Another XKCD classic

Baroquen · Post by **Baroquen** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:56 pm

I thought I scrolled around a lot of the pic this morning, but wasn't even close. Wow... just wow.

And the Rhode Island thing was funny. Sounded better than the discussion of Revolution in the other thread.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Sat Dec 01, 2012 2:07 am

Long-time readers of xkcd will get this most out of this one...very nicely done...

She won the first half of all our chemo Scrabble games, but then her IV drugs started kicking in and I *dominated*

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:34 pm

Excellent.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:27 pm

<A>: Like </a>this. 

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:47 pm

Feynman recounted another good one upperclassmen would use on freshmen physics students: When you look at words in a mirror, how come they're reversed left to right but not top to bottom? What's special about the horizontal axis?

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:03 am

From the same guy we got What If and now a twitter feed -What-If Numbers - numbers he found while looking up answers to the What if questions. For example -

2,210: Distance to the Alpha Centauri system, measured in units of Voyager 2's current distance from us

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:09 am

Has anyone been following the "Time" strip? It was posted last week Monday, and has been updated regularly (every few hours, maybe?) ever since. It started with two people sitting on a beach, and by now they've constructed a massive sand castle.

Here's a video that shows all of the strips in sequence.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:44 am

AWS260 wrote:Has anyone been following the "Time" strip? It was posted last week Monday, and has been updated regularly (every few hours, maybe?) ever since. It started with two people sitting on a beach, and by now they've constructed a massive sand castle.

Here's a video that shows all of the strips in sequence.

This is still being updated.

The water is starting to rise.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:52 am

Just as a reminder (since I always forget), you can use the space bar to pause the action and the arrow keys to advance frames one at a time in either direction. (Yes, the instructions are on the page, but I always forget to look there too.)

PLW · Post by **PLW** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:35 pm

Majestic

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Fri May 31, 2013 4:08 pm

AWS260 wrote:
AWS260 wrote:Has anyone been following the "Time" strip? It was posted last week Monday, and has been updated regularly (every few hours, maybe?) ever since. It started with two people sitting on a beach, and by now they've constructed a massive sand castle.

Here's a video that shows all of the strips in sequence.
This is still being updated.

The water is starting to rise.

Still going on - current frame is 1747 and Day 68.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:13 pm

stessier wrote:
AWS260 wrote:
AWS260 wrote:Has anyone been following the "Time" strip? It was posted last week Monday, and has been updated regularly (every few hours, maybe?) ever since. It started with two people sitting on a beach, and by now they've constructed a massive sand castle.

Here's a video that shows all of the strips in sequence.
This is still being updated.

The water is starting to rise.
Still going on - current frame is 1747 and Day 68.

2179 - Day 86.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:03 pm

disarm wrote:
Feynman recounted another good one upperclassmen would use on freshmen physics students: When you look at words in a mirror, how come they're reversed left to right but not top to bottom? What's special about the horizontal axis?

This is like that virus given to the borg in that one TNG episode.... What is so special about the horizontal axis ??

Is there an answer to this I could possibly hope to understand?

Ahh, here we go

hog · Post by **hog** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:32 pm

The mirror isn't actually reversing anything. What's on the left, stays on the left; what's on top, stays on top, etc.

Imagine writing something on a piece of paper and holding it so you can look at it without a mirror. Now what do you have to do in order to see the piece of paper so you can see it in the mirror? You have to turn it around -- flip it along the horizontal.

If you do that, it is flipped BOTH in the mirror and in actuality, too.

In fact whenever you look at a paper and can see through it to writing on the other side, the writing appears backwards.

You could flip the paper vertically, and then look at it in the mirror. Then it would be correct left-to-right but everything would appear upside down.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 11:09 am

Post this on your FB wall.

And it doesn't pop up a box every time asking you to use your real name. In fact, there's no way to set your name at all. You just have to keep reminding people who you are.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:06 pm

Drazzil · Post by **Drazzil** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:11 pm

So, just as an aside, is that story true? About the old windows utility and etc etc etc

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:18 pm

Drazzil wrote:So, just as an aside, is that story true? About the old windows utility and etc etc etc

maybe?

tiny ogre · Post by **tiny ogre** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 4:06 am

Moliere wrote:Undocumented Feature

I just read that one, and thought, Man, I wish I had somewhere like that on the internet. You know, like a chat room or a forum or something long since forgotten by the rest of the net. Maybe I'd stop by once in a while and all the same people would still be there, just chatting away.

Too bad there's not such a place.

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 11:49 am

tiny ogre wrote:
Moliere wrote:Undocumented Feature
I just read that one, and thought, Man, I wish I had somewhere like that on the internet. You know, like a chat room or a forum or something long since forgotten by the rest of the net. Maybe I'd stop by once in a while and all the same people would still be there, just chatting away.

Too bad there's not such a place.

Welcome back, Mr. Stealth...

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 12:32 pm

tiny ogre wrote:
Moliere wrote:Undocumented Feature
I just read that one, and thought, Man, I wish I had somewhere like that on the internet. You know, like a chat room or a forum or something long since forgotten by the rest of the net. Maybe I'd stop by once in a while and all the same people would still be there, just chatting away.

Too bad there's not such a place.

Heh. Well done, sir.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:07 pm

The Heartbleed bug explained so that even I can understand it.

Are you there, server? It's me, Margaret.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:29 am

Nailed Free Speech.

I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:59 am

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Sat May 31, 2014 4:52 pm

XKCD predicted this.

05/29/14: The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is pleased to announce that our team has established two-way communication with the ISEE-3 spacecraft and has begun commanding it to perform specific functions.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 10:14 am

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 10:53 am

Super Bowl. I don't know if I would call it a "classic, but it captures what I love about xkcd -- the intersection of dedicated nerdiness with genuine warmth and compassion.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 11:46 am

Not sure I agree that "not caring" about something gives you power over it. Maybe agree that it prevents that thing from having power over you.

Over thinking again.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:05 pm

It took me until somewhere in my 30s to learn this.

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:15 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote:Not sure I agree that "not caring" about something gives you power over it. Maybe agree that it prevents that thing from having power over you.

Over thinking again.

Oh man, are you guy's still talking about this? I guess I used to worry about discussions like these but once I got more mature mentally I moved beyond them. I guess you can keep talking about it if you feel the need but I don't care about it and I'm going to move onto more important things.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:18 pm

wonderpug wrote:
Carpet_pissr wrote:Not sure I agree that "not caring" about something gives you power over it. Maybe agree that it prevents that thing from having power over you.

Over thinking again.
Oh man, are you guy's still talking about this? I guess I used to worry about discussions like these but once I got more mature mentally I moved beyond them. I guess you can keep talking about it if you feel the need but I don't care about it and I'm going to move onto more important things.

I see what you did there.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:33 pm

GreenGoo wrote:
wonderpug wrote:
Carpet_pissr wrote:Not sure I agree that "not caring" about something gives you power over it. Maybe agree that it prevents that thing from having power over you.

Over thinking again.
Oh man, are you guy's still talking about this? I guess I used to worry about discussions like these but once I got more mature mentally I moved beyond them. I guess you can keep talking about it if you feel the need but I don't care about it and I'm going to move onto more important things.
I see what you did there.

I will say he got me to at least check the time stamp on the post vs. my answer before I realized...

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:14 am

This got a chuckle out of me.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:26 am

Go to the actual page http://www.xkcd.com/1506/ to click the button and help recover data.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:28 am

Love the Alienware logos on that pc.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:26 am

Haha, you'll see!

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed May 06, 2015 2:44 pm

Nobody wants England.

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Fri May 08, 2015 9:04 am

Moliere wrote:Nobody wants England.

Actually, I think the problem is too many people want England.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:53 am

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:00 am

Moliere wrote:

"Mmmm, this is such a positive experience! I feel no social pressure to enjoy it at all!"