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OVB Outside Vertical Bar
VRCB Volatility Reduced Compression Bar
Brent Crude Oil (March '13):
- Short Term Trends are bullish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 01/15/13 @ 111.23. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 12/12/12 @ 107.17. Upside Targets = 117.89 – 121.21.
- VRCB generated on Thursday making new highs on current move @ 117.83.
- March Brent Crude narrowly avoided breaking through the spot highs at $117.95 made last September on Thursday as it traded within a tight range and could not sustain the momentum throughout most of the day until after the pit-session closed.
- Look for Brent to make new highs for the week on Friday and trade to the weekly upside objective of $118.27.
- Projected Daily Range: 1.56
- Projected Weekly Range: 3.26
- Projected Monthly Range: 6.75
WTI Crude Oil (March '13):
- Short Term Trends are bullish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 02/01/13 @ 96.83. Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 02/04/13 @ 96.17. Downside Targets = 94.84 – 93.99.
- March WTI Crude Oil was also unable to sustain an early pop higher as it dropped to close in the lower 20% of the daily trading range and below $95 for the first time in nearly two weeks.
- WTI's inability to make a significant push lower throughout the session points the direction of Friday's trading higher as the market looks to resume its bull run and close the spread between itself and Brent.
- Projected Daily Range: 1.59
- Projected Weekly Range: 2.61
- Projected Monthly Range: 6.42
Natural Gas (March '13):
- Short Term trend is bullish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 01/31/13 @ 3.345. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 02/05/13 @ 3.399. Upside Targets = 3.535 – 3.554.
- Bearish ERVB generated on Thursday.
- March Natural Gas dropped sharply lower on Thursday as storage withdrawals badly missed expectations and the market approached the lows of the week going into the close.
- Expect for a mild short-covering rally to unfold on Friday before continued bearish momentum drops the market through to possibly four-week lows.
- Projected Daily Range: .114
- Projected Weekly Range: .250
- Projected Monthly Range: .492


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Fans share baseball stories at Memory Lab
Of the more than 7,000 stories submitted so far to the Baseball Memory Lab, a joint effort of the Major League Baseball Origins Committee and MLB Advanced Media, there is one by a longtime Red Sox fan named Sheldon Siegel that begins with a most appropriate word:
Of the more than 7,000 stories submitted so far to the Baseball Memory Lab, a joint effort of the Major League Baseball Origins Committee and MLB Advanced Media, there is one by a longtime Red Sox fan named Sheldon Siegel that begins with a most appropriate word:
Indeed, his word is the very reason for BaseballMemoryLab.com, a repository of those stories that are unforgettable to each individual and worth preserving for future generations. It is the public's collective statement on baseball's importance, combined in one place with rich archival research, including baseball's origins and its growth.
Siegel shared his own account of what happened on Sept. 28, 1960, as Ted Williams homered off Baltimore right-hander Jack Fisher in the bottom of the eighth inning. It was the Splendid Splinter's 521st homer and the final at-bat of his career. Siegel reflects:
Unforgettable. In the stands on that dark, overcast afternoon at Fenway. Only 12,000+ in the stands. Last game of the series. Sox going to NY for last three games, which everyone thought would be last games of Ted's career. But that afternoon in Fenway, in his last at-bat, Ted lofted one into the mist. The ball was lost in the fog. When it came down it was in bullpen. It was Teddy Ballgame's last AB and a home run. Ted never went to NY that weekend. But I went home with the greatest memory a Sox fan could have.
What is your greatest memory of the national pastime?
Was it a game you shared with a parent, rich with meaning as you built a relationship -- or the first time you took your infant son or daughter to the ballpark? Was it a hero's milestone, like the Texas fan's story about being at Nolan Ryan's 5,000th career strikeout? Was it your own youth-ball exploits, or maybe watching Kirby Puckett's heroics in the 1991 World Series?
Some of us have prominent vehicles to share our stories. Some of us tell them privately to family and pass them down to a next generation. The Baseball Memory Lab project is the place where they all can come together in the shape of a unique history penned by the people, reflecting the bedrock place baseball has in the history and culture of a nation.
"We continue to see how Americans connect to each other and to the larger world around them through baseball," said John Thorn, MLB official historian. "President Obama, in describing his foreign policy initiatives, said last month, 'You hit singles, you hit doubles; every once in a while we may be able to hit a home run. But we steadily advance the interests of the American people and our partnership with folks around the world.'
"Baseball provides us with a family album, filled with snapshots of people we care about deeply, even if we have never met them in person. They enter our lives and enrich them, their actions planting the seeds of memory and framing it for us. If you are a Twins fan, what do you recall about the 1965 World Series, who you were at that time, and what you were doing? Baseball pins down recall of our own past, and that is what the Memory Lab looks to capture: personal intersections of this great game, our great country, and our not-so-ordinary lives."
In addition to your memories and extensive historical information about the game, the Baseball Memory Lab offers a terrific Henry Chadwick Archive, which gives a personal sense of the "Father of Baseball" (1824-1908) beyond what one might read in the histories.
Chadwick wrote prolifically about baseball from its earliest years in the mid-1800s. Most of his baseball writings were bequeathed to Albert Spalding, who gave them as part of his sports collection to the New York Public Library. The remaining poetry, writing and memorabilia were inherited by his wife, Jane Botts Chadwick, then his granddaughter, and finally his great-great granddaughter. The family sold the material to a private individual in 2002 as a single collection intended for museum display. The collector gave a photocopy of each item to the family, and it is these copies which comprise the archive.
You continue to augment that history with your own narrative, one that is ever-changing with each new day and night of live games. Your story will be added alongside that of Commissioner Bud Selig's account of what happened one night in 1957, when Hank Aaron homered in the 11th inning and Milwaukee secured its first pennant.
That was the first story at the Baseball Memory Lab, and it is augmented with the box score and play-by-play from that game, as well as video highlights. You can share personal reflections and photos, tagging them by favorite games, players, teams, ballparks and/or regions, ultimately creating the most comprehensive portal housing baseball memories.
"You'll meet friends who you didn't know existed and share a common bond," Thorn said. "If you can imagine 60 years from now, thinking about what fans thought back then. We are building an archive of tremendous historical importance. The game is not only what happens on the screen, but what happens on the other side of the screen. How do Americans interact with this game they love? I see this having enormous enduring benefits."
Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. Read and join other baseball fans on his MLB.com community blog.

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Friday, December 10, 2010
Comics 831 and 832: A Losing Game
[ALT: Ever notice how there aren't as many thunderstorms now as there were when you were a kid? Much like 'the shuffle on my MP3 player has a bias', this is occasionally true but universally believed. Brains are so interesting!]
Man, I get distracted for a couple days and Randy goes all shitty on us again. Hello, Randy! I'm glad you're back to your old self again.
Not much to say about the weather comic. It's a really boring observation--hey, ever notice how sometimes the weather breaks up around you? I think the joke is supposed to be that this actually happens because the weather people are stalking you and feed you false information or something? The alt text here bothers me, because I'm pretty sure "universally believed" is not, in fact, remotely accurate. Randy needs to stop making observations that aren't accurate and pretending he's found some fascinating insight into the workings of the human brain.
And then we have the tic-tac-toe comic! This is incredibly, incredibly boring. We get it, we've solved tic-tac-toe. It's an incredibly simple game. This poster is not visually interesting, intellectually interesting, or funny. It's a complete waste of time. It's also not the best way to present this data--it's not really very easy to read.
I hope Randy does more graphs of presenting information we intuitively grasp in a hard-to-read chart form. This could be a lot of fun! Maybe he can do a map of the local park, and note that the sidewalks do not present an optimal way to get from point A to point B. Maybe then someone will finally love him!
Too afraid to go to the forums for these.
UPDATE! A helpful reader offers this link, which is basically identical to Randy's comic in every way.
98 comments:
The force is strong in you, Rob. The forums are even more of a festering shithole than usual, even on 832. It's really not worth going there.ReplyDelete
The tic tac toe comic is so laughably illegible that I actually UNlearned how to play from trying to understand it, and like everyone else older than ten, I already understood optimal tic tac toe.ReplyDelete
"Your opponent has to be in idiot" is not a winning strategy unless you play against Randall's average fan, I guess.
I was thinking about the Tower of Hanoi while bored out of my skull last week, and thought, "You know what would make such a shitty XKCD that I'm surprised it doesn't already exist? A graph showing the relationship between the number of 'discs' and the number of moves required to solve it."
And now there's Tic Tac Toe, which is even more childish and stupid.
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2010 at 7:52 PM
argghh rob you're so boringReplyDelete
where the fuck is redux
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2010 at 8:07 PM
A graph showing f(n)=2^n-1?
Sorry if my sarcasm detector is broken.
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2010 at 8:10 PM
I'm anon 8:07 and I apologise for my stupid post.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Rob, you should point out his comic's likeness to the chart in the following link: http://www.stonybrook.edu/philosophy/fractal/2Tic.htmlReplyDelete
What... what the fucking fuck. I've never bought into the whole "RANDALL IS THE CHEATZ0R!1" storyline. But this... this is ridiculous.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2010 at 5:06 AM
He prob thought he had changed it enough by making it quite a bit worse than the original.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2010 at 7:12 AM
Someone on the forums linked to that same chart and added:ReplyDelete
"Though I admit Randall's version is a lot cleaner. I've seen this already before, and in different ways too, so I'm kinda sad, but still must've taken him a long time to do it."
So, somehow Randall's shitty version is "cleaner?" And even though it's been done before, Randy gets a pass because it "must've" taken him a loooong time!
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2010 at 8:35 AM
The holocaust took quite a long time too...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2010 at 9:11 AM
Yeah, but was the Holocaust done before, and in different ways?ReplyDelete
I've never, ever heard of the "more thunderstorms when you were a kid" thing. What the hell is Randy talking about? Or is he just pulling stuff out of his ass and acting like it's universal?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Of cause genoicde has been done before. In some cases even with the jews as its victems. What a silly question...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2010 at 12:13 PM
I can't be the only one who finds the alt-text really patronising. I mean, I find it INTERESTING, sure. But "Brains are so interesting!" complete with the exclamation mark is the kind of phony enthusiasm that a teacher might use while addressing a class of idiots. It's just not how anybody would ever speak.ReplyDelete
I don't always buy the "unrealistic dialogue" criticism, think it's slapped around a bit too much on this site, but that's a prime example if ever there was one - and it's just him expressing his inner feelings. Maybe he just speaks really bizarrely.
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2010 at 12:42 PM
I agree and it also wasn't even very relevent. I can think of many much greater examples that show how interesting and amazing the human brain is...
It kinda reminded me of when he made that comic about jokes in the past as though he was a genious for just realising this. When not only is it commen sense but there are also also unlimited proofs most obvious being shakespear.
Patronising and quite thick
...wow, Randall LITERALLY (not using the word ironically here) copied that tic tac toe fractal chart. Except for the shitty line work, and the fact that he automatically chose to start with the X in the upper right square instead of doing it the same as he did O (interestingly, the animation on the link anonymous 9:00 posted has X in the upper right corner when it starts).ReplyDelete
I feel like someone linked this in the other comment section, but I couldn't exactly find it, so here is a link of what Randall's chart is trying to do, but better:
Off topic...have you guys seen CAPTCHArt? Seems like something this crowd would enjoyReplyDelete
I solved Tic-Tac-Toe when I was around ten, and I don't even have particularly refined spatial reasoning skills. Try again when you solve *chess,* numbnuts.ReplyDelete
Nate, it's too bad you weren't being "ironic" about your use of the word "literally," because if you hadn't inserted that parenthetical you probably wouldn't have come off as a fucking dipshit who doesn't know what "literally" means.
But don't worry, your not as bad as the fuckwit who decided to compare these idle doodles to the Holocaust. Feeling nice and edgy in your lonely little corner? I certainly hope so.
I have life all figured out, yet at the end of the day I am so lonely...ReplyDelete
NT are stupid, I'm so superior!
PS. I am gayReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 5:49 AM
Sarge - "your" one to criticize grammar.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 5:58 AM
Haha who is this Sarge and whats he doing on the internet where everything is spelled wrong with bad grammer and everything is compared to the holocaust.ReplyDelete
Also i think 8:35 was being ironic. Ever heard comparing minor griveneces with huge global disastrous events for comic effect? Might not be very funny but there you go...
Your all dumasses. The holocaust was a thing where people died jeeze. Also I am the greatest chess player in my class, so suck that you conformist neurotypicals. I even mastered Tic Toe at the age of 10.ReplyDelete
Guys why are we expecting an army officer to both have the astounding spatial reasoning skills to solve a game as horribly complicated as tic-tac-toe at the age of 10, and the intellectual agility understand the punchline of anon 8:35.ReplyDelete
I mean really clearly this is the best and the brightest of the american military right here folks.
Nate: I wasn't criticizing grammar, I was criticizing lexical semantics. Get your head out of your ass.ReplyDelete
And you're comparing a passive mis-type to a lamp-shaded catachresis? Though I guess the joke's on me, because why the FUCK would I use the word "catachresis" around a fuckstick like you?
And I'm not in the military. Nice deductive reasoning, though.
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 9:22 AM
All i know is that if i had been in the holocaust i would be happy Sarge was here to whiteknight me.ReplyDelete
And for the record while i am desperatly lonely i don't regard a holocaust reference as 'edgy'.
So go fuck yourself.
:waves hand over head while making whooshing noise:ReplyDelete
Ves, why are you defending Randall Munroe? Are you running on auto-pilot? Are you even aware of the words you're typing?ReplyDelete
Nate: I wasn't criticizing grammar, I was criticizing lexical semantics. Get your head out of your ass.ReplyDelete
Um, I hadn't posted again since the last post with my name on it. I don't know why you think I was that anon. I pretty much own up to my posts no matter how stupid they are. But have fun pretending that you figured me out?
Sarge, it's also too bad you apparently know fuck-all about this site because it's been a running joke for a few weeks now where someone will say "This comic LITERALLY made me bleed out of my eyes and puke out my intestines!" due to a cuddlefish using the word "literally" incorrectly. The reason for my statement in parentheses was to indicate I was not using the word ironically as many people here do from time to time.
Also geez getting mad about Holocaust jokes? You might want to stay off the internet. I hear you can even see naked girls on it! Wouldn't want to destroy your innocent and pure mind after all.
"Though I guess the joke's on me, because why the FUCK would I use the word "catachresis" around a fuckstick like you?"ReplyDelete
Nate's use of "literally" was fine. He could have left the word out and lost no meaning, as his qualifier suggests, but it's nothing to attack him over.
However, "lexical semantics" is redundant. I suppose you thought it would make you sound smarter, though. Like using the word "catachresis" and splitting hairs on the difference between grammar and semantics. Your specialized knowledge (which I can tell you is not as deep as you seem to believe) does not give you the right to hold judgment over the intellects of others.
Joshua, if you're wondering why no one likes you (and I'm just making an educated guess based on the admittedly tiny evidence I have of your character), in the "real world" and on the Internet, it's because of shit like this. It's not everyone else; it's you. Learn something about interpersonal relations, check your ego, and have a nice day.
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 2:06 PM
Did you guys know that you can make yourself seem "credible" if you add in swearwords and make sure to offend every participant in the discussion? It's all about making sure everyone has to defend themselves, because if they attack you they're admitting their flaws, and if they defend it, then you are inherently flawless!ReplyDelete
Debate: a Solved Game.
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 4:11 PM
You're all big poopy heads...ReplyDelete
Do I win?
Sarge makes me miss Mr. Pitchy. Aaaah, the illiterate fuckheads of yore were so much more fun than the illiterate fuckheads of today.ReplyDelete
"However, "lexical semantics" is redundant."ReplyDelete
Wait, you mean you guys don't want to be my friends? Well, SHIT, I thought I was making such a good first impression.
Believe it or not, Nicholas, People who make Holocaust jokes (or "fucksticks" from now on) did not win a competition guaranteeing them the right to make such jokes without being called "Fucksticks." In fact, if these Fucksticks are clever enough to come up with a holocaust joke, I would think they're clever enough to defend themselves without needing you, Nicholas, to White Knight them on the XKCDSucks comments.
And it's cute that you guys think someone using the word "literally" incorrectly is funny enough to be a running "joke." Who knew the frequenters of XKCDsucks wouldn't appreciate someone criticizing their sense of humor.
and *Nicholas,* thank you for the advice on my interpersonal relationships. I can only reciprocate: If you're wondering why no one likes YOU, in real life or on the internet, it's probably because of your shitty fucking beard.ReplyDelete
And it's cute that you guys think someone using the word "literally" incorrectly is funny enough to be a running "joke."ReplyDelete
It's funny you say that since Randall kind of made a comic about someone using "literally" incorrectly and his fans thought it was comedy gold.
Anyway it was one of those things that you kind of had to be there for. You don't find it funny, that's fine. Inside jokes are kind of like that. My parenthetical statement was a note that I wasn't using the word "LITERALLY" in the joke way. I don't see why it's something to get mad over.
oh noes, someone is offended about a holocaust joke. Because there are Very Important Things That You Cannot Joke About Ever, you guys.ReplyDelete
Except, not.
Nate: Sarge has only recently discovered the internet, and even more recently discovered the fact that there are people with other opinions on it.
With any luck, he'll calm down when he reaches the ripe old age of 16.
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Ves, that is just when things start to get wild.ReplyDelete
So how do people find this place? I honestly can't remember how I got here.
Also, I'm pretty sure this covers it.
Captcha: uncakedd. That what happens an hour or so after you drink a lot at a birthday party.
fortuitous google searches and the occasional link, I think.ReplyDelete
Ves: you weren't around in the glory days of our best trolls. oh, for the days of Ryan Learn to return!
- UndercoverCuddlefishDecember 12, 2010 at 8:32 PM
seriously everybody here is a troll if you do not get it i cannot help youReplyDelete
- UndercoverCuddlefishDecember 12, 2010 at 8:33 PM
that was aimed at nobody in particularReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 8:42 PM
See the flowchart, we all end up the same if we aren't the "you guys have no talent" drones. Just hate them so much, those commie bastards.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 9:15 PM
I was recently in a discussion with jokes, jokes related to graphs and improperly labelled graphs in particular. And 833 doesn't amuse me, so I don't know.ReplyDelete
Maybe it's good and I am just blind, at least it has no PPD?
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 9:15 PM
I actually chuckled at 833. Starts off looking like a typical stupid xkcd graph joke, but subverts your expectations at the end while still being nerdy.ReplyDelete
However, it is kind of the same joke as 304. Guy sees apparently nerdy girl, but upon further examination finds a particular flaw in her nerdiness, doesn't like her anymore. I still liked it, though.
Any mention of 304 necessitates a link to this review of Ender's Game, explaining that Orson Scott Card's novels are nerd-porn: http://plover.net/~bonds/ender.htmlReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 9:38 PM
That was not necessary, only sufficient.ReplyDelete
Captcha: marry. Cool.
I thought 833 had potential, but Randy didn't quite exploit it enough.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 12, 2010 at 10:31 PM
I took some notes from goatkcd...ReplyDelete
Oh good golly gosh, another shitty awkward breakup comic! With GRAPHS, to boot!ReplyDelete
Also you guyses remakes are HILARIOUS. I especially like the goatkcd one. I wish goatkcd would actually break up the monotony by putting the goatse in a different panel where appropriate, but what can you do...
- FemalethothDecember 13, 2010 at 12:27 AM
Have any of you guys seen Flight of the Conchords? Remember the episode where Murray and the band become friends, and Murray graphs everything?ReplyDelete
Remember how much funnier that was than this new comic?
I'm pretty sure that randall doesn't label his axes consistently. I could be wrong- maybe it's just because he doesn't use a ruler and his graphs turn out looking like a chimpanzee with cereberal palsy was trying to do maths.ReplyDelete
Anyway- Randall's graphs are pretty fucking hard to reas
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 2:00 AM
goatkcd 832 actually made me laugh. "Map for O:"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 2:46 AM
Literally is perfectly acceptable as a metaphorical qualifier. You don't have to mean a word in its (lol) literal sense to use it. I really can't stand people who get on their high horses about it and act like they're the fucking guardians of language (or lexical semantics), when all you're doing is being a small-minded cunt with no real eye for how language (or lexical semantics) work, and have worked for millennia.ReplyDelete
I've done a limerick for this one, but I'm stopping putting them in the comments here and instead putting them in my new blog - limerixkcd!ReplyDelete
Wait, who the hell is RANDALL for making a joke about unlabelled graphs? He has been criticised countless times for having done exactly that!ReplyDelete
What a fucker.
you BASTARD learReplyDelete
you could at least have linked back to us
(no wonder you've had to start rhyming words with themselves)
- LostInSpaceDecember 13, 2010 at 4:43 AM
That chart is awesome.
Fernie Canto: I like to think he is making a self-aware joke about himself. Like to think that is.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 6:05 AM
Rnadall Munroe? Self-aware? HA! I could believe if he said instead "No, I just think I can do better than someone who makes graphs like these!"
This was... bland. This sort of baint-and-switch joke is actually pretty jarring for me. Especially when the characters talk something like this:
Funny one makes the build-up statement for the joke.
Straight one: "Oh, because ?"
Funny one: "No, because !"
I'll give it to him, there was no PPD here and he actually showed the build-up, but the format of the joke itself bothers me. And the floating heads that only get worse! But, seriously, I'll chalk this up to personal taste, I just don't enjoy these jokes.
Also, what was that cache site again? I forgot it. :|
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 6:09 AM
...oh, yes, Blogger doesn't parse < and >. Stupid me! =|ReplyDelete
"Funny one makes the build-up statement for the joke.
Straight one: "Oh, because <common interpretation of the statement expected by the reader>?"
Funny one: "No, because <wacky interpretation of that same statement>!"
- DefiantDecember 13, 2010 at 6:12 AM
NEWEST COMIC SUCKED ASSReplyDelete
Seriously? He already made this joke. And I loved it then. Now it just pisses me off.
@Anon 2:46ReplyDelete
"Literally is perfectly acceptable as a metaphorical qualifier. You don't have to mean a word in its (lol) literal sense to use it."
Perhaps not, but "literal" is necessarily an exception in that it means, "This next part is NOT metaphorical." It's because words can be used in so many ways that something like "literally" needs to have one and only one meaning.
"He was on fire." <- a figure of speech saying someone was doing really well
"He was literally on fire." <- this means that the person is BURNING
How are you going to convey that the person needs to be extinguished if "literally" is just a synonym for "really"?
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 7:50 AM
sign language, duhReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 8:29 AM
Are we really going back to this "literal" discussion?
Well, I have a suggestion: context. You can tell that the person needs to be extinguished by context.
Besides, "really" is also a way of conveying "literally", as is "actually". In the end, I think one big part of language is context.
@Gamer_2k4, ProMoleReplyDelete
As usual, Buttersafe has it covered.
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 11:05 AM
@Ann, Gamer_2k4ReplyDelete
I knew I should never enter this discussion. It was worth a laugh, though. :P
Re 833: It's a shame...things had largely been getting better of late. Cringe-worthy exceptions, of course, but...this just makes me want to vomit. We've seen this joke before, Randy. Using the same jokes isn't allowed unless you use it in a novel way or thoroughly subvert it, and tweaking the punchline a bit isn't acceptable to me.ReplyDelete
833 has got to be self-parody. I know, I know. You generally won't go broke betting on Randall's lack of self awareness, but this is an exception. The density of obliviousness required for 833 not to be self-parody would create a black-hole of clueless and rip the fabric of space time.ReplyDelete
833 has the same setup/joke as 701 (with genders reversed). 701 has a graph with the axes unlabeled.
Is there a single graph xkcd that actually labels the axes properly? I can't find one. Most do have a label on the axes, but aside from ones with Google results, I haven't seen any that have the units on the both axes (there are a few that give the x-axis units). I realize the Google ones actually have real data behind them, and the rest are just made up for the joke, but I'm not even asking for real numbers. Just "low"/"high" would be good. Lord knows the media loves to present graphs where the axes lack units, which I would say is a worse sin than not explaining the difference between a million and a billion, but apparently Randall is OK with this kind of innumeracy.
Jesus goddamn assfucking shit cocksucking tit bitch motherfucker Christ why are the fucking heads floatingReplyDelete
Finally when randy's writing is no longer spectacularly, face-meltingly shitty, his art still is
Rob is fat
Raven please let me know if I forgot to include anything essential
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 6:59 PM
@Ves: You forgot to include a MEANINGFUL LIFE.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 9:59 PM
WHERE IS REDUX!!!!!ReplyDelete
I think that finals week is really kicking the shit out of the xkcd hate blogs. Fucking college students, its going to get even worse when they get into the real world. Unless you're Randall Monroe, then you can be a t-shirt selling man-child for life.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 7:56 AM
Capn, I think Randall thinks he is sorta like Peter Pan, and he is just trying to bring some magic into people's lives, k? And by "bring some magic" we obviously mean "drag them away from their comfortable lives into a world of for-real pirates lacking any form of social infrastructure". Also he refuses to grow up and keeps hanging out with younger kids despite being born, like, 10 years before them. Maybe that is too many years, maybe it is not enough who knows.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 7:58 AM
Also, real post-secondary [sucks to your americo-centric "colleges"] students won't study for their finals until the day-of. That's what got me my 0 in business, very proud of that. Fuck business.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 8:00 AM
Also, Fuck Randall Munroe.ReplyDelete
Captcha: goricky. Fuck Randall, go ricky! woooo
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 1:53 PM
Ravenzomg what the fuck are you on about?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Shits goin' down over at redux...ReplyDelete
Damn, I'm gonna miss redux and his vicious little shitfits. Sad face.ReplyDelete
@ anon 1:53- You're just not in raven's target audience.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 4:48 PM
whoa what the hell is happening at redux, he's postin spambot ads in hex and binary form and a link to comic 792ReplyDelete
I have no fucking clue. A hack, maybe?ReplyDelete
Somehow I severely doubt he's simultaneously smart enough to write decent criticism of xkcd strips and childish enough to have this as a victory dance if he were, in fact, trolling the whole time.
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 4:55 PM
if it's been randall the whole time then the guy is a brilliant comedian, who knewReplyDelete
Rob you cheeky bastardReplyDelete
Hmm, all the redux pages that popped up are gone now. Hack denied?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Oh, it's a silly hacker-cuttlefish or something.ReplyDelete
He said "xkcdsucks is next." then deleted all of his hax-posts
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 5:44 PM
heyy it's back to "the xkcd hate will never die" and not "xkcd: suprisingly good"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 6:07 PM
Ves, you ARE my target audience <3.ReplyDelete
Also, wait, people come here expecting us to critique XKCD? That was, like, so last year.
Who wants gratuitous colour which doesn't particularly add an element of professionalism in Wednesday's update? Too bad, you're getting it.
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 7:15 PM
Bluh. An imitation of a hacker that apparently thinks a blog is a threat to Randall Munroe's business...ReplyDelete
Okay, let's lay down the big picture here. This blog has been running for two years now, I think. XKCD fandom is as strong now as it was before, especially with the addition of high school nerds. What I mean is: if you think we make a difference to XKCD, you're way insecure about the quality of the comic.
Also, I just saw now the notices on Google Reader and, if I really know reader as well as I think I do, it'll stay there forever. Here's something:
"Way to insult the one webcomic community that knows most about programming/hacking/etc."
Yes. So good hackers that the site didn't stay down. So good at programming all he did was use Wordpress to... write posts! OMYGOD, so much l337n322!
PS.: I personally prefer my first theory that the author of redux suffered a breakdown of Dave Sim proportions.
I just lost the game...ReplyDelete
Personally, I'm amused that he went for the least-trafficked xkcd-hate site. Not the flagship or anything, just a 2-month old blog that was dying anyhow.ReplyDelete
I guess blogger was resistant to his ub3r-1337 h4x0rz?
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2010 at 9:02 PM
834: Welp, at least he's keeping current.ReplyDelete
"Way to insult the one webcomic community that knows most about programming/hacking/etc."ReplyDelete
Lessee. Gawker called 4chan a bunch of script kiddies or something. Some hackers calling themselves Gnosis took all of Gawker's passwords and put them in a torrent where they said something like "see, we're not all script kiddies".
Then some script kiddie xkcd fanboi downloads the password file, and finds that somebody associated with xkcdsuxredux used the same password on Gawker and the blog. Script kiddies like xkcd.
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2010 at 3:03 AM
Given the clues given in the posts that were now deleted(a reference to xkcd 731), that's most probable. I forgot about the Gawker incident, even though it was... yesterday.
Nonetheless, there's a good hacker there: the kiddie didn't even bother changing the password.
...Who the hell actually refreshes the weather radar?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2010 at 1:40 AM
Well, how about this? I've chopped the diagonal of X and Y, as there's symmetry there, and merged them into one square.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2010 at 1:42 AM
Err... diagonals of X and O.ReplyDelete


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Amritsar (ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ) is a holy city in the state of Punjab, India.
The name of the city derives from the name of the pool around the Golden Temple (aka Harmandir Sahib) and means "holy pool of nectar" (Amrit: elixir; Sar: (short for sarovar) lake). It is the spiritual and cultural center of the Sikh religion, and they are rightfully very proud of the city and their very beautiful and unique Gurdwara (place of worship). The Golden Temple was initiated by Guru Ramdaas Ji, the fourth Sikh Guru, and completed in 1601 by his successor Guru Arjan Dev Ji. It is now a major pilgrimage and tourism center.
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Best time to visit Amritsar is in the winter, between October and March
Sri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport (IATA: ATQ) [2] is about 11 km and a 15-20 minutes drive from the city center. It's one of the modern airports in India and quite adequate if not exactly exciting. Most flights are to Delhi, an hour away, but there are an increasing number of international connections: British Midland International (bmi) flies to London via Almaty [3], Jet flies to London, Air India flies to Toronto via London and Air Slovakia flies to Bergamo, Barcelona and Birmingham via Bratislava. There are also surprising numbers of flights to Central Asia (eg. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan). Qatar Airways now flies to Doha
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Amritsar (IR station code : ASR) is an important railway station and is well connected to major cities in India through daily trains. Trains can be booked online [4], at the train station or, most conveniently, at the small booking office in the Golden Temple Complex.
Here are some useful trains to get to Amritsar:
It's advisable to book your return train ticket as soon as you arrive in Amritsar, or before if you know the exact date, as trains are often heavily booked.
Also see Rail travel in India
By car
Long-distance taxis are available from most places. It takes around 6-7 hours from New Delhi via NH-1.
Amritsar is well-connected by bus to most major cities and the northern areas within a days drive. Pathankot is about 2.5 hours away and about 100 kms away, JALANDHAR is about 80 kms from here, KAPURTHALA (royal city) is about 65 kms from here and there are daily direct buses to New Delhi, Jammu, Katra, Chandigarh, Dharamsala (once daily, ~6 hours), etc.You can find Volvo buses from Chandigarh , Delhi and Katra to Amritsar.
From Pakistan
If coming from Wagah at the Pakistani border, take a cycle-rickshaw (Rs 15, 3km) to the Attari station, where you can catch a local bus to Amritsar (Rs 20, 25 km).
Taxis also use this route and charge around Rs 200 for the entire vehicle.
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You can easily visit Amritsar by car. There are many car rental companies available.
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As you arrive near the complex, you will more likely than not be accosted by hawkers trying to sell you bandannas to cover your head. It's not a bad souvenir for Rs.10, but there's also a big barrel of free ones to choose from at the entrance itself. Deposit your shoes at the subterranean building to the left of the entrance, wash your feet at the entrance and head in.
All Sikhs are expected at some point in their lives to volunteer for a week at the temple, and everyone you see working here is fulfilling that duty. It's likely possible that you can join in if you feel so inclined - you could enquire by asking the people outside peeling vegetables, or those washing dishes.
There are very few Decent Non Veg Joints near the temple complex.
Lassi is the good Yoghurt(Curd) Drink there in Amritsar.
All indian and imported alcoholic drinks are available at the omnipresent licenced liquor stores with prices ranging from Rs 100 for a local english whisky to Rs 1000 for good scotch whisky like teachers.
Stay safe
The sectarian strife of the 1980s is just a bad memory and Amritsar is currently a safe and welcoming city, if a little polluted.
There are quite a few good internet surfing facilities in Amritsar. Reliance WebWorld and Sify Internet kiosks are located at strategic locations.
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Once you reach there around 4:00PM, you will join a crowd of thousands of people who have also come for a glimpse of the ceremony. Before the actual event, you need to stand in a not so organized crowd in the heat and dust for around 2 hours and fight your way from one checkpost to another. There are no sheds, so it gets pretty hot and sweaty unless you go in the winters.Be prepared for that. Not everyone can manage it. If you have a small baby with you, please think twice before visiting. Security at the border is very high - you'll be searched twice and water and cigarettes confiscated.
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Gov. Jack Markell issued mandatory evacuation orders this evening for numerous coastal and flood-prone areas throughout the state, including dozens of communities in Sussex County. The evacuation period begins at 8 p.m. tonight.
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I'm back from Hamburg. Eberhard Kuegler took me on a tour of the Reepabahn where we found a whole bunch of famous Beatle sites. It was the 49th anniversary of the day The Beatles played their first ever show in Hamburg at the Indra club. The Indra is still there, but was closed that day. Still I got a photo of the plaque commemorating the event. In spite of the date stamp which I can't figure out how to turn off that says every photo was taken on Oct. 1, 2003, the photo was taken on Aug. 17th.
We also visited the former site of the Star Club (now torn down), the Kaiserkeller, the church behind which the Beatles reportedly pissed because the Kaiserkeller's toilets were so foul, a pub where Paul McCartney had a tab from 1962 that he finally paid off in 1989, and an abstract statue of the late Stu Sutcliffe, the Beatles' original bassist. We looked for the Bambi Kino, where The Beatles slept and burned a condom stuck on the wall, but we couldn't find it. All this stuff is within a couple blocks.
I also discovered Pranke, the world's coolest monster movie mag! Gosh!
So I was thinking about how to describe this whole "avoid preferences" thing. I think most people, when they first hear it, think of it the way I did when I first heard it. You think, "Oh my God! I like vanilla better than chocolate! I like The Ramones better than Air Supply! I like laying on the beach better than getting hit in the face with a 2x4! What am I going to do???"
In other words you think, like I did, that preferences are a solid thing that must be gotten rid of. You imagine that there must be some kind of bizarre mental gymnastics involved in forever ridding yourself of all like and dislike so that someday when you go to Ben & Jerry's and they ask you what flavor you want you'll just smile beatifically and say, "Give me whatever you like, for lo, I am free from preferences."
But it's much more immediate and direct than that. It's also the answer to one of my most frequently asked questions -- the one that goes, "My brain is all clogged up and scattered when I do Zazen. Am I doing it wrong?"
The answer to that question is directly related with the matter of preferences. Your brain is all cloudy but you'd prefer that it not be. The difference between what you are and what you think you ought to be causes your imagination to leap wildly. You try to go from where you are to this idealized state. But it's a losing battle because the attempt to change from what you are to what you think you should be is the very problem itself.
The solution is to simply forgo preferences. Don't make any effort to be what you're not. Just allow what you are to fully manifest. Keep your posture and stay still. Sit with it. Don't go against it.
On a completely unrelated topic, since I'm going to be speaking to lots of Dogen Sangha folks on this Euro trip, I've been thinking a lot about what Dogen Sangha ought to be.
Truth be told, I'd like nothing better than to give up Dogen Sangha entirely. I am not interested in being the head of an organization at all. I don't like institutions. I don't like clubs. I am not a group joiner and I don't even have the slightest interest in being the leader of one.
I'm not really certain what Dogen Sangha should be. But I know what I don't want it to be. It can never become an institution along the lines one of those giant soul-killing religious machines. I won't name names because that just makes people mad. But there are dozens of these monsters roaming the world eating up people and turning them into mindless clones who only seek to extend the size and power of the institution.
Institutions like these develop something like a mind and will of their own. It's hard to say just how this happens. But I've been watching this work over the past few months in a couple of places and it's very, very scary. Individuals begin to bend their own will to the will of the institution and are very quickly turned into its pawns. They have no idea this is happening. They'll even claim to be going against the will of the machine while simultaneously doing exactly what it wants. Even the leaders of these institutions are powerless against their institution's will.
I want nothing at all to do with anything like that and I will walk away from Dogen Sangha if it ever begins to function in that manner. At any given moment I'm about a half second from cutting all ties with Dogen Sangha and this will probably remain the case until the day I finally get totally fed up and do so. If that becomes necessary. I hope it doesn't. I think it probably will...
The only aim of Dogen Sangha is to make Dogen's philosophy and the practice of zazen available. That's it. The organization should remain very loose, a vague affiliation of like-minded people. I'm not going to keep a roster of members or make pronouncements about what the members of the group should and should not believe or do. I don't really care, actually. I can't be bothered to spend any effort worrying about that kind of thing.
In the event someone should start doing something truly bizarre in the name of Dogen Sangha, then I might have to take some action. Until such time each local group should just carry on doing whatever it is they do.
That's all for today. Maybe I'll come up with some other stuff later.


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His arrest came after seven-hour stand-off in April.
Scott Conrad of Otisco Township was sentenced in Ionia County 8th Circuit Court Tuesday to 72 months to 20 years in prison, plus fines and costs, on a methamphetamine charge.
Conrad had pleaded guilty to one count of controlled substance operating/maintaining a methamphetamine lab as an habitual offender, third. In exchange for the plea, Conrad's minimum sentence was capped at 72 months in prison. As a habitual offender, he could have received life in prison.
Conrad's attorney, Bruce Lincoln, asked Judge David Hoort to consider reducing the sentence, noting that, while his client has "an extensive criminal history," it does not include "heinous crimes" and that this is his first meth charge.
"Your criminal history and the circumstances of this case justify the sentence," Hoort said.
Conrad will receive credit for 220 days served.
Conrad was arrested April 21 after a seven-hour stand-off with officers from the Ionia County Sheriff's Office and the Ionia County Critical Incident Team, who executed a search warrant for a residence on Flat River Trail.


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I guess I could say these are precisely the types of games that scare me most. The ones where 99.9% percent of everybody thinks we should win. I don't have enough fingers and toes to count how many games the Seahawks have sh*t the bed against much, much inferior teams. To lose this game against the Jets would have to manifest a Seahawks breakdown of biblical proportions.
Jets, if I were you, I wouldn't even bother getting off the bus.
Aros' Fearless Prediction: Seahawks 34 - Jets 6
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EVANS CITY — Anyone who parks on the designated emergency snow routes in the borough must move their cars Sunday night.
Police Chief Joe McCombs announced Friday that the borough's snow event ordinance will be observed from 10 p.m. on Sunday to at 6 a.m. Monday in anticipation of Snowstorm Titan, which may cause 6 inches or more of snow to collect.
McCombs said no vehicles are permitted to park along the streets on the snow route, and police can issue citations or tow vehicles that are not moved.
Those who normally park along the snow route can temporarily use EDCO Park, church parking lots, or the upper lot at the Evan City Elementary/Middle School during those hours.
"We intend to fully enforce this because of the (predicted) severity of the storm," McCombs said.
He said cars parked elsewhere temporarily should be moved as soon as possible after 6 a.m. Monday.
McCombs said if cars are not moved from the snow route, public works employees are unable to maintain two cleared lanes and traffic is reduced to one lane.
The borough's Swiftreach system, which notifies residents and business owners by text or e-mail of an important occurrence, will be used Sunday afternoon for the snow storm


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