ChronosCat

As of this month, GoComics no longer allows people to read strips more than two weeks old without a subscription... and I had been in the middle of reading the archives of a couple comics (and was planning on reading more in the future). To be fair, in the old days you would have had to buy a newspaper or comic collection to read comics (barring borrowing one from someone else or the library), and they aren't charging all that much. But on the other hand, with the way things are going in the US these days I expect my finances to become very tight pretty soon...

I've also heard he declared tariffs on Antarctic islands inhabited only by penguins.

While cover art not matching the story of the book is nothing new, in the case of the Dragonriders series the early editions tended to have pretty accurate art, so it's even more annoying that the art for more recent reprints is less faithful to the books.

Way back when the Will of Magic was giving Grace dreams to warn her about what Pandora had been doing, Grace was given a set of images referencing various magic marks Pandora had given people. I seem to recall one of the implying size/shrinking magic, and that Grace somehow deduced that Rhoda had it - but couldn't prove it. While Dan does usually draw them chronologically, not only are there exceptions, but the "Hope" storyline started well before the Double Date. For that reason I suspect the Double Date hasn't happened yet. (Though I suppose it could have happened during Hope.) It seems to be becoming increasingly common (or at least is in style) for dragons to be depicted with four limbs, the front ones being wings. (One of the many things that bugged me about the Hobbit movie trilogy was that Smaug was given that body design when he really should have had the classic dragon design; Tolkien even drew him with six limbs in his own illustrations! Also I was recently looking to replace one of my Dragonriders of Pern books and was frustrated to see the cover-art for the latest reprint give the dragons and fire-lizards only four limbs when it's made very clear in the text of the books that they have six limbs.) As for your PS, there unfortunately isn't any central place we all hang out besides this forum, and there are only a couple people here I personally have other ways of getting in contact with. At any rate, it's barely alive; last I knew it's still not possible for anyone new to sign up, and it's been well over five years since we've had any contact with anyone higher up than The Old Hack. (I suspect those times the forums were down for days, weeks, or months were because it took that long for anyone with the power to do anything about it to notice anything was wrong.)

I generally think of Brown Dwarfs as planet-like objects, or perhaps a third category of object in between planets and stars. Also, from what I've read about brown dwarfs (admittedly not a ton) most don't have any fusion going on in them (so by star standards would be considered "dead"), and those that do perform fusion do so for only a few million years (10 at most), putting them in with the very shortest lived of stars. Is there an alternate theory suggesting there are brown dwarfs that sustain fusion for billions of years (and if so, do you have any suggestions where I might learn about it)?

We had about a foot of snow yesterday into last night. It was the biggest storm of the season so far, but up until a few years ago it wasn't uncommon for us to get a foot and a half of snow in a single storm (and I remember back when I was a kid there was an occasional storm that dropped a few feet of snow). To make things more "fun", it was cold and windy today (temperatures in the teens F; the wind-chill was predicted to be below zero though it didn't feel quite that bad, perhaps because it was sunny). I had to really bundle up when I did the snow removal.

On the positive side of things, red dwarfs are the longest lived of stars.

I don't have any practical experience, but I've read enough written by people who do to say: It depends on the scenario, but they generally do their affection/cuddling/etc. after the intense stuff. (Also, this only applies to when they're actually doing BDSM things; just because someone is into such things doesn't mean they don't also like to do it vanilla sometimes.)

I used an iBook through most of the 00s, and loved it. The only reason I didn't stick with Apple is the price. Unfortunately since I haven't used one in over a decade I can't really say much about the current Mac experience. I can say that I found most programs for Windows had versions or equivalent programs for Mac (there were even a few Mac-exclusive programs I found back then that I've had a hard time finding replacements for on Windows). My solution for the occasional program that didn't have a Mac version/equivalent was a Windows Virtual Machine; however that ran really slowly. On the down side, my iBook was not entirely free from crashes and freezes (I still remember the "Spinning Beach Ball of Doom"). So don't assume getting a Mac will mean it always runs smoothly.

Trump and his allies have far more bad ideas than they have time and resources to implement. So, many of those ideas won't come to pass... at least not right away. (Of course that's only because they are working on implementing different bad ideas first, so we're still in trouble.)

Cinderella is friends with a whole bunch of mice. Two of them are main characters given almost as much screen time as Cinderella herself. The entire group of mice occasionally help Cinderella, and also spruce up an old dress so Cinderealla can wear it to the ball (unfortunately the stepsisters ruin the dress, thus requiring the Fairy Godmother to create a new dress for her). And yes, some of them are temporarily turned into horses to pull the pumpkin-carriage.

For me it's "Days of Thunder", which apparently is a movie about NASCAR racing. I don't remember ever hearing of it before. I don't race cars, but maybe my year will feel like a race? Or maybe there's something else in the plot relevant, but I'm not going to bother studying a plot summary just to find out.

I am too ( @chronosthecat.bsky.social ) but I mostly use it for following/replying to other people, and repost things far more than I create original posts.

If a group of people decide to keep using the former government's money anyway, it would remain valuable for that group. (Though I guess in that case it becomes a commodity itself.)

We had a lot of snow dropped on us the night of the 23rd into Christmas Eve morning; my family and I spent several hours cleaning up the snow. Not exactly what I would have chosen to spend my time on Christmas Eve, even if it did mean we had a proper white Christmas.