Saying ‘what kind of an idiot doesn’t know about the Yellowstone supervolcano’ is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.
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Reblogged from xkcd.com May 9th, 2012 at 1:21 pm 617 notes #xkcd
If you need some help with the math, let me know, but that should be enough to get you started! Huh? No, I don’t need to read your thesis, I can imagine roughly what it says.
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Reblogged from xkcd.com September 15th, 2010 at 3:13 pm 12 notes #xkcd #physics
The same people who spend their weekends at the Blogger Reenactment Festivals will whine about the anachronisms in historical movies, but no one else will care.
Oh man, I can’t wait for blogger reenactment festivals.
Reblogged from xkcd.com July 26th, 2010 at 11:46 pm 1 note #xkcd
The exact cause of the phenomenon is unknown, but it’s thought to be linked to atmospheric refraction and you getting a really cool car.
Reblogged from xkcd.com July 14th, 2010 at 5:09 pm 3 notes #xkcd #comic
I once worked on a friend’s dad’s computer. He had the hard drive divided into eight partitions, C: through H:, with a ‘Documents’ directory tree on each one. Each new file appeared to be saved to a partition at random. I knew enough not to ask.
Reblogged from xkcd.com July 7th, 2010 at 1:28 am 3 notes #xkcd #comic #technology
Handy exam trick: when you know the answer but not the correct derivation, derive blindly forward from the givens and backward from the answer, and join the chains once the equations start looking similar. Sometimes the graders don’t notice the seam.
Reblogged from xkcd.com June 30th, 2010 at 2:48 pm 1 note #xkcd #comic #math
The chemistry experiment had me figuratively — and then shortly thereafter literally — glued to my seat.
Reblogged from xkcd.com April 9th, 2010 at 1:58 am 1 note #xkcd
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