135 thoughts on “Life Imitates xkcd, Part II: Richard Stallman”

1. Richard Stallman has a katana.

   Richard Stallman
   has a katana.

   Richard
   Stallman
   has
   a
   katana.

   RICHARD STALLMAN HAS A KATANA HOLY CRAP THAT IS AWESOME

2. Somebody send Linus a nunchuck. Just in case.

3. Anyone see this xkcd reference on overheard at college yet: http://www.overheardatcollege.com/?p=1695 ?

   Oh, Colin: my boyfriend (who introduced me to this site) and I almost always find the same comics funny, even when there’s explanations involved and even though we’re both majoring in subjects that fall under the umbrella of visual and performing arts. What does that say about our relationship?

   I hypothesize that it means the two of us are 1) closet geeks and 2) lucky to have found each other. But I could be wrong.

4. You’re really not supposed to touch the blades at all, at least on a real live katana. This could be a cheap wall hanger though, so it might not matter.

5. unrelated: xkcd as reached the Movers & Shakers Traffic Graph
   (Sites that are zooming up the Alexa traffic rankings in the last week.) on alexa.com

   permalink:
   http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=perfspot.com&site1=xkcd.com&site2=libertypost.org&site3=&site4=&y=r&z=1&h=300&w=610&range=3m&size=Medium&url=perfspot.com

6. (sorry i screwed up the formatting with that link…)

7. Am I alone in the world in picturing a flying office chair bisected in the air?

8. …the result can only be an arms race that no one wins except the reading public.

   No, the result will be an infinite recursion gag. It is already happening. It has already happened…

9. Most swords are designed to take away your head. The GPK is designed to guarantee your cranium remains in place.

10. Looks like we’ve got another “Life imitates xkcd” coming up what with http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/05/15/2327248.shtml

11. “I am not sure what to do with it, other then keep it near my bed.”

    That sounds like a bad plan given your Fujitsu was taken at arms length from where you were sleeping. Perhaps you should share this info with him.

12. >English: to exkayceed, I exkayceed, you exkayceeded, you have >exkayceeded.
    >Swedish: att exkåsedera, jag exkåsederar, du exkåsederade, ni har >exkåsederat
    >French: (standard -er verb form) exkeceder, j’exkecede, tu exkecedais, >vous avez exkecedé

    German:zu ex-kei-sid, ich ~e, ich ~ete, ich habe ~et, …
    Italian: ex-cei-sid, ex-cei-sido, ex-cei-sidi, ex-cei-sida, …

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14. Is it just me, or does Richard Stallman look a hell of a lot like Gimli?

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16. am I alone to seeing some sort of strange peace in that last pic of stallman with a katana? ( http://www.gnu.org/people/jag/rms-with-katana/100_0036.jpg for those of you who may not know what I’m talkin bout)… lol I await to see the day when you refer to Munroe as Randall instead of marilyn your comics and view on life are quite inspiring.

17. Quoting Mark Finn: “Am I alone in the world in picturing a flying office chair bisected in the air?”

    Well… not anymore I suppose.

18. There’s one xkcd strip I want to see more than any other
    Episode 150

    I effing love ball pits

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20. I never saw Richard Stallman in a picture… I am somehow dissapointed as I noticed he does not have six fingers in each hand. Katana looks great anyways and I am sure it would be deadly on such hands capable of issuing all those emacs commands.

21. Nonono, Stallman only has six fingers on his right hand. It seems someone was looking for him…

22. I just need nunchucks… can anyone fedex them to me so i can send them to linus torvalds… or… send some candy buttons to, I don’t know, steven bourne and tell him to eat it like a turing machine.
    Oh, and please tell me how to get nunchucks. Wonghs@rogers.com

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27. Well, the attack finally happened, but he didn’t have his katana with him!
    http://www.yale.edu/ypu/blog.html

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29. Was it a real katana or just one for hanging?

30. Note how the primitive GNU-man attempts to eat the katana, before determining that it is not food.

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36. It looks photoshopped.

    Yeah, the reflections are all wrong.
    Definitely photoshopped.

37. Look at the other photos. Its not photoshopped.

38. @zammbi, its a reference to another xkcd, the one of my favourite hobby: claiming RL objects are photoshopped.

39. Perhaps Stallman expected a cantenna?

    http://xkcd.com/466/

40. And in other news, the snopes botnet goes active tonight.

41. thanks

42. I’m actually waiting for someone to send Linus Torvalds a set of nunchucks.

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44. You spelled “blog” wrong

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47. Quoting Mark Finn: “Am I alone in the world in picturing a flying office chair bisected in the air?” Well… not anymore I suppose.

48. Looks like he’s getting ready for a good shave lol

49. I’m surprised someone would waste money on Richard Stallman, the man who would rather turn software into politics rather than just good software. Linus Torvalds is way ahead of this guy and he just created a kernel (And with it an entirely different operating system layer.)

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