xkcd sightings in your hometown (and other places)

[Tharwen]

One of the teachers at school has put up a few XKCD strips in the physics common room, but the only other people I know who know of it are people who I introduced to it (or the person who introduced me to it a few years ago).

[Bog]

A particularly awesome friend of mine decided to re-create her shirt at her workplace in California.

[Cheezwhiz Jenkins]

I've seen two different guys at school (at least, I assume they're different for some reason) with the no raptors shirt...the first one passed right next to me while I was wearing my F key pendant! Too chicken to say anything = FAIL.

The most recent, it was one guy walking with a few friends. I smiled when I saw it as they passed me, then called out "nice shirt!" in an undertone...darn it.

Next time I'll tell him it's cool!!

[crazycom]

Randall Monroe your art is appreciated by TED folk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html @ 3:30 or so.

PS: Any chance of an NGram viewer comic?

[bondegezou]

I note that the latest issue (8:3) of Significance, the joint official magazine of the American Statistical Association and the UK's Royal Statistical Society (the latter of which I am a member), has two separate articles using xkcd cartoons in it. At this point, I think xkcd should just apply to be the official cartoonist of both!

Henry

[GuitarFreak]

There's a room in the SciTech building at east stroudsburg that has some xkcd comics on the window.

[delfts]

I live in NYC and a few weeks ago I saw a guy (mid-20s?) wearing a green "Science; it works" shirt in downtown/west Manhattan. Or whatever text it says.

[rath358]

Today, I approached a couple of people at my school's commons, and asked if they would mind being joined by a complete stranger. At this point, the person who I was standing beside complemented me on my upside-down linux cheat shirt from the xkcd store. He was also wearing that shirt. This was the first time that either of us had seen another person with that particular shirt, though other xkcd shirts are not incredibly rare here.
It was a little strange...

[Shippo-chan]

Today I was reading Questonable Content, and Marigold's t-shirt is like a shoutout to XKCD. She almost always wears the shirt, but I just joined this, so I'm posting it now.


http://questionablecontent.net/

[SecondTalon]

...are you talking about Marigold and the shirt she wears in damn near every single one of her appearances? Because ... that's...

well, okay then.

[yves]

Has anyone else recently seen xkcd subliminally referenced some place other than here that made you feel all tingly inside for recognizing it? One of the characters in Questionable Content's comic today was wearing an xkcd shirt.

[Anachrome]

I don't think 'subliminally' is the word I'd use, but I have seen it around a lot (xkcd seems to be pretty popular, actually, or at least more than I would think). Especially in other webcomics: I've seen Suriving the World, Bunny, and QC all make references in one way or another to xkcd (even if it's just name-dropping Randall).

[Microscopic cog]

...are you talking about Marigold and the shirt she wears in damn near every single one of her appearances? Because ... that's...

well, okay then.

[cephalopod9]

"Randall Xkcd" has made some appearances on Over Compensating.

In the "Almost definitely a coincidence" category, this week's New Girl* has Zooey Daschanel saying she wants to "Tap that, like a maple tree, and get some tasty syrup"
(*Gratingly saccharine, kind of awkward, but pretty funny)

[flickering_candle]

An XKCD reference to comic 149 was in the Penny Arcade comic today.

[Djehutynakht]

At least two, maybe more, of the science teachers in my school I know to have used xkcd comics before... one is the Apple infused with tin (chemistry teacher) and the other being the "Give me $10,000 and I'll build you an amp that goes up to 12" (physics teacher) which I pass every day in the hall.

I may have also seen a student or two wearing shirts.

I have yet to try to determine whether my Chemistry teacher reads the comic regularly or just had that one... I'll find out eventually...

[Vir4030]

Scott Abrams has been seen at one of the final two tables of the WSOP wearing the "My usual approach is useless here" t-shirt. Am I the only one who caught this?

I know that shirt!

[Vir4030]

Screenshot of the t-shirt