I’m running a little late this morning. I have some things I’m doing and some things I should be doing, but I’ve been on a bit of a roll lately, with two consecutive posts. So, I thought I’d drop by another old A&J strip from 10 years ago. By the way, over at the Universal Uclick Web site Gocomics, A&J just surpassed 60,000 subscribers. That’s not bad! Thanks to all.
320 responses to ““What gives me away?””
I always wondered about that “subscriber” stat. Is that the number of people who have The Daily A&J sent to them via email?
60K+! Great.
Impressive numbers. Where are you appearing for your comics book tee shirt promotions so some of us groupies can show up? I promise to be fully and conservatively dressed and won’t ask for an autograph in any place than a comic strip or tee shirt.
10 years ago seemed SO long ago when I was growing up. Today 15 years ago seems like yesterday. However with cell phones and the internet, things have changed dramatically in the last 15 to 20 years.
Oh yeah and I see A&J online and never buy a newspaper anymore.
Would it help if we subscribed to Gocomics? Couldn’t hurt, the page here goes down once in awhile.
Oh yes, got my beautiful new caps installed. They are gorgeous, like the kind movie stars used to have when movie stars were beautiful people. Makes me think of that Jimmy Buffet song, “The weather is here, wish you were beautiful.”
Think that’s what I am remembering?
Since A&J on gocomics is just a single click from here, and since I only regularly follow a couple of others, I’ve never bothered to set up comics-in-my-in-box or whatever the feature is. But I’d be willing to do so if it makes Jimmy look good on paper (no pun intended). Heck, I’ve got burner email account to, well, burn.
And another of The Greatest Generation flies off into the sunset…
http://www.stripes.com/military-life/military-history/miguel-encinias-dies-fought-in-3-wars-was-on-wwii-memorial-board-1.395708
Ghost: Good WWII+ read. Thanks. emb
One bird perched almost out of sight on the edging below the concrete [+ steel] beam that runs the width of the Transamerica Bldg. on most of the stories. Hard to describe, and the bird may be gone by the time you look. emb
http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/peregrine-falcon-webcam
Still there. Since only 1 foot and some feathers are visible, cannot tell if it’s a pigeon or a peregrine. I’d guess peregrine / toe size. Pigeons are not very bright. Peace, emb
It shifted its weight, two feet +lower legs were visible. Legs maybe looked too puny for a peregrine. ??? emb
That was an amazing story Ghost. I realized my own father would have been 93 had he survived, as my mom did. He got his first pilot’s license in high school at about 14 I think so had been flying for seven years at his death at 21. Flew for Canada, England and then America. They did believe I am certain.
So here’s where I admit to guessing totally wrong on LuAnns plot, I went back and read the old strips. Only LuAnn could be that boring on a big reveal like that . Ghaygh they can drag a plot element out almost as long as Apt. 3G and 9 CL did-do. Which is why I have given up everyone else. I like JJS quick time jokes, told fast and to the point. And they have points. Not just pokies.
So Jackie, are we going to see a pic of the new chompers?
This is an interesting read. That was a weekday, and someone brought a TV from Physics into the BSU science faculty lounge. One of my daughters-in-law was watching the launch w/ a class of 5th [or so] graders in Cambridge or Isanti MN: “What happened to them?”
She said, “I guess they burned up.” I didn’t envy her.
Didn’t know [or don’t remember] about Ebeling et al., but believe Feynman mentions Thiokol [not gubmint] and NASA [gubmint] in a book that we used in Honors 100. Book was partly an ego trip [not re the Challenger], but contains a lot worth thinking about.
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/02/25/npr-your-letters-helped-challenger-shuttle-engineer-shed-30-years-of-guilt
Peace, emb
How can I subscribe to A&J on GoComics?
Is it different than establishing a user name and password (which I have already done)?
Gary, I will get someone to take a photo of my dazzling smile, I am not able to take self-esteem but maybe I need one of those cameras on a stick things?
These are so pretty I wish I’d had them all my life. Now if I could get the body back to half a life ago?
Selfies, selfies, dang Hal. I have lots of self esteem now!
I found this info from About GoComics.com: “There are two membership options (Free and Pro), both providing e-mail subscription and personalized online access to new and classic comics.” However, I find nothing about how to set up such an “e-mail subscription”.
Jackie, you don’t need a “selfie stick” to take a selfie. Just switch your phone’s Camera to Front Lens and point it at you.
I had a comment about dental work, but the blog keeps kicking it out. Perhaps it thinks I have a tooth fetish.
I don’t even know what that would be.
I noticed the aforementioned “Luann” cartoon has over 109,000 “subscribers”. Also, that daily comments seem to run 200-300 and up. (The “Lesbian Thespian” one got 470 the other day.) My impression from scanning some of the comments is that they are generally a collegial group, but they seem to be more easily engaged and entertained than the Village. NTTAWWT, of course.
I subscribe to gocomics.com. This includes the whole long list, A&J too. Costs about $12 a year. They don’t come by Email, you just read them on the usual site. Look around, there is something to click on to subscribe. Comics Kingdom I subscribe to also and they send it every day by Email, except when they forget once in a while. You select your Favorites and they only send those; you can click on any others you want to.
My dentist is a woman and her staff is (are?) three more women. My partial denture had to go to the lab, and they agreed to call me when it came back — I need it to chew tough stuff. The secretary — receptionist — assistant phoned today, it was back, I wanted to go for it right away but couldn’t as I was waiting for the electrician to come. So dear Cassie volunteered to bring it over! Their office isn’t far, up the street, and it was warm today, so she walked to my house. What a nice person she is, and I feel privileged to have such kind hearted people in my life.
The GoComics.com “Pro Membership” costs $11.88 per year. Among the other benefits listed is “Personalized daily e-mail with your favorite comics”. So I’m guessing if you have a Pro Membership with “favorite comics” emailed to you, each of those comics gains a “Subscriber” tally. Therefore, all us who go there daily without a Pro Membership and look at individual comics (or I suppose even those with a Pro Membership who don’t receive e-mails) apparently don’t count for anything.