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Things I know and things I don't

Sun, 04 May 2025 11:03:53 +0000

We all have stuff we know well and don’t. I know the % charge on my phone to within a few percent and the current time to within a few minutes – no matter when you ask. But I have no idea how much money there is in my pocket.

Things I know within 5% error	Things I get wrong by ~500%
Current time	Time to finish my current task
My weight	My next meal
% charge on my phone	How long the phone will last
Number of unread emails	Time to clear them
Price of my next earphones	Cash in my wallet
Length of this list	How long it will go before I stop

But this apart, it turns out generating xkcd style comic strips is harder than I thought.

Gemini Flash 2.0 (Image Generation) Experimental gets it mostly right, though.

Poor Miss Wormwood

Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:23:56 +0000

It’s hard not to feel sorry for Miss Wormwood.

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Suraj 13 Feb 2016 4:34 am: I pity his babysitter Rosalyn more!

Calvin, speechless

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:57:38 +0000

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Vinu 28 Apr 2010 11:25 pm: Nice ! what did you do? Manually erase the text? Knowing you, i suspect there is some automation at work here :)
S Anand 29 Apr 2010 7:17 am: Oh, not quite. By 2006, I’d typed out all the Calvin and Hobbes (by hand, spending 6 years at it). This was just filtering all the strips that didn’t have any text on them :-)
Vinu 30 Apr 2010 5:52 pm: Ouch. That’s a lot of typing. Surprised you did not crowdsource it… Perhaps for the next assignment? Asterix comics anybody?

Hiccups

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:52:20 +0000

This morning, I was watching an episode of Finley the Fire Engine in which one of the trucks had hiccups. Reminded me of this Calvin & Hobbes — especially Hobbes’ remark in the second strip.

Calvin and Hobbes Tracer Bullet 1

Fri, 04 May 2007 12:00:00 +0000

My all-time favourite series from Calvin and Hobbes.

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JEZZI 18 Nov 2008 4:55 pm: Tracer Bullet is so funny!
Comic Books – Mr. Andrews Classes 23 Dec 2011 1:16 am (pingback): […] Comic […]
Bullitt (1968) – CineHatch 9 Jul 2018 12:03 am (pingback): […] by spoofs like The Simpsons’ masterpiece McBain and the hat tip of Calvin & Hobbes‘ Tracer Bullet). Still, Peter Yates’ uneven direction doesn’t help, with pacing that lurches more than San […]

Calvin and Hobbes index - 930630

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:00:00 +0000

My Calvin and Hobbes index is current up to June 1993. Two-and-a-half years left to complete.

In search of Bill Watterson

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Len goes in search of Bill Watterson, the author of Calvin and Hobbes. He visits Bill’s home town, and manages to interview Mom. Apparantly, Dad is quite like Dad, but Bill is more like Hobbes than Calvin.

Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:00:00 +0000

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes will be released. (I’ve transcribed the quotes.)

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Anonymous 20 Sep 2005 6:08 pm: btw its available at a website, all strips ever published
Anonymous 20 Sep 2005 6:09 pm: and its searchable thru google, let me know if you want the link
S Anand 21 Sep 2005 4:58 pm: YES PLEASE! Can you mail me at root dot node at gmail dot com?

Calvin quotes

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:00:00 +0000

I’ve typed up a some Calvin and Hobbes quotations

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FrogsIntoPrinces 1 Aug 2005 2:05 pm: By the way I have the entire C
S Anand 1 Aug 2005 7:26 pm: As text? Or the images?
Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:44 pm: Unfortunately images…
Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:45 pm: And for links, check out http://digg.com/spy They use Ajax, which is a Good Thing (TM).
Ravi 2 Aug 2005 7:14 pm: There is a searchable text-index at http://users.rcn.com/dtweed/calvin/index.htm
S Anand 2 Aug 2005 7:38 pm: I know. I wrote to David in Feb. He could not share his database with me. So I am recreating it.

Stadium photo

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Fisheye photo of a stadium.

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Aditya Chaturvedi 7 Mar 2005 7:28 pm: Really Nice Pictures
Nik 20 Mar 2005 12:22 am: Reminds me of a Calvin

Calvin and Hobbes Complete

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Complete Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. Grab while the site lasts. (Alternate Calvin and Hobbes collection. I’ve typed the quotes.)

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S Anand 15 Apr 2005 3:11 pm: Quotes from Calvin’s Dad

Calvin and Hobbes transcription

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:00:00 +0000

My current project: transcribing every Calvin and Hobbes into text. Because I’d like to search, using text, for the strip in which Tracer Bullet has “six slugs, one of lead and five of bourbon” or where Dad explains why the Sun rises.

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The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown | s-anand.net 21 May 2010 11:55 am (pingback): […] So I set out to build one. I can’t remember when, exactly, but it was before Sep 11, 2002. […]

The origin of Dogbert

Wed, 07 Nov 2001 12:00:00 +0000

The origin of Dogbert.

Toonopedia

Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Toonopedia – encyclopaedia of cartoons