So is the migration thing still happening?
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This got mentioned a while back over on CS:
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with/
Totally worth reading.
Also totally boring, but if you are pretending to be like nerd, you must read. You cannot escape.
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FOOF is not boring.
None of that is boring. And he has a very good writing style.
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None of that is boring. And he has a very good writing style.
Agree completely. The stuff he writes about is -your-pants scary. Stuff that scary cannot be boring. And yeah, good writing.
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FOOF is not boring.
It goes boom in a lively fashion when brought anywhere near water, and it's highly toxic too! What's not to like?
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It goes boom in a lively fashion when brought anywhere near water
Or pretty much anything else, IIRC.
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Yep yep. Once something hits "lights sand on fire" level of oxidation ability there isn't really much that can stop it.
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Sessium-Frankolithic-mixy-ella-biddium-rixy-dixy-doxy-dexy-droxide?
Filed under: Obscure reference, go!, Ok, not that obscure but a pain to Google for
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You mean other than selecting the text and right clicking 'search Google for...' and getting a forum that mentions Red Dwarf series 8?
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You mean other than selecting the text and right clicking 'search Google for...' and getting a forum that mentions Red Dwarf series 8?
Well you had something to paste, didn't you? All I had is remembering there's a "dixy" somewhere in it.
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Touché
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http://www.reddwarfforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=3344
[spoiler]supercalifragilisticexpialadocious[/spoiler]
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supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
Mary Poppins (Vandals) - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – 01:32
— DannyGast
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Filed under: Asbestos Free
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Really? You post the Rosie O'Donnell when you could post the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal from TWO YEARS EARLIER?
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Really? You post the Rosie O'Donnell when you could post the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal from TWO YEARS EARLIER?
Believe it or not, that was my first choice, but I have a harder time searching SMBC archives.
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Fun fact: I got to that page by Googling "smbc asbestos free" and going to this result: http://rosieodonnellcomic.blogspot.com/2009/09/comic-641-laughter-free.html
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Fun fact: I got to that page by Googling "smbc asbestos free" and going to this result: http://rosieodonnellcomic.blogspot.com/2009/09/comic-641-laughter-free.html
So you clicked on the search result and then read the text and followed another link? That sounds like work.
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Fun fact: I got to that page by Googling "smbc asbestos free" and going to this result: http://rosieodonnellcomic.blogspot.com/2009/09/comic-641-laughter-free.html
"Notice how it's better? How it uses the far funnier 'skin from a dead hobo's mouth'? Yeah. SMBC is way better, in general."
Filed under: dead hobos are a sign of highbrow humor and quality
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I dunno, I've been a regular reader of XKCD since mid 2006, but I've just never been able to read SMBC regularly. It just doesn't work for me.
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Don't worry. It's just cool to hate xkcd.
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Don't worry. It's just cool to hate xkcd.
I think it's something to do with many people realising that they're not as talented as Randall.
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I think it's because a lot of people think
Oh, it's stick figures and science, I could do that.
Sure, maybe a few times. But three (now four, if you count what-if) times a week? For several years?
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AND still be funny?
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I have to use it from time to time myself
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I am totally aching to edit http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/386 to "doodie calls"
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I think it's something to do with many people realising that they're not as talented as Randall.
Maybe, though you gotta admit xkcd does sometimes have the "look, I'm so much smarter than you" feel. Even though Randall is one of a few people who can sincerely say that about themselves.
Filed under: and funniness is fairly subjective
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Maybe, though you gotta admit xkcd does sometimes have the "look, I'm so much smarter than you" feel.
Definitely, and sometimes it annoys me, and sometimes I realize that he's dumber than me, so I feel good. OTOH, most of the time it's mildly amusing to pretty funny, no matter what @morbiuswilters says. You can't trust that guy's sense of humor. He likes Seinfeld (the show, not the comedian, who's OK on his own).
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He likes Seinfeld (the show
I never did get what the deal was with that show. To me, It was mildly amusing at best.
Filed Under:I once mentioned this in New Jersey, and almost slept with the fishes
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As a Brit, I have to say I have no idea why Seinfeld is even considered remotely funny and then I remember that humour is one of the things Britain does so much better than the States in general even if some of the shit turned out these days isn't funny even if you are a moron that finds even the slightest hint of schadenfreude funny.
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but I've just never been able to read SMBC regularly.
Probably because reading 7 comics a week is harder than 3.
And the SMBC tends to have a really long diatribe about philosophy at least once a week. Needs more graph jokes.
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Nah, it's not the frequency; I read C&H daily and that's no problem. Heck at one time I even built a comic search engine and had to transcribe every single C&H strip at the time (though this was in 2008, so there were somewhat fewer strips then!)... yes, I did have permission.
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humour is one of the things Britain does so much better than the States in general
Eh...senses of humor are different. I enjoy the hell out of British humor, and it's typically different than ours, but I don't think there's any sort of a Humor Gap going on.
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I find SMBC to be funnier when it's funny, but I too end up falling behind on reading it, while rarely ever missing xkcd. But for me it's the party frequency, partly timing on the updates. I'm always up at 11pm cst when Randall updates and if I forget a week or 2 of XKCD it just takes a few comics to catch up. I couldn't even tell you what time SMBC updates.. midnight cst? And today's SMBC is a good example of another barrier to reading it. 50 minutes of scrolling and a weak punchline. When Randall has a weak punchline, it only took 5 seconds and no scrolling to get to it.
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Yeah there is. Stateside humour generally tends to peak at physical comedy. Dick and fart jokes. Slapstick. Irony is something that a lot of Americans just wouldn't get in humour in the first place - in my experience, anyway.
C&H = Cyanide & Happiness. You should try some. It tastes better than sugar.
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Stateside humour generally tends to peak at physical comedy.
Now you sound like an American who doesn't get British comedy, which is fine, but it doesn't make you right.
C&H = Cyanide & Happiness.
Yes, I know, but now I think of:
Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park – 02:17
— The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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Maybe, though you gotta admit xkcd does sometimes have the "look, I'm so much smarter than you" feel. Even though Randall is one of a few people who can sincerely say that about themselves.
I've never really noticed an "I'm so much smarter than you" vibe from xkcd. But maybe that's because I also have an engineering degree and the majority of his jokes are no more complex than entry-level engineering course content. The jokes are generally funny engineering jokes and I've never felt like he was meaning to put down anyone that didn't understand it. But that's just, like, my opinion man.
Filed Under: Eat my I'm smarter than you vibe, punks.
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The jokes are generally funny engineering jokes and I've never felt like he was meaning to put down anyone that didn't understand it.
Most of the jokes I don't get are due to references of which I'm ignorant. Sometimes it's sciency stuff, but usually just typical cultural references from subcultures I don't participate in.
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I'm getting bored with C&H the more times goes on. It's like, every comic either follows a set formula (take a common, everyday statement, interpret it as bizarrely literally as possible, and illustrate that) or is made of nothing but scatalogical humor.
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It's a shitty job but someone's got to do it.
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I'm getting bored with C&H the more times goes on.
They keep a fairly consistent pattern of "an insanely clever wordplay once in a while, and 'meh' stuff elsewhere". They probably would benefit from scraping a few ideas and making it a tri/biweekly or something.
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That reminds me. A few years ago they were looking for developers to kick off 'StoryDump' as an interactive platform and since I wasn't entirely unknown to the C&H guys, I spoke to them about it, put in a quote to build the thing to their outlined spec.
Seems I wasn't the cheapest. Fast forward several years. Multiple iterations of 'beta' and no formal launch, and multiple changes of developer. Fairly sure I could have built it several times over in that time and cheaper than has been spent on it thus far. But eh, whatever.
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No, I called it WordOwl for reasons. A web wrapper around Sphinx, importing comic strips in via XML.
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@Arantor said:
a comic search engine
And you called it SSDSNo, that would be a comical search engine.
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humour is one of the things Britain does so much better than the States in general
Not better. Different.
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So what's the what on the migration?