xkcd makes me sad
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figmentPez
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figmentPez
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You may be interested in something like this then...
http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/
I hope it doesn't detract from the charm of the comic. (I recommend clicking a few times on 'slower' or using the arrow buttons to control it manually)
http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/
I hope it doesn't detract from the charm of the comic. (I recommend clicking a few times on 'slower' or using the arrow buttons to control it manually)
figmentPez
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That's really cool. I missed a lot.
It still only goes up to the present, though, so it doesn't have any spoilers.
True story: When I was a teenager, I once accidentally shattered a mercury thermometer, and the liquid mercury got all over my desk. I had no idea what to do with it, so I used a pen to push the individual "droplets" of mercury into my trash can, which was then bagged up and tossed away. However, in the process, both me and my sisters touched the mercury with our bare hands.
Made me nervous for a while, but so far we seem to be okay.
I wonder if the trash was sent to an incinerator though. That would not be good.
The danger of elemental mercury is more in its propensity to release mercury vapor (though touching it still isn't a good idea.)
The mercury in the previous story was a specific mercury compound that is much, much, much more toxic.
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Well, sometimes. He's got like 3 jokes. I can almost hear him log into Wikipedia sometimes to get new science-speak to wrap around the same tired skeletons.
Let's see...
1) I'm more insufferably pretentious than you (variation: same joke, but with a kid).
2) R&D is run by marketing and focus groups to absurd ends that destroys civilization.
3) Graph joke.
You forgot: God is a hilariously backward belief, let me show my ignorance of theology.
When I was a teenager, I acquired several ounces of elemental mercury (including a small sample from my dentist). I still have them (and a mercury oral thermometer) as part of my collection of things-I-probably-shouldn't-possess.
--Patrick
Overall, I did pretty well, I would have done even better had the map to click on been bigger.
http://tinyurl.com/q7flsal
You know you can zoom in on it, right?
Not too shabby... aside from that Russian guess.
24103 pts
http://tinyurl.com/ldjuhl7
only was way off for my first guess, before I realized you could explore around a little.
second try: 22059points
http://tinyurl.com/lamfrhg
I couldn't figure out the Russian one. Nothing in Cyrillic close by was searchable, so I made a 3000km off WAG. The one in Taiwan, I was especially proud of. I drove around until I found a phone number on a street sign in Roman characters, did a WHOIS search on the number, and got the address.
http://tinyurl.com/ldjuhl7
only was way off for my first guess, before I realized you could explore around a little.
second try: 22059points
http://tinyurl.com/lamfrhg
I couldn't figure out the Russian one. Nothing in Cyrillic close by was searchable, so I made a 3000km off WAG. The one in Taiwan, I was especially proud of. I drove around until I found a phone number on a street sign in Roman characters, did a WHOIS search on the number, and got the address.
I got one I thought looked like any rural road in Alberta. Turned out it was it a rural road in Saskatchewan.
Second time through was a little bit too easy. Or maybe I'm just more awake this afternoon.
Well, they are so very alike.
If anyone has been followingRandall's Time comic, it has apparently finally ended.
This guy has collected the entire series over at his site (which is apparently getting crushed right now) in case you want an easy way to browse the whole thing.
--Patrick
This guy has collected the entire series over at his site (which is apparently getting crushed right now) in case you want an easy way to browse the whole thing.
--Patrick
It wasn't funny, wasn't interesting, wasn't overly accessible. Maybe I just don't "get" it but I can't even conceive of what he was going for with it and really that's worth half the points.
He was going for an interesting story. It's certainly no less interesting than The Island. The unfold-the-plot-as-you-go reminded me a lot of the early Cyan games.
--Patrick
--Patrick