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To: Slings and Arrows

One day I went to my vet and there were no parking spaces left. There would have been one, but some clown had to take up two spaces for himself. I ended up parking sideways in front of him, and he got to wait in the lobby until I was done with my appointment. Only later did I find out it happened the same day as that xkcd comic came out.


56 posted on 09/25/2014 9:52:18 PM PDT by Darth Reardon (Is it any wonder I'm not the president?)
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To: Darth Reardon

Beautiful!


57 posted on 09/25/2014 10:04:51 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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To: Darth Reardon

“Only later did I find out it happened the same day as that xkcd comic came out.”

I really want to get it ... what does xkcd mean?

FM Wikipedia “xkcd, sometimes stylized as XKCD, is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe. The comic’s tagline describes it as a “Stick-figure strip featuring humour about technology, science, mathematics and relationships”[‡ 1][2] Munroe mentions on the comic’s website that the name of the comic is not an acronym but “just a word with no phonetic pronunciation”.

The subject matter of the comic varies from statements on life and love to mathematical and scientific in-jokes. Some strips feature simple humor or pop-culture references. Although it has a cast of stick figures,[3][4] the comic occasionally features landscapes, intricate mathematical patterns such as fractals (for example, strip No. 17 “What If”[‡ 2] shows an Apollonian gasket), intricate graphs and charts, or imitations of the style of other cartoonists (as during “Parody Week”).[5]

xkcd is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.[‡ 3] New comics are added three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,[‡ 1][6] although on some occasions they have been updated every weekday.

Since July 2012, there has been a branch of xkcd called xkcd What-If, which answers unusual reader-submitted science questions in a creative and humorous, but always mathematically sound way. What If? is presented more in the format of an article than a traditional comic strip.[7][8]”

I Still don’t get it

TT


59 posted on 09/25/2014 11:01:17 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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