Recent Comments

1. about 2 months ago on Over the Hedge

   “And (protagonist) died, and his brothers, and all that generation. …. and there came a new (generation) that did not remember (protagonist).” “And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth.”

2. 4 months ago on Frazz

   There is a tremendous amount of product engineering focused on making products “good enough” at a “reasonable” cost of production and delivery. It is a continual complaint of marketing and sales that engineers want products to be “right”, while they can sell it just fine if it’s “good enough”.

3. 4 months ago on Over the Hedge

   HOA means that the area is a “condominium” meaning that there is some shared responsibility for paying and maintaining something – the “streets” are really legally “shared driveways”, or the water and sewer lines are shared, or the wiring goes through common attics, there are lots of possibilities. When you have shared responsibility, YOU have to hold up YOUR end of the deal, just like you want others to hold up their end. Yes, some of the rules get stupid and picayune; if you don’t like it, get on the board and try to keep the focus on the important stuff like maintenance and budgeting for long-term expenses like roof replacement.

4. 5 months ago on Frazz

   Many people have traditions for post-holiday that are just as strong as those for the holiday itself – perhaps even stronger for being more idiosyncratic.

5. 6 months ago on Frazz

   4 wheel drive means you can get deeper into the woods before you get stuck and pay 4 times as much to get pulled out.

6. 6 months ago on Frazz

   From a snowplow driver at a truck stop years ago: “Four wheel drive does not mean four wheel STOP.”

7. 7 months ago on Over the Hedge

   OMG he can use headology.

8. 7 months ago on Frazz

   Not everyone has a basement and/or attic and/or garage, and newer apartment buildings use every cubic millimeter for revenue-related space. When I was a kid, we couldn’t store winter sports gear and summer sports gear and seasonal decorations, because there just wasn’t enough space.

9. 7 months ago on Frazz

   You think 100 is exaggerated? the place where we have a “closet” has 3 floors and hundreds of spaces. Funny story . . . When we did major renovations on the house, we emptied out some rooms for safety (where walls would be opened to the outside temporarily). Of course the furniture and other stuff would be at the storage place just temporarily for the duration of the renovation, and maybe a few months afterwards. Most of the stuff came back to the house, and the rest we moved into a smaller “closet”, just temporarily you understand. . . . . . that was about 25 years ago.

10. 7 months ago on Non Sequitur

    Disagrees for halfway-or-better-rational reasons, no. Eliminating the shallow end of the gene pool that’s bringing down the average IQ, yes.