Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 22, 2008

If I can’t see it, it didn’t happen.

The problem is, Carl is single, and he lives all alone….

so he’s only hiding from self-recrimination.

Neither his long-departed mother nor his non-existent wife is going to scold him….

but neither will either of them clean it up.

Cowboy up, Carl, and get out the dustpan!

Re: Cleo and Claude: What is this, a strip for old folks? Oh, well, that’s not so bad.

A real service dog would have brought the keys and guided Claude on a walk.

Yeah, who are we kidding. We’re talking about Cleo here.

Cleo can talk when she wants to…

like people with selective hearing problems, who only hear what they want to hear.

she’s only helpfully talkative when it wouldn’t be more amusing to watch some cartoonish bumbling.

She says it’s because, as an actress and cartoon character, it’s her job to advance the plot and garner laughs…

riiiight…..

She takes no personal enjoyment from watching Claude’s plight….

and I’m selling the Russian crown jewels for 20 bucks on eBay.

Meanwhile…. I never saw yesterday’s Cleo till too late to comment….

and if you didn’t see my picture showing that the blue and green heart colors are actually an optical illusion…

it’s still posted, but PostImage.org, where my pics are hosted, seems to be down tonight in a peculiar way….

You can highlight the links, and right-click, and see the pics on their site,

but it’s not working correctly with Neal’s GC links bookmark.

Hopefully they’ll fix it soon.

Links to pics on other sites are not affected.

Oh…. and Steve…..

yeah, it looks Mandelbrotilized….

but only cos it’s a low quality image with poor resolution, I think….

(The kind that can’t keep a promise or its own New Year’s resolutions.)

Since a real fractal spiral starts with infinitesimally small bits in the middle, it shouldn’t break into pixels there.

The one I posted has probably been copied in some program like Paint and gotten pixilated and pixelated.

Then, when he’s got the keys, he’ll have forgotten his wallet and perhaps even where he parked the car.

Is this an Encore Presentation of Cleo & Co.? (I can’t remember)

This seems to be part of my everyday life! Only it seems quite funny to see Claude walk down the street, then walk back up the street. No one laughs when I do it!

Since Claude didn’t take the keys with him, does that mean he didn’t lock himself out? I thought it was only in Montana that you don’t have to lock the doors.

I’ve gone to installing locks that can’t be locked without a key (yes, both sides, dammit!) so my specialty is getting to my destination before finding I’d left the necessary paperwork on the kitchen table.

myself, I duct taped a spare key to the door for easy access.

nah, I was just playing with you.

that wouldn’t make my house very secure would it?

I duct taped on the INside of the door.

pretty cool , huh?