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  1. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    Is Gannett a source (someone mentioned AP?) or a conglomerate buying up small papers? From reading this, it looks like Gannett has taken lessons from Larry Ellison – He killed off Sun after buying it; and threatened to do that to People Soft. The PS folks fought – even going to court and forcing him to state/sign that he just wanted to combine with them. So he did – but killed off the reason PS was so popular, that it could run on any OS/DB platform, so now it’s just Unix/Oracle.

  2. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    And there was a time when new/unknown comics were put in all over a paper – as filler, maybe? Several that I followed when I read a paper were mixed in with the editorials (since there were already editorial cartoons), want ads, what ever the non news section was (where daily columnists were, like Dear Abby; or reporting on theater, tv, movies) and sometimes even the front section. Only place I don’t remember them is sports.

  3. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    Sue Ellen and all – if you haven’t done it yet, find a copy of the original books and read them. They should be at a library if you don’t do e-reading. Also look for the book of poems – When We Were Young and Now We Are Six. One of them has the wonderful poem about Tattoo and Pinklepurr >

  4. 15 days ago on For Better or For Worse

    Exactly – if she complains about it, he’s going to keep it no matter what anyone else says. If she says nothing, or even says she likes it (and especially if his dad pretends to like it), then he’s likely to find it’s too much trouble.

  5. 16 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    I still have my Peace ornament – more than 55 years old now.

  6. 16 days ago on For Better or For Worse

    Another round of puppy-hood, eh?

  7. 4 months ago on Aunty Acid

    So true

  8. 4 months ago on Aunty Acid

    and probably a politician

  9. 6 months ago on Breaking Cat News

    Heh. My impossibly smol cat is now full grown. Maybe up to 8 lbs now. And she still climbs up the screen doors. Fortunately, I had all the screen door screens changed to the pet-proof screening…

  10. 6 months ago on The Big Picture

    groan