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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Not all cats and dogs fight.  I find it highly probable that they played around in an adorable manner, sorta like what happens when you expose friendly puppies to kittens.

    The kittens thought the Husky was a wonderful kitty toy, thing to ride around on, and warm bed.

    The mother cat thought the Husky was a terrifying monster.

  4. Posted

    On 3/14/2023 at 11:59 AM, mlooney said:

    I don't think that the shelves are bare, just The Dan didn't want to draw a couple dozen DVD cases.  It being empty of customers on the other hand, is another thing altogether. 

    I think that somewhere in the course of this page, probably just for the last 1-2 panels, we moved from being inside the video store to being inside Susan's head. And there, the shelves are bare.

  5. Posted

    7 hours ago, mlooney said:

    This feel like more of an end of an era than "End of an Era" did.

    Yep. In her own mind, "works at the video store" became part of Susan's identity. Now she's contemplating NOT working at the video store, the video store being closed and the shelves and counters bare.

    And even in that state, she's mentally still in the video store.

  7. Posted

    Relative to where the time-zone lines would be if not adjusted for geographic and political barriers and various sillier reasons, most of the US was *already* an hour ahead of where we should be - and then most of the US (I think everywhere in the States except Arizona, plus the Navajo reservation in Arizona, minus the Hopi reservation inside the Navajo reservation in Arizona; dunno about territories and possessions) just shifted the clock another hour ahead.

    And people keep saying we should keep the clocks that way year-round.

    So which of the following do YOU think is a better idea:

    A ) Grade-school kids in rural areas standing by the side of the road in the dark before sunrise, waiting for the school bus - and then having plenty of light in the evening to get off the school bus and run into the house.

    B ) Grade-school kids in rural areas standing by the side of the road AFTER sunrise, when it's light so people can see them, waiting for the school bus - and then getting off the school bus in the dark and running into the house.

    Me, I like B better. So DST in winter is a bad idea. Whether summer DST is useful is questionable, but at worst (and as far as I'm aware) it's merely a silly and somewhat wasteful idea - not an actively bad one.

    And yes it's real. We tried A for a year while I was in high school - and after a second-grader in the district I was in was hit by a car and carried to the hospital, the school district shifted its schedule so school started at 9:45. The little girl didn't return to school that year and is crippled for life.

  8. Posted

    8 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    BetaMax was slightly earlier than VHS, and somewhat better for image quality, but did not catch on as well. I think it was a more expensive format to license, so essentially killed itself off; vendors preferred to make the cheaper VHS tapes.

    Actually, that's well understood. There is a single factor that gave VHS a huge lead early on, and even though Beta later caught up technically, it was already too far behind in the marketplace.

    That factor was: a single Beta tape could (when the format was first released) only hold an hour of movie, while a VHS tape could do two hours. Since essentially-all feature films are significantly more than one hour long...

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    You may have seen this photo claiming it was a Leopard 2 captured by Russian forces after it got stuck in the mud.
    Problems with this

    1. Leopard 2 haven't been sent to Ukraine yet
    2. This is a 4 year old photo from a German training ground

      images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSJ0F-H7Y1jLuVfXGhOlis

    Well, they definitely got one thing right: it's stuck in the mud.

  11. Posted

    3 hours ago, mlooney said:

    It's odd that she would imagine trying to date Sarah, given her history of not wanting to mess with guys that have girlfriends.  Of course it's possible that she hasn't fully integrated that Sarah has a boyfriend now.

    Also, just because she wouldn't do something doesn't mean she can't daydream about it...

  15. Posted

    8 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Colds suck.  I actually feel worse than I did during most of when I had covid.  If this doesn't clear up by tomorrow it's off to the clinic I go.

    From all I've heard, that's pretty common. For a fairly-small fraction of people (a larger fraction than is typical for influenza), covid really really sucks, and for some of those people it sucks for a long time, but for everyone else...

    I had one day of being a bit off-balance, at the start of five days of unusually-mild cold symptoms.

    The second dose of the vaccine... if you have a steady sleep schedule, it'll be about 32 hours from when you go to bed one night to when you get up after the *next* night. After getting the vaccine, I slept for about 26 of those 32 hours and was semi-functional for the other six. Fortunately I had absolutely nothing that I *had* to do that day.

    This is the only vaccine I've ever had any discernible reaction to. Even the ones where they tell you your shoulder will hurt for a day or two... maybe ten minutes.

  16. Posted

    11 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    I have six years left before I'll need eye surgery to remove cataracts.

    Or, so the optometrist told me today when I went to get new glasses.

    An opthalmologist told our medical insurer "she has cataracts. She's almost legally blind."

    And let them assume the two facts (both true) were related.

    So my lady got cataract surgery, even though the cataracts were barely detectable. She'd been almost legally blind - extremely nearsighted - her entire life. (The opthalmologist had to special-order the new artificial lenses from a supplier he didn't normally use, because nobody else made them in the needed power.)

    Several months of astonishment followed, with her seeing perfectly ordinary things she'd never seen before - supplemented by a few deliberate outings for extreme things to see, such as a stunt-parachute show.

  17. Posted

    Just because Raven hasn't been knighted by anyone with the authority to actually do so (at least, not under his current identity), doesn't mean Noah won't consider him a knight.

    And yes, Noah is Susan's new uncle. He is, after all, her great^n-aunt's adoptive sister brother.

    Edit: fixed typing-while-half-asleep error

  21. Posted

    17 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Noah is from a different setting, and he may be only human/uryuom (TBD exactly what he is, but we have good indication he has just two parents)

    Might want to distinguish between genetic contributors and parents. I doubt that Grace received much parental supervision or affection from any adult squirrels.