Recent Comments

1. about 2 years ago on Doonesbury

   Never were 14" floppies. 8" was the max diameter unless you know something about a secret project. You might be thinking of removable cartridge discs, like used on the Xerox Alto and other mid-1970s hardware.

2. almost 3 years ago on Doonesbury

   Speaking as someone who has lived thru several layoffs in Silicon Valley I can say – marketing and sales are the first to go, after outsourcing support, etc. It’s pretty rare for coders (engineers) to be let go unless it’s really drastic.

3. over 3 years ago on Wallace the Brave

   Was this a reference to the Black Knight 2000 pinball machine? Built in 1989, it was a great machine to play!

4. over 4 years ago on La Cucaracha

   Wes Studi and Adam Beach, in the wonderful PBS adaptations, introduced me to the Tony Hillerman novels. To this day every time I (re)read the stories I picture Wes as Joe Leaphorn and Adam as Jim Chee. Wonderful job guys!

5. over 4 years ago on Drabble

   In 1974 the going price for concerts was $5 – stand in front of the stage / speakers and get your ears blasted or sit back in the back and be mellow. I saw Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Todd Rundgren, J. Giles, Chicago, Roaring Thunder Revue, Seals and Croft, America, Lynyrd Skynyrd…

6. about 5 years ago on Lio

   Please chill. This is a cartoon about Lio, a kid who sees the world differently – not a place for religious / political warfare.

7. about 5 years ago on JumpStart

   I’ve enjoyed this strip for years. Thank you!

8. about 5 years ago on Ballard Street

   What style of humor is this? I’m guessing surrealism, but maybe it’s something else? Anyway, I find it amusing.

9. over 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

   (Credit to Joni Mitchell)They took all the treesAnd put ’em in a tree museumAnd they charged the peopleA dollar and a half to seem ’em

   Don’t it always seem to go,That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone?They paved paradisePut up a parking lot

10. over 5 years ago on Red and Rover

    Agree. We had a 1963 Bel Air. But the Biscayne also had 2 lights.