braggadocio [brag-uh-doh-shee-oh] noun, plural -cios 1.  empty boasting, bragging 2. a boasting person, braggart MillySoft [mill-ee-soft] company name 1.  a ginormous computer software company, founded 1975, that markets the PC operating system WindowPains 2.  many people believe I am actually referring to Microsoft and their Windows operating system – I ain’t sayin’.  

Our cartoon is based on a quote from Steve Jobs, in an interview published in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, 1987. I was reading many quotes by Steve this week.  Having spent most of my adult life in software design and development, I was struck by his constant insistence on staying true to his design principles [...]

Sometimes I go back and change a cartoon.  And this one is a good example. The first cartoon had Woody asking Mimosa if she had thought about writing an autobiography, and the punch line was her asking, “about what?”  Click here for original Autobiography cartoon. That works – Mimosa is not the sharpest chip in [...]

Good news for those of you following the status of brave little penguin Happy Feet, who became ill after swimming thousands of miles from Antarctica to New Zealand.  Happy Feet has been released and is swimming back home. We reported that he seemed to be getting better back in June – see Happy Feet Getting [...]

In one of their many office gossip sessions Hazel is telling Maple how she got busted for going over the bosses head. Ummmm … you might not want to post this one in your cubicle … just a thought Have a great day – J. Daniel

So there’s Woody, having a barley pop down at the Bark ‘n Barley Bar and talking to the bartender Mimosa.  He’s telling her how he got pulled over by the police the other night.  When she asks what happened he says, “Let’s just say I had the right to remain silent but not the ability.”