Well, this has been a strange little week. Internet's been in and out, mostly out, for a few days, requiring me to spend a lot of time driving to Connecticut so I can work. (The landline here has been in and out too, at different times from the internet, but I don't really miss it.)
So, does the fact that I'm online right now, late on Wednesday, mean it's fixed??? I have no confidence. So I'm writing a quick diary, hoping to get it into the queue and thereby have a diary for you all whether I can get to it at the time or not.
Please join me in the root cellar (it's under the orange root), where I'll speak briefly of one of my favorite web comics, xkcd.
The bottom of the page at xkcd bears this warning:
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
It's extremely geeky. I know you all think I'm geeky, but I freely admit I do not always understand this comic. (There is
a wiki where each xkcd is explained.) But when I do, it's just brilliant. You've definitely seen it; the famous
someone is wrong on the internet comic is an xkcd.
I'm going to show a couple of them here, but even so, you need to click on the drawing and open the actual comic, because they all have hovers, not unlike the brilliant work of Floja Roja.
This one's cropped up on Daily Kos lately -- it's invaluable for dealing with climate change deniers:
Every now and then, xkcd's artist, Randall Munroe, does some kind of big impressive piece. Here's his latest one, from yesterday; you need to click on it and see the live one at some different times of day, because it turns:
(If, like me, you're too impatient to admire the movement of something that makes one rotation every 24 hours, its wiki page image turns quickly to let you grok it sooner.)
So, I recommend you bookmark xkcd. It posts on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and is well worth reading, even if sometimes you go away shaking your head. And if you'd like to see another big moving piece, try his effort to illustrate the relative frequency of various kinds of events.
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