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Another two-fer day, including another cat cartoon, both from 2008. There were a lot of interesting comments yesterday; I regret I didn’t have time to contribute anything myself. In the much-heralded future, I’ll try to be better about that. I do read your comments most days. Not all, I admit! Speaking of changes, there is one significant change I plan to make and probably soon. I want to tell you about it, so when it happens you won’t hyperventilate. The retro cartoon, the cornerstone of our existence here, will consist of a visually arresting link to an old cartoon on the GoComics Web site. I will choose the cartoon personally and comment on it here, all as before. Ah, come on now! It just means one more little click from you. And I will get credit for your visit. The GoComics Web site is very dear to the Powers That Be these days. Well, we’ve been here, doing this, for 20 years now, and I think we should make our presence felt! The blog here, the overall appearance, all the familiar trappings will remain as they are, for now. And when the Big Changes do come, I’m going to look after you. Try not to fret.
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I’ll say it now and get it outta mah system so there will be no screaming by me when the new site comes out. WE NEVER DONE IT THAT WAY BEFORE!!!!!!!! There now I feel much better.
Repeating my answer to Smigz on the previous thread (with a couple of edits)-
The good news: an old cell phone can be used to call 911, even without a wireless plan.
The bad news: you’ll have to tell the 911 operator where you are because their system is probably not yet set up to use the phone’s GPS info, even if you’re using the latest and greatest device. Most 911 systems won’t have that capability for at least another year. Just saw a story on this on TWC.
What’s an extra click among friends?
God bless us every one. God bless the USA.
I like reading my GoComics first then coming to this site for the more personal conversations. And what’s a couple of extra clicks? I’m sure when I go to the retro cartoon, I’ll go forward and backwards a couple of days to see what else was going on at that time.
That is how I ended up on Facebook and a Facebook darling, to help a friend generate traffic on his page and get a page going he needed to add. Traffic is what seems to count now.
By the by I have been moving friends and readers over to Arlo and Janis on z Facebook and encouraging them to read strip and come over here. I hope you don’t mind?
“Beware of Gray Cat” sign? Heck, I wish it were the law that restaurants must post a sign “Crying Baby on Premises”.
Yeah, I know, babies are cute little critters, but the cute wears thin after about ten minutes of nonstop caterwauling. And of course I actually blame the Oblivious Parents who never stop to think that their little darling could be annoying anyone. Dear OP: “Think!”
Ghost, you have that right. The parent’s selective hearing might be used to the baby’s screams, but for the rest of us it’s like to trying to eat next to a jet runway. And then the older ones want to use the place for a playground, running around getting in everybody’s way. Not all are like this, but enough to make you wish for children-free zones.
Glad you found somewhere close to stop last night Jackie. Have a safe trip.
OK, I need some help with Facebook. I am not a big FB expert. I use it, but I am never really sure what’s going on. So I decided that I would follow JJ on FB, but, when I went there, I wasn’t certain that I had found his page. JJ, please help. How do we get to your FB page?
Dave: https://www.facebook.com/jimmy.johnson.90663894
Dave: not his official site, but followers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArloandJanisFans/
R.A., my old iPhone 4 also serves as a small, handy backup camera.
I remember years ago when cameras first started to show up in cell phones, Jay Leno quipped that was so you could use the camera to make photos of the traffic accident you caused by talking on your phone.
Dave, the link didn’t work for the first one. But search for Jimmy Johnson and when you find one that has the Arlo and Janis art on it, you have him.
Fast comment on the new circulation JJ and I are talking about. Both Wooden Boat magazine and Small Craft Advisor magazine now have Web magazines that are not print magazines. Both have Facebook pages to support their two versions, both have blog and discussion groups to support all that.
When my friends at Duckworks online magazine, the granddaddy of the net boat zines decided to retire they sold to my friends at SCAMP in Port Townsend. Print is no longer sustainable alone.
As Josh the editor of SCA said to me last year, the ground is shifting beneath our feet.
Fast comment on the new circulation JJ and I are talking about. Both Wooden Boat magazine and Small Craft Advisor magazine now have Web magazines that are not print magazines. Both have Facebook pages to support their two versions, both have blog and discussion groups to support all that.
When my friends at Duckworks online magazine, the granddaddy of the net boat zines decided to retire they sold to my friends at SCA in Port Townsend. Print is no longer sustainable alone.
As Josh the editor of SCA said to me last year, the ground is shifting beneath our feet.
So JJ when you post you oldie but goodie will you still comment on it even though we can see it until we click away? Im here every day even though I seldom comment.
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I love the fact that Arlo is having a beautiful day just being with his wife.
Wondering if “night before” may have had something to do with Arlo’s “beautiful day”.
Well, guess who is getting another TV for the living room? This Ghost.
No, I certainly didn’t decide I couldn’t live without one. I just happened to mention in front of a more-money-than-sense friend that mine had given up the electronic ghost, and he made me an offer I couldn’t refuse (read, $0) on a perfectly good Samsung 50′ UHD 4k Smart TV that had been in Kid’s Boy Cave. (Kid could no longer abide having just a 50′ TV after one of his friends got a 75″ TV. Yes, TVs with 75″ screens are a thing now. I think there may be an 85″ on the market, too.)
And yes, this is a friend for whom I have done a number of solids in the past, not help-bury-the-body-class favors, but close. Sometimes, apparently, virtue is not only its own reward but involves free electronic devices as well.
Going in search of a gas station and a Walmart before I head across the desert to Spokane. I was glad the town was running slow last night. History of town is it was in lead to be capital in 1890s and lost to Olympia.
We have one of those came in second towns in Oklahoma.
Anyone else have one.
Going to see an old, old friend who I suspect Ghost would like and Mark as well. Conservative veteran who seems to have engaged in electronic spying or security rather than just shooting people. I never look up my past so this is exceptional act on both our parts.
I found it.
https://www.facebook.com/jimmy.johnson.90663894?fref=hovercard
Jimmy, as long as you are still around and the Village lives on, life is good.
Understand and accept the change that the powers to be have decreed, only hope it isn’t the link which causes the internet to permanently freeze over.
Jackie, Tuscaloosa isn’t a came-in second for state capital. It’s a had it and lost it. We were second capital after first location turned out to be in annual flood zone. Then they voted to move it to Montgomery, for reasons I don’t remember. School history class was long ago.
That road atlas from WM has a list of their stores in it somewhere. Don’t know if you are carrying it on this trip, though.
Kansas struggled even as a territory deciding on where to meet and what should be in its constitution. http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgi-bin/index.php?SCREEN=topics
When Oklahoma City became state capital they had to steal it from Guthrie our first capital including the gavel. True Story. Guthrie is another frozen in time place.
Eastern Washington is sort of a mountainous desert. There is a huge Lake below me and everything around brown and dead.
Just ate at a diner for lunch where median age of crowd was probably 75. I felt young and out of place. So much for nostalgia.