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1. 6 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Yeah, “Blink” scared the bejesus out of me; still does, if I think about it for more than a minute.

2. 10 days ago on Doonesbury

   Weirdly, in Quebec doctors are supposed to send prescriptions to pharmacies via fax, even in 2024. Luckily though they can also just print out the prescription and have the patient carry it in to the pharmacy by hand.

3. 10 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   100% with you, Tigrisan! Why bother with sequels/remakes when you have the originals to enjoy?

4. 13 days ago on Monty

   Had a class once in which MD was assigned, but the teacher said we didn’t have to read it all because it was so long. Then again, my brother (then an English lit major) considers it to be the best book ever written in the English language.

5. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   Weather was perfect here in Montreal, not a cloud in the sky throughout the event. We walked down to the Lachine Canal, which has broad open spaces without trees, and sat with hundreds (not thousands, our plan was to avoid crowds and we did so) of neighbours, watched it all. The totality was, of course, awesome, especially the “sunset” colours in the sky around the whole sky not just the western part. Wow! There won’t be another total eclipse in Eastern Canada until, um, 2206 I think they said, so the term “once in a lifetime event” was especially true of this experience!

6. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’m walking 5 minutes from my house to a more open area, where we will have 1 1/2 minutes of totality. Weirdly, a few kilometers away in the northern half of Montreal, they will only get a partial eclipse; that’s how narrow the path of totality is!

7. about 1 month ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Thank you, Sambora1 – that was my cat Meip, who lived with me for all the 14 years of her life (and who I still miss some 17 years after her passing). It’s my favourite photo of her, or actually of any of my cats ever.

8. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’m so sorry to hear it, alcorn. You have joined a club that none of us ever want to join, and it’s hard. All hugs to you.

9. about 1 month ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   When my family moved from rural England to California in 1967 (I was about 8), my parents told us kids to substitute that word with “tiger” because the rhyme we learned included a word that was hurtful in America. I should mention that at that time, rural England was probably 99% white, unlike, say, London.

10. about 2 months ago on Breaking Cat News

    We will get 1 1/2 minutes totality here in Montreal. Have proper glasses, and while we’re in dense city space, we also have an open Canal space 5 minutes’ walk away. Friends coming to join the view, can’t wait!