“Initial protocols”
Initial protocols? About what? He can’t even say.
Orange Crate Art
Mystery actor
This one’s tough.
A joke in the traditional manner
Why are supervillains good at staying warm in the winter?
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A tour of the Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk factory.
Safari 14.0.1 problems
f you use Safari on a Mac, you might want to hold off on the 14.0.1 update. It breaks things.
“Rule number one of scholarship”
From Robertson Davies’s The Lyre of Orpheus.
What next?
As the walls close in and clichés multiply, how long before Donald L. Trump* makes an explicit claim that COVID-19 was created to destroy his chances of re-election?
Nancy, poet
I saved Thursday’s strip because I’m a sap for fall. I didn’t realize until I looked again today just how clever Olivia Jaimes is.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Either half of a bonded pair.”
Misreading the cookie
“An enjoyable vacation is awaiting you near the mountains.” I read vaccination.
NYRB sale
New York Review Books is having a sale on all books.
Dunning Kruger & Associates
Opacity? Come see us!
Horns
A wonderful sentence from Robertson Davies’s What’s Bred in the Bone.
Domestic comedy
Reading Robertson Davies prompted us to look up some details of clerical garb.
Meltdown
A wonderful headline from The Washington Post: “Rudy Giuliani’s post-election meltdown starts to become literal.”
“Tick-tack-toe on your apple”
From Robertson Davies’s What’s Bred in the Bone.
Cal Newport on Getting Things Done
A long and not especially satisfying New Yorker piece by Cal Newport: “The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done.”
Time passes
How strange and sad, thought I, that the Go-Go’s song “We Got the Beat” is now the stuff of a television commercial for a prescription drug that treats heart disease and high triglycerides. What?
Mystery actors
Do you recognize either actor? Both?
Operator speaking
“If your coin was not returned, please send us a postcard with your name and address, and we will forward the proper amount in United States postage stamps.”
Side-by-side images in Blogger
To get images to display side by side, remove display: block; from the code for each image.
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Another word of the year.
Cloudy gray skies
In Mutts, as in Nancy, the skies are gray.
Today’s xkcd
Likely to bring tears.
Neat’s-foot madeleine
And Charlie Brown’s baseball glove.
Hidden Mongols
At Oddments of High Importance, Mike found a box of ten Mongols in a filing cabinet.
Staying put
I think John Gruber’s words deserve to be shared: “If you’re planning a ‘small’ family get-together for Thanksgiving, it’s every bit as irresponsible as planning a ‘short’ drunk drive.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Name on many posters with McDormand and Buscemi.”
Sidebar revision
The “I” in my sidebar now wears a mask and is socially distanced.
Words of the year
First up, from the Collins Dictionary, “lockdown .”