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Category Archives: xkcd

Ah, CS Jokes Most Non-CS People Won’t Get

The funny thing is that if you’ve been burned by this in your programming, you’ll find it tragically funny.  All kinds of disasters from mundane to NASA-level have ocurred because people didn’t make their variables large enough.  Thanks for that reminder, xkcd.

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Posted byEric Mesa20 Apr 200920 Apr 2009Posted inxkcd

East and West

This has also aways bothered me.  As usual, Randall, at xkcd, has put in a comic what was in my head.  Recently, I was thinking of making a post about how old concepts from the 1400s and 1500s still influence our terminology and words today.  One of the most prominent ones you often hear on […]

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Posted byEric Mesa12 Nov 200816 Nov 2008Posted inxkcdTags: Eurocentrism2 Comments on East and West

The Election is Over

Exactly how I feel, Randall – over at xkcd.

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Posted byEric Mesa5 Nov 2008Posted inPolitics, xkcdTags: Election, Election 2008

Physics and the End of the World

This one goes out to all the physics geeks out there.  (Applied Engineering Physics counts too, Jing Qing)

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Posted byEric Mesa10 Sep 2008Posted inxkcdTags: Collider, LHC, physics

The Excuses Companies come up with are often so irrational!

The voting machine companies are getting on my last nerve.  Randall helps me let some steam out.

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Posted byEric Mesa15 Aug 2008Posted inxkcdTags: Diebold, Premier, voting machine

Imagine if your date was wearing THIS!

Be sure to visit xkcd to read the tool tip, it’s extra hilarious. I think Randall’s back in form after some especially abstract comics.

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Posted byEric Mesa1 Aug 2008Posted inxkcd

Linux: A True Story

from our friends over at xkcd:

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Posted byEric Mesa31 Jul 200830 Jul 2008Posted inLinux, xkcd

MacGyver gets Lazy

Second best xkcd this month!

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Posted byEric Mesa3 Jul 20082 Jul 2008Posted inxkcd

Making Babies

3/4ths of this XKCD strip explain exactly how I feel about having kids.

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Posted byEric Mesa27 Jun 200827 Jun 2008Posted inxkcd

How the sciences see each other

Amongst the professors in college and amonst us graduates of scientific fields, here’s how people tend to feel. (courtesy of xkcd): thanks to Randall Monroe’s use of the Creative Commons, enjoy this great twist on the comic by Mark Pilgrim.

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Posted byEric Mesa12 Jun 200822 May 2013Posted inmath, Science and Technology, xkcdTags: sciences

For all those traveling by air today

Enjoy this xkcd:

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Posted byEric Mesa9 Jun 2008Posted inxkcdTags: airport

The Kind of Restraining Order I’d Get

Thanks, as usual, to Monroe of xkcd:

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Posted byEric Mesa6 May 20086 May 2008Posted inxkcd

Mistranslations in the Kama Sutra

If you’ve ever looked at a reprint of the Kama Sutra, I think you’ll agree that reading it without being careful can lead to some interesting things.  Such as this:

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Posted byEric Mesa26 Apr 200824 Apr 2008Posted inxkcdTags: Kama Sutra

A Novel iTunes Exploit

Brought to us by Randal Monroe of xkcd: Also, you much check this one out both for its mention of Python and the Asus EEE PC.

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Posted byEric Mesa22 Apr 200821 Apr 2008Posted inGeek Love, Music, python, xkcdTags: itunes, techno

Philosophizing on the Move can lead to trouble

The plot twist at the end is awesome, but so is the programmer’s debate going on, especially since we were talking about this at work this week. Another great xkcd from Randall Monroe:

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Posted byEric Mesa11 Apr 200812 Apr 2008Posted inphilosophy, python, xkcdTags: C, python

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