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1. about 2 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Biking through snowfall is kind of fun; biking through cold rain is miserable. So there’s a gap, from just below freezing through kind of moderately cool where I just won’t bike through precipitation of any sort. Warm rain is fine; snow is fine, as it falls off before soaking through, most of the time.

2. over 2 years ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

   My cousin’s headcanon is that it’s Frazz.

3. over 2 years ago on Candorville

   Zephram Cochrane is due to be born around now, so he hasn’t shown up in Bozeman to invent warp drive quite yet.

4. over 2 years ago on Barney & Clyde

   Graduated in 2002 — we covered through WWII several times in K-12; in 10th grade, we finally made it to the Vietnam War, around the end of May, kind of in haste. The impression we all got is that the people designing the curricula didn’t really think of anything past 10 years before we were born as being the sort of thing we’d need to be taught. (Our 9th and 10th grade history teacher knew better, but he had a lot to cover, only two years to do it, and a lot of important things happened before 1970.)

5. over 2 years ago on Baldo

   Real reason you can’t do this in public schools: they don’t generally allow students to light candles, for liability reasons.

6. over 2 years ago on Frazz

   200 meters per state sounds doable, even for an amateur; multiply that by fifty, and you get 10km.

7. over 2 years ago on Doonesbury

   But unlike NFTs, beanie babies are actually real, and have practical uses.

8. over 2 years ago on Dinosaur Comics

   The US has a dinosaur as our national animal; so there.

9. over 2 years ago on Dinosaur Comics

   11. Feathers, if you’re a dinosaur.

10. over 2 years ago on Non Sequitur

    Millennials have been most of the reproducing people for a while, though probably a majority of the children of millennials have been born by now.