I wouldn’t draw this strip today. Although it appeared in 2011, only five years ago, we all are so accustomed to targeted online advertising that it would seem pointless now. Speaking of vacations, I suppose you’ve noticed I haven’t posted since Monday. I’ve been on a little trip of my own. I’m sorry for the disruption. Normal disruptions will resume next week.
105 responses to “Shell Shop”
I’d like to be on a nice warm, sunny beach right now.
Reposted from earlier this am, as promised:
I’ll bet some of you have never seen this phenomenon, or perhaps never heard of or even conceived of it. I’ve not seen it on L. Superior, but have on Lake Bemidji. With a strong wind, it can cut your dock [pier, really] off at the knees. Will repost if JJ puts a new comic up.
http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/3951232-video-ice-stacking-brighton-beach-draws-millions-viewers
Peace, emb
Well I’m glad there is no advertising here at A&J.com….except for some t-shirts…and a book. I think.
Fascinating, emb. How does that happen? I’m guessing that the ice covering a lake melts just enough to fracture, and a strong current completes the breaking-up? In any case, it looks dangerous!
Speaking of old-style books, the author Harper Lee has died.
And as for targeted ads, that’s what AdBlock is for.
Debbe, there are and I freely admit that it’s just because we want to have one, not because we need one. It’s kind of like the older women in Miami with their fur coats.
‘ … and a strong current completes the breaking-up? In any case, it looks dangerous!’ Current has little to do with it. Wind is moving the relatively thin surface ice.
Peace, emb
Here’s what happens when current moves thick ice. In this case on the Yukon River
http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/newsminer.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/e/01/e017b86c-c1b0-11e2-9d39-0019bb30f31a/519ac5e118263.image.jpg
Hey, where’s the link to the current strip? That’s the way I usually get there. *sulks*
For those interested, the Decorah eagles produced their first egg yesterday. They usually have 3, so more may appear soon.
Meanwhile, both eagle eggs at Berry College, GA, hatched. One was on Sunday evening and the other on Monday – as I may have written before.
minweb- go back to the earlier cartoon as shown the last several days, and click there for today’s strip.
Evidently, Arlo and I are the ones left who still have flip phones.
That makes 3. emb
I would make 4 if I HAD a mobile phone.
emb
Few years back ice on Mille Lacs piled 12-14 feet sheet was 2 ft thick
as I recall took out decks and sheds – don’t think it moved houses .
Rain today 40* – lost a lot of snow – mud season is early.
Debbe 😉 I’ve heard this song done by both Linda Ronstadt and by The Eagles many times, but I believe this may be the first time I’ve ever heard them do it together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbIUiL3k0hY
I respectfully disagree, Mr. Johnston. This strip made me chuckle today, in 2016. The swiftness of moving from information to peddling is both still amusing and still horrifying. Do more like this. Thanks.
Mine is not a flip phone, but it is pointedly NOT a smart phone. It is one of two left at Verizon with a full slide-out keyboard, kept right next to the flip phones, in the far, far corner of the store.
Actually *spoke* to grandma yesterday. She is doing much better. Marie seems to be doing better as well. Will be seeing them both soon. 🙂
Mindy… so GLAD! I was going to let the rest of the Village know, but I am glad you had time to post. HUGS!!!
My flip phone is the cheapest I could find; it’s capable of more than I use it for (so I’ve turned off some features!) — talking to people, emergency photos, and, when necessary, texting. My Interwebnetting is done on laptop and desktop computers.
Been trying to get this through all morning. Apparently a URL itself is too long for our monitor, which just rejects the whole thing. Item in question relates to material pro and con that has been posted here. If you are interested, key:
” How Astronomers Count Sunspots – Sky & Telescope ”
into your browser [leave out the ” “]. Skip the ads until you find the article. Its first words are “In 1847 . . ..” It is long. Read it or scan it, but be sure to click on this phrase:
“solar activity has been relatively steady since the 1700s” That article relates to the apparently erroneous claim that Sol has been heating up over recent decades, thus accounting for climate change without human-caused warming. I’ll be back with more that I’ve stored to avoid losing it in cyberspace.
Peace, emb
9 bison at the OF site, at least 2 young of the year, I think. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
One item at the above site that scientists have long acknowledged, but that some media and some vested interests often tout as a revelation, and as making science irrelevant: We are ordinary people all too capable of hanging on jealously to favorite hypotheses. But we have, and also use, methods of testing that some disciplines don’t have and other disciplines avoid using. Thus, we are often able to discard some favorite hypotheses, tentatively confirm some, and modify others. Often, of course, our understandings sit badly with some people, for economic, ideological, ethnic, religious, and other reasons
Some non-scientists even try to legislate state or national gags re what science is acceptable and what not, or to impose unscientific approaches that cannot be tested. Impose where? In the lab or its equivalent, in written reports by scientists, in government depts. and such, and in public classrooms, el-hi through college. Occasionally, degreed scientists behave that way, but they are not then doing science. Sad.
Peace, emb
Matthew:
Way back when the Web was in its infancy and somewhat difficult to use, I told my students that it would really take off as soon as someone figured out a way to make a buck off of it.
Boy, was I right.
It’s become the ultimate bread and circuses, hasn’t it?
Mindy from Indy, that is great news. Will pray things continue to improve.
Good night all. I am glad Mindy has good news. I am tired but enjoying being a tourist, something I don’t do often enough.
If I didn’t have ano appointment with my cardiologist I’d keep on being one a little longer and go home through Indiana. I want to meet grandma.