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Monday, November 30, 2009

Experiment

The other two are still lost on the infinite plane of uniform density.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Pandora

What?  Oh, no, the 'Enchanted' soundtrack was just playing because Pandora's algorithms are terrible.  [silence] ... (quietly) That's how you knooooooow ...

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Christmas delivery from the xkcd store

Hey! A note to anyone interested in buying Christmas gifts from the xkcd store: the deadline for Christmas delivery of domestic orders is December 14th. We'll continue to ship after that, but won't guarantee by-Christmas delivery. (If you haven't been to the xkcd store lately, you might want to check it out. I've got some some new stuff there!)

xkcd store items

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

SkiFree

And from that day on, I wore this little 'F' key pendant everywhere I went.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Silent Hammer

I bet he'll keep quiet for a couple weeks and then-- wait, did you nail a piece of scrap wood to my antique table a moment ago?

Friday, November 20, 2009

Prudence

Moments later, the White Witch rolls up and, confused, tries to tempt the probe with a firmware upgrade.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Academia vs. Business

Some engineer out there has solved P=NP and it's locked up in an electric eggbeater calibration routine.  For every 0x5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Sagan-Man

They laugh now, but within 10 years the city's entire criminal class will have quit to work on space research.

Friday, November 13, 2009

iPhone or Droid

It may be a fundamentally empty experience, but holy crap the Droid's 265 ppi screen is amazing.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Two-Party System

I favor approval voting or IRV chiefly because they mean we might get to bring back The Bull Moose party.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Sympathy

Excellent recovery: ... which we could try to use to somehow save your original brother!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Lego

Dad, where is Grandpa right now?

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Orbitals

Except the people filtering in late are the partiers, so you end up with drunkn makeouts in the living room and the next roommate to return home has to sleep in the hall lounge.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Movie Narrative Charts

In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.