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1. 9 months ago on Motley Classics

   I started reading Kit ’n Carlyle just 1 month before it ended the original run. And I found Motley Classics from there. Now I miss them both.

   It may be time to go to the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine), see if they are there, and find the time to read a year of comics each day — starting from the beginning.

2. 9 months ago on Our Super Adventure

   I still want to know who is cat sitting?

   Have they been doing daily Zoom calls home to The Cats?

3. 9 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war!

   Or maybe release 1 hungry Owl.

   Or enlist the help of a local clowder of fuzzy chainsaws (a.k.a., feral cats).

   When the hay field next door was cut in the fall, my fuzzy chainsaws and the old “retired” Feral Tom Cat (who always scoffed at my feeble attempts to TNR) would disappear from the barn, engage the thundering herds of fleeing mice and chipmunks, and return to the barn the next day looking like they were the film extras playing Colonel Kurtz’s men from the movie Apocalypse Now.

   And I would also find a mouse offering by my front door — not sure if it was a snack for me or rent for another year of room and board in the barn.

   Even though they had canned food for breakfast & dinner (and unlimited kibble (which the trash pandas and possums would help themselves too), my girls loved “Fast Food” (mice, chipmunks, moles/voles, and an occasional stupid bird). They had plenty of energy to “Sport Hunt” every morning, evening, and night.

4. 10 months ago on Working Daze

   Forgot about the FORTRAN and Pascal on some sort of CP/M (pre-PC) machine.

5. 10 months ago on Working Daze

   AdaALGOL

   I avoided LISP.

   Scratch (on Raspberry Pi when available and cheap again or on PCs) is good for teaching programming concepts to kids.

   Let’s see. Basic on a teletype & PDP8, PDP11

   FORTRAN on a CDC6400, IBM360, IBM370 via 029 Keypunch & card decks

   FOCAL on PDP8 via terminal (paper)

   APL on IBM370 via terminal (paper)PL/C, PL/1, Assembler on IBM370 via 029 Keypunch & card decksCOBOL on IBM370 via keypunch & terminal (video)

   FORTRAN on Cray-1

   C, Assembler on AT&T 3B2 Sys 5 Rel 4 UNIX

   MicroFocus COBOL, AcuCOBOL, C, C++ on SCO Xenix and SCO UNIX

   Assembler, Pascal, VB, C, C++, Java on PCC++, Java, AcuCOBOL on IBM RS6000 running AIX

   Assembler, C, C++ on ARM processors running LinuxJava, C, C++, Rust on Linux

   Haven’t been offered enough money to do COBOL on z/OS — maybe when more Boomers die off (I’m a tail end Boomer).

6. 10 months ago on Our Super Adventure

   I still want to know who is cat sitting.

7. 10 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   I was hoping Luddy had a secret family stashed in the garage.

8. 10 months ago on Our Super Adventure

   Who is cat sitting?

9. 11 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Looks like someone found the on switch to the fuzzy chainsaw.

10. 11 months ago on Breaking Cat News

    Long sleeve welding gauntlets, welding jacket, and a welding helmet mask that also protects your throat.