Another XKCD classic

B Dog · Post by **B Dog** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:24 pm

I read that this morning and nearly spit coffee all over my laptop.

Speaking of Internet memes --> youshouldhaveseenthis.com

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:30 pm

B Dog wrote:I read that this morning and nearly spit coffee all over my laptop.

Speaking of Internet memes --> youshouldhaveseenthis.com

Ok, that's awesome! Links too! Thanks, buncha those I have no idea what they are, so I'll take a look.

Enjoyed the South Park Episode with the internet "sensations" and their hypothetical money.

noxiousdog · Post by **noxiousdog** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:58 pm

GreenGoo wrote:
B Dog wrote:I read that this morning and nearly spit coffee all over my laptop.

Speaking of Internet memes --> youshouldhaveseenthis.com
Ok, that's awesome! Links too! Thanks, buncha those I have no idea what they are, so I'll take a look.

Enjoyed the South Park Episode with the internet "sensations" and their hypothetical money.

It's missing Evil Blimp

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:24 pm

noxiousdog wrote:It's missing Evil Blimp

Very nice. I was not aware of this one either.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:56 pm

definitely another xkcd classic.
the talk of internet phenomena reminds me of Weezer's video for Pork and Beans

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:26 am

Police reported three dozen cheerful bystanders, yet no one claims to have seen who did it

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:46 am

Heh. Thanks for including the mouse-over text. Always an extra bit of humour in those.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:48 pm

GreenGoo wrote:Heh. Thanks for including the mouse-over text. Always an extra bit of humour in those.

no way i can leave that out...sometimes it's the funniest part

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:50 pm

413 nanohertz, by the way

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:24 am

Oh, Christ, that's so bad.

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:28 am

:groan:

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:29 pm

The Meal wrote:Oh, Christ, that's so bad.

i bet you still laughed though...just admit it

Vorret · Post by **Vorret** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:02 am

The last one really cracked me up...

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:07 am

Awesome!

KiloOhm · Post by **KiloOhm** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:39 pm

B Dog wrote:I read that this morning and nearly spit coffee all over my laptop.

Speaking of Internet memes --> youshouldhaveseenthis.com

Ugh - I sat through 14 meat spins....

Tscott · Post by **Tscott** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:18 pm

http://xkcd.com/606/" target="_blank

Alt.text - "I remember trying to log in to the original Command and Conquer servers a year or two back and feeling like I was knocking on the boarded-up gates of a ghost town. "

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:47 pm

Heh I've actually typed something I shouldn't when somebody says something.

Grundbegriff · Post by **Grundbegriff** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:31 pm

Tscott wrote:
http://xkcd.com/606/" target="_blank

Alt.text - "I remember trying to log in to the original Command and Conquer servers a year or two back and feeling like I was knocking on the boarded-up gates of a ghost town. "

This is so me.

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:50 pm

Heh I'm currently playing RTW. I always end up digging out the old games and having more fun with them then the new ones.

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:21 pm

Heck, I never played Rome: TW until my last 6 month deployment from July-December 2007. Then, basically, kept playing it for darn near a year before finally moving on to something else.

Didn't get Oblivion until the GOTY edition with both expansions was released.

The list goes on and on. It's just easier to wait than to try to keep up with what's "new." Of course, the whole multiplayer/server aspect is non-starter as that comic points out.

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:42 pm

Arcanis · Post by **Arcanis** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:45 pm

theohall wrote:

actual time 30 minutes.

It wouldn't be funny if it wasn't so true.

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:53 pm

That's a good one!

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:03 pm

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:09 pm

While the cheap GPS isn't that bad, whatever Ford uses to measure for their Digital only gas gauge stinks to high heaven. 440 miles until empty on my typical tank, an impressive 36.5mpg, better than advertised even. At the top of the tank gas depletes at a rate where I am driving about two miles for every one the readout goes down. And I'm thinking 12 gallon to get 880 miles and all while I have 12 gallons of gas weight in my car! Woot! Thats over 73mpg! However a tank only ever gets me about 380 miles for about 11 gallons or about a disappointing 34.5mpg. (This is diasppointing because my 11 year old Escort, even unto its retirement was getting about 30mpg) But the most annoying thing is that I discovered when the fuel gauge is low, when you need accuracy the most, it is the most useless. If you let it get to 50 mile until empty, the idiot light comes on. From there you literally have about 16 miles to gas up before the gauge empties itself out. I've made it down to 2 mile left in a panic. I have no idea what happens if you hit zero. For all I know, rather than run on fumes, the car goes into a killswitch mode, locks you in, and calls out a hit squad.

I hate the spelling of gauge. It never looks right. Stupid strange places for U's. We should just get rid of them.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:19 pm

I have no idea what you are talking about, Mortis. Even less than usual, I mean.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:21 pm

Where's the alt-text, Blue Note?

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:12 pm

The alt-text isn't that funny, so didn't see a need for it seeing as the comic is funny all by itself.

Here it is anyway:

They could say "the connection is probaby lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.

Bakhtosh · Post by **Bakhtosh** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:50 pm

Both of my vehicles that have had "Distance Till Empty" readings hit zero with about 10% left in the tank. I drove a dozen miles in my intrepid with the display on "0". The Sienna goes to zero then takes 18 gallons of gas. It's listed as a 20 gallon tank. YMMV (literally)

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:29 pm

Bakhtosh wrote:Both of my vehicles that have had "Distance Till Empty" readings hit zero with about 10% left in the tank. I drove a dozen miles in my intrepid with the display on "0". The Sienna goes to zero then takes 18 gallons of gas. It's listed as a 20 gallon tank. YMMV (literally)

That's to prevent the idiots who let it go to zero from running out of gas.

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:52 am

A current events classic

alt text: My biology grad student friends tell me that different types of alchohol don't actually have different effects. I trust their expertise, not because of the 'biology' part, but because of the 'grad student.'

I beg to differ on that 'expertise' from 27 years of personal experience, which is far more than a mere 'grad student' will determine. They don't take into account age, tolerance, and other factors. It does tend to have the same effects, regardless of type, when one is considerably younger.

Tscott · Post by **Tscott** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:01 am

Alt. text: You should talk to the girl down the hall; I think you'd like her. Lemme know if you find out why she's ordering all those colored plastic balls.

I identify far too much with this one...

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:06 am

I identify with that one at work, but the kids I work with haven't figured out I haven't grown up, yet.

(I call them kids, because I'm 17-22 years older than everyone in my shop).

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:42 am

I identify far too much with this one...

My buddy and I talk about this all the time. How it seems we're just running around pretending to be grown-ups.

I mean, really, WTF am I doing having a kid. I still watch cartoons! By myself! Insanity!

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:44 am

theohall wrote:I beg to differ on that 'expertise' from 27 years of personal experience, which is far more than a mere 'grad student' will determine. They don't take into account age, tolerance, and other factors. It does tend to have the same effects, regardless of type, when one is considerably younger.

So if you're young there will be no difference in the effects of a shot of 80 proof whiskey and 80 proof tequila, but when you get older they'll make you different kinds of drunk?

Vorret · Post by **Vorret** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:52 am

YellowKing wrote:
I identify far too much with this one...
My buddy and I talk about this all the time. How it seems we're just running around pretending to be grown-ups.

I mean, really, WTF am I doing having a kid. I still watch cartoons! By myself! Insanity!

That's why I don't have kids... yet.
I couldn't stand having someone younger than me, in my house, having a higher mental age than me

Little Raven · Post by **Little Raven** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:23 am

YellowKing wrote:I mean, really, WTF am I doing having a kid. I still watch cartoons! By myself! Insanity!

You don't grow up and then have kids. You have kids and then grow up. They serve as a sort of catalyst.

Of course, some of us do a pretty good job of resisting maturity even with them around.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:50 pm

YellowKing wrote:
I identify far too much with this one...
My buddy and I talk about this all the time. How it seems we're just running around pretending to be grown-ups.

I mean, really, WTF am I doing having a kid. I still watch cartoons! By myself! Insanity!

I have to watch Spectacular Spiderman and Wolverine and the XMen to uh... see which ones are okay for Luke to watch... yeah, that's it.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:29 pm

more awesome...

please do not try any of this and die or get arrested