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- Thu Apr 13, 2017 5:38 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1823: "Hottest Editors"
- Replies: 55
- Views: 10750
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:15 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1782: "Team Chat"
- Replies: 84
- Views: 12752
Re: 1782: "Team Chat"
IRC is the best. It is easy to run and use. mIRC forever yo (specifically version 6.17) Slack is terrible. They are one of those arrogant silicon valley companies. They advertise being able to connect anyone anywhere, yet require on-site work in SF. Every feature of the product is done better by som...
- Wed Dec 07, 2016 6:21 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1769: "Never seen Star Wars"
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14086
Re: 1769: "Never seen Star Wars"
Happy to chime in on this one since I've never seen it either!
So don't go spreading spoilers around this thread
Funny thing is that everyone who knows me thinks I've seen them and am a big fan. Haven't read all the LOTR yet either and people think I'm an expert at that too.
So don't go spreading spoilers around this thread
Funny thing is that everyone who knows me thinks I've seen them and am a big fan. Haven't read all the LOTR yet either and people think I'm an expert at that too.
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 11:08 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1766: "Apple Spectrum"
- Replies: 92
- Views: 14911
Re: 1766: "Apple Spectrum"
peteispo wrote:Also, what's with the Red Delicious?
Red Delicious don't really taste like anything? Very little flavor.
Non-alcoholic cider is the best though.
- Mon Nov 21, 2016 6:14 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1762: "Moving Boxes"
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11339
Re: 1762: "Moving Boxes"
Water hooves?
♫♪ Shoo be do. Shoo shoo be do. ♪♫
♫♪ Shoo be do. Shoo shoo be do. ♪♫
- Mon May 16, 2016 8:50 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1681: "Laser Products"
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5440
Re: 1681: "Laser Products"
Laser jet printer eh?
I, deskjethp, have no bias about this kind of thing whatsoever.
Seriously, though. We should replace lawnmowers with laser grass cutters.
I, deskjethp, have no bias about this kind of thing whatsoever.
Seriously, though. We should replace lawnmowers with laser grass cutters.
- Fri Nov 20, 2015 11:20 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Reverse carry-less binary multiplication problem
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2887
Re: Reverse carry-less binary multiplication problem
If both inputs end in 1, then the output ends in 1. I have stated this in 4). However, beyond only the rightmost digit, I haven't yet been able to determine a pattern.
Am I missing something obvious?
Am I missing something obvious?
- Fri Nov 20, 2015 10:48 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Reverse carry-less binary multiplication problem
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2887
Reverse carry-less binary multiplication problem
Rule the fifth declaration: This is not homework, but probably looks like it. It's just an interesting thing I ran across the other day on a coding website. So I found this decryption challenge where an obfuscated encryption algorithm is provided and the challenge is to code up a decryption program....
- Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:13 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1590: "The Source"
- Replies: 70
- Views: 10834
Re: 1590: "The Source"
Znirk wrote:My office has an HPHG, but it's labeled as an HP Laserjet M551.
Typical HP printers. They aren't to be trusted.
- Wed Sep 02, 2015 5:45 pm UTC
- Forum: Religious Wars
- Topic: Mechanical or Wood
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10826
Re: Mechanical or Wood
Wood. They can shade, they last longer, they don't have the tiny piece problem, they smell nice, they're cheap, they come in 6-sided varieties.
- Wed Sep 02, 2015 5:23 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1572: "xkcd Survey"
- Replies: 366
- Views: 102551
Re: 1572: "xkcd Survey"
1-100: 6
1-100: v2: 6
"cat"
nervous? no
Drink: water, milk
Not drink: beer
phone: non-smartphone
emoji: neutral (what ever happened to 'emoticons'?)
brocolli: no
sleepy: yes
colds: no
floaters: Constantly ( help
)
stay awake: yes
roll tongue: yes
Sandwich: all but open faced
1-100: v2: 6
"cat"
nervous? no
Drink: water, milk
Not drink: beer
phone: non-smartphone
emoji: neutral (what ever happened to 'emoticons'?)
brocolli: no
sleepy: yes
colds: no
floaters: Constantly ( help

stay awake: yes
roll tongue: yes
Sandwich: all but open faced
- Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:33 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1256: "Questions"
- Replies: 215
- Views: 35826
Re: 1256: "Questions"
Why isn't there GPS in laptops?
Why is there caffeine in shampoo?
Why are helicopters circling my house?
Time to learn things!
Why is there caffeine in shampoo?
Why are helicopters circling my house?
Time to learn things!
- Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:09 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1227: "The Pace of Modern Life"
- Replies: 145
- Views: 36677
- Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:33 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1190: "Time"
- Replies: 105811
- Views: 34391025
Re: 1190: "Time"
I only waited about 30 seconds. I figure maybe if you load it at midnight or noon or 1:37 P.M. or something it might be different. It's more likely it's just a static image.
- Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:28 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1103: "Nine"
- Replies: 138
- Views: 28619
Re: 1103: "Nine"
I do this all the time with 7 8 and 9. I am so glad I'm not the only one. 87 seconds for pizzas....
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:37 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1085: "ContextBot"
- Replies: 39
- Views: 14676
Re: 1085: "ContextBot"
I got the text, but I didn't get the message.
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:14 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1080: "Visual Field"
- Replies: 129
- Views: 26024
Re: 1080: "Visual Field"
Something about visual clarity. Comic 1080(p). Anyone else notice this?
- Tue May 15, 2012 6:09 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 89854
- Views: 7247192
Re: Screechings of the Great Unwashed (Meander to the Morgue
So today I started this summer "class" (ugh..) about setting up secure Linux environments for servers and networks and stuff (ugh..boring!).. We were supposed to start up some VMs and then make sure they were connected to the web. Half an hour later, the professor and the people who actual...
- Tue May 15, 2012 5:51 am UTC
- Forum: Food
- Topic: Today I Made:
- Replies: 4251
- Views: 738028
Re: Today I Made:
5 pieces of wheat bread + 4 slices of American cheese + microwave = hot cheese sandwich. Normally this is okay, but this was too much. I went out to the grocery store at 23:00 to get the stuff for this project right after I finished at work. Actually, this is the second time I've done this. The firs...
- Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:00 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: New York, New York
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2965
Re: New York, New York
In communications class last year, we watched a video studying this very thing. The space was limited to Manhattan though. It was some news show... They got 6 groups of 2 people together and said to the groups that they should find each other. None of them knew anything about any of the other groups...
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:08 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 0991: "Phantom Menace"
- Replies: 110
- Views: 33428
- Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:09 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 0990: “Plastic Bags”
- Replies: 183
- Views: 31806
Re: 0990: “Plastic Bags”
At my grocery store, everything is shoved into the cart at the end of the checkout line. You can go to the "bagging tables" where they have probably about 50000 paper bags under the tables and some plastic bag dispensers on top. None of this bag at the register business.
- Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:53 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Sleep-time holodeck experiences
- Replies: 3298
- Views: 616989
Re: What were your dreams last night?
Dream: I was walking along a path in a park looking for someplace to eat my lunch. I decided to sit in a place just south of a dirt walking path. All of a sudden some girl soccer team comes over and then three parts of my lunch were missing: two drinks and some grain based thing.
- Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:46 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Lucky Ten Thousand (TIL)
- Replies: 13359
- Views: 1369160
Re: Today I Learned
TIL that the projectors at the university have motion detectors in them so that if you cause them to move, "public safety" people charge into the room demanding to know who is trying to steal the projector. Ghost World... I saw that on television one night. I didn't get it. I thought the p...
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:06 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 89854
- Views: 7247192
Re: Screechings of the Great Unwashed (Meander to the Morgue
I was pressured into doing something. If I was pressurized into doing something that something would probably be fitting through a small hole or something. Pressurized makes sense to me, though that is probably because I've always used it... So anyway, I love to wander around and go places that I th...
- Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:14 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Lucky Ten Thousand (TIL)
- Replies: 13359
- Views: 1369160
Re: Today I Learned
TIL I can unlock a ton of locked computer cabinets at my university with paperclip. I was amused.
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:32 am UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 0947: “Investing”
- Replies: 148
- Views: 26805
Re: 0947: “Investing”
Yeah that's so true right now... what with interest rates being .00xxx% in banks around town .. A lot of ATMs in the US charge some ridiculous pointless fee like $3.00 for a Bank of America ATM usage under certain circumstances. $3.00 would buy me a good meal. There's a ton of free ATMs though too. ...
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 10:57 pm UTC
- Forum: Food
- Topic: Skipping aka Dumpster Diving
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5752
Re: Skipping aka Dumpster Diving
Just scored a thing of fresh popcorn out of the trash a couple days ago
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 10:51 pm UTC
- Forum: Language/Linguistics
- Topic: Words you love.
- Replies: 680
- Views: 123851
Re: Words you love.
network
research
source
I think it's the r sound they make...
research
source
I think it's the r sound they make...
- Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:55 am UTC
- Forum: Language/Linguistics
- Topic: Words you love.
- Replies: 680
- Views: 123851
Re: Words you love.
Words I like: (different row = different reason)
nymph, stretch, silk(y), flux, demoness, exalt, exact, text, foxy
engineer/engineering/engineered
clad, click, clock, block, chop(ped), flock, quickly
lily, flitter, filter, slippery, link, slinky
loop, bounce, crux
(auto)defenestration
nymph, stretch, silk(y), flux, demoness, exalt, exact, text, foxy
engineer/engineering/engineered
clad, click, clock, block, chop(ped), flock, quickly
lily, flitter, filter, slippery, link, slinky
loop, bounce, crux
(auto)defenestration
- Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:25 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 89854
- Views: 7247192
Re: Screechings of the Great Unwashed (Pander to the Borg)
Synesthesia have ye?
Or is it just a once in a while thing you have with words?
Or is it just a once in a while thing you have with words?
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:06 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Wishing Well
- Replies: 52
- Views: 5491
Re: Wishing Well
If I did get this instruction book, I would end up reading it, thinking it was boring, and moving on...
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:53 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: What would people do all day if they didn't have work/school
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4818
Re: What would people do all day if they didn't have work/sc
Brave New World, slightly more advanced... a bit different, yes I know... they have "jobs" and such... Philosopher types would beg the question: what is the purpose of life? and all that... Limits would be pushed, people would want to be better than everyone else at things, nothing differe...
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:39 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Wishing Well
- Replies: 52
- Views: 5491
Re: Wishing Well
I wish I got tomorrow's newspaper today. (Sort of...) I wish I wasn't worth $-9343.14. I wish I had a girlfriend, one who loved me back. I wish I knew enough about something to actually be able to land a job. I wish I had a really big trampoline. I wish that I would win free cereal for life. I wish ...
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:21 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: You are the last person left on earth. What do you do?
- Replies: 256
- Views: 41032
Re: You are the last person left on earth. What do you do?
1) Learn how to fly a heicopter or plane from the internet before the power goes out. 2) Find motorcycle 3) Ride around the world on motorcycles eating canned food from grocery stores. 0) Eat a ton of bread. All the good bread will get moldy soon, so this should be first. 0.5) Eat tons of other stuf...
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:05 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Sleep-time holodeck experiences
- Replies: 3298
- Views: 616989
Re: What were your dreams last night?
Dream: A girl on sidewalk asks me if I want to go "8 bit skating." Naturally I say yes. She says we are going to do the 100 bit 8 bit skating tour, which I figure will take like a week. So I start going down the sidewalk and all of a sudden we're in this room with 2 beds. I can only sleep ...
- Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:21 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Lucky Ten Thousand (TIL)
- Replies: 13359
- Views: 1369160
Re: Today I Learned
TI(re)learned that it is best to wait for about 5 days before shaving if using a razor that hasn't had its blade changed after 30 months of continuous use. After only 2 days the hair is too short yet.
- Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:13 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Things You Carry
- Replies: 190
- Views: 25656
Re: The Things You Carry
I carry stuff around in my socks. IDs usually. My phone goes in the pocket if I have it, but only because a) it doesn't fit in my sock and b) it can clip in to the pocket. Pockets are terribly not useful for securely holding stuff if you take the routes I take. Socks can usually keep things in even ...
- Sat May 14, 2011 4:22 am UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Lucky Ten Thousand (TIL)
- Replies: 13359
- Views: 1369160
Re: Today I Learned
TIL that there is a $6.69 buffet in town where it's only 30 cents more to get an extra burger and fries with the buffet, the meaning of the word parlance, and that there is a 9 hole frolf course I didn't know about across town. Yay :D also: Shortcuts are awesome! Even though (in theory) I should hav...
- Sun May 08, 2011 3:32 am UTC
- Forum: Food
- Topic: Skipping aka Dumpster Diving
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5752
Re: Skipping aka Dumpster Diving
Handy tip: if the donut truck regularly arrives at the gas station at 4:00am, yesterday's donuts probably get tossed at 3:00am Oddly, I never even thought about this... Excellent tip! So, the university move out week is an absolute gold mine for getting food and such from the dorm dumpsters... Foun...