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Sunday’s Best: What’s Your Bicycle?
Today’s classic Calvin and Hobbes strip was the best of the bunch. Visually fun with simple dialogue that reconnects to Calvin’s dad’s “builds character” line from a number of earlier strips. We all have a bike like Calvin, even if … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Breaking the Vicious Cycle
It’s impressive that Calvin can be onto two things at once: both our obsessions and the fact that relieving those obsessions closes the consumeristic loop (that he would ultimately benefit from). Today’s classic Calvin and Hobbes: (image from gocomics.com)
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Where Credit is Due
In more than one way and all at once, ChatGPT is all the rage. Some school people love it; some school people hate it. Most of us aren’t quite sure what to do with it (unless you’ve already been thinking … Continue reading
Lucy’s Communication Theory
Lucy was back at love again in this past Sunday’s classic Peanuts strip by Charles Schulz. It’s a great picture of communication theory, in theory. You’ve got message encoded but a decoding that just doesn’t line up. That’s the way … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: The Source and the Solution (Exam Edition)
This weeks FoxTrot shows one way to celebrate the season: by providing the solution to a problem for which you can also be the source. I suppose this is a kind of innovation? I gave my last exam a couple … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Flight of the May Bee
Not a lot of Mother’s Day humor in the funny pages today, but there was a nice “picture” of the beauty of the month of May in today’s Frazz. Of course in Tennessee, June bugs don’t show up until early … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: Peppermint Patty’s Question
Today’s classic Peanuts strip is a nice nod to the end of the school year. Peppermint Patty’s question is a good one. I wonder if there’s just some non-verbal cue that kicks in, an intuitive thing that’s unfortunate for the … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: What Building Permits
And this is true for more than just IKEA, I think. Fun WuMo for the day. (image from gocomics.com)
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Sunday’s Best: Gandalf and the Bride
It’s always good to have some Tolkien humor in the funny pages, and WuMo often works best when it is most absurd. And so today’s WuMo Sunday strip: Speaking of Gandalf the White, I had the chance to finally see … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: What’s Up with the Easter Beagle?
I have to admit: the Peanuts gag that I get the least involves Snoopy as “the Easter Beagle.” Maybe because it presents a “sanitized” version of the character that doesn’t match much with the earlier, wittier beagle. So today’s slightly … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 