Willow Springs is a site located in southern Wyoming almost on the Colorado border that is home to archaeological components spanning almost 10 thousand years.
Walking around the site, you can see the Overland Trail goes right through it, and due to the freshwater resources became a small stagecoach station where people on the trail would swap and water their horses.
Also located in the area is a Paleo component with the bones of an extinct Ice Age bison. This excavation is led by the Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist (Dr. Spencer Pelton) and a crew of volunteers.
Here’s a sample of what excavations look like on the High Plains.
I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic, and this is my weekly blog post. The large Sunday comic above is mine, as are all of the below-cartoon comments to follow.
Since January 2018, the Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics have been written and drawn by my comics partner, Wayno. For more fun, check out Wayno’s weekly blog post.
In last week’s post, I featured 20 of my title panels (the small, square graphic at the top of these posts) and asked if you’d like to see any of them on a T-shirt, and if so, to vote for your faves.
The response was surprisingly robust, and we got over 500 votes! So we’re in the process of turning the top five vote getters into shirts, and a few other products, too.
Thanks so much for your enthusiasm! More on this soon.
A few days ago, I published a new Naked Cartoonist article titled “How to Avoid a Horror Show Marriage.” (I should know, I’ve had two.) It’s been quite popular (and not at all political!), so here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite.
“Couples therapists wisely recommend being in a relationship for two or three years before deciding to marry. That’s because while nothing feels more euphoric and transcendent than falling in love, it also renders you the stupidest that you’ll ever be. Those two years give that toasted marshmallow explosion in your skull time to morph back into a working brain.
That advice comes from people who’ve made a career of listening to spouses complain about each other, often with tears, shouting, and gnashing of teeth. Trust them when they tell you not to rush into it.
I rushed into my first two marriages like I was saving children from a flaming orphanage, which would have been less dangerous than those marriages turned out to be.”
The article also contains some of my favorite comics about relationships and matrimony. It’s sort of a humorous “how to” and “how not to” manual on marriage.
I only charge $5 a month for my entire archive of articles, and I post one every two weeks. I’m not trying to get rich, just looking to compensate myself for the time I spend looking for ways to keep you entertained.
If you enjoy enjoyment, I think you’ll enjoy The Naked Cartoonist. You can cancel anytime, and I would never share or sell your contact info.
Now let’s enjoy Wayno’s highly enchucklicating Bizarro comics from the week…
I found a Bitcoin in my washing machine the other day. I must’ve left it in my pocket.
It’s the bloodiest awards show on TV, which may account for its high ratings.
Unfortunately, I’m a much better spell victim than spell caster.
Tell that to my friends Theodore and Cliodore. They’ve been married for over 30 years, a few of them happily.
He wrote the book “Testing Crashes for Dummies.”
Thus concludes this week’s typing experiment. If you’ve enjoyed the order of the letters, spaces, and punctuation above, we hope you’ll consider helping us keep this site free and weekly via the links below. We thank you in advance for your generosity.
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In this week’s episode we confront a hard question: should you upgrade from your Sound Devices MixPre to another recorder in 2026? We’ll examine some good and bad reasons to upgrade as well as review some things other than your recorder that can have a huge impact on your audio quality. Let’s have a closer look and listen!
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Copyright 2026, Curtis Judd
#SoundDevices #MixPre #Upgrade
Index
00:00 Introduction
00:07 The traps of upgrade excuses
02:30 If you do upgrade from a MixPre? It will cost you a lot
03:03 The legitimate reasons to upgrade
03:52 The great things about the MixPre II series recorders
04:50 My wish list for the next gen MixPre
05:04 Please buy my courses!
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Nesta aula Ernst aborda os desafios e as estratégias de manejo em sistemas agroflorestais que combinam café e árvores madeireiras, com base em sua experiência e de outros produtores.
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Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival: David talks to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about what we can learn from the astonishing success of an encyclopaedia built by its users. When and how did people realise they could trust Wikipedia? What makes Wikipedia different from Uber, Airbnb and other online businesses that depend on public trust? Are there wider lessons for how we might do democracy differently? And what will happen to Wikipedia in the age of AI?
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