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General Category => Entertainment => Topic started by: (_)_)===D on September 02, 2009, 05:36:23 PM

Title: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: (_)_)===D on September 02, 2009, 05:36:23 PM

I'm kinda surprised he's never referenced xkcd.com before. Here's some examples of it's humor:

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tech_support_cheat_sheet.png)

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/understocked.png)

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/extrapolating.png)

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: Nitya on September 02, 2009, 06:00:32 PM

I'm sure he has referenced it before.


I love XKCD.

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: Emperor Reagan on September 02, 2009, 06:07:40 PM

I also love that comic.  It's one of the few online comics I still read.

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: FAH-Q on September 02, 2009, 07:02:00 PM

I wish PBF was still going. And I still read Questionable Content, although I'm not quite sure why.

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: Doormouse on September 02, 2009, 08:58:02 PM

Yeah I'm pretty sure xkcd has been brought up before. Maybe on the old board.
Si, isn't there a PBF book coming out soon?

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: taiko on September 03, 2009, 12:33:12 AM

Quote from: (_)_)===D on September 02, 2009, 05:36:23 PM

I'm kinda surprised he's never referenced xkcd.com before. Here's some examples of it's humor:

Oh yes, I'm quite a fan.

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dream_girl.png)

Did I ever mention that I went to that?

I even met a girl, but she was Canadian.

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: Phaedrus on September 03, 2009, 12:57:24 AM

Quote from: eitje on September 03, 2009, 12:33:12 AM

Quote from: (_)_)===D on September 02, 2009, 05:36:23 PM

I'm kinda surprised he's never referenced xkcd.com before. Here's some examples of it's humor:

Oh yes, I'm quite a fan.


Did I ever mention that I went to that?

I even met a girl, but she was Canadian.

That strip was actually what got me into xkcd.  I was freaked out by it when I first saw it, because I found it on google after waking up from a similar dream.  In mine, I was on a bus and meteors or something were falling to Earth and setting everything on fire with explosions, and this brunette girl on the bus grabbed me and said "Remember 9 23 14!  9 23 14, don't forget it!" and I woke up with a migraine headache with the numbers burned into my brain for the rest of the day.  Then I googled them, found a reference to that strip and started reading about that story an the event and thought it was neat so I read the backlog of strips and now I'm a big fan.

My favorite one so far is this one, though:

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kindle.png)

GOD, I want a Kindle 2.

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: FAH-Q on September 03, 2009, 01:12:51 AM

Re: free cellular web access - fuck, is that true?

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: Phaedrus on September 03, 2009, 03:33:55 AM

Quote from: FAH-Q on September 03, 2009, 01:12:51 AM

Re: free cellular web access - fuck, is that true?

Apparently.  Just text-only, though, and it uses E-ink so of course it's not in color, and I think th websites may be restricted, but it advertises google and such as usable so it can't be TOO restricted, I would think.  Google would be pretty useless if you couldn't access the links it brings up...

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: FAH-Q on September 03, 2009, 01:25:35 PM

Wow, that's pretty fucking cool. My mum has one of the smaller ones, which I still feel is kinda big. When they release one the size of a paperback, I'll buy one.

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: (_)_)===D on September 03, 2009, 05:56:45 PM

Quote from: FAH-Q on September 03, 2009, 01:25:35 PM

My mum has one of the smaller ones, which I still feel is kinda big.

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: Zoomie on September 03, 2009, 06:11:16 PM

The problem with them is that Amazon has access to them, and if you have something unlicensed they will go in without your permission and delete it.

It happened recently with Orwell, ironically.

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/98806/The_Kindle_Orwell_and_the_cloud (http://www.theweek.com/article/index/98806/The_Kindle_Orwell_and_the_cloud)

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: (_)_)===D on September 03, 2009, 07:59:54 PM

Isn't that great? It's one of those things you just know somebody did on purpose.

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: taiko on September 03, 2009, 11:14:55 PM

how coincidental!

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/09/02/photo-and-descriptio.html (http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/09/02/photo-and-descriptio.html)

also coincidental, and on topic:

http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/09/02/urinal-protocol-vulnerability/ (http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/09/02/urinal-protocol-vulnerability/)

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: 13chemicals on September 04, 2009, 03:00:19 AM

 ::)

Title: Re: Eitje's Dream Comic?
Post by: taiko on September 04, 2009, 09:01:04 AM

take it to the smiley communication thread, Sasha!