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Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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post #124

I'm studying Spanish, so I made a little script that fetches Calvin & hobbes cartoons in both Spanish and English and then converts each strip into bilingual strip with ImageMagick. It works well enough (>99%). #!/bin/bash for i in {1..1000}; do x=$(date +'%Y/%m/%d' -d "$i days ago"); z=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d' -d "$i days ago"); wget https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbesespanol/$x -O $z-es; wget https://www.gocomics.co…

That's awesome. Seriously make this a company -see how it goes :-)

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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post #57

I remember a comic strip I attribute to Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin basically adopts every world religion in order to take every day off of school. But I can't find it.. any one know which one I am thinking of? Or do I have it wrong?

I used to have nearly every strip memorized.

I'm 90% confident that is not a Calvin & Hobbes strip.

I have not read all the bonus strips from the large anthologies, nor have I read the strips in the teacher's book Watterson contributed to. So, even if my memory is right, it might be one of those.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.

Amazing to think they nailed that but also the consequence, which they couldn’t possibly have foreseen, that this mechanism would eventually undermine democracy.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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post #38

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There are plenty of C&H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: https://i.redd.it/wgwm23u9k4sx.png Kids are not stupid and you don't need to insulate them from everything that isn't 100% happy, fluffy and wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved C&H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in this regard was that parents are people too and…

Sure, but we started reading them to my daughter when she was about 20 months old. I don’t think it’s being over-protective to gloss over the dozens and dozens of times (to every one happy moment like the one you chose) when the parents express regrets at choosing to have a kid. They didn’t even go to his school play! I mean, I loved it, too, growing up. I still think it’s great. But some things ring differently as a…

I guess if your daughter isn’t yet old enough to realize how infuriating and exasperating Calvin is for his parents, maybe the strip isn’t for her yet.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it's not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.

Zen Pencils on Bill Watterson (on advertising) - https://zenpencils.tumblr.com/post/59432017577/bill-watterso... And the commentary - https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoo...

The cookie warning when trying to read that is ... ironic.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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post #147

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Sure, but we started reading them to my daughter when she was about 20 months old. I don’t think it’s being over-protective to gloss over the dozens and dozens of times (to every one happy moment like the one you chose) when the parents express regrets at choosing to have a kid. They didn’t even go to his school play! I mean, I loved it, too, growing up. I still think it’s great. But some things ring differently as a…

I guess if your daughter isn’t yet old enough to realize how infuriating and exasperating Calvin is for his parents, maybe the strip isn’t for her yet.

Good guess. But I’m afraid you’re wrong. She loves the strip. And she doesn’t notice this behavior by the parents. I was only expressing how my own perception of the comic has changed now that I’m an adult.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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post #124

I'm studying Spanish, so I made a little script that fetches Calvin & hobbes cartoons in both Spanish and English and then converts each strip into bilingual strip with ImageMagick. It works well enough (>99%). #!/bin/bash for i in {1..1000}; do x=$(date +'%Y/%m/%d' -d "$i days ago"); z=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d' -d "$i days ago"); wget https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbesespanol/$x -O $z-es; wget https://www.gocomics.co…

That's awesome. Seriously make this a company -see how it goes :-)

Thank you. You're most kind. I have many business ideas already, but I'll think about it.
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