Jeanie Bottle 730
Apr04
on April 4, 2023
at 12:00 am
and modified on April 4, 2023. at 1:31 am
Chapter: Story 16: I Dream of Nostalgia
Looks like Neil managed to rescue his laptop from the shark. For certain values of “rescue”…
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Looks like Neil managed to rescue his laptop from the shark. For certain values of “rescue”…
Kazom hoping on any residual knowledge from the Blue Djin occupying Jeans body. Plus Jean never told Neil about Kazom the powerful Genie who takes the form of a cat.
Is Kazom supposed to be asking “do you REcall anything…” in panel 1?
(Edit… ahhh, it’s there. The whole strip is shifted to the left on my browser for some reason.)
if you press down the keys: cmd with + or -, it does shrink/enlarge the screen for you, even on tablets.
Hmmm, that display error is odd. Did you manage to figure out a fix? I certainly hope it’s not happening to anyone else.
It is
Hmmm, is your browser screen too thin to see the whole page? I’m noticing now that if I shrink the width of my browser to match the width of the comment area and sidebar (which is a little thinner than the width of the comic), I can’t see the left ~20 pixels of the comic no matter how I scroll around.
I’ll ask CD if he has any ideas how to fix this.
It’s not limited to the most recent comic, either… though I’m *pretty* sure that last week, the then-current strip displayed properly. :/
The display error is caused by the “page” width and max-width values being set to 1080px (inline apparently, not within a CSS), while the “comic-wrap” width is set (in custom_style.css) to 1100px.
If you have a display that you can resize to larger-than 1100 pixels, things display properly, or at least, “okay.”
However, on a tablet, I think the browser does magic scaling on its own, so that whatever the width of the page is, it will be the width of the tablet’s display. So my iPad knows the width is 1080 pixels, and anything bigger than that gets shoved off the side of the display. Out of sight, out of mind. 🙂
Kazom: simply put… I am a Genie Lord in the form of a cat. I was Jeanie’s mentor once upon a time.
He’s going to need a bigger laptop
But everyone’s going with smaller devices these days. I know for certain that I don’t miss hauling around my first laptop computer, a Dell Inspirion 1300; the thing was heavy enough without my university textbooks in my bags while commuting. Unless you meant more memory ram storage…?
It’s a JAWS joke, I think. 🙂
Well a bigger laptop could mean more ‘bytes’
… I’ll stop now. Yes it was a jaws joke
He’s gonna need a big reboot.
Keep ramming in more computer jokes
He’s just hard driving them home.
Well, it was a reboot shark that they used…
Mondays, am I right?
Go back to wrestling sharks, it’s your thing.
[Limps up to explain it once more] Because, Neil, you’ve been falling down in your responsibilities as Master, and now you and your Genie are not prepared for the next crisis. Kazom is facing you, and he is not surprised at your entrance. He made SURE you heard that.
Limps?
My feet hurt. And read your Kipling, “Gods of the Copybook Headings”.
Not sure about that. But, then, I’ve never kippled.
If you don’t want to read your Kipling, there’s a lot of it that Leslie Fish will sing to you. Alas, apparently not this one. ^_^
Leslie Fish? Leslie Fish of “Banned From Argo” fame? Leslie Fish, the Filker?
I had no idea. I’ll have to check that out.
Leslie Fish wrote the definitive setting for Kipling’s “Female of the Species” but Peter Bellamy wrote a better melody for “Oak and Ash and Thorn”.
I’m actually impressed Neil fought a shark over his laptop.
From the size of the bite it was a pretty little shark at least…
It was a GameShark.
Seems that Kazom has brought a LITTLE BOX with him.—I wonder what is in it.
Possibly something that will assist the hunt for the Eye.
Does Neil have paint smears on his shirt?
I think it indicates that he’s wet.
So, did Neil overhear any of the conversation about Jeannie and human sex?
What do you mean Neil? We’ve always had a talking cat.
You gotta wonder whether Neil thinks “Oh! How awful!” or “Hey! Good idea! Sign me up for one!”
At least Neil didn’t try to pet Kazom.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to…
He wandered in off the street and I fed him. A talking cat is weird but a shart in the bedroom is normal
Hey Neil, how the new pet shark what names are you thinking of?
Hector would be good if he is a hammerhead.
“The talking cat is in the living room because somebody was too rude to invite him to the kitchen for tea & kippers.”
When he just escaped a shark in his bedroom, and Neils wondering about a talking cat!
The latest version of Jeanie on top of the comic.. *wolf whistles*
don’t know how i missed that
Now, wait just a minute.
Solomon was the son of David and Bathsheba, and David lived in about 1000 BC. So Solomon waa around about 3000 years ago or a little less. Now, since Kazom is well over 3000 years old, that would mean that he was actually present and in the area when Solomon bound the genies. So wouldn’t Kazom know for sure? He speaks as though the event was something legendary and uncertain, that was well before his time.
This Wiki page explains that Solomon was granted power over the supernatural, but it doesn’t say they had to be present. Kazom may have never seen the artifact and its legendary aspect is secondhand knowledge, i.e. legendary. The page covers a lot more than Solomon’s Seal. (FYI, I used this page as reference material for my Shallliaa story, posted on Discord.)
The Seal of Solomon or Ring of Solomon is the legendary signet ring attributed to the Israelite king Solomon in medieval mystical traditions, from which it developed in parallel within Jewish mysticism, Islamic mysticism and Western occultism. It is the predecessor to the Star of David, the contemporary cultural and religious symbol of the Jewish people. It was often depicted in the shape of either a pentagram or a hexagram. In religious lore, the ring is described as having given Solomon the power to command the supernatural and also the ability to speak with animals. Due to the proverbial wisdom of Solomon, it came to be seen as an amulet or talisman, or a symbol or character in medieval magic and Renaissance magic, occultism, and alchemy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon
Wasn’t She supposed to be laying on a white bear skin rug????
A riff on an album cover, maybe?
Katy Perry
Hmmm seemed to have missed the temp image, any chance there is a place to see it
doesn’t LOOK like a cat, looks like a teddy bear. As opposed to looking like a yorkshire terrier with a fluffier tail in the first arc he appeared in. In any case no one should be looking at him and just identifying him as a cat