

   Must be Todd Blanche. Emil Bove is balding.

10. 12 days ago on Grand Avenue

    Carbon or rings? (It’s the new paper of plastic…)