If you get an 11/100 on a CS test, but you claim it should be counted as a 'C', they'll probably decide you deserve the upgrade. The Roanoke Lost Colonists founded Roanoke, the Franklin Expedition reached the Pacific in 2009 when the Northwest Passage opened, and Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union-he just started going by 'James'.Īnd if you drive a typical car more than a mile out of your way for each penny you save on the per-gallon price, it doesn't matter how worthless your time is to you-the gas to get you there and back costs more than you save.Īccording to every stud finder I've tried to use, my walls contain a rapidly shifting network of hundreds and hundreds of studs. My decal set has no adults, just a sea of hundreds of the little girl figures closing in around a single cat.īut Einstein said it was the most powerful force in the universe, and I take all my investment advice from flippant remarks by theoretical physicists making small talk at parties.Įvery time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear. When overlapping hurricanes formed at all points on the Earth's surface, and our scheme was foiled by Cantor diagonalization, we just decided to name them all "Steve". Later: 'Why is there a book hovering over the trash can?'Īfter exhausting the OED, we started numbering them. I've looked at clouds from both sides now. Took me a bit to realize I'd been tricked into setting up a daily exercise routine. I felt so clever when I found a way to game the Fitocracy system by incorporating a set of easy but high-scoring activities into my regular schedule. 'The Return of the Boomerang' would make a great movie title. 'We're not sure how to wipe out the chimeral T-cells after they've destroyed the cancer. The bug report was marked 'could not reproduce'. To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize. The Street View van isn't going to find out anything Google won't already know from reading my email. Someday we'll have xmonad as a Firefox extension. It's fun to watch browsers fumblingly recapitulate the history of window management. I calculate that the electrons in radiation therapy hit you at 99.8% of the speed of light, and the beam used in a 90-second gamma ray therapy session could, if fired with less precision, kill a horse (they did not let me test this). It was their main recruiting poster, hung up nearly ten feet up a wall! This means the hackers have LADDER technology! Are we headed for a future where everyone has to pay $50 for one of those locked plexiglass poster covers? More after the break. Not pictured: the elongated Halley's-Comet-like orbit of every Rebecca Black lyric.Įach quarter of the lanes from left to right correspond loosely to breast cancer stages one through four (at diagnosis). 'I was pretty good at skeet shooting, but was eventually kicked off the range for catching the clay pigeons in a net and dispatching them execution-style.' Or is it micro-USB? Shit.Įven if the dictionaries are starting to give in, I refuse to accept 'octopi' as a word mainly because-I'm not making this up-there's a really satisfying climactic scene in the Orson Scott Card horror novel 'Lost Boys' which hinges on it being an incorrect pluralization. In a way, all vultures are Time Vultures some just have more patience than others.įortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. You should probably just move along.ComicGet version -75 slightly alpha, XKCD archive Tue Jul 19 08:35:23 2011 ěarrel - Part 1 ] Boy: I wonder where I'll float next? ] " Science joke. URL Page_Titleĝate Transcript Img_Title Img_URL Keywords from
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