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One, which ran March 28, 1986, and features hyperactive Calvin going for a new look with sunglasses, fetched $174,000.
A second strip, this one from December 30, 1987, features Calvin engaging in what would become a signature: using snow to antagonize his father. It sold for $156,000.
while both secured impressive sums, a Watterson-colored Sunday strip remains the most coveted: One sold for $480,000 in 2022.
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He seems to be bright and cheerful
remembers what the show is about
Oh my. Oh no.
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BBās front page looks like this on my lappytop:
I clicked on georgie, girl, and got this:
ETA:
Shutting down and powering back on done the trick. Still, funky AF, no?
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Iāll bet thereās a more frowny, creepy version somewhere.
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My whole screen did something similarly funky about 4 days ago.
A reboot sorted it but, as you say, funky and something Iād never seen before.
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Same thing at other sites I visited, but BoingBoingās home page was so amusing, and the georgie story looked so AWESOME innit
Weirderest of all, when I embiggened and ensmallened the affected (afflicted?) pages, the text entirely disappeared. 
The proper text on BBās home page briefly appeared, flickered, and was replaced with the gobbledegook w/in a fraction of a second. 
ETA: Plum fergot ta mention the star and home symbols at Weather Underground, oh, shit, lemme just make a screengrabā¦
ahem The star and home WU symbols you see following āWeather Conditionsā indicate a weather station thatās part of favorites, and the userās home station. Itās only two streets away!* Those two symbols were transformed into a long, elegant Arabic? letter/s that looked like a catās tail, stretched straight out behind and with a hookly twitchy tip. There was a tiny angled sexy sort of apostrophe above it. A diacritical mark perhaps? Wish Iād screencapād that!
*Two streets away, and much of the time itāll rain there but not here, and vice versa. This is a weird place - it is not uncommon for rain to fall on the street just E of us, but not here.
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A friend was staying with me, so I have corroboration that one afternoon, we realized that it was raining hard in the intersection a half a block west of our windows. As in, ONLY in the intersection. I still donāt understand how thatās possible.
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Oh my God, that graphic. We need a āfacepalmā reaction option.
Unless the goal was to misrepresent data in a misogynistic way. In that case, mission accomplished.
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Ah, so youāve found my little rain cloud.
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Superbooth 2023: Korg Berlin Prototype Acoustic Synthesizer
The Korg Berlin lab show us their intriguing prototype Acoustic Synthesizer. We visited Korg at Superbooth 23 for their first public showing of their acoustic synthesis technology, where Tatsuya Takahashi gave an in-depth explanation on how Korgās acoustic synthesis works including a sound demonstration.
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Not Indian, but Iām about 5āā¦
And a puke one!
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A witch in the neighborhood was practicing their weather skills.
Iām sure thereās some far less fun scientific explanation for the existence of one raincloud raining in only one very specific place, but I much prefer my own.
Same. I tell people Iām
five foot one, just like Uncle Iggy. Iām mostly German, 1/4 Canadian, 1/4 Scots, a little English, anā a wee drop oā the Irish.
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Gimme a sec, and Iāll see what I can scare up. Iāve been collecting smileys since the 90s, so I should be able to help.
ETA: No pukely ones in my possession, but I found a really cute facepalm! 
To atone for my lacking a vomitous smiley, I hereby present a fuckload of cool ones.
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Itās also a weird grouping. No Scandis or the Dutch, who I believe are technically the tallest average population (although, what about the Tutsi?). Itās like they picked only those countries that were all very close to Indiaās average height, and then messed up the Y axis to make it seem like they werenāt. Thatās so stupid it canāt be accidental, can it?
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