these civilized bandy-legged shrimps who would no more set up gas ovens than they would melt their wives into sealing wax. The image is for the context. I'm trying to improve my English by reading some literatures. I've thought of posting this in the English board, but I think I understand...

Several major characters in Calvin and Hobbes are named after fictional or historical characters. Calvin is named after theologian John Calvin Hobbes is named after Thomas Hobbes Miss Wormwood is named after Wormwood in The Screwtape Letters, a low-level demonic tempter. Appropriately, it's als...

I read a lot of paperback books. Almost exclusively, in fact. I have one problem, though - all the covers get bent while I read them (or sometimes after one of the siblings has a crack at it). They end up with bent covers: Now, I like to keep my books in good condition (unfortunately, that's n...

I was curious about two topics: why is Bill Watterson so reclusive and what's he been doing for the last 20 years since he stopped writing Calvin and Hobbes? Are those appropriate questions for this site (since they're questions about an author) or would they be considered too speculative, too op...

Over on Code Review there's a post called Call of Duty - we're on a mission. It discussed the high number of unanswered questions on the site and what to do about them. With the recent site evaluation post (Site evaluation: how are we doing at half a year old?) I thought it'd be appropriate to d...