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Friday, June 24, 2011
Comics 915 and 916: Dying Of Consumption
916. I forgot that when I say "next?" in the context of XKCD it brings me to another fucking comic. can I take it back? In this one, Randy has discovered security through obscurity and is presenting it as a unique insight he had to protect your valuables--but, in a classic Randallian twist, it only works against geeks!!!
Really, Randy? This is your comic? 'If you have a really hard-to-break safe, people will assume that's where you keep your valuables!' Did you just have someone break into your house and steal your jokes? Is that what happened here? Are you trying to GOOMH geeks into saying "I do this too, but geekier?" (Seriously, check out the forums on this one, it has all sorts of fanboys describing their home security systems. And one nerd lecturing them for how their security system is now compromised.) Or did you really just discover the concept of misleading home security?
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- AnonymousJune 24, 2011 at 9:57 PM
Ladybird Taint?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 24, 2011 at 10:11 PM
Second. U jelly firstfag?ReplyDelete
Everyone below this line is jelly
- AnonymousJune 24, 2011 at 10:27 PM
There is a quote:ReplyDelete
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it's done. They see it done every day of their lives. Yet they are unable to do it themselves."
You, my friend, are a eunuch. So you don't like xkcd, okay. You're entitled to dedicate your life to a blog about how crappy it is. But here's the deal: You're being a child. We're all very impressed how you set up a website to cry about how you don't like another guy's website.
And then, in lieu of, say, actually doing something with your life, like writing a book or teaching people or doing YOUR OWN THING, your one claim to fame is your greatest enemy. You do realize that YOU HAVE XKCD TO THANK for your popularity. So go ahead and trash it all you want, but know that if your world mission ever succeeds, xkcd's webtraffic comes crashing down and nobody ever listens to what Randall Monroe dares to believe is funny, you will be left crying to yourself that you now have nobody else to whine about all day long. At that point, you will find something else to complain about all day long to the internet. But, only as a last resort, will you create something of your own. Parasitism is just so much easier.
wait, since when am I not writing a book, teaching people, and doing my own thing? I can barely even be bothered to update this blog three times a week regularly. even guest posts usually go up late.ReplyDelete
I create shit of my own all the time.
- AnonymousJune 24, 2011 at 10:45 PM
Rob and Anonymous must be the samefag. Look at the time stamps!ReplyDelete
You really need to try harder, Rob.
er Rob this is an anonymous dude on the internet, I'm pretty sure he knows everything about youReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 12:41 AM
HEY PHYSICISTS, @10:27 in particular.ReplyDelete
You all have Newton to thank for where you are.
And Newton wrote much more about God than he ever did about science.
For Newton was religious.
So YOU HAVE RELIGION TO THANK for your life.
That is all.
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 2:13 AM
Everyone above this line is jelly.
I just contained 5 jellys
Yeah, we wish for a day when our position is the default... where no one likes XKCD and we are no longer relevant.ReplyDelete
How is that a contradiction?
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 3:00 AM
Ha! That Anon above was Rob.ReplyDelete
Now that's funny.
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 3:02 AM
Similar mother, similar father, similar dog, cat and fishReplyDelete
And we'll make the same wish
When the birthday candles lit
We'll both be older
We won't get our wish
Yes, I think that I'm falling in love with myself again
Yes, I think I'm falling in love with myself again
Yes, I think I'm falling
Yes, I think I'm falling
Yes, I think I'm falling in love with myself again
With her hand in my hand and my hand in hers
Don't we look a blur
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Hey, kiss her, oh kiss her
Our friends do concur
Yes, I think that I'm falling in love with myself again
I can't see with you in front of the mirror staring, staring
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Yes, I'm falling
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- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 10:04 AM
"canadian surrealist porn"ReplyDelete
"the concept of misleading home security"
are related.
Ask Ravenzomd if you don't believe me.
- RavenzomdJune 25, 2011 at 10:57 AM
They are, ALT-F does not lie.ReplyDelete
Please, everyone ignore this comment.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 1:14 PM
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 1:43 PM
Rob, I don't read it as "hard-to-break safe", I read it as "unopenable by anyone, including the owner". Just sayinReplyDelete
Ravenzomg, why would you ignore my request? It's the height of rudeness to REFUSE to acknowledge my very REASONABLE exhortations.ReplyDelete
And by acknowledge I mean OBEY.
On XKCD; they are so low quality it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell if they are better than each other. 916 could be a thousand times funnier than 915 and we'd never know the difference.
1:43, you are scum. Get a name.
"Rob, I don't read it as "hard-to-break safe", I read it as "unopenable by anyone, including the owner". Just sayin "ReplyDelete
(a) that is entirely irrelevant (b) there are ways to open safes with broken locks. in order for it to be truly unopenable it would need to have no inside, so that there would be no way to open it topologically.
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 5:16 PM
I myself am personally fond of hypertoroidal safes. Highly unopenableReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 6:00 PM
hypertoroidal doesn't mean anything, and a torus has an inside. something without a definable inside is non-orientable, like the klein bottle for instance.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 6:28 PM
GOODBYE MY FRIENDReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 9:28 PM
Jelly man, you made my day.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2011 at 11:14 PM
re: Anon 6:00ReplyDelete
u mad?
@6:00 Anything 3-dimensional with a 4th dimension added becomes hyper-anything. Hypertoroidal would almost certainly mean toroidal with 4 or more dimensions. It is absolutely not to be confused with hyperthyroidism, which Rob certainly does not have.ReplyDelete
But a torus certainly has an inside.
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 4:38 AM
Randall you dumb fuckReplyDelete
5x5 is a square
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 4:41 AM
also goatkcd 916 is amazingReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 5:34 AM
@4:38 5x5 is 25 you dumb looserReplyDelete
You mother is amazing Anon441.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 6:04 AM
guys please why does evereyone here not like xkcd? i find it quite funny i am a physics student and it is refreshing to see intelligent humor on the internet for once.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 6:06 AM
Hey, can we start a long discussion on how funny it is that Rob posted an anonymous comment above just so that he could post a pre-written response?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 6:10 AM
I did nothing of the sort anon 606ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 6:26 AM
6:06 & 6:10 = samefagReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 6:30 AM
I am no such thing anon 626ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 9:54 AM
Anon 9:54 and anon 9:55 = samefagReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 9:55 AM
See? I told you.ReplyDelete
@5:35, 5x5 has magnitude 0, you idiot.ReplyDelete
What happened to the 90s?ReplyDelete
they died a miserable deathReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 1:27 PM
They will live on forever in the hearts of true believers.ReplyDelete
...Never again in corporeal [read: meaningful, practical, or relevant] form again, however.
Captcha: Lexter. Superman's bald archnemesis I'm pretty sure.
I just wish the 90s had gone on a little longer. We weren't ready for what came next.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 2:23 PM
Well, 915 is probably the last XKCD comic I'll ever bother reading. Why? Because the previous 400 comics may have entertained me five times? Certainly a factor, but no.ReplyDelete
Randall has certainly provided us with vast evidence that he knows nothing about art or the arts over the years, and this piss-poor attempt at applying the science of psychology to his limited worldview is consistently indicting.
Pause for a moment and wonder 'what is art? How can one know which forms are superior or inferior?' Randall for one has no idea. He cannot seem to tell the difference. And apparently neither should we, a position I can understand considering how much criticism his stick figures generate. But we live in a place called Reality where not all things are equal.
DaVinci has more talent and technical skill than we'll ever see from the Void People, for example. Not that we should expect anybody to perform at that level for a webcomic, but the point is made: art has varying levels of quality. Randall cannot tell the difference, though. Good for him. If wine so bitter it requires honey and ginger to sweeten it tastes the same to him as any other, I say leave him be.
But he cannot possibly assert that all literature is equal, that Homer's Iliad is no better than 'Bitch Got a Penis', that the creation of a sloppy joe is no less of an achievement than making fine wine or that his comics are anywhere near as funny and artistic as Calvin and Hobbes.
Perhaps in the world of Randall, anyone who can tell the difference is just a pretentious snob, but he might be missing the point: stop churning out crap and maybe we'll like it more.
915 is a metaphor.
2:23 Any other time I would have applauded your well set-out and well thought-out ideas, however we are discussing the 90s.ReplyDelete
And your post lacked a certain je ne ces quois i.e. THERE WAS NOTHING ABOUT THE 90s
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 6:07 PM
who cares about the 90s? stupid decade was stupid decade. i'm just thankful i was drunk all the time throughout it
915 is Randall being relativistic about relativism. He wants to have his cake and eat it too. Unfortunately, he's such a hack that both his relativism and opportunistic anti-relativism rear their heads.ReplyDelete
Goodnight, you prince of tools, you king of charlatans.
Yeah the 90s pretty much sucked. The 80s were way better. Granted, I'm too young to remember most of the 80s, but that decade sure produced some awesome music and movies, so I have to assume that it was awesome.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 10:05 PM
How about a solid block of metal with the facade of a safe door on it?ReplyDelete
Highly unopenable.
The 90s was the decade where everybody fondly remembered the 80s while simultaneously destroying all records of all the shitty things in it. It will mainly be remembered by recordings of well-adjusted adults who have to talk about the Internet without understanding what it is.ReplyDelete
The 00s was the decade where everybody fondly remembered the 80s. It will be remembered primarily for George W. Bush malapropisms, both real and invented.
The 10s seem to bring nostalgia for either the 80s and the 90s, depending on how stupid you are. I will decline to tell you which option is more stupid.
- rndsortJune 27, 2011 at 5:51 AM
I think you're all missing the joke in the safe comic. The point is that geeks are irresistibly drawn to solving any puzzle they find, including fancy security systems. The safe could even have a sign on it saying "valuables are here -->", and the geeks would still try to pick the lock.ReplyDelete
Once they've managed to somehow open it, they would be distracted from the fact that there's nothing valuable inside by the Rubik's cube.
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Some images of what looks to be a never-before-seen Windows Phone have been spotted in some marketing images for Microsoft. The device looks Zune HD-esque with a chrome border, sharp corners and a rectangle like shape. The device even has the Windows Phone 8 flag logo near the button.
So the question is, what is it?
Some speculation by people have suggested it's the alleged Surface Phone designed in-house by Microsoft though as much as we would like to believe that, we find it implausible. The notion that a super top-secret project would find its way on to a commercial photo shoot just seems highly unlikely—like impossible.
Instead, we're leaning on the notion that this is a "generic" mockup phone used to convey Windows Phone without endorsing a specific OEM i.e. playing favorites. We see this all the time in Windows Phone ads and web placement where there is a render of a phone that does not exist—it's not a leak but rather done for marketing purposes. The idea of taking that idea and going one step further with a physical device (or even a PhotoShopped one) is not too far fetched.
Still, if Microsoft were to make a phone, such a design, as seen above wouldn't be too bad. But our hunch tells us whatever the Surface phone is, it's radically different than what is found in these images.
Source: Microsoft 1, 2; via WMPU
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Comics 1080-1082: Faulty
1081. Can't decide if Randy is trying to suggest that you win by being the bigger man and walking away or if he thinks that responding to people with wacky non sequiturs is extremely hilarious. Don't care. D-
1082. Nowhere in the history time has anyone ever noticed that the word "cleavage" is used in geology sometimes! F
107 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 1:38 AM
rob is faultyReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 4:36 AM
I don't know, 1082 seemed on par with SMBC... Someone's standards are either too high or too low.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 7:47 AM
Did you ignorant cunts know that the word 'cleave' is its own antonym - an auto-antonym? A homograph that is also an antonym?ReplyDelete
I don't know about you Rob, but this puts me in a fiery chartreuse froth of Jungian enantiodromia it does.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Cleaving is either adhesion or the overcoming of cohesion - not antonymy.Delete
Also, what is non-Jungian enantiodromia? Thought not.
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 12:36 PM
"What is non-Jungian enantiodromia?"Delete
You are, but you, and it, lack the fiery chartreuse froth.
Aion cunt.
ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT!?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2012 at 5:24 AM
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Ron Paul 2012ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 12:43 PM
he can't win don't jizz yourselfDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 2:24 PM
He's got a chanceDelete
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- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 8:29 PM
Yeah, in FranceDelete
Bet you'd vote for Palin
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 10:16 PM
... oh hey it's already time for elections? ... is this ron paul new?, did he run last year?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2012 at 8:08 AM
ron paul represents the online Hitlerjugend. So instead of lots of athletic blondes you get overweight basement-dwellers who choose athletic blonde avatars on MMORPGs.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 9:13 AM
I don't get it. Can anyone explain the joke to me, detail by detail?Replies
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 10:30 AM
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 10:54 AM
to get the joke you have to know what grammar isDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Even with the typically fucking retarded American proclivity for explaining the joke as part of the joke to ensure the dullards recognise the cognitive dissonance, you still don't get it?Delete
Your a cunt!
- weaselsoupJuly 16, 2012 at 11:21 AM
christ, that's as bad as an average xkcdDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM
9:13, don't worry, I can't find anything funny either.Delete
Give up? Can anyone explain this one?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM
I can CapnDelete
Don't leave me hanging.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2012 at 5:29 AM
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Viewed from the point of view of the old woman, her life has been viewed by others as that of a steadily maturing, and probably well-adjusted, woman. Inside she feels as if she is still, and always has been, a child, and a very frightened one at that, having to 'prop-up-with-a-stick' an ever maturing persona.Delete
She was happy only as a child - it would seem.
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Isn't that the premise for xkcd? Maybe SMBC aims to mock, in which case it'd've done better to have a small stick figure slowly looking more like Randall, but always being propped up by the stick figure.Delete
Then (PPD) Randall starts looking more like a larger version of his stick figure again, until eventually it's just a small stick figure propping up a large stick figure.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 11:01 AM
".....in which case it'd've done better....."Delete
A double contraction with a euphonic - some might say; cacophonic - elision to boot?
Well fuck me from behind with a conflation of two auxiliary verbs and a rigid inflectional suffix, but that is so cool!
Not as good as Innit though.
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Dammit, the last thread was just getting good. Can the guys talking SAT scores and stuff keep that going here?ReplyDelete
As always, thanks in advance.
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Oh shit, CWC just killed himself you guys!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Who the hell is CWC, and why should I care?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 3:14 PM
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for CWCkiDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 10:18 PM
@3:14 needs a catDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Fuck off, cunt.Delete
I have a dog.
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 10:59 AM
Quite. I can't imagine your being able to handle a cat.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 1:13 PM
cATS WON'T COME BACK IF YOU KICK 'EM. dOGS WILL." wHAT CAN i DO?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 1:40 PM
I mean other than releasing my 'Caps Lock' key.Delete
Also, being an Asian, I can confirm that dog also tastes better than cat - especially when served in Bimchi Bokkeumbap.
Neither go well on a kebab though.
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Oh shit, 11:02 just killed himself you guys!!!ReplyDelete
Maybe the waterslide is a metaphor for youth?ReplyDelete
I dunno. I read that the ants in the amber watch in "The Persistence of Memory" symbolize fertility, and I don't know why. It doesn't make any sense. Ants?
So I just want to say that the waterslide is youth, even if it doesn't make any sense. That's all I want.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 8:28 PM
It's cute that you think Randy is capable of producing metaphors that aren't ham-fisted.Delete
I didn't say anything about Randy's capability. That didn't matter to me.Delete
All I want is a waterslide and for it to mean youth.
I feel I have a rebuttal to 1081 http://imageftw.com/uploads/20120716/how%20do%20you%20feel%20about%20this,%20randy.pngReplyDelete
In regards to 1082, the problem is that he's portraying adults I think which is why its unbelievable.
As a geophysicist, I took a lot of geology classes I can tell you that for the immature 17 year olds in Geology 101 in our first years, the cleavage thing was noticed pretty quickly and immature giggling and jokes ensued.
Most adult geologists once into their careers have moved beyond such things.
But its bang on for a university field trip.
1082 was a case where I disagree with the score here, I thought it should have got a C or a B.ReplyDelete
1081 = Trying to look cool by pretending he doesn't give a fuck about anything: "Look I'm ignoring you and jumping into a pool with a expensive cellphone-like thingy #YOLO!"ReplyDelete
Okay, this is so awesome have to share it with you. FontBomb lets you blow up the text of any website, in almost any browser (works best in Chrome or Safari) just by installing a bookmarklet.ReplyDelete
Ever wanted to destroy this blog. NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!Replies
- thejanitorJuly 18, 2012 at 6:17 AM
You can also roll it up like a katamari ball! http://kathack.com/Delete
Ah, thanks for that link. Now I wonder what happens if I run both at the same time...Delete
You suck at being Capn.Delete
Capn, you're alive!Delete
I assure you that I stole your identity as an act of respect and because I can. The xkcdsucks blog needed a Capn and I was willing to give it to them.
But one could never fill such big shoes. I could never be a true copy of your unique persona. And so I'm glad you're back.
Does anyone want to see my true identity.
No, put that away. You're already on several lists for that kind of thing.Delete
My unique persona can be fulfilled by any red assed baboon this side of the African continent, just as much as any Markov Chain text generator can effectively imitate ALT-F.
Of course some of you already knew it was me. As for everyone else, you must be quite confused now. The Capn you have known and loved for the last three months has been a lie. I make no apologies.
Everyone else? You mean all 4 of them?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM
This is way cooler than 1081
- Relevant at last ?!!!???!!July 18, 2012 at 12:13 AM
R... R... Ron paul... 2012 ?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Ron Paul is way smarter than Sarah Palin, though.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2012 at 10:26 AM
HA ! You couldn'y be more WRONG, randall, I turned 20 two months ago !! Then again you've already proven in the past that you CAN'T EVEN understand Ayn Rand so I'm not surprised the only way you can hide your confusion in the face of objective TRURTH is by making generalizations and caricature.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Wow. This site is astonishing in its hypocrisy.ReplyDelete
I came to this place looking for relief from the elitist, nerd-pandering, circle-jerking hive-mind that xkcd and its fanbase have become. What I've found has been repetitive, unfunny memes and copypastas, snobbish elitism, and the same kind of "look-at-me, look-at-me" attitude that I saw on the xkcd forums, except dressed up in offensive statements rather than "geeky" references. The whole experience felt uncomfortably familiar. You have more in common with the xkcd-fen than you think.
I especially find it hilarious how all of you are CONSTANTLY falling over yourselves to prove that you're the most SHOCKING and UNCARING commenter of them all. After awhile, it just starts to get sad. What's the point of any of it?
There are legitimate points of criticism in these comment threads, don't get me wrong - they're the only reason I keep coming back here - but the bad far outweighs the good here. Just my two cents.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2012 at 2:02 PM
If you keep coming back despite the bad outweighing the good it means your life is sad. The joke is on you.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2012 at 2:38 PM
I don't see how anyone can take this blog seriously since Carl left. Or at least since Rob started posting these one-liner embarrassments in place of reviews. This opinions of this blog used to come from a salient artistic position/taste, even when I disagreed with Carl or guest posters, I could follow their reasoning.Delete
You've abandoned that. You assigning comics arbitrary grades with zero explanation, seemingly for no other reason than you feel obligated to say they're bad. There's no logic anymore. Good art, poor art, topical joke, outdated joke, geek reference, historical reference, clever pun, paraprosdokian, it doesn't matter, Rob will say it sucks, and it's up to the commenters to argue for him.
For a blog that's accused Randall of laziness so often, it's a remarkably lazy system.
This blog has always been terrible. Rob has always been fat. Carl was never here. Megan has always had cancer. And we have always been at war with Eurasia.Delete
It's really hard to care about hating on or critiquing xkcd for an extended period of time.
You should thank Rob's fat, lazy, uninspired ass so that you still have a place on the internet to spew your unimportant opinions about an equally unimportant, silly, harmless webcomic.
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2012 at 2:26 PM
what happened to the chris houlihan's room guy? i'm worried about himReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2012 at 4:50 AM
I assumed he had morphed into "Ron Paul 2012" guy. First the child repeats something over and over because it is simple and attractive to him, then he becomes a Libertarian, then he grows up.Delete
- weaselsoupJuly 19, 2012 at 5:33 AM
maybe he and FINAL COUNTDOWN person have run off to live happily together.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2012 at 11:20 AM
FINAL COUNTDOWN counted down to 1000. He reached his purpose and ended, unlike many of us condemned to this limbo of a hateblog, forever in twilight.Delete
- Texas ArcaneJuly 19, 2012 at 9:29 PM
It was dark inside the Quik Mart, except for refrigerator lights in the glass display cabinets way in the back. For a second I thought I heard shuffling to the right in the dark over by the magazines, but just then somebody waved at the cash counter on the far left.ReplyDelete
"Ho!" said this guy, about in his late teens, very skinny and looking quite nervous. "Come on back," he waved me on. I walked back to the counter through the aisles, stepping over some smashed glass and bags of powder on the floor. The clerk was dressed in casual clothes and he tried to give me a friendly smile, but he was making me anxious because I could see something had him really scared badly.
"Listen, I'm not supposed to be open," he whispered, folding paperwork on the counter, "I just came in because my boss told me to pick up something in the office and then lock everything up." He glanced over at the right side of the store, where my eyes had adjusted to the darkness enough to see there were four people standing reading magazines. "These guys came in behind me and they won't leave. Listen, what do you need?" he asked.
I said, "I just wanted to get some milk, bread and butter, maybe something sweet, is that okay?" I said, keeping my voice low.
"Can you help me get these guys out? You're a big guy, are you in security?" It suddenly hit me. I had not changed clothes since I went off duty at Rodeo Drive three days beforehand. "I don't give a rat's ass about the store, you can take whatever you want and I'll lock it up. But first I have to get these guys to leave." I nodded, "Okay, I'll try to help. Are they armed?" I asked, feeling pretty apprehensive.
"Frig, man, I dunno. I'm scared to even speak to them again," he murmured.
I looked over at the four guys mulling around. "I'll get them to leave," I said, speaking with more confidence than I actually had.
As I walked over to the magazine stand I started to gear up my security guard voice and bearing, long honed from dealing with trouble at Park La Brea and Rodeo Drive over the past year and a half. Any of you work security will know exactly what I am talking about.
As I approached them, I could now see them a lot better. All mexicans, two guys so short bordering on dwarfism but obvious gang members. Another guy older who was rheumy eyed like he was drunk or high, slim boned. The toughest looking guy was an ornery looking dude about 200 lbs, muscular build, hateful looking bastard about 5'10 or bigger. So I had weight and height on the big wolf, but I'm not going to lie to you and tell you I was confident. Truth is my heart was pounding and I was frightened really badly. For all I know all these guys could draw guns and blow me away in the next ten seconds. Of course I was thinking I could not believe I let my wife talk me into leaving the Desert Eagle at home.
- Texas ArcaneJuly 19, 2012 at 9:34 PM
The two dwarves reached for their crotches and start swaying like bad-asses as soon as I got close, smacking their lips and looking pretty loco. These short guys might be the first ones to pull the trigger if they were trying to prove something. I kept my face a blank, innocuous mask, absolutely emotionless. Remember that nothing at all is frequently way scarier for the other guy than a tough expression, angry stance. Complete blankness, a dead focused stare is always the way to go. Telegraph nothing at all, not even hostility. The more emotional the other guy gets, the more completely empty your own expression, it tends to break the nerve of almost anybody.ReplyDelete
The thin boned drunken guy piped up first. His three companions were flexing their muscles and swaying like monkeys. "What up?" I heard a lack of certainty in his voice that gave me a boost. Go straight in, don't mince words.
"This fellow at the counter says he is closed. Why are you guys still here?" I asked, staring at the big guy instead of the thinner one.
"f**k you," said the big guy, "this is a f**king dem-ock-krass-see. We have a right to be wherevah the f**k we want to." Strangely enough, there wasn't enough bass in these guys voices. They were putting on a good show, but I could tell they were going to fade.
The little mexican dwarf had a bandanna around his head. "White boy, you probably going to get a cap busted in yo ass you talk like dat." The second the guy said it, I knew instantly these guys had no guns. They were probably gang wannabes and second stringers who mowed lawns for a living but regularly scared white folks with their loco act.
I grabbed the little guy by the hair and arm, immediately started to use him as a shield to shove the others towards the front of the store. As I was pushing, I grabbed something off a store shelf and put it in my pocket. "You guys have been asked to leave. It's time to go. Nobody wants to hear your long winded story. Let's go, you're done."
The biggest guy was yelling and cursing me, bandeho, mericon muthafugga and all that, but he was being carried towards the door like everyone else as I leaned into the dwarf and shoved him into his friends. The thin drunk was looking furious and homicidal but oddly enough now that I knew they did not have guns I was not as scared of any of them.
I opened the front door and packed them all out, cursing, bitching, whining.
As I tried to close the door and lock it, the big one decided then he was going to do something, as he was pushed outside. He stuck his arm in the doorframe and reached for my throat. He started to try to choke me and was cursing me as his friends behind him cheered him on. "Gringo pussy, I will strangle you f**kin' bitch!" He couldn't get a grip on my neck, I bent his fingers back until he screeched and released that hand ... then used the other one to clock a hard right hand on the side of my face. It hurt. His friends were yelling, "Kill his stupid ass, poppy! Kill him!" He went to punch me again and because I was still trying to close the door he hit me in the nose, which really hurt. I started bleeding. The other three were laughing and cursing me, "Haw! Faggit white boy, break his face!"
- Texas ArcaneJuly 19, 2012 at 9:39 PM
Once my nose was bleeding, I decided just trying to shove the door shut was not the way to resolve it. So I shoved the big guy back into the street and came out the door myself. His friends were cheering, "Yeah, poppy will kick his arse, man, you a dead white boy!"ReplyDelete
You probably think this is the part where I tell you about this big street fight we had where I used an incredible array of amazing kung-fu moves to defeat him.
Well, this will probably be disappointing. The fight lasted approximately one second.
As "Poppy" took a step off the sidewalk, he did something that hispanics often do when they are showing off. He lifted his hands in the air, fingers spread wide, shrugged his shoulders and spun around, as if to show the whole world he wasn't afraid of me, saying, "What the f**k you goin' to do, beyotch?!? Whatch yoo goin' to do?!?"
As he turned around to face me, I hit him on the bridge of his nose with a 60 oz glass bottle of Gerber Baby Food Turkey Mash which I had grabbed off the shelf as we were exiting. I threw it as hard as I could and released it about two inches from his forehead just as he was turning around.
It is hard to describe what happened unless you were there to see it. It was like somebody detonated a thermobaric fuel bomb on the end of his nose with a Turkey Mash payload. I actually had to flinch away and shield my face with my arm to protect myself from the flying glass shrapnel. I reckon the 60 oz bottle when it hit him must have been going well over 100 mph or faster. There was a colossal explosion of baby food, pulverised glass shards and pieces of label up to about ten meters away.
There was this microsecond everybody was frozen. He just stood there, face a blasted bloody mess, eyes welling up with blood, then cupped his hands over his ruined mug and fell backwards with a terrible scream. The other three were so stunned they remained half crouched about five seconds before they could even realize what had happened.
"OH JEESUS CHRIST, HE SHOT ME, f**k ME HE SHOT ME I'M DYING," he screamed, his hands covering his face with blood coming out through his fingers.
The thin guy ran over to him, started sobbing and trying to hold his head for him, "He didn't shoot you, Poppy, I think he hit you with something, oh sheeit man you are fugged up!"
"OH SWEET JEEZUS, MY EYES MAN I CAN'T OPEN MY EYES, I'M DYIN' MAN!" the big guy yelled, blood was gushing out of his nose, his eyes, between his fingers. There was a huge pool of it around where he was sitting. "I GOT TO GET TO HOSPITAL, MAN, I'M DYIN HERE!"
One of the dwarves started hopping about angrily, doing a bizarre little dance. "Oh, yoo is dead white boy! Paco, let's get Benny, man Benny will shoot this psycho f**kin' gringo dead! You see what he did to poppy, man that is sum wicked sheeit!"
The two of them ran off screeching about how they were "going to get Benny."
The thin drunk helped his friend to his feet and was yelling at me, "Sick white muthaf**ka, we just came down here to get beer and you have to do sumthin like that! You sick muthaf**ka, you goin' to pay when Benny gets here, watch and see!" They hobbled off together down the sidewalk, the big guy wailing and clutching his face.
I went inside the store, locked the door behind me. The clerk was shaking with fear and putting all this paperwork into a folder. I started grabbing groceries off the shelf and putting them into a plastic tote bag.
They weren't kidding. They went and got Benny. Then things got interesting. Tell you about that in the next installment.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 1:23 AM
cool story broDelete
- weaselsoupJuly 20, 2012 at 3:44 AM
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Here's the next instalment:Delete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 2:24 AM
this blog sucksReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 8:24 AM
Re: the latest one (whatever it's numbered): I'm not sure why this "server expert" just can't go to /bin/ls and make that point to ls as normal. Nor why what happened is "so bad" as to be a harbinger of the singularity.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 8:58 AM
In what plausible scenario would someone like the bald woman have a server of her own ("my server") with root access and a tech on hand to fix her mistakes?Delete
And why is the guy with the ponytail starting off by running "ls" in root's home directory?
It's not infeasible that there is more than one piece of software in the world which calls itself "ls" - or maybe the bald woman is doing a programming assignment which involves duplicating the functionality of Unix ls.
And it certainly wouldn't be shocking to see a newbie put ., or simply ~, in the $PATH.
In short, the guy with the ponytail is a poor tech. Perhaps Megan would do a better job?
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 2:48 PM
This needs to end now. If you think this is fun, you have a sick idea of fun. If people like it, it's obviously not overrated.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 4:21 PM
Since overrating is the process of liking something which doesn't deserve to be liked, something overrated must be liked. Too much.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 11:39 PM
If people like it, it's not overrated. But only if they like it for a reason. And that reason for xkcd is that it's funny. To most people. The rest of you can continue to be trolls. We'll just ignore you.Delete
you're ignoring it so hard you're commenting on a blog about itDelete
good job
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 6:40 AM
What if you like something but you cannot, for the life of you, understand why you do? Accordingly, can something which is liked for no reason whatsoever ever really be objectively overrated?Delete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 10:04 AM
Probably. The OP argued liked => NOT(overrated), which contradicts overrated => liked.Delete
You're arguing that liked AND NOT(overrated) is possible, which contradicts neither.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Jeez, Anonymous 10:04 AM, you must be a terrible burden on your loved-ones.Delete
10:04 => CUNT is indeed, underrated and NOT contraindicated - like his pharmaceutical regimen.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 10:51 AM
A mathematician writes his argument in logic-ese and is judged inadequate by a doctor who responds in medic-ese.Delete
All professions are conspiracies against gaiety.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Au contraire, mes amis.Delete
Your argument, whether it is rendered in 'logic-ese' or 'medic-ese', is fallacious; in premise and presentation.
And I think you smell.
"....All professions are conspiracies against gaiety...."
Not the oldest!
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 1:27 PM
Your semicolon is fallacious, but my colon is not.Delete
And the oldest profession is the greatest cockblocker.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 1:43 PM
"......Your semicolon is fallacious....."Delete
Thanks. I've not had much luck, when in the Anglosphere, deciding whether to use the colon or the semicolon. I even had a stoma 'carved' to shunt diacritics directly from the Ascending thus avoiding the Transverse, Descending and Sigmoids altogether.
Didn't help!
And, of course, you know I smell now.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM
I wonder how Randall's going to snap when his posters quit selling.ReplyDelete
My guess is he'll play out one of those black hat guy fantasies.
Today's comic has a good idea, but a boring execution. Anyone with Photoshop and 20 seconds to think about it could improve it. Even the Serbs.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2012 at 7:03 AM
no actually it was a stupid joke that has been made more times then the soviet unionDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM
It is 'more times THAN the Soviet Union' you unlettered ignocuntoramus.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2012 at 7:00 AM
Today's comic has been done already. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqSfrB8P-a0ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2012 at 1:14 PM
His alt text for todays comic was funny.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2012 at 9:13 AM
And Randall gets the value of a mole wrong? How did he do that? All he needed to do was copy paste it from Wikipedia, delete the decimal and add the appropriate number of zeroes. Wikipedia actually gives several value for Avogadro's number; some are official standards, one is an experimental value and Google's calculator function gives yet another value. Randall's number matches none of these. Where did it come from?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2012 at 4:33 AM
haha he can't figure out a loophole to get unlimited wishes (whats an eyelash wish anyway? still funny concept regardless, classic black hat)ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2012 at 8:49 AM
HI RANDALLDelete
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Yeah black hat guy is my favorite xkcd character, except for black hair women, she's so smart and witty!Delete
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2012 at 9:28 AM
This blog is dead.ReplyDelete


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A 25-year-old Lusby man is being held by police in connection with the suspected murder of a 27-year-old Lusby woman, who police say was his girlfriend.
John Warren Gibson Jr. led police Friday morning to a wooded area south of Leonardtown in St. Mary's County, where police said in a press release they found the body of Amanda Lynn Foster in a trash can in the woods. Gibson allegedly told police the couple had been involved in a fight Jan. 12 at the home they shared on San Jose Lane in Lusby. During the fight, Gibson allegedly stabbed Foster in the chest, then placed her body in a trash can, loaded it into her truck and drove to St. Mary's County where he hid the trash can in the woods near Breton Bay.
Police said in a press release they began the investigation after receiving a call from a concerned family member Jan. 31 at 8:11 p.m. Foster's family had not heard from the victim in several weeks and attempts to reach her by phone were unsuccessful. Troopers from the Maryland State Police Prince Frederick Barrack went to her home to try and talk to her. No one was at the San Jose Lane home, but troopers learned her truck had been seen parked at a home on H.G. Trueman Road in Lusby. Troopers went to the H.G. Trueman residence and spoke with Gibson, who told troopers he had dropped Foster off at a convenience store in California, Md., and had not heard from her since.
Det. Rich of the Calvert Investigative Team was called in to assist in the investigation. Police said Gibson gave them conflicting information in his account of recent events and he was taken to CIT offices for questioning. Additional CIT personnel, Sgt. Jones, Sgt. Naughton, Tfc. Hunt and Det. Mudd, were called to assist in conducting the investigation.
Police said during Gibson's interview, he told police about the argument and the alleged homicide. He allegedly then took investigators this morning to the location of the body in the woods south of Leonardtown. CIT investigators met with troopers and deputies from the St. Mary's County Bureau of Criminal Investigations at the scene. Foster's body was recovered and taken to the Maryland Medical Examiner's Office in Baltimore for an autopsy.
Rich with the Calvert County Sheriff's Office and Sgt. Jones with MSP are continuing the investigation. Anyone with additional information can contact them at 410-535-1600, ext. 2765 or ext. 2455.


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There is a right time and a wrong time to reduce national deficits. Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned the hard way, as Europe and the United States are today. Many economists and corporate analysts have long understood this truth.
FDR, shackled by old-school thinking, erroneously thought national economies were like households and national deficits were always dangerous. He didn't understand that your spending is my income and my spending is your income and if we all save we hurt ourselves by reducing what people want to buy ("demand"). (Saving is way up in the United States today.)
FDR's costly New Deal program stimulated the economy until in 1937 when he cut federal spending to balance the budget. He thereby killed a sustained economic recovery and plunged the economy back into a depression. The New Deal, like Obama's stimulus, didn't spend enough. What ended the depression was a much larger federal spending program called World War II.
British economist John Maynard Keynes explained the process. The time for government to increase spending and cut taxes is during economic downturns and the time to cut deficits is when the economy has recovered. History has borne him out.
The United States and Europe fell into recession in 2008 for many of the same reasons: collapse of housing bubbles, wildly speculative private financial practices (gambling through derivatives, speculative lending without adequate reserves, financial deregulation, more) - though the level of outright criminal fraud by large financial institutions was far worse in the US and notwithstanding the global impact of the English banking LIBOR scandal.
It's important to distinguish between the causes of the collapse and the root cause of today's budget deficit and our ailing economy. The story includes decreased federal revenue caused by Bush's irresponsible tax cut for the rich while increasing spending through two unfunded wars and Obama's expanding one of Bush's wars. The economic collapse itself is a major cause because it decreased tax revenue and increased spending for unemployment insurance, increased food stamps, etc.
We are still in a "demand recession." That is, the private sector (you, me, corporations) as well as the public sector (federal, state, local governments) have cut way back on demand. Corporations are not investing their hordes of cash and are not hiring because there isn't the demand to justify such expenditures. As for the public, an obscene number are suffering because of high unemployment, foreclosures, being underwater on their homes plus decades of flat earnings for most everyone except the rich, plus increasing inequality - all of which depress public demand. Meanwhile, non-defense government spending has been slashed by more than one trillion, further decreasing demand. Today, only increased government spending can close the demand gap.
Yet we talk of following Europe's example of dropping the austerity bomb on ourselves. A return to recession is what austerity brought Europe.
Nonetheless some insist the deficit is crisis number one and we must address it by cutting government spending now. Think of the debt our children will inherit, they say. And, they add, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are the major culprits. Wrong and wrong again!
Social Security can be made whole for decades with a few simple adjustments such as increasing the income level of those who pay Social Security taxes. Long term, there is a major crunch coming in health care and we must find ways to control costs, but that crisis isn't now.
Today the crisis is jobs. A just-published study by Rutgers University finds that a third of households have either lost a job or have a family member who lost a job. But now that the election is over, Republicans no longer talk about jobs and Obama did not even mention that crisis in his inauguration speech.
Those who hate government and its profit-reducing regulations want to privatize everything from building army latrines in Afghanistan to education, prisons, health care to you name it, even though government does some things better and cheaper than private enterprise. The nation is throttled by those who want to turn Social Security over to Wall Street and health care back exclusively to the insurance companies - and a president who partially buys into outdated economic ideas that history has proven false.
Ned Harper is retired from teaching at Dine' College in Tsaile and Shiprock, has lived in the Four Corners since 1978, and now lives on Summit Ridge.


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Talk about odd timing. Today Qualcomm gave information about their Quick Charge 1.0 system, a method by which modern smartphones can re-charge up to 40% faster than predecessors.
Qualcomm also provided a list of 70 supported devices and yes, the HTC 8S, 8X, Samsung ATIV S and Nokia Lumia 820, 822, 920 and 920T (China) are all also on board. It's a neat and subtle feature that's all part of the new Snapdragon chipset, requiring no new hardware—basically if you own one of these phones, you already have it and have been using it.
At least they didn't tell us our smartphones are made out of people.
If you're wondering why devices like the Samsung ATIV Odyssey, Lumia 810, 620 or other Windows Phone may not be on that list, there could be two reasons: Either Qualcomm omitted them from the presser, only wanting to highlight some phones or the feature was omitted.
Like most SoC (System on Chip), the Snapdragon has features that can be enabled or disabled according to the OEM's request. The reason for not turning them on is simply cost: every item you "turn on" requires more money. In order to keep costs down, some lower-end or mid-range phones may omit certain features e.g. gyroscope or compass.
Evidently Qualcomm "obtained this technology through the acquisition of Summit Microelectronics in June of last year". Regardless, why bring up Quick Charge *1.0* now, just weeks before Mobile World Congress? Hopefully we just drew you a connection.
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Connectivity and productivity are twin jet engines on the new business model. Without one, the other loses power.
Airport Wi-Fi has helped fill the gaps between reports and video conferencing while en route; however, in-flight connectivity has been a little sketchy. Thanks to improved cellular and satellite technology and multimedia platforms, it's easier than ever to keep the rest of the team up to date on action items (and maybe watch a movie, too).
The following gadgets and services for business travelers will help you get the most out of your in-flight Wi-Fi experience.
In-flight entertainment
Okay, so working might not be your idea of "entertainment." However, when you synch up with the in-flight entertainment (IFE) system, you also have the option to watch videos, message, play games and in some cases do a little video chatting while thousands of feet above terra firma.
Aircell's Gogo is positioning itself as a leader in IFE with a newly improved multimedia platform and feistier cellular base stations that bolster the Aircell Central Processing Unit (ACPU) aboard planes. Content is pushed from the cockpit to your device, so it's more streamlined.
Gogo lists the following airlines as participants in its attempt to take over the cloudwaves: Air Canada, Air Tran, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta, Frontier, United, US Airways and Virgin America. The next step is international flights, which relies more on satellite technology.
Row44, offered on Southwest and Lufthansa, specializes in satellite-based broadband. The private-labeled portal includes IPTV, video and audio content, shopping sites, texting, games, travel information and special offers.
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Approximately 68 percent of people already fly with their own Wi-Fi-enabled device. Whether it's a laptop, netbook, smartphone or tablet, most business travelers know the mobile-office drill. If for some reason you don't have one on you, or you had to check it last minute because the guy in 17F used up the last overhead luggage space, some airlines will give you one.
Virgin America teamed up with Google in late June to offer Chromebooks on flights from San Francisco to Boston, Chicago O'Hare and Dallas airports until September 20; passengers can pick up one at the gate and use the cloud-based computer for free. American Airlines gives "premium cabin" passengers access to its IFE systems with Samsung 10.1-inch Galaxy Tabs. Offerings are slim at the moment, but after the beta period, who knows?
In-flight instant messaging
While more of a communication tool than a gadget, Inflight Messenger enables passengers to stay connected with up to 25 business associates at once while in-flight. It makes use of the aircraft's Wi-Fi to provide real-time, two-way communications. Inflight Messenger also offers a history function and a calendar that allows users to input appointments, events, and schedules.
Airborne smartphone
You won't be able to make calls with Aircell's new Android-based smartphone unless you have access to the company jet. Designed specifically for private aircraft use, the phone has a "big, bright, 3.8 color touchscreen display" and boasts a "high-touch design with expert use of colors, materials, and finishes." Not available until late 2011, the Aircell Smartphone seems to be out of reach for must of us plebes—we'll just have to stick to in-flight browsing with our iPhones and Androids.
Merging ideas
While there's some debate as to which device is better—seat-centric or handheld—Virgin has invested in seat panels; and, Panasonic has just come out with its own IFE system called eX3. It's a dual-screen system that uses both a seatback monitor and a smaller handheld device. Rumor has it that the controller has a capacitive touch screen and 3D capabilities. Users will have access to movies, music videos, the Internet, games and possibly video conferencing.
Other essentials
With all of this nifty gadgetry, remember to carry battery extension devices, earphones and other essentials that will support your in-flight experience. And just because you're flying high, don't forget to keep yourself grounded and safe. Use the same Wi-Fi rules in the air that you do on the earth. You still need to protect your passwords and identity, especially in the close quarters of an airplane.
Here are some additional trends to watch:
The "Hang-Up Act", which disallows the use of mobile phones (and VoIP), is currently in flux. If the language changes, this could mean even more connectivity.
Other airlines may mimic Virgin America and offer perks such as open-source gaming and flying chat rooms.
Some IFEs may integrate with other on-air services such as communication with the flight staff (message: "Please bring me a Heineken (14C).").


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Earlier today we've seen a dizzying amount of updates rolling out for a variety of Windows Phone devices around the globe. It started with the Lumia 920 beginning to roll out GDR2 for our friends down under on Telstra. We then pieced together this wasn't going to be an isolated occurrence once reports of more Lumia 920s around the globe began seeing the update. Then Verizon and T-Mobile joined the action and started pumping out updates for the Lumia 928, the Lumia 521, and the Lumia 810.
It's been dizzying to keep up, but what about our friends running devices like the Lumia 620, 720, and 820? When do you get your update?
Over at the Nokia Conversations blog they've informed the world that the GDR2/Amber updates for Lumia devices indeed is beginning a large rollout. The rollout is starting for the Lumia 920 and 820 in selected countries. But they expect the update to reach your Lumia before the end of the September.
That means if you didn't see a post from us earlier today about a device you haven't been forgotten just yet when it comes to GDR2/Amber. Although it certainly would appear that the priority is to get the update to devices with a larger install base first.
Nokia's set up a support page where you can view your region and see the status of the rollout. For example, Nokia Lumia 920 users on AT&T here in the United States are currently listed as "waiting for approval".
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The Department of Finance and Administration said it expected the state to end the current fiscal year with nearly $4.87 billion in net available revenues.
Arkansas finance officials on Wednesday predicted the state will end the next fiscal year with a $13.8 million surplus, despite a series of tax cuts lawmakers enacted during this year's legislative session.
The Department of Finance and Administration said it expected the state to end the current fiscal year with nearly $4.87 billion in net available revenues. That's about $38.2 million higher than state officials predicted last year. The state's fiscal year begins July 1.
In addition to next year's projected surplus, the revised forecast for the current year means the state will have $38.2 million in unused surplus money that lawmakers could tap during next year's legislative session, DFA Director Richard Weiss said.
Lawmakers last week approved legislation divvying up $170 million in surplus money for various one-time needs around the state.
The department also said the net available revenues for the coming fiscal year would reach nearly $4.96 billion, which would be $10.3 million higher than originally predicted. The revised forecast factors in about $10 million in tax cuts that were part of a package of reductions lawmakers approved during this year's fiscal session.
Parts of the package set to take effect in the coming year include reductions in the state's income tax and an income tax exemption for armed service members' pay. The reductions in the package are eventually expected to cost the state more than $140 million a year.
The department said the state next year is expected to fund all three categories in the Revenue Stabilization Act, which prioritizes state spending based on revenues. It also means the state would be able to put $18.9 million in a "Rainy Day Fund" that can be tapped for emergencies, with $13.8 million left over as surplus.


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I guess I just don't understand why discussing religion/philosophy is seen as such a boring task by much of the general populace? Might also have something to do with the fact that I am still a young guy and would rather discuss metaphysics than clubbing, when in fact most people my age would rather discuss the converse. ÂÂ
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Thread revival time!My name "ironchapman" comes from my e-mail which I developed in the eighth grade for my computer applications class. I was attending Chapel Hill Middle school, so I took the "chap" from there and added "man" because I'me a guy. I originally went with "goldchapman" because gold was a school color, but I forgot the password to that e-mail. Tried "silver" with the same result. Then, I looked at the periodic table in my school-given agenda book. First metal I saw was "iron", and I made sure to remember it. It's been that way ever since.Nerdy, but it's unique enough that it's never taken.
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With their expansion in Europe well underway and new technology in the works, Seattle graduate, PetHub announced they have secured $375,000 of a $750,000 round. The recent funding is being led by Rudy Gadre, a former Facebook general counsel and Amazon executive, as well as the angel investor network Zino Society, which awarded the startup $50,000 after it won the Zino Marketplace Competition.
John Cook of GeekWire covered the story in the article "PetHub scores cash to make sure Fido, Rover, and Spot never go missing again".
Through the use of QR code imprinted identification tags, PetHub enables lost pets to get home faster than ever before. Founder, Tom Arnold describes the service as a "Facebook for Pets", as registered animals are linked to a database with their online profile. Through the use of PetHub's patented technology, lost pets carry with them critical information, including multiple contact numbers and pet health data.
The subscription based service has taken off recently, and is in the process of expanding to select cities in Europe and additional locations in the United States. They are also in the process of developing new technology, including new software services, which they plan to debut next month.
PetHub is a graduate of the Seattle Founder Institute and was a finalist at the 9th Founder Showcase. After pitching at the March 2012 Showcase, they raised a $1.3mm round to fuel their initial growth. The 6 person company has raised $1.5 million to date and according to Arnold, will break even by the end of this year.
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