My lifestyle is very busy. Chances are, yours is too. I do keep a day planner and I keep important anniversaries, birthdays, etc. in it, and, when time allows, I run to the greeting card shop and try to find the most hilarious memorable card.

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When it comes to humor, what rules? You might be surprised that more people view newspaper and Internet cartoons than all the funny movies, sitcoms, late night shows, and stand-up comedians put together.

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Science has been labeled “bad” by many a church member. Maybe it has to do with religion and faith not requiring research. Religion and faith, relies on a “leap of faith”, which, of course, is not called “fact” but “faith” or “religion”.

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It is hard to remember the ’60’s. They say if you do, you weren’t really there. Our parents (that is, of us baby boomers) think the whole generation was “bad”. Of course some good came out of it as well. We became, well, uh, more natural. We started liking organic things for instance.

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So many shops, so little time. After all, St. Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. My better-half and I have made it a habit to buy each other funny gifts each year. To us, humor has been the glue of our existence, the bond that has held us together through the best and worst of times. We love to celebrate our 20 years, sometimes rocky, often pleasant, with a funny Valentine’s Day gift.

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Asking oneself who is the best at their profession is similar to asking which galaxy offers the most oxygen. One can only guess it is ours, but that could be our ego talking. The Internet offers analytical sites that measure certain websites, however. Unlike movie and tv stars, cartoonists are not a talkative or egotistical bunch, for the most part, so one has to research. I found some interesting information.

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The sending of greeting cards and Egypt. These, so-called greetings were actuallyhand-written messages of good cheer on papyrus scrolls for New Years, the only day celebrated with such a “card”. In the 15th Century, in Germany wood-sculpted New Years cards were exchanged. Later that in that century, paper Valentine’s cards were given not just in Germany but all over Europe. It was not until the mid 19th century that the card had evolved into an affordable attractive way to communicate a message on other occasions, and were made on printing presses. In 1840, the postage stamp was created and this served to fuel this industry. The U.S. Post Office found itself delivering about 11 million more letters per year. An artist named John Horsley rendered the first Christmas card in 1843 in London. He had been commissioned by Sir Henry Cole so that he might send it to his friends to spread holiday cheer. The first Valentine card was actually not a card at all, but a message given by St. Valentine to his executioner. He was in prison for secretly performing marriage to military-aged men during the Fall Of The Roman Empire. Claudius felt marriage weakened the soldier and had outlawed it. While in prison, St. Valentine, who was known to have healing powers, allegedly healed the blindness of his jailer’s daughter. “From Your Valentine” was a note that St. Valentine scribbled and handed his executioner, also his jailer, right before his death.

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Without a mouse pad, there is an maximizing curser accuracy. But enough technical mumbo-jumbo. A lot of people think that a mouse mad is a mouse pad is a mouse pad. You might be surprised how many computer owners don’t even use them or like them. They use books, pieces of cardboard and even paper plates (and wonder why their computer is so slow). I’m not making this up. Others without a computer are certain a mouse pad is a small rental unit for rodents. (I am making that up but it might not surprise me. Folks can and still do have their own odd ideas about computing at times.

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Even though I had hours of academic marketing classes, and cartoonist Rick London, my former boss had none, his killer marketing instincts could have rewritten the textbooks. He is no guru, in fact, is anti-guru. He doesn’t write ebooks or exploit those who know less. He tells it like it is. He approached cartooning knowing nothing about the business. He learned it as he went.

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I started working for cartoonist Rick London, founder of Londons Times Cartoons, when I was 21 years old and still a student at a nearby state university. I’d had a number of jobs, but he was the first boss I had that taught me pragmatic knowledge in the real world. Rick did not have a formal education, he does at the time of this writing, but the year was around 1997 or so.

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