fleetwud AmbitiousButRubbish 49741 Posts user info edit post |
XIIKCD 3/2/2009 6:13:57 PM |
ShinAntonio Zinc Saucier 18946 Posts user info edit post |
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.
ahahaha i love it
3/6/2009 10:05:26 AM |
dustm All American 14296 Posts user info edit post |
haha 3/6/2009 10:11:11 AM |
darkone (\/) (;,,,;) (\/) 11609 Posts user info edit post |
^^ I'll only most scientists understood that concept so well. O' well. It give me plenty of refutation papers to write. 3/6/2009 10:28:11 AM |
BigMan157 no u 103353 Posts user info edit post |
3/16/2009 8:17:02 AM |
quagmire02 All American 44225 Posts user info edit post |
the tripod books! man, it's been a while since i read that trilogy...middle school, maybe?
3/16/2009 8:27:52 AM |
Master_Yoda All American 3626 Posts user info edit post |
Todays is good. Ive honestly never heard of the tripod trilogy. Twill have to look into it. 3/16/2009 8:47:17 AM |
miska All American 22242 Posts user info edit post |
I think I read the tripod books in middle school too, good stuff
and you forgot the mouseover, which is the best part:
The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed -- for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane.] 3/16/2009 8:54:25 AM |
ambrosia1231 eeeeeeeeeevil 76471 Posts user info edit post |
And 0.002 dollars will NEVER equal 0.002 cents.
3/23/2009 8:12:52 PM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
You guys are letting me down with these updates.
"Like spelling 'dammit' correctly -- with two m's -- it's a troll that works best on the most literate."
"I'm normally a pretty frugal person, but I still compulsively buy any R/C aircraft that's less than $30. In the last few years, this has become a problem." 3/25/2009 7:09:54 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"I'll concede ergonomics anecdotally, but none of the studies of Dvorak were at all rigorous (the most-cited Navy study was overseen by Dvorak himself). And the 'slow typists down' thing is a myth. Also EMACS RULES VI DROOLS WOOOOOOO!"
Firefly!
3/27/2009 6:31:45 AM |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
lol do people actually do this?
DAMMIT! About a year ago I was asking people if they remembered this and what it was called but nobody I talked to believed me these books existed
[Edited on March 27, 2009 at 6:41 AM. Reason : .]
3/27/2009 6:40:28 AM |
Agent 0 All American 5677 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "lol do people actually do this?" |
:carlface:
FAIL3/27/2009 8:58:23 AM |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
How is fail to expect most people know when to correctly use "no pun intended" 3/27/2009 9:12:48 AM |
darkone (\/) (;,,,;) (\/) 11609 Posts user info edit post |
I love how Google handles dimensional analysis. Stats are ballpark and vary wildly by time of day and whether your mom is in town.
I have a problem with the math in this one.
(Pi*r^2)(Pd)(Xf)(Xd) is basically the amount of sex (in min.) per year for a given area.
Thus, for the probability to be 1, (Pi*r^2)(Pd)(Xf)(Xd) has to equal 525960 (the number of minutes in a year. Solving for r, that yields:
r = sqrt[525960/(Pi*(Pd)(Xf)(Xd))]
all this assumes that that populations are evenly distributed as well as the time of sexual encounters
right?
4/1/2009 1:04:04 AM |
darkone (\/) (;,,,;) (\/) 11609 Posts user info edit post |
Upon further thought, the formula as given in the comic stands assuming that Xf and Xd have matching units. However, I'm debating with myself if the 2 should be a 1. 4/1/2009 2:00:06 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"I hate being the slowest guy in the lab."
HA! This makes me so glad that there aren't many people in my lab. We're all pretty even in progress.
4/3/2009 6:35:04 AM |
BobbyDigital Thots and Prayers 41777 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "How is fail to expect most people know when to correctly use "no pun intended"" |
it isn't about knowing when to correctly use it. it's about intentionally using "no pun intended" incorrectly to fuck with people. hence, your fail.4/3/2009 7:04:28 AM |
ShinAntonio Zinc Saucier 18946 Posts user info edit post |
I actually remember being entertained by both the sequels in the theater. They just don't hold up nearly as well in later comparison
ahahaha
4/8/2009 9:30:28 AM |
leftyisreal All American 2145 Posts user info edit post |
Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense.
AMEN TO THAT
4/10/2009 5:37:47 AM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
haha holy fuck yes let's fix that stupid convention 4/10/2009 7:48:19 AM |
miska All American 22242 Posts user info edit post |
Bad flu epidemics can hit young adults hardest because they provoke their powerful immune systems into overreaction, so to stay healthy spend the next few weeks drunk and sleep-deprived to keep yours suppressed.
4/27/2009 1:37:52 PM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
Catching up:
"They'll pick music and culture that they know annoys you. Building in behavioral easter eggs is a fair retaliation!"
"This scavenger hunt is getting boring. Let's go work on the treehouse!"
"If androids someday DO dream of electric sheep, don't forget to declare sheepCount as a long int."
"Somewhere out there is a company that has actually figured out how to enlarge penises, and it's helpless to reach potential customers."
"Eventually a UN is set up. And then a lone rebel runs down the line of flags in front of it, runs back to his base, and gets a kajillion points."
"But I've made $13.72 already today! Ow, stop throwing pennies." 4/27/2009 2:56:44 PM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"I love Eileen / and want you to love her / When you're around / I'm one floor above her / If you could see / just how much I adore her / Oh, that pretty red dress / I'd do anything for her / (Too ra loo ra too ra loo rye ayy)"
4/29/2009 8:01:08 AM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
lol 4/29/2009 8:08:48 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"Day six: 'The hell? Who mails a bobcat?'"
"Great, and you JUST finished paying off the settlement over the Wayne Coyne hamster ball incident."
"The Hammer + Captain Tightpants == Captain Hammerpants?"
Mmmmm, Captain Reynolds.
5/5/2009 8:41:11 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"No, the best things about The Sarah Connor Chronicles were: (1) watching Sarah and Cameron try to pass for normal, and (2) Cameron throwing people and things through walls. Everything else was pretty secondary."
5/6/2009 10:04:40 AM |
slamjamason All American 1833 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | ""Somewhere out there is a company that has actually figured out how to enlarge penises, and it's helpless to reach potential customers."" |
haha that's great5/6/2009 10:48:01 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously."
5/7/2009 8:55:53 AM |
Byrn Stuff backpacker 19058 Posts user info edit post |
I just realized that the mouse-over test from this one
"Day six: 'The hell? Who mails a bobcat?'"
alludes to this comic
"You can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback" 5/7/2009 9:46:10 AM |
miska All American 22242 Posts user info edit post |
Haha, good catch! 5/7/2009 9:47:14 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"It was actually canceled because they just noticed he's been naked under that coat the whole time. There's a petition on Facebook to get Fox to un-cancel it, and one on Livejournal to get him to take off the coat."
5/8/2009 8:22:02 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"It was the funniest 6.5 seconds of my life, although as usual like 80% of it was just Tom and Ray's gasping, hacking laughter."
5/11/2009 8:19:51 AM |
Master_Yoda All American 3626 Posts user info edit post |
Inline with todays...
5/11/2009 8:27:36 AM |
leftyisreal All American 2145 Posts user info edit post |
I love cartalk! and of all the things i like, i think alee hates this the most. But with XKCD clearly on my side, i win!
Also, post number:
[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 7:52 PM. Reason : /user] 5/11/2009 7:52:30 PM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"Can't and shouldn't."
5/13/2009 9:52:41 AM |
Nitrocloud Arranging the blocks 3072 Posts user info edit post |
Due to the recent similarities with XKCD:
quick! think about something dirty!
[Edited on May 13, 2009 at 10:49 AM. Reason : Titled: "through the ether"] 5/13/2009 10:48:36 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"Forever comparing, never evaluating on any external scale. If you were a search function, you'd never break the nlogn barrier."
5/15/2009 8:40:29 AM |
miska All American 22242 Posts user info edit post |
hah 5/15/2009 8:54:24 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"Completely implausible? Yes. Nevertheless, worth keeping a can of shark repellant next to the bed."
5/18/2009 6:12:53 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"It can't be very MUCH money ... they apparently can't even afford a sampler. I mean, with a little remixing, some of this could be kinda good!"
5/20/2009 12:49:39 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"I think I see a Mandlebrot set! No, that's just blood splatters. Golly."
5/22/2009 10:25:24 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"You know, pep rallies weirded me out in high school, and they've only gotten creepier in retrospect."
5/25/2009 10:55:23 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"Calling a cab means cutting into beer money."
5/27/2009 9:21:15 AM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
ahaha i used to love logic problems like that 5/27/2009 9:23:50 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
"I secretly, deep in my guilty heart, like Papyrus and don't care if it's overused. [Cue hate mail in beautifully-kerned Helvetica.]"
And, from May 11, pvp:
[Edited on May 29, 2009 at 1:10 AM. Reason : added pvp]
5/29/2009 1:08:28 AM |
simonn best gottfriend 28968 Posts user info edit post |
... what have you done? 5/29/2009 1:29:17 AM |
alee All American 2178 Posts user info edit post |
Showing the continuing similarities between xkcd and other online comics. 5/29/2009 1:34:53 AM |
Tiberius Suspended 7607 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "" |
LOL
now I want one
[Edited on May 29, 2009 at 2:09 AM. Reason : whoops]5/29/2009 2:08:46 AM |
fleetwud AmbitiousButRubbish 49741 Posts user info edit post |
don't think? 5/29/2009 2:12:47 AM |