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Garfield was never supposed to be art. It was created to make Jim Davis rich, and it was a wild success at that goal. That being said, old Garfield has some moments, but always aims for jokes with broad appeal.

I've automated the "post this comic" and the "calculate today's old comic to post" logic. I hadn't yet written the "calculate if there's a new comic that needs to be posted" logic yet, and now I don't need to 😄

Thanks for posting the new ones! It's nice to not have just me posting, feels more like an actual community 🙂

Close enough, you're cool. Here's the actual list though (wiki link):

• Freedom 0: The freedom to use the program for any purpose.
• Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
• Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute and make copies so you can help your neighbor.
• Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

FYI, a lot of those old comics are now public domain and you can find them at https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/

Looks like that particular one isn't on the site, but there's other ones that are very Raygun Gothic. The Scarlet Avenger from Zip Comics leans into the genre a lot though, and gets posted sometimes over at !outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world:

Link for anyone that hasn't read it:

https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

For some background if anyone missed the joke:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_debates#%22You_forgot_Poland%22

I'd say it falls into the category of anti-joke. Kind of like this bit from Space Ghost

Yeah, there's some background at https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff:

I don’t want to mislead anyone here. This corner of the website—“New Stuff”—is not a resurrection of The Far Side daily cartoons. (Well, not exactly, anyway—like the proverbial tiger and its stripes, I’m pretty much stuck with my sense of humor. Aren’t we all?) The thing is, I thoroughly enjoyed my career as a syndicated cartoonist, and I hope, in spirit at least, we had some laughs together. But after fifteen years of meeting deadlines, well, blah blah blah … you know the rest. The day after I retired from syndication, it felt good not to draw on a deadline. And after moving on to other interests, drawing just wasn’t on my to-do list. Things change. But then a few years ago—and returning to the subject at hand—­something happened in my life, and it started with a clogged pen.

Despite my retirement, I still had intermittent connections to cartooning, including my wife’s and my personal Christmas card. Once a year, I’d sit myself down to take on Santa, and every year it began with the same ritual: me cursing at, and then cleaning out, my clogged pen. (Apparently, the concept of cleaning it before putting it away each year was just too elusive for me.) As problems go, this is admittedly not exactly on the scale of global warming, but in the small world of my studio, it was cataclysmic. Okay, highly annoying.

So a few years ago—finally fed up with my once-loyal but now reliably traitorous pen—I decided to try a digital tablet. I knew nothing about these devices but hoped it would just get me through my annual Christmas card ordeal. I got one, fired it up, and lo and behold, something totally unexpected happened: within moments, I was having fun drawing again. I was stunned at all the tools the thing offered, all the creative potential it contained. I simply had no idea how far these things had evolved. Perhaps fittingly, the first thing I drew was a caveman.

The “New Stuff” that you’ll see here is the result of my journey into the world of digital art. Believe me, this has been a bit of a learning curve for me. I hail from a world of pen and ink, and suddenly I was feeling like I was sitting at the controls of a 747. (True, I don’t get out much.) But as overwhelmed as I was, there was still something familiar there—a sense of adventure. That had always been at the core of what I enjoyed most when I was drawing The Far Side, that sense of exploring, reaching for something, taking some risks, sometimes hitting a home run and sometimes coming up with “Cow tools.” (Let’s not get into that.) But as a jazz teacher once said to me about improvisation, “You want to try and take people somewhere where they might not have been before.” I think that my approach to cartooning was similar—I’m just not sure if even I knew where I was going. But I was having fun.

So here goes. I’ve got my coffee, I’ve got this cool gizmo, and I’ve got no deadlines. And—to borrow from Sherlock Holmes—the game is afoot.

Again, please remember, I’m just exploring, experimenting, and trying stuff. New Stuff. I have just one last thing to say before I go: thank you, clogged pen.

—Gary Larson

It depends on where you sleep. Basement vs upstairs can make a huge difference at the same thermostat setting. I keep mine set to be between 19°C and 25°C and don't have trouble sleeping.

Speaking of which, anyone else use Home Assistant / Z-Wave?

@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works now you know why she's obsessed with mud pies, she's got a business

That could work, it would take a bit of jiggering with the script I use to post, but not too much.

Does anyone else have opinions? I suspect nobody else will see this before I do it, but if someone does, would that be too many posts?