Recent Comments

1. almost 6 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I don’t either, but we got one anyway.

2. almost 6 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   This works out to about 3 inches/minute.

3. over 7 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   The pennies ‘fact’ is only half correct. 16 US Cents measured 0.896" high (.056" on average). The Standard dimension is .0598" diameter giving .9568" for 16. Still 4% short of 1". Mine are obviously warn. The diameter is .75" giving 12’ length. Mine measured right on.

4. almost 9 years ago on Non Sequitur

   This is one of my favorite when it came out in 2003.

5. over 10 years ago on Rose is Rose

   Peekaboo is like my Gracie, she’s part scientist. Push it of the table and see if gravity still works. She also has to check the toilet to make sure the water drains properly.

6. almost 11 years ago on Rose is Rose

   That’s redundant. How do you know your cat has insomnia? She gets less than 23 hours of sleep each day.

7. over 11 years ago on Rose is Rose

   Pixie had the same ‘understanding’. She didn’t like mint. One dab of Ben-Gay on the counter, one paw print in the Ben-Gay and she never went back.

8. over 11 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Tubes do not have a Purer sound. This is an perceived effect be they don’t reproduce high frequencies as well as solid state amps.Tubes are far slower. The transistors in an integrated circuit are literally millions times smaller than even the smallest tubes. Here, the smaller, the faster.Tubes waste almost all the power used to heat them.A small microprocessor, with millions of transistors costs less now then tubes ever did in their prime, even without counting for inflation

9. almost 12 years ago on Shoe

   I received my attendance award two days after my layoff notice. They wanted everyone to identify short-term and long-term goals. Mine were to get payed on Friday and be employed on Monday. Far, far to realistic.

10. about 12 years ago on JumpStart

    Sounds good, what’s the recipe?