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From: Jochem Huhmann on 19 May 2010 16:06 totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) writes: > Gwynne Harper <g.harper(a)gmx.line> wrote: > >> Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > And don't forget the mouseover text - often as funny as the actual >> > cartoon, sometimes the punchline to it. >> >> Good grief - I've managed to miss that in spite of having read most of >> them. >> >> > I didn't know it existed :-/ In older versions of Firefox the mouseover text was cut off after the first line which forced me to open some info window and click here and there just to read that text. I was very happy when Firefox started to behave sanely here and I'm pretty sure that xkcd was the major motivation for the devs to fix that... Anyway, for me xkcd is sometimes extremely good and often hardly funny at all. I think I "get" almost all of them but more often than not they're just a nod towards geeks and very much a kind of not-so-funny in-jokes. But every now and then there's a really creative, heartrending one which is often more than just funny but wise in a a romantic, political or purely all-too-human regard. Sometimes even just in graphic story-telling, which says a lot for the kind of comic he does. Here are a few favourites of mine: http://xkcd.com/285/ http://xkcd.com/258/ http://xkcd.com/162/ http://xkcd.com/137/ http://xkcd.com/122/ http://xkcd.com/104/ And here is a really geeky one that still made me laughing out loud (but it's just me, probably): http://xkcd.com/224/ Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 19 May 2010 16:13 On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:06:49 +0200, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: >And here is a really geeky one that still made me laughing out loud >(but it's just me, probably): >http://xkcd.com/224/ Got a good solid snigger out of me. Excellent. Cheers - Jaimie -- "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted" -- Bertrand Russell
From: Peter Ceresole on 19 May 2010 16:18 I'm a romantic, so my favourite has always been <http://xkcd.com/162/> And it reminds me of being a small child on the top deck of a London bus at the end of the war and my dad demonstrating that by swinging about, I could move the whole bus. But I do love the LISP one. -- Peter
From: Jochem Huhmann on 19 May 2010 17:23 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> writes: > On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:06:49 +0200, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> > wrote: > >>And here is a really geeky one that still made me laughing out loud >>(but it's just me, probably): >>http://xkcd.com/224/ > > Got a good solid snigger out of me. Excellent. I just love the way he managed to put all of the most delighted insights you can get when programming (I mean, how poetic is "The patterns and metapatterns danced. Syntax faded, and I swam in the purity of quantified conception. Of ideas manifest."?) into that and then made all of this fade behind the curel and naked "We hacked most of it together in Perl". I just know that too well. I have been levitating in Emacs Lisp space in my spare time and the next morning forced to hack something together in Perl to give the bloody customers what they want (even if they did not need it). Luckily, this is a thing of the distant past... Still, this panel is just so true. All of the potential we have against all of the cruel, ugly, leaky, write-only, obscure reality... Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Jochem Huhmann on 19 May 2010 17:48
peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) writes: > And it reminds me of being a small child on the top deck of a London bus > at the end of the war and my dad demonstrating that by swinging about, I > could move the whole bus. In the late 60ties my father took me outside to show me the Moon where Apollo 11 was about to land. We had a telescope and I asked him where I had to look to see that thing. He told me that the craft was larger than a car but it would be much too small to be seen at all from earth. I was awed. So far away from home these guys were that I couldn't see them even with a telescope. Well, I was about six years old then, but I will never forget this discrepancy between what I saw (or not saw) and what I knew. And both was true and real. Mind-stretching. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |