Oops (delayed post)
In today’s comic, I have the rain-stick thing happening in Jaynestown, when it actually happens in Our Mrs. Reynolds. I lose three nerd points.
When writing the comic, I actually compiled a list of references to wood in Firefly by searching the scripts. They included Badger serving Jayne wood alcohol and Inara likening Mal’s sword technique to ‘chopping wood’ (both in Shindig). I should put it on Wikipedia so nobody has to duplicate my efforts.
Note: I actually wrote this post from the road early this morning to try to stave off the subsequent flood of email, but in my sleepiness I accidentally published it as a “page” instead of a “post” (a Wordpress distinction that’s confused me before). So, all told, this was not a good day for my internet skills. I think I’ve dropped from 1337 to 1334, maybe 1335 tops.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:11 am
I’m pretty sure nobody who writes/draws XKCD can drop below 1390.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Its ok. We forgive you :p
July 8th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Why should the fictional XKCD version of Wikipedia be more accurate than the real one?
July 8th, 2008 at 1:27 am
You are most certainly forgiven… in fact, i didn’t even notice :S
July 8th, 2008 at 1:33 am
I like how they had to lock the wood article because so many xkcd fans were trying to add In Popular Culture sections. Excellent work.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Okay thats good to know. I had myself doubting my own Firefly knowledge there.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:35 am
I thought the Firefly thing was a meta-joke referencing the inaccuracy of Wikipedia.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Indeed. How impossibly win is it that you got wikipedia to lock an article? The world shall grow to fear the power of your internet army. We live to serve my liege.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:52 am
–OR– perhaps you AREN’T required to always to have a batting average of 1.000. Just a thought.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:59 am
@Shadow: it’s extremely easy for someone with an audience to get an article locked. It’s not something you should be all that proud of, it’s really no big deal, we handle far worse every day. In a few days all you lemmings will have moved on, and then it’ll be unlocked again and no one will remember a thing. Wikipedia’s getting pretty good at dealing with this stuff by now
July 8th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Not a real comment, just letting you know about my unpopular comic.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Heh, the continued overuse of “Trivia” and “Popular Culture” sections is fairly controversial among many Wikipedians.
Oh, and not only does http://xkcd.com/445/ work reading the rightmost panels straight down, but each row of four also works backwards. It also works going diagonally (left to right/top to bottom).
July 8th, 2008 at 3:28 am
now that its fixed, take out the reference to it being wrong, and somehow it will have never happened…
well, probably not. depending on how much stress you apply to this timeline. but then the blogoshpere never implodes, and i never came back to tell you, so you made the mistake
oh wait. i got lost in that temporal paradoc. carry on.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Oskar said:
> Blah blah blah, Mr. Blog Reader.
Hmph!
Of course all these problems were solved with the awesome http://citizendium.org and its real names policy.
No need WASTING TIME with wikicopping or however you Poopoopedians call it.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Hey, http://xkcd.com/445/ also works backwards diagonally too, for both sides! Wow. Did not see that coming.
Also, hi.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Andrew Hsieh:
Uppermost square is 1, leftmost square is a.
Read this one: 4a 4b 4c 3d. Or… 4a 4b 4c 4d 3d. Or maybe even 4a 4b 4c 4d 3d 2d 1d.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Firstly: Love xkcd (my first comment so I thought I’d mention it)
I also thought you were being ironic… Wikipedia is good but not infallible! I should have known that xkcd was also not infallible!
@Oskar See, calling xkcd readers lemmings (even if only the ones who tried to add a Popular Culture section to the “Wood” Article) is one way to alienate and distance people! See here for a clue: http://www.xkcd.com/438/
Love to all!
July 8th, 2008 at 5:39 am
I would’ve just assumed it was a subtle comment on wikipedia inaccuracy, if I’d noticed. Which I didn’t.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Having my gf catch this was the hottest thing ever.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Far, far under 9000, Mr. Munroe.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Those rabid wikipedians or whatever crack me the fuck up. Somehow it’s like watching retarded children play in a band. You congratulate them on their efforts, but deep inside, you know how sad it is. And the problem is, they can never grasp it by themselves.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:28 am
“arkleseizure Says:
July 8th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Having my gf catch this was the hottest thing ever.”
you mean:
Catching my gf reading xkcd.com was the hottest thing ever… especially when its about wood.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:24 am
I was pretty sure it was a joke on Wikipedia… but, after a second tough, fictional facts are never wrong there.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Phlebas wins.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Have you noticed any of the yahoo commercials on TV that tell you to search for a particular thing or name for more information?
I remember why you did that with the algorithm. Ahhh, good times.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:04 am
All I really want, is to be able to scroll the strip down and find out where wood was referenced in Battlestar Galactica…
July 8th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I would also like to know where there was wood in Battlestar Galactica
July 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
A while back, Neil Gaiman wrote a book called The Dream Hunters, set in the world of the Sandman series. The afterword claimed that it was an adaptation of a Japanese folk tale discovered in a dusty book Gaiman uncovered while researching to prepare for translating Princess Mononoke. Later, he admitted that it was an ancient Japanese folk tale that he himself had invented. Then, last December, he found the Wikipedia article on The Dream Hunters and said on his blag, “I learned from Wikipedia that Sandman: The Dream Hunters was actually based on Pu Songling’s Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio, which I thought I ought to read.”
I inserted that into the Wikipedia article, but the world hasn’t imploded yet.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
^ Win.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
you didn’t mention your girlfriend in this blog post? I’m guessing you just forgot
July 8th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Anyone else notice that in http://www.xkcd.com/445 “4a 3b 2c 1d” is the essentially same storyline as “1a 1b 1c 1d” ?
July 8th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Please tell us about Megan, Mr. Munroe.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I did, cj. =)
Great strip. Two Wikipedia protections in such a short span!
I’m still reeling over the many interpretations of #445.
4a 4b 3b 2b 1b 3c 2c 1c 1d
If the paths get any more confusing, I’m going to have to consider #445 a game comparable to Boggle.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
At least we now know Wikipedia’s stance on contraceptives; they protected their Wood!
(Ba Dum Ksh!)
July 8th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Uh huh-uh-huh-huh-uh, you defined wood.
July 9th, 2008 at 12:04 am
It’s not the average xkcd reader who’s a lemming, it’s the people who see their favourite webcomic, comedian, television show, or whatever, make a joke about Wikipedia (particularly about vandalising Wikipedia), and immediately go there to try and incorporate that joke into an article. If I were the sort of person who actually wanted to vandalise Wikipedia I’d make sure I was a hell of a lot more original than that.
And all it does is provide more ammo for the people who want to expunge all pop culture references from Wikipedia anyway, since their argument is exactly that - it’s far too easy to take pop culture references to ridiculous extremes.
July 9th, 2008 at 12:07 am
I hope you’re aware that Wikipedia hates your guts after Monday’s comic.
July 9th, 2008 at 12:58 am
My favourite storyline would have to be
4d 3c 2b 1a
July 9th, 2008 at 1:13 am
James, Randall writes webcomics. Wikipedia already hates his guts.
July 9th, 2008 at 4:16 am
1A 1B 2A 2B 3A 3B 4A 4B 1D 2C 3C 2D is probably my favorite so far.
July 9th, 2008 at 4:20 am
ouch… I eventually found something in the blag that I didn’t understand, and wasn’t able to find in wikipedia…
could anyone explain me the meaning of:
“think I’ve dropped from 1337 to 1334, maybe 1335 tops.” ?? What are tops? anything to do with leet?
July 9th, 2008 at 4:38 am
@Oskar
You, and other admins like you, are the reason I no longer edit wikipedia articles. All you need is a thin layer of beaucracy and you will get people who appoint themselves G_d of the world. What gives you any right to dictate what goes on wikipedia other than that moderators tag? Admins and mods on wikipedia are usually the worst form of trolls whose policical bias and means allow them to close off articles of value (I’m look at you locked down aXXo article).
Just know this, next time I find a PHP vulnerability your power will disappear with your account.
July 9th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Gavrilo: Yes, it’s a leet joke - essentially subtracted a couple of points from your ‘1337ness’ would leave you with only 1334 or 1335 (1334 = 1337 - 3)
Nekemancer: made me chuckle :-)
July 9th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Gavrilo:
It’s just a humerous implementation of fictitious ‘geek points’. The idea is he started with 1337 (which, as you noticed, is leet for ‘leet) but due to his mistake in the comic he’s lost a few, bringing him down to 1334, or perhaps 1335 at the most. ‘Tops’ is just a colloquial way of saying ‘at the most’.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:14 am
i have to say the talk page on the wikipedia wood article is a brilliant read, wikipedia cant seem to take a joke
July 9th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Gavrilo, it means “1335 at most”, not “1335 unidentified ‘tops’ objects”.
Cheers,
Barts
July 9th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Oh thank goodness you saw the error of your ways, Mr. Munroe. I caught it immediately and was about to email you, but I couldn’t find the email address :(
Anyway, good job with the comic, I look forward to it every other day :)
July 9th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Science Party!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBCmt_pJTRA
July 9th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Well, I’m glad you found and fixed the firefly mistake, but I’ve still got issues with the BSG reference… I can’t think the year is anything but “2004″ but there was no BSG in 2004. The miniseries was in ‘03, and the first season of the true series was in ‘05.
Also, other then the forests of caprica, what wood is there in BSG??
But regardless, well done on yet more good humor.
July 9th, 2008 at 9:55 am
It’s listed as a 2004 series on - guess where - wikipedia.
I agonised over the BSG thing, caught in constant internal debate with myself over whether a) there is no wood used in BSG, Randall knows this and intentionally left it off the bottom of the page so we’d all doubt ourselves or b) there is a usage of wood which he remembers because he’s cleverer than me and I am right to be doubting myself.
Then I remembered a certain log cabin that was never built. So now I’m happy because that had a potential existence but not a real one and therefore satisfies either of the above scenarios…
July 9th, 2008 at 10:07 am
>In today’s comic, I have the rain-stick thing happening in Jaynestown, when it actually happens in Our Mrs. Reynolds. I lose three nerd points.
I tried to click on the edit button to fix this, but a yellow box got in the way.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Rainsticks aren’t made of wood!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Some Random Guy
I think I’ve fallen in love with the comic you’ve worked out there :P
Pure genius, I tell you, pure genius…
July 9th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
@skittledog: What about Adama’s model ship? I do believe he made that out of wood
July 9th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Beachton: Of course you’re right, rainsticks are made of rain.
I didn’t notice the mistake, I was picturing the floral bonnet bit and didn’t even stop to think that it wasn’t Jaynestown it was Our Mrs Reynolds. Shocking, I know.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
@Lackluster: ohhh, dumb me. Yes, good call. (Except where does he keep getting more wood from, every time it gets smashed up?)
One of my friends did also point out that we have to assume paper is made from wood and thus there are rather a lot of octagonal bits lying around the place…
July 9th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
heh. In the Kingdom of Loathing they have a 1335 HaXx0r. :)
July 9th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
I was going to make an “over 9000″ joke, but i got beaten to it:
Balath Says:
July 8th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Far, far under 9000, Mr. Munroe.
Hats off to Balath. He gets 2 nerd points.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
What if paper in the BSG universe is made of discarded human hair?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
^
that would be silly
July 9th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Wait. What’s the significance of 9000?
July 9th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2ImuoLpwTag
That’s the significance of 9000, JediBear
July 9th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I’d assumed that the comic was a comment on one of two things:
1a) The unbearable triviality and nerdosity of “In Popular Culture” sections,
1b) the fact that few people can leave an IPC section alone without adding their own favorite geektastic reference, or
2) That Munroe and xkcd have a rabidly loyal fanbase who will follow him into the depths of hell.
I knew as soon as I saw the comic that somebody, indeed several somebodies, would have already tried it
– A.
July 9th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Is it weird that while I am among those who would follow xkcd into, as Aaron so eloquently put it, into the depths of hell, I only just now found out the name of the guy who makes it? (that is who Munroe is, right? The author of xkcd?)
July 10th, 2008 at 12:03 am
@skittledog
Also, I believe that the handle of Helena Cain’s razor was made of wood.
Also, didn’t boomer have a set of wooden Elephants that were given to her by her nonexistent parents?
July 10th, 2008 at 2:35 am
@Nekemancer: LOL, that one’s pretty much my favourite too.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:41 am
the best story for 445 is read counter clockwise starting at the bottom left corner.
4A 3A 2A 1A 1B 1C 1D 2D 3D 4D 4C 4B 3B 2B 2C 3C
July 10th, 2008 at 3:59 am
I THOUGHT that Jaynestown was wrong when I first read it, but I couldn’t off the top of my head remember which episode the rainstick was from. He got it from a backwater planet while inebriated, and that’s all that really matters. Made me laugh, either way.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:46 am
:o
Somone see thet math process in the comic?
Its a white-gray but is easy to see :P
July 10th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Wikipedia also locked the article on Popular Culture. Whether that was directly in reponce to xkcd, or just a general precaution against the implosion of the blogosphere, I don’t know.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Skyer - check the “about” link above the comic, sometime!
July 10th, 2008 at 11:17 am
So Because firefly was mentioned in the comic and the blag, I’m going to go off on a tangent here…
Anyone seen the new Whedon Project? With Captain Malcolm Reynolds?
http://www.drhorrible.com
It looks cool!
(sorry if we’re not supposed to promote stuff here, but come on. It’s Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion!)
July 10th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Heehee, I thought of xkcd when the Captain Hammer comic recommended turning any of your friends who are good at maths and science over to the police. Otherwise, who knows what they’ll do…
@Not_a_spambot: …okay, now I’m a little scared. And fearing that any minute now the usages of wood in BSG are going to spell out the name of the final Cylon.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Of course there’s wood in BSG. There *are* other ships in the fleet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_miscellaneous_ships_in_Battlestar_Galactica_%282004%29
(Bad taste using wikipedia here, I know, but the point had to be made)
July 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
learn to draw. lots of fancy words, so what. go to my comic site and be prepared to see real art, you know, recognizable images, and concise humor. your dry jokes suck and no one is laughing, mabey your mom tells you you are funny but she’s lying. no one likes a snob who thinks a slide rule is superior to human relations. you can hire me to illustrate your future efforts, If you hire a writer too. good bye reply if you dare.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Haha, reading http://xkcd.com/445/ diagonally down from the first panel to the last panel works pretty well.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Megan. Megan! MEEEEEGan!
July 10th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Off-topic: Will bestthing.info be back up in the near future? Searching forums.xkcd.com indicates it was down on July 1, which makes me worry that it’s been down all the time since then.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Has anyone here ever considered that 50 $ can educate A child in Afghanistan for a year and that the Average Canadian teen spends 100 $ A week and you can guess it’s mostly on crap.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:39 am
@ Zombie (who said)
”
What gives you any right to dictate what goes on wikipedia other than that moderators tag? Admins and mods on wikipedia are usually the worst form of trolls whose policical bias and means allow them to close off articles of value (I?m look at you locked down aXXo article).
”
Admins follow the rules which are set by the community. If an admin doesn’t follow the rules you can report them. If you don’t like the rules; propose that they are changed. I’ guess you were engaged in a dispute over a political article and your view wasn’t accepted so you left. Adding silliness to the articles isn’t allowed, not even on April fools day.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am
>>bozo rebebo Says: July 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
>>learn to draw. lots of fancy words, so what….your dry jokes suck and no >>one is laughing…no one likes a snob who thinks a slide rule is superior to >>human relations.
stfu.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Yeah, to the Wikijerk, I think it’s hilarious that you reference a ficticious piece of information in your rude and insulting offhand remark.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp
Go Librarians! The Original Search Engine
July 11th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
ALL Y0ur BASE ARE BELONG TO W0RDPR355
July 11th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
“# bozo rebebo Says:
July 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
learn to draw. lots of fancy words, so what. go to my comic site and be prepared to see real art, you know, recognizable images, and concise humor. your dry jokes suck and no one is laughing, mabey your mom tells you you are funny but she’s lying. no one likes a snob who thinks a slide rule is superior to human relations. you can hire me to illustrate your future efforts, If you hire a writer too. good bye reply if you dare.”
1. The essence of the humor is the language, the “fancy words” as you put them. the visual certainly has it’s place, but in xkcd, stick figures would suffice. and do.
2. i looked up “bozo rebebo”, since you kindly didn’t leave a link to “your comic” if you’re even mr williamson… and what i got was a website where i could buy pieces of art, about flatulence. very classy.
3. We like him, there are thousands of us. and if you bothered to read xkcd, you’d see that it’s all about human relations.
4. Don’t be alone at night. we are everywhere
July 11th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
eitje, it only mentions his name in one place on that whole page, and then with no explaination. It doesn’t even tell you it’s a name- given that XKCD is semi-random letters, I wasn’t going to make unwarrented assumptions.
July 12th, 2008 at 10:59 am
@Not_a_spambot: “Downloaded” features numerous other references to wood, including the Cylon tree planting campaign and the clothespin/cigarette bomb trigger.
@DKH: Of course, the botanical ship!
July 12th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
You were spoofed by fox trot XD
July 12th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
A reward for anyone reading so far down this page:
1A 1B
2A 2B 2C
3A
4A
4B
3B 3C
2D
It’s the simple things in life.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:03 am
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July 13th, 2008 at 12:30 am
@bozo rebebo
I’m pretty sure this sums up what i need to say:
http://xkcd.com/438/
Clearly, you hate people. You can insult a man you don’t know on the internet, but I’m willing to bet you have no interaction with people outside of cyberspace. And no, phone sex hotlines don’t count.
Also, if you would look at some of the comics, you’ll see plenty of lovely artwork. So next time, do some research.
You might not read this, you might never come back to this site. But my guess is you will, because this is as close as human interaction as you ever get, and you want to see if anyone has noticed your existence.
-Summer Glau
July 13th, 2008 at 10:51 am
YOU’VE BEEN REFERENCED IN FOXTROT’S SUNDAY COMIC JULY 13TH 2008!
THUNDERCATS GO!
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2008/ft080713.gif
July 13th, 2008 at 11:30 am
^ Ah, damnit… I was hoping I’d be the first to say that… I should have known better… this is the internet.
July 13th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I know!!!!!!! I saw the first panel and got so excited and I saw yours!!!!!!!!!!
July 13th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
In foxtrot. So made the big time! I like how he states: “With Apologies all around”
Great stuff!
-B
July 13th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Yeah, I saw today’s comics and was excited when I saw XKCD in foxtrot. XD
July 13th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
….everybody else gets fox trot on sundays? I get it on my saturday papers…. lol
hence, i said it a few posts ago =P
July 13th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I provided a link. My information is therefore way better :)
It’s like a thing of “pics or it didn’t happen”
I cut out today’s foxtrot :D
July 14th, 2008 at 12:18 am
I owe you an apology, Mr. Munroe. I’ll stop spamming your comment box with “Megan”, now…
July 14th, 2008 at 5:53 am
I like that I can now read #445 variations without looking at the comic. I don’t see much use for this skill.
Incidentally, the counter-clockwise effort of Ian is my favourite thrown up here so far.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:56 am
I think that Wikipedia has a HUGE relevance problem. It’s everywhere in there. New articles on interesting topics are declared “irrelevant” because the admins have never heard of them before.
And articles written with meta-humour, which always reminded me of Hitchhiker’s Guide (for those who don’t know the book: in contrast to the Encyclopaedia Galactica, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a bit cheaper, it’s not objective at all and it has tha words “DON’T PANIC” written in large, red letters on its frontside), are being made more “neutral” (which basically means ‘more boring style’). There was a time, when articles contained hints how to use certain things, tips, what better not to do, lists, enumerating things in an entertaining order and so on. And the attempts to make a cold, lifeless place out of a wonderful idea make me sick, really.
xkcd’s “problem with wikipedia” has always been the fact that made Wikipedia that interesting. And now our good old Wiki tries to be like the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and fails.
There are so many articles which are also at least as useless as knowledge about which episode of which TV series contained what. What’s wrong about one or two useless facts at the end of an article?
July 14th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Well, at least I’m no longer hypnotized by that freakishly perfectly huge head of red hair and cold, dead, ginger stare. That brings you back up to at least 1336.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:48 am
6 Months ago, my life turned I thought I was ready to be in a relationship, turns out I was. But what I didn’t know was that I wasn’t ready to be alone. I still ain’t. I can’t sleep, I can’t entertain myself or even eat well… I rent way too many movies. I go out a lot and I try to be with people as much as I can because I abso-effing-lutly can’t wrap my head around the concept of being by myself.
Fact is, I need someone. Someone to be there for me because I cannot love myself enough to be comfortable with being alone in my apartment for more than a short lenght of time. Now, I realize that because my girlfriend is away in spain and I’m reacting the same way I did when my ex-girlfriend and I broke up a year ago.
So the question that ultimatly pops in my head and impairs my sleepy time is: Do I really love my girlfriend, or do I love the fact that she’s there?
July 14th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
hey divvy,
can you both? “Do I really love my girlfriend, or do I love the fact that she’s there?”.
why one or the other?
why is it that when humans in a relationship are tested by geography, loneliness and wanting for that person is concluded to be negative. or unhealthy. I think needing someone for your happiness is natural. the key is that it is not just anyone; for no one else will do. do you miss me because i am not in you life? no, because you don’t know me. and if you did “know me” would i be a person you require for happiness, depends on if you see in me the things you value in your life. and wouldn’t “not missing her” be a bigger impairer of sleepy time?
lastly, it’s not distance that strains a relationship it’s how you make each other feel about it that does. Miss her with all your heart, but continue to live with all your soul. and for christ’s sake take care of yourself, eat well, excersize, stumble, read, surround yourself with people that love you, you must survive for your sake not hers.
funny note: my reCaptcha words are “war” and “species”.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
llolla said: ”I think needing someone for your happiness is natural. the key is that it is not just anyone; for no one else will do.”
That is the essence of the question, could someone else do? If I do love her, then no one else will do, but if I love the fact that she (or someone) is there, then will someone else do? I’ve met someone recently that made me doubt having previously ”realized” that what I have is what I want. I think I’m in for a rough ride…
July 14th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
whats even better than getting em to lock an article is XKCD is on wikipedia
July 14th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Divvy,
Went through this (and worse) when my ex left a year ago. I agree with llolla that you can do both, but it sounds like you’ve got some ’soul searching’ to do. My suggestion: do what it takes to make yourself into someone who can be happy even if you are alone (personal improvement, an interesting hobby, etc.). You will definitely benefit, and chances are your girlfriend will find even more reason to be attracted to you. Helped me out, anyway…
July 14th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Hey, Randall, xkcd was featured (kinda) in Foxtrot:
http://foxtrot.com/ - the comic for 7/13
July 14th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Wow, today’s xkcd hit straight home. I know what you’re saying, Divvy. My bf has been the same way, since he hasn’t seen me in a few months. I’ve found myself doubting whether he loves me or simply the idea of me - someone there to keep him from feeling alone. I keep telling him he should use the time to finish some video games or pick up a hobby, but he still seems sulky. I know that as soon as we see each other again, I’ll forget all about these nagging feelings and things will seem “normal” again… but it’s kind of unsettling…
In other news, the Firefly mix-up was forgiven :)
July 15th, 2008 at 1:38 am
To Divvy, et al.:
Long-distance relationships generally don’t work. Eyes wander, and most of the time at least one of you cheats. Even if neither of you cheats, at least one of you *wants* to cheat by the time all is said and done, and that person ends up resentful toward the other for being the reason that the new romance couldn’t be pursued.
Friends don’t let friends pursue long-distance relationships.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
The question is really, what do you commit to doing each day because of your woman? If you can’t think of anything, or you don’t like those things, then that woman is probably not for you.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
@ Ian: um, isn’t that clockwise, not counter-clockwise?
July 16th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Dear Divvy,
There are people out there in this world who are better together than apart. Whether that together is with the love of your life or a stranger passing through, is something you’ll need to address. If you’re lucky, you’ll meet someone who is better for being with you and together you will stay. Despite the difference in distance.
Then again, there are people who prefer to be alone and are annoyed with others and their cloying tendencies.
Best Wishes,
Ally
July 17th, 2008 at 12:06 am
J’ai plaisir à insérer les poissons morts dans Randall Munroe’ ; cul de graisse de s. J’ai plaisir également à avoir le sexe avec des poulets.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:15 am
asteroid54: if you want something more like the Hitchhiker’s Guide, you could to try h2g2 (guess where the name comes from…) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/. It predates wikipedia by a couple of years, with a vaguely similar premise, but much more in the casual, “here’s some interesting things” style, without bothering with rigorous sourcing or NPOV language.
Unfortunately, it’s pretty tiny, and rarely updated these days. It was a nice idea, though.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Well, I for one, welcome our xkcd overlord.
July 17th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
So wikipedia is going down, just like when the hitchikers guide was bought by InfiniDim? OH MY GOD VOGONS!!!
July 18th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Ha! the wikipedia article on deconstruction (mentioned in todays XKCD) has an “in popular culture” section!
July 18th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Anyone wanna add a reference to today’s comic to aforementioned “In popular culture” section (god, the wiki-mods would flip)? :P
July 18th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Is anyone an expert in literary criticism? When it’s interpretive and not hard facts you’re dealing with, everyone’s an “expert” if they can put together a coherent argument.
As for sociology (-scoff-)… If they figure it out in 4 minutes, you’re letting too much snark through. If you treat it seriously, they’ll never catch on.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I can see how deconstruction could be confusing to a person who sees physics and mathematics in an almost purely platonic fashion. You can still be respected in mathematics if you construct a workable model even if you don’t actually understand the difference between a model and reality. On the other hand if you just go around claiming that books only mean exactly literally what is written in them, you will rightly be regarded as a cretin.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
There is no such thing as a difference between “model” and “reality” within the field of mathematics. Purely logical structures built from axioms and deductive techniques can’t really be said to correspond neatly to either “model” or “reality”, and even if you do classify them as either, you will have a hard time finding anything that corresponds to the other term.
Arguing that mathematicians lack a (presumably necessary and relevant) understanding of these concepts only reveals a fundamental lack of understanding of the nature of mathematics.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Sounds like you’ve pulled a Sokal!
(see http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/#papers)
July 18th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I have to say, it only took me about 2 seconds after reading the “Have you tried logarithms” to go “wtf, mate?” Hopefully the 48 seconds plays to the older engineers who have to start paying attention to you rather than themselves (taking 45 seconds) before rejecting the idea.
In other news, the 445 combinations are awesome. I liked the one from Hola the best. Almost made me laugh out loud. At work. It really *is* the simple things.
July 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Oh. And there’s more wood in BSG than what’s been mentioned. Cloud Nine’s outdoor arena? Kobol’s forests? And one can’t forget that the vision Caprica Six has of the basestar in her head is a big old forest. Kudos to whomever mentioned Adama’s model ship. And aren’t some of the idols (Artemis & Aphrodite are the ones Starbuck has) wood? ;) You don’t even have to dig too deep.
July 18th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
To the writer of XKCD:
Have you seen this XKCD homage? Thanks to his familiarity with the internet scene, he got almost 4,000 contributors in 2 days, I believe. 0_0
http://seantevis.com/kansas/3000/running-for-office-xkcd-style/
July 19th, 2008 at 2:22 am
I would just like to say that today I fooled a full blown physicist into thinking I was a member of his field (or at least extremely well informed) for a good two minutes, when we parted ways. He is still none the wiser.
I’m a journalism major.
…I’m fairly proud of myself, especially in light of today’s strip.
July 19th, 2008 at 9:49 am
I’d say for the Firefly thing you dropped to 1335, and as for Wordpress… well, I can’t really blame you.
July 19th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
if any thing. i think that you were too soft with sociologists.
July 20th, 2008 at 3:34 am
A few Thanksgivings ago I had an hour long conversation with my uncle’s fiance about several authors and their respective novels. We talked about how some of them had gotten better over the years, and others hadn’t hit their prime yet. I complained that one was becoming too experimental and she agreed.
The reason I keep saying “several authors” is because I had no idea who she was talking about.
July 20th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
you didn’t mention your girlfriend in your latest comic
what gives
July 21st, 2008 at 1:16 am
D, sorry, I meant physics (specifically how it relates to mathematics.) Point still stands.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:17 am
Holy shit. The alt-text was right. I tasted the twelve books on my shelf, and three were scones. I think with a larger sample-size it may approach 1:5.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 am
Randy is chaotic neutral! Or incompetent lawful evil. We haven’t decided.
.:the Oil Mine:.
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Mr. Munroe, here’s a tip for getting your next article published in PMLA:
Don’t cite wikipedia.
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 am
Wordpress article on page/post distinction:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/a-post-and-a-page/
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Re: Hurricanes
EXCELLENT. Speaking as a Gulf Coast resident, I am highly in favor of Hurricane Illinois-Has-It-Too-Easy and Hurricane Where-The-Hell-Is-Bermuda. I would also like to see Tropical Storm Maybe-Now-The-Yankee-Relatives-Will-Stop-Calling-Every-Time-One-Of-These-Things-Gets-Within-A-Hundred-Miles, whose path hugs the coastline from Miami to Halifax before veering off and hitting Greenland (they also have it too easy).
July 24th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
For comic #445, a more touching order is 4c 4d 1b 1c 2b 2c, to use more of the comic 4c 4d 1b 1c 2b 2c 4a 3a 2a 1a 3b 3c 2a. Another fun order 4a 3a 2a 1a 1b 1c 1d 2c 2d. Ha I could do this for hours!
July 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I’ve always wondered what kind of research you did while making these strips.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Divvy: I cannot love myself enough to be comfortable with being alone in my apartment for more than a short lenght of time.
I believe that it is a pre-requisite for loving someone else that you must be capable of loving yourself. Ergo (and rather worryingly), if your premise is true, you don’t really love your gf. Sorry
July 25th, 2008 at 8:46 am
D: There is no such thing as a difference between “model” and “reality” within the field of mathematics.
This is true in pure mathematics, but not in applied mathematics. Applied maths (just so you know I am a Brit) is inherently about creating models which abstract away some aspects of reality.
July 25th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Sorry to hear about your Comic-Con merch getting lost, that totally sucks! I hope you get UPS for every penny, and that con was fun anyway.
July 26th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Since I loved the “mods” of this strip I took the liberty to crop every panel so they could be turned into gif’s. Unfortunately I don’t have anything to make gifs here but here’s the file.
http://rapidshare.com/files/132709237/xkcd_445.rar.html
someone please make A1 B1 A2 B2 A3 3B A4 B4 D1 C2 C3 D2
btw I used letter for columns and numbers for rows, as everyone else, I think, but I put the column letter first.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:50 am
You know, you could still delete the page.
Oh, and I agree with Alex. It’s a perfectly normal head of hair, but it seems to be one size too large, as if somebody forgot to select all objects when scaling.
Note to wearer of hair: That was not in any way an insult, and even if it were, it would only be an insult to your hair, which can’t read anyway.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
A Black-hat Black-hat’s black hat. Black and hat don’t even look like words to me anymore. They look like patterns.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Request for store item: THE hat.
July 30th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Awesome comic today. I love my Gentoo linux and OpenBSD, but if somebody asks me to help them install them, I’m running the other way.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Wow. That is an incredibly long number of replies to one post. This is what I truly love about xkcd; not only is the comic itself brilliant and hilarious, the random occasions I have to cross paths with others who read it lead me to other brilliant and hilarious things.
I just wish I had a longer attention span and/or memory, because by tomorrow I’ll have probably forgotten again that Randall keeps this blog.
July 30th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Obama, Clinton and Bush are all members of the CFR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwUvDPwdea8
I did notice comments were disabled for you “vote for obama” advert.
July 30th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
why is there no algorithim written for the #445 where you can start at any panel follow said algorithim and end with halarity. i expected more from fans of this comic.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
DMC, check the forums.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Totally unrelated:
You make the world a better place. Just wanted to say thanks.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:11 am
In my country, we eat gravel!
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
LOL YES BRAS ARE HARD TO UNDO AMIRIGHT>
call us when your material isn’t that of a 14 year old with their first girlfriend
August 4th, 2008 at 2:27 am
For balance, also include COULD and WOULD.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Couple of remarks:
1. Oops is still a page
2. The “vogonization of wikipedia” should become some kind of net meme
3. Don’t ever make xkcd user-editable
4. I came here actually because I wanted to inquire if the google counts in todays comic are real, and if there are differences between “… her” and “… him”
August 4th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Cognac, Armagnac, Burgundy and Beaune,
This old man came rolling home.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Today’s comic makes me happy, which I think says something bad about me.
August 5th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Till,
From my google search…
“i shouldn’t have kissed her” - 798 results
“i shouldn’t have kissed him” - 265 results
Total - 1,063 results
“i should have kissed her” - 7,590 results
“I should have kissed him” - 2,000 results
Total - 9,590 results
He was close. The point remains intact though.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:07 am
@Dalin: thanks!
So for “her”, we have a 1:9,5 ratio, for “him” it’s 1:7,5. What does that say about the gender matrix in the internets?
August 5th, 2008 at 4:57 am
There is no point in this comment I am about to leave you. I doubt its contents will even be read and I’m perfectly alright with that. It has absolutely no relevance to the text above, or anywhere else, and is more than likely something one might find in a Myspace blog… or Xanga, LiveJournal, GreatestJournal and all that other nonsense (especially Myspace).
If this is deleted, I wouldn’t be offended either.
Sleep hasn’t come yet and I needed something to do. When you’re laying awake, you really take notice to how incredibly loud and annoying silence can be and how darkness isn’t so. I can hear the light hum of my computer. The spinning disk of We love Katamari in my PS2 is, I think, the loudest damned thing in the room right now. Earlier was the ceiling fan directly above my bed making a terrible scratching sound on god only knows what. I turned it off. Honestly, for a moment I thought jumping out my bedroom window was the best idea. It was then when I realized I could hear birds.
My speaker has a florescent blue glow. The mouse, keyboard and monitor currently have a small green light while my computer itself has streams of red glaring at me. My electric blanket is unplugged so the adapter… thing is blinking rapidly (I assume angry for not being plugged) and I can see the store lights of the shopping center across the street. Why must all electronic things have some random light on when it should be off? Craziness…
Time passes much more slowly when you’re staring at a digital clock with no second counter. I tried counting with it but was always off by 10- 20 seconds. Apparently I don’t know how much a second of time is on my own.
Hm… laughter. A comic comes to mind. I don’t need to say which one.
I’ve just read every reply. I learned nothing and don’t really understand what is going on. I didn’t read the post… could be why. Could be that I’m tired and am incapable of cognitive thought.
Hm… I question the grammar in my last sentence. I don’t know that “am” is necessary. It probably isn’t. I could just delete it, but then I would have typed all this out for nothing and I’d either have to get rid of it, or keep it here without it making any sense to anyone other than me. Hell, I suppose it wouldn’t matter since more than likely, no one will notice this hunk of rambling.
I’m more awake now then when I started. It isn’t as loud as it once was. I’m thirsty. Actually, I want a freezepop.
I think with that I will take my leave. I’m really in the mood for a red freezepop right now. I don’t know what the flavor is though. Tastes like red.
If there is anyone out there who did read this… thank you. Strangers understand more than anyone.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:23 am
there is no subsection “wood in popular culture” in the wood article :(
August 5th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
August 5th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&hs=l5k&q=%22i%27m+glad+i+saw+epic+movie%22+-xkcd&btnG=Search
August 5th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Just how often do you update the blag? Anyways, it’s funny how this comic made there be “I’m glad I saw Epic Movie” results on google, people who don’t read this comic might think someone actually liked that movie!
Also, I am the guy who cosplayed as XKCD’s guy with a hat at Comic-Con, still highlight of the show for me.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:26 am
@Grace. I read it all.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:18 am
@Grace - Isn’t it weird how freezepops don’t have classifiable flavors? There seriously should be names for artificial flavors that don’t correspond to normal foods. Like the flavors that masquerade as cherry and grape in cough syrups and children’s medicine (and occasionally other places… I ordered a grape snow-cone the other day, and it was THAT “grape.” It was totally strange.)
August 6th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
You know, I’m reading through all of these comments, and several things stick out in my mind.
1. There are a lot of amazing people out there, and I’m pretty sure most of them read XKCD.
2. There are a lot of trolls out there, and about 2 of them found there way in here.
3. Somebody signed their name “Summer Glau” in response to an asshole troll. I can’t help but wonder if that was the celebrity Summer Glau or not. If it is, congratulations, you just became one of my favorite people. At the moment, however, Paris Hilton ranks as my favorite (and that realization blindsided me…).
August 6th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Unless I am very much mistaken, internet skills are generally expressed in base 36,
xkcd is the maximum value.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
I’m glad I read the comic that spawned the blag that referenced “I’m glad I saw Epic Movie”
August 7th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
And every once in a while, you realize how badly you fail…
-Summer Glau
August 8th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Homage, or collaboration?
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=338
August 8th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Payback.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:38 am
How is signing a trollistic remark with someone elses name payback?
Don’t you realize that in the grand scheme of things, we just don’t care?
We don’t come here for trolls. We come here for XKCD.
August 8th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Speaking of which, anyone find it odd that today’s comic doesn’t mention raptors?
I mean, come on, there was even a Jurassic Park reference, but still no raptors!
I find that interesting.
August 8th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Inspired by the above, I have just made myself a shirt (well, drawn on an existing shirt) an odometer-style ticker that is turning over from 1336 to 1337. None of my housemates think this is as awesome as I do. Thanks for the idea!
August 9th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
@Zephyr Greene- Genious!
August 10th, 2008 at 12:55 am
@Pikachu Mariachi- Sadly I cannot say the same about you!
August 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
The page still exists. Are the points still dropping?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Not to be annoying or anything (well, not TOO annoying), but where it says “turn left on Comstock,” the arrow points right. I was already getting worried, what with all the darkness and the chilling sensation in my spine, but what do I do?
August 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Google Maps has always been a bit of a running gag around here, because only very recently did they realize that the Alaska Marine Highway was a ferry system. My guess is that when they sent their Street View teams up here last summer, somebody found himself standing on a dock in the middle of the night.
August 11th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
The random page is broken, in rare cases (about 1/461 as of today) it makes you go to http://xkcd.com/404/, which isn’t a comic.
August 12th, 2008 at 2:36 am
West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
August 12th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Dave: I guess that’s deliberate, for the same reason that not having a comic 404 is probably deliberate (though I think there used to be one, because I vaguely remember thinking there shouldn’t be, at the time.) But who knows? Perhaps it was supposed to be left out of the random thingy the way it was left out of the navigation.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
@Zephyr Greene- Is that said implicating an insult referencing to a prior comment or action of mine, Mr Greene? Or is that you exppressing your wish to return the compliment being thwarted by not having enough information about me to do so? Which would be a bit odd, since a simple “thanks” would suffice. Either way I am, and will not be, asking for a justification of your reply. I guess I am merely trying to convey my puzzlement over your choice of words to you.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
@Pikachu Mariachi- a correction to the previous post,it should read “Either way I am NOT, and will not be…”
August 13th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Mathematics is just applied philosophy.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
The words “mathematics” and “is just” don’t even belong in the same sentence. Unless it’s “Mathematics is just not well understood by the average blogger.” And hey Pikachu, the word is “genius”, not “genious” - that’s what prompted Zephyr’s apparently rude response.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
@Says: Says:- Well thanks, I find myself rather embarassed now
August 13th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Even if the sentence “Mathematics is just applied philosophy” was correct, that statement is nowhere near true.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Is it just me, or does the narrative by Morgan Freeman sound much more like Shepherd Book? As in, “my, my, isn’t that… special.” Seems so to me.
Either way, I’d love to have Freemanic Paracusia
August 14th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
You know, I think I’d rather have Shepherd Book narrating things in my head.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Another version of a “In Popular Culture” section
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/awfulpedia-babies.php
August 14th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Off topic (was there a topic?)
I had to laugh at this one from ThinkGeek:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/60f5/?cpg=ab
August 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
@Pikachu Mariachi
http://www.n-genious.com/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=GLP&q=genious+pikachu+mariachi&btnG=Search
What makes the entire ordeal better is that you now have a great band name, and you’re the first on a google search for “Genious Pikachu Mariachi”
August 15th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
About the voting machine strip:
I love analogies. It makes sense to me. I assume that what you mean, literally speaking, is that the machines shouldn’t have programs complicated enough to get viruses, but should stick to a simple “check here” mentality. Yeah?
Even if I’m wrong, it’s great. Nicely played, sir.
August 16th, 2008 at 3:56 am
http://graphjam.com/2008/08/15/song-chart-memes-how-stick-figures-spend-their-time/
August 18th, 2008 at 2:19 am
@Jan Koekepan: Mathematics is a playground for logic. (No ‘just’ in there, because I agree with what Says: Says: says.)
In other news, I don’t get why comic 464 calls the move a reverse Bel-Air. What’s reversed about it? But I guess if I really wanted to know the answer, I’d sign up on the forums.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:51 am
@Angelastic
The non-reversed Bel-Air is (and/or was) a popular meme in which someone begins telling a story, but partway through I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said, “You’re moving in with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.”
August 18th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Hooray! He’s writing about his girlfriend again!
August 18th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Now this is a story all about how
I read a webcomic and it really sucked
August 18th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
@Dalin: It wasn’t the trollistic remark that was payback. It was the “A Softer World” comic being a parody of XKCD that was payback. It even says so on their site. :) It made me happy.
@John: You’re a meanface.
@Randall Munroe: When do we get a new blag to post comments in? This one is getting huge… And I seriously have to try the reversed Bel-Air sometime. It makes all other lame breakups seem puny in comparison.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:07 am
@Xanado- ! You’ve just made my week. Ya know, should Randall have updated the blag with his Comic-con 2008 escapades, I’d also be responsible for the first “XKCD cosplay” result in google. I know I’ve said it before, it just amazes me that such an irelevant mind as mine came up with the idea and decided to execute it when there are such brilliant (seen in this post’s comments section alone) XKCD devotees out there. Also, I will never, ever cease to be proud of that day
August 19th, 2008 at 12:34 am
correction: There ARE google results for XKCD cosplay, but I have photographic evidence! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1217314&id=741149046 I don’t know how facebook works as I rarely ever use it, if one of you knows of a better place where I can upload this picture, please do speak your minds
August 20th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Just like that murder in ‘73
August 21st, 2008 at 2:55 am
hi hey what the hell is a Reverse Bel AIR?
thnks
August 21st, 2008 at 7:58 am
helmut,
take a look at the xkcd forum discussion to learn about “what is a reverse bel air”
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26522
August 21st, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Please sir, make another blog post. I check every day, and I’ve been dissapointed frequently recently.
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Sifting through the amusing dross, I’m left wondering about the batch of comments regarding long distance relationships.
Nobody can predict what circumstances produce long-distance relationships.
What works in all relationships, long distance or otherwise, is communication. If you can’t communicate then you’re doomed no matter how often distance goes negative.
If you can communicate, then great. That’s when you explore whether things are working or not and whether the current storm, irrelevant of distance, can be weathered.
Cheers,
Matt
August 24th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
If distance goes negative you’re doomed anyway. Same for mass.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
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