Category: Cartooning

Crypto Grifto

In the wake of the revelations about the FTX debacle, Leo LaPorte goes on a justified tear against crypto currency.

Economist Paul Krugman, who sees crypto as a financial hideout for criminals, had some choice words recently.

But if the government finally moves in to regulate crypto firms, which would, among other things, prevent them from promising impossible-to-deliver returns, it’s hard to see what advantage these firms would have over ordinary banks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/opinion/crypto-banks-regulation-ftx.html

Speaking of Leo, this next video will start with a bit of Santa twin Scott Wilkinson, the Home Theater Geek, who I have followed for some years. After Scott, Leo has a caller. Keep listening until you realize who it is, or you reach the reveal.

Got Comics?

The GoComics service continues to be down. They posted this announcement on Facebook.

“Cybersecurity issues.” Hmm…

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/11/21/gocomics-down-due-to-cybersecurity-issues/

There has been speculation that it’s actually an attack against Dilbert.com, but as Scott Adams explained today, he has a Domain Name issue. GoComics.com resolves to its IP address, but it doesn’t reply to a ping request. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a nefarious entity out to get Adams and is behind both outages.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup dilbert.com
Server: Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home
Address: 192.168.1.1
*** Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home can't find dilbert.com: Server failed

C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup gocomics.com
Server: Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home
Address: 192.168.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: gocomics.com
Address: 66.6.101.183

C:\WINDOWS\system32>ping 66.6.101.183
Pinging 66.6.101.183 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 66.6.101.183:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)

Update: Comics Kingdom says they also had trouble staying online, but they’ve been okay most of the day.

Blankety Blanc

A 20-minute podcast about Mel Blanc’s recovery from a coma, following his near-fatal auto accident.

A one-hour documentary about Blanc I haven’t watched yet. Glancing through it I see Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Stan Freberg, and Terry Gilliam, so it’s definitely worth watching.

Blanc was known to stretch a yarn or two about himself by more than a yard. Mark Evanier is the go-to guy for the most balanced take on the most versatile voice actor who ever worked in classic cartoons and old-time radio.

https://www.newsfromme.com/?s=mel+blanc

And here are eleven-and-a-half hours of old radio shows, featuring Blanc. This’ll fill up the day!