images [Comic] xkcd Thread

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

If at least one person has a nightmare about being swarmed by hundreds of mouse-sized dromaeosaurids, my work will have been done.

[kjordan2001]

Handy exam trick: when you know the answer but not the correct derivation, derive blindly forward from the givens and backward from the answer, and join the chains once the equations start looking similar. Sometimes the graders don't notice the seam.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Someone should really bring them a ladder and remind them to build the Endless Stair *first* next time.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

A breadth-first search makes a lot of sense for dating in general, actually; it suggests dating a bunch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I just call all of them 'synecdoche'.

[ESP]

I just call all of them 'synecdoche'.

:rofl:

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I once worked on a friend's dad's computer. He had the hard drive divided into eight partitions, C: through H:, with a 'Documents' directory tree on each one. Each new file appeared to be saved to a partition at random. I knew enough not to ask.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Cue letters from anthropology majors complaining that this view of numerolinguistic development perpetuates a widespread myth. They get to write letters like that because when you're not getting a real science degree you have a lot of free time.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Dear editors of Homeopathy Monthly: I have two small corrections for your July issue. One, it's spelled 'echinacea', and two, homeopathic medicines are no better than placebos and your entire magazine is a sham.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

The exact cause of the phenomenon is unknown, but it's thought to be linked to atmospheric refraction and you getting a really cool car.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image ... that's exactly what you find there, too. He's exactly what he appears to be.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

College Board issues aside, I have fond memories oi TI-BASIC, writing in it a 3D graphing engine and a stock market analyzer. With enough patience, I could make anything ... but friends. (Although with my chatterbot experiments, I certainly tried.)

[MR_Candyman]

"Cue letters from anthropology majors complaining that this view of numerolinguistic development perpetuates a widespread myth. They get to write letters like that because when you're not getting a real science degree you have a lot of free time."

LOL! That is awesome. So true

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my regular one. Although it gets kind of squashed under my helmet.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

You know that I'll never leave you. Not as long as she's with someone.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

The same people who spend their weekends at the Blogger Reenactment Festivals will whine about the anachronisms in historical movies, but no one else will care.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I understand you and your team worked hard on this, but when we said to make it more realistic, we meant the graphics.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

People go to the website because they can't wait for the next alumni magazine, right? What do you mean, you want a campus map? One of our students made one as a CS class project back in '01! You can click to zoom and everything!

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

'But you're using that same tactic to try to feel superior to me, too!' 'Sorry, that accusation expires after one use per conversation.'

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

She's a perfectly nice lady from a beautiful city, and there's no reason to be mean just because she thinks a quarterback is a river in Egypt.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I'm not listening to you. I mean, what does a SQUIRREL know about mental health?

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I'm sure they're a harmful tool of the cosmetics-industrial complex and all, but my goodness do those strips ever work to pull gunk out of your pores. I was shocked, disgusted, and vaguely fascinated by the result.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

'How about a little ... *family growth*' 'Dude, that's not until round two.'

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Don't need any, thanks. I have a backscattering fetish.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

There are two or three songs out there with beeps in the chorus that sound exactly like the clock radio alarm I had in high school, and hearing it makes me think my life since junior year has been a dream I'm about to wake up from.