The crash of my Web site yesterday was just one more reminder how much work I have to do here. I had always believed that The Great New Web Site of the Future would be unveiled in toto one glorious day, like some statue. I have come to realize the upgrade of my online effort will be a gradual thing, more like the carving than the unveiling. I could start, say, by posting more often! The folding in of Facebook is part of it. It’s all incremental, and we get to enjoy it together.
We went over this a few weeks ago, so I hope you’ll excuse me for mentioning it again, but it is significant. If you visit GoComics.com to view the daily Arlo & Janis, or any other comics, I hope you will consider signing up for a subscription, those of you who haven’t already. There are two options: free and not free. For purposes of our discussion here, either will do. Either plan will enable you, among other things, to choose certain favorite comics that will be assembled for you each day on your own customized comics page. At that time, I hope you will include Arlo & Janis. That is all.
(Addendum: To clarify, one signs up, or “subscribes,” to GoComics.com in a general sense, and this allows one to choose, or “subscribe,” to a specific comic, such as A&J. Or Wallace the Brave, etc.)
36 responses to “Occasional Table”
Neat. Conspiracy types may suggest the 25 yrs was how long it took paleoanthropologists to build a convincing fake skeleton.
https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2017-12-06/rare-skeleton-shown-of-human-ancestor-36-million-years-old
Peace,
Another nerdy site. Perspective: when I was a kid, it was still news that the Milky Way was not the only galaxy in the universe, and was widely thought that ours was the only stellar system with planets.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/12/06/npr-massive-black-hole-reveals-when-the-first-stars-blinked-on?utm_campaign=MPR+News+-+PM+Edition+-+No+Social&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc_&utm_content=
Peace,
On issues that involve a lot of suppositions and assumptions, I believe in withholding judgment. More data will come to light eventually that supports or disproves the initial hypothesis. Even Einstein reportedly had doubts about quantum mechanics, though his work was critical to researchers’ understanding of QM.
http://www.businessinsider.com/physics-einstein-got-wrong-2015-11/#but-einstein-had-major-doubts-about-quantum-mechanics-and-to-his-credit-a-lot-of-elements-of-the-theory-are-downright-strange-28
Note that since this was published 2 years ago gravity waves have been detected and used to find colliding black holes and neutron stars.
My reading lately has been on Plantagenets which revolved around Henry II and moved on to his descendents. Then I skipped a lot of war and moved on to the Tudors focusing first on Henry VIII and moving through his descendents
And wives. Lots of wives. And lots of dead heirs.
Not unrelated to Christmss. They celebrated, fessting, giving gifts, dancing,playing games and music. And going to church at times.
Learned a lot. They educated women, not just men. Intrigue was every where. Kings were indeed “off with their heads” or capable of cruel whims and desires they fulfilled.
They brushed their teeth. And bathed. And wore their own hair. And rouge.
I subscribe, have a couple dozen I read, but A&J is at the very top!!!!!
Last week we set some record highs. Right now it’s 15F out there, supposed to go to (Brrr!) 7F before morning.
The good news is the high that’s settled in is giving clear skies. The bad news is that the haze that’s building up is ruining the “seeing.” Only the stars near the zenith are really visible. I’m glad I finally have a laser pointer to use as a finder so I’m no longer hurting my neck trying to use the “red dot finder” that came with my ‘scope.
Anonymous:
I take it that you now have your own page.
How did you create it?
“A miss is as good as a smile!” It only got down to 11F. Only.
In the 20’s in Tulsa, TruckerRon.
We switch to flannel sheets today. I was so exhausted I forgot to move ferns in. I will see if help can clean, water and move inside.
We were trying to keep pipes and dogs and cats and chickens warm. All have houses but trying to get heated without burning down.
Hey Jimmy, if you want to fix your website consider: Everybody else in the entire universe expects “previous” to link to the next older page, and “next” to link to the next newer one.