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New London reports $220,000 budget surplus
New London - Last year at this time, the city had overspent budgets in nearly every department, had overestimated its tax collection rate by more than $1 million and had to take $3.7 million from its savings to balance the budget.
Oh, what a difference a year makes.
A preliminary report on the 2012-13 budget, which ended June 30, shows the city has about $220,000 in surplus. While revenues were $553,000 less than expected, the city underspent its $81 million budget by about $774,000.
Finance Director Jeffrey Smith, who presented the unaudited numbers to the City Council Finance Committee Monday night, received little comment from committee members.
"This is a pretty significant turnaround," Smith said. "The council should take some bows with this."
City Councilor Donald Macrino, chairman of the finance committee, said he would celebrate when the final audit is complete. Smith said he does not expect the numbers to change significantly when the final audited numbers come in.
"I think the conservative approach is better," Macrino said following the meeting. "When all the dust settles ... I think the major achievement of this council will be we stopped the hemorrhaging in the city. I think we've done that."
The budget, which covered July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013, is also the subject of a referendum today. Voters will be asked to approve the budget, even though the year ended nearly five months ago. Smith said today's budget vote will have no bearing on the budget since the taxes have already been collected and the money already spent.
In the 2012-13 budget, there was $490,000 surplus in the $39.8 million education budget, and more than $300,000 surplus in the $41 million general government budget.
Over expenditures included $200,000 in the fire department, about $200,000 in employee benefits, and $677,000 in former employee and retiree insurance.
Smith said each year the fire department is underfunded and runs a deficit. In 2011-12, the fire department overspent its budget by more than $550,000.
The other overages were mostly due to the large number of employees who retired, were laid off or left the city, he said.
Most of the loss in anticipated revenue - about $450,000 - came in reduction in state and federal grants. The city had estimated it would received about $33.8 million from state and federal grants. The actual number was closer to $33.3 million.
The city's savings account, also called a fund balance, is now just under $1.5 million.
Also on Monday, the City Council approved a $15,000 expenditure to Thames Valley Council for Community Action for its Meals on Wheels program, which was hit by sequestration cuts. TVCCA officials appealed to the council two weeks ago, saying it had to lay off employees and deliver frozen meals once a week rather than every few days because of about $20,000 cuts in federal funding.
The council also approved spending $52,349 for a new animal control vehicle, to replace an old one that has been out of service for several weeks. The money came from a $1 million bond package that the council approved last year to replace vehicles in the Public Works Department.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Comic 912: Never Forget
[Title: Manual Override; Alt Text: "I think you mean GNU Info Override"]
So! What to say about this comic here. Well, there's a lot one could say about it. There's a plane (with no snakes) that's crashing, and something about a GNU page. My question is, who cares. Who cares about this plane and this GNU page I don't even know what that is. I'll tell you what's more important than this stupid crap, and it's a little thing called Friendship. That's right boys and girls, today we're going to discover the importance of our fellow man.
The story I'm about to tell you is one of hope and perseverance and learning to trust others, even on the internet. I know this isn't your usual thing but just try to open your mind a bit and see where life takes you. I promise it will be worth your while.
There was once a man who was questioning his sexuality. He had, until recently, had a fetish for the mutilation of barn animals, and had developed a small internet community around that subject matter. Running that website became a way to escape the monotony of his minimum-wage job and disappointment at his various failures in life, and he made a great many friends who had bonded over their mutual object of obsession, an especially close bond when the object tends to be a fetish that is not accepted in mainstream society. He had laughed and loved and felt passion every day when he sat down at his computer, his pants around his ankles. These people, even though he had never seen them, became closer to him than any member of his family. Despite his inner shame at the objects of his lust, he grew as a person among the community of perverts he called home.
One night, as he had finished yet another round of fapping and discussing the day with his internet-friends, a magical genie appeared out of the pile of used-up tissues next to his desk. The genie said that he was born of the combined potential of the many many possible offspring he could have fathered over the years, and as the man was never going to be able to have a child in his current state, the genie offered a gift to the man. He would take away this strange fetish of his so the man could live normally and develop normal relationships and, hopefully one day, father a child. The man thought for a long time, and considered the genie's proposal heavily. One one hand, he wouldn't have to live in shame anymore. He could devote his time and skills to creating something worthwhile and die as if his life had meaning. On the other hand, not only would he be forfeiting all of his online relationships, he would no longer be able to find exposed horse intestines sexy, which they obviously were.
The man looked up and told the genie that while he appreciated the offer, he would have to reject it. The genie, incensed that he was doomed to live a life of crusty tissue hell, placed a curse on the man and all the people he knew. Instead of becoming a mutually caring community based around a disgusting fetish, he and all his friends would instead devote the rest of their foreseeable futures be forced to read and hate a terrible but harmless webcomic, and instead of breeding camaraderie and trust, the members of the community would tear themselves apart with misplaced hate and forced irony until the only thing that made the day tolerable was striking down their fellow members in the comments of each discussion about the comic. And the man would not only gain three times his current bodyweight in fat, so as to be permanently unlovable, he would be cursed with the added gift of seeing the stupidity of his fellow man with remarkable clearness until he becomes completely jaded, and he would be the one to run the site and be forced to watch his former friends become the objects of his disgust. The man cried out in despair but the genie was not merciful in the least. As he lay blubbering and sobbing on the floor, the genie bent down and with a wicked smile whispered in the man's ear:
"Abortion is murder, bitch."
And that's why we should work to overturn Roe v Wade guys.
59 comments:
- AnonymousJune 16, 2011 at 7:56 PM
I just wanted to let you know that I only read the last two lines of this review because I'm really lazy. So I will have to assume that they are completely serious. I will also assume assume that Rob wrote them, and conclude that he is misogynistic and probably mildly retarded.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2011 at 7:57 PM
Rob you just hate this review because you're a pinko terrorist muslim who wants to eat are freedoms and abort grandmaReplyDelete
So I came here to read a review and I got some shitty story instead. Thanks Rob.ReplyDelete
get some people to write better guest reviewsReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2011 at 9:23 PM
He posted this two days later instead of making it comic 911 on Monday. Well played, Randy.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJune 16, 2011 at 10:14 PM
Gamer that sexy piece of work wrote a review of 913 already? More man than anyone here, clearly (except maybe Seth).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2011 at 11:25 PM
GOOMHR, I live on Earth too! CrAzY!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 12:31 AM
This was hilarious.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 12:31 AM
This might be my favorite review so far, only because at first I thought the protagonist was Randall, and then it turned out to be Rob, which just means that this is more evidence that they are the same person.ReplyDelete
A++ review would read againReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 1:49 AM
xkcd sucks cuz i dont know what a gnu isReplyDelete
Truly, this story proves without doubt that friendship is magic!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 2:52 AM
Seth, is it?ReplyDelete
Fuck you. That was awful.
I'm surprised that Rob wrote a story that wasn't flattering to himself. It's still terrible though.ReplyDelete
I unfortunately had a GOOMHR moment when I was reading 913. When ever I'm reading about the human anatomy, I realize that it's happening inside me. Right weird. Unfortunately it isn't humorous, and neither is 913.
By dissing GNU, Randall has brought on himself the anger of THE HERD.ReplyDelete
Yeah, if Randall can reuse his jokes, I can reuse my old xkcd edits too!
Wait, it should be "THE HURD".ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 4:14 AM
That was poignant as FUCKReplyDelete
New comic is also about wikipedia. Jesus christ.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 5:35 AM
you are not a funny person. that doesn't mean you are allowed to criticize other people's creative efforts, no- many critics are bad at being creative. what it does mean is that you should stop trying to write little vignettes in your reviews.ReplyDelete
people sometimes suck your cock in these comments page the same way cuddlefish suck Randall's cock on his forums. they see themselves as being "on your team" so they praise medicore-to-awful bullshit and maybe even convince themselves that its good. or maybe they're just stupid. whatever.
when I say your shit is bad, I am not doing it to hurt your feelings. that is incidental. I'm doing it because I honestly cannot stand how terrible your writing is. I taught creative writing 101 for a few semesters in grad school and I saw better writing from autistic engineering students taking their one humanities credit. actually, that's hyperbole. I saw SIMILAR writing from those autistic engineering students. that's still an insult.
this is painful to read. you are the worst type of person. please stop.
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 5:49 AM
anon 5:35 thinks he's a good critic, but, rather, is a homosexual.ReplyDelete
I assume this because he hates vignettes (a word superficially similar to vagina; coincidence?), and because he mentions feces and male genitalia several times in his post.
Also because he is angry and hates God.
Faith in Christ.
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 5:58 AM
Eh, I thought the "review" was reasonably funny, humour is subjective to be honest. Which, really just negates the point of any review of it at all.ReplyDelete
Even talking about the poor humour in a review pointing out the poor humour in a webcomic is stupid, but to do it with poor humour is okay at this point I'm mostly just trying to use the phrase poor humour some more so as to be recursive.
I don't even know if that's the right word but then again I didn't take a creative writing 101 class.
And yeah, I read the thing up there about art not being subjective but, national and cultural societies differ in what they perceive as being objectively "good", heck it even differs from person to person.
Which is better art, a great lamp or a great flashlight, who cares? Who are you Philippe Starck?
Anyway I entirely forgot the point I was making but just as much as the entire premise of this website is pointless, criticizing it is also pointless.
It's entertainment. You're either entertained by it or you're not. Just as with XKCD. They're not mutually exclusive, you can be entertained by both (or neither). It really doesn't matter.
Just grab whatever entertainment you can out of this short, pathetic life.
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 6:20 AM
I'm guessing 5:35 is actually a high school student who's lying to us to make his whiny little rant have more bite.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 6:36 AM
@5:35: What does it mean to "teach creative writing"? Maybe I'm a latent faggot, but I can't get out of my head the image of some spotty bearded geek in his early 30s standing at the front of the class showing a bunch of spotty unshaven geeks in their late 20s how to optimise their masturbation technique.ReplyDelete
"THIS, GENTLEMEN," you announce, "IS HOW TO WRITE CREATIVELY," before orgasming wildly over a yellowed exercise book. Seconds later, teacher's pet achieves his climax, and the rest of the students soon follow.
- That's what sheJune 17, 2011 at 6:41 AM
Aww, 5:35 thinks people care what his opinions are, and that he has the ability to hurt people's feelings. That's adorable.ReplyDelete
5:35 did you read anything other than the blog title. i mean really. no one here even likes rob. and this post was written by an xkcd fanReplyDelete
also seth your story is wrong where is carl. plus you are homeless and like qc. you don't even have a glass house to throw your stones from.
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 7:07 AM
"also seth your story is wrong where is carl."ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 7:10 AM
What happened to the days when people just skimmed over the review, knowing it was widely uninteresting, to get to the hate and absolutely non sequitur shit that congeals at the bottom?ReplyDelete
I don't know either.
and actual lol@R's "you don't even have a glass house to throw your stones from."
If you're a guy with an Computer Foundations: Applied Physics degree and a fetish for the scientific method and you're making your living selling posters and T-shirts rather than going to grad school and actually getting the qualifications you need to be a scientist, I don't know what you're doing with your life.ReplyDelete
Carl is the genie.ReplyDelete
Why can't any of you people think about what you read? Do you need everything spoonfed to you? YOU ARE THE REASON DAN BROWN/STEPHANIE MEYER/DESPISED AUTHOR OF CHOICE EXISTS.
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 10:06 AM
rob is fat and writes terrible reviews that is allReplyDelete
20 bucks says randy wrote this for comic #911, realized what the number was, and punted this back a day and frantically came up with the Magic School bus shitpile.ReplyDelete
I have a confession though: I actually liked 913.
hahahahahaha just kidding it was terrible GOOMHbait.
as said before, there is no comic for 404.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM
also cptnoremac already made that observation about it being for 911ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Some asshole gestures downwards and says "...and I study that"ReplyDelete
What are you pointing at, dude? Your feet (podiatrist)? The floor itself (architect)? The stuff the covering the floor (textile science/wood science/linoleum science)? Maybe we're outside. Are you pointing at the plants on the ground (botanist)? The soil under the plants (pedologist)? The sidewalk (highway engineer)?
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Everyone on the Internet is a pedologist.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 3:43 PM
GOOMFH anon 1:00ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM
LOL guys I am such a fagReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 18, 2011 at 5:54 AM
The Kitten mewled:ReplyDelete
I've no knowledge of Mr. Brown, but Stephenie Meyer who, with the help of the 'Disney Princess Culture', has helped create a generation of 'damsel in distress' Bellas who succumb to even the most inane pick-up lines men interested in coitus could muster.
I get laid less often now, of course.
This was the saddest review since the one for 614.ReplyDelete
She didn't create them, ALT-F. Meyer merely hoisted up a banner under which they could congregate, much like how Star Wars/Star Trek was for the nerds.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 18, 2011 at 1:33 PM
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 18, 2011 at 1:49 PM
This congregation and its attendant flocking, also known as: "the crowd" (Kierkegaard) and "herd morality" and the "herd instinct" (Nietzsche) were not done a service.ReplyDelete
What spreads faster than radiation and smoother than peanut butter?
A sixteen year old Twilight Fan.
I am not bitter.
- AnonymousJune 18, 2011 at 3:06 PM
Did BP get an STD test, ALTF? Did you?ReplyDelete
captcha: aspli. He used his aspli behaviour as an excuse for his poor writing.
ALTF, you didn't specify which kind of peanut butter it is. If it's chunky (which does not spread easily, and can even tear at the bread) then your allegory is skewed.ReplyDelete
In short ALTF, you have disappointed me. This is not the first time.
ALTF I would just like to say thatReplyDelete
you are a credit to this community and I salute you.
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 4:44 AM
Can I have a definition of 'cuddlefish', please?ReplyDelete
'Cuddlefish' was originally coined to mean 'anonymous poster on Xkcdsucks'. The term came from this thread. More recently Rob uses it to mean 'xkcd fan'. See also, Rob's Pokemon titles from last month.ReplyDelete
While there is some overlap between the two definitions, and xkcd fans who post anonymously tend to attract a lot of attention, there is no reason to consider the two groups equivalent. Most anon posters are not xkcd fans, and most xkcd fans do not post here.
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 9:19 AM
I doubt any xkcd fans at all post here. Posts that look like they're from xkcd fans are all in good fun. This place simply doesn't matter to xkcd fans anymore. Maybe some of them cared back when Carl was posting, but they wouldn't be insulted by what is submitted today any more than a human would be insulted by a monkey blowing a raspberry.ReplyDelete
Anon 9:19, you severely underestimate man's capacity to become butthurt over trivial things on the internet.ReplyDelete
Also, considering xkcd's target audience seems to be highschoolers, and considering people of that age tend to be the most obnoxious and angsty on the internet, it's well within reason to conclude that at least some of the whining cuddlefish are genuine.
- I am an obvious trollJune 19, 2011 at 12:40 PM
This blog is so sad to see. A group of people, too dense and ignorant to understand even the simplest XKCD, so they bitch about it in the most pedantic yet inaccurate ways possible.ReplyDelete
And when they write diatribes directed at the few mocking posts left by their intellectual betters, they believe they are trolling them, even when they are being OBVIOUSLY TROLLED THEMSELVES.
In case the subtext is unclear, I am an obvious troll, so it would be pointless to respond to this.
cry some more i am an obvious trollReplyDelete
Does it annoy anyone else that so many people never notice when it's a guest review and wasn't written by Rob, because that is a thing that annoys me.ReplyDelete
Also this review depressed me because in the first paragraph of the story if you replaced "mutilation of barn animals" with "yaoi" then it's BASICALLY a description of my life in the early 2000s.
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 9:37 PM
It doesn't annoy me, Chaos, because much of the time it is clearly Rob using a pseudonym and trying to disguise his style. What of it if that happens to not be the case at other times?ReplyDelete
"Does it annoy anyone else that so many people never notice when it's a guest review and wasn't written by Rob, because that is a thing that annoys me."ReplyDelete
Does it annoy anyone else when nobody ever notices that so many people never noticing who is writing is a pretty clear indication that the damn format doesn't work and should be changed *if* the annoyed people were to be served?
that is the worst-written sentence everReplyDelete
but seriously, people thought I was Carl every time I wrote guest posts and I had a proper byline. illiteracy is just a problem
- AnonymousJune 24, 2011 at 12:03 PM
I must say, I read the comic and thought it was fucking hilarious. The review? TL;DRReplyDelete
I laughed, and then moved on with my life. Move on, people. Move on.
- AnonymousJuly 2, 2011 at 6:54 AM
Who cares about this plane and this GNU page I don't even know what that is.ReplyDelete
Well, that's your problem, son. You don't know what the joke is about. This joke is not for you. Maybe should read some Garfield instead.

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The O's signed Armando Galarraga. And Ronnie Paulino. And Pat Neshek. Among others. All to minor league deals with invitations to Spring Training. To which pitchers and catchers report in the next three weeks.
There's my reporting nonsense for now. Back to the randomness, though.
I don't know what game this was or anything, but here's a screenshot I had randomly saved on my computer of a home run from last season landing in the seats:
That man in the purple shirt on the steps reaching forward for a basket catch is the infamous Matt (not Matt G, totally different people, gosh). The guy up the steps a bit in a Brooks shirt with his glove closed just looking on is Segev. These people are talked about on my old WHO'S WHO post from last April. (UPDATE: Segev is not on that post. I'm a slacker). They're good people.
Just thought I'd share.
Oh, and feel free to check out my recent interview with new Orioles infielder Matt Antonelli (who can be found on Twitter @mattantonelli9 and is always talking with fans and very approachable, so definitely give him a follow and check out his blog and youtube channel and whatnot.
More interviews coming up for sure. Along with new features on this blog. Only time will tell. (Huh??)
Oh, and I'm still mad that MLBlogs took down my post about Spitgate with Jose Valverde. You know what I'm talking about. They know what I'm talking about. So may be taking this blog elsewhere unless they reach out to me to discuss why it was removed. Not really sure why, and not right that it was taken off when this is a blog…not a newspaper reporting facts. Let alone it was all factual from my view and nothing stated that wasn't true. Okay, rant over.


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A lot of people like to take comics like this and give the joke a pass, saying that at least the art is good, so we should be nicer on the joke. I, of course, disagree wholeheartedly. The whole reason that this is a comic format is to tell a joke; the art (as well as the text and any other details) should be serving that end. If we just want nice art we can go to a museum.
Now this is, actually, one of the few cases where I think the art in xkcd does help advance the joke, as stated above. But the art can only do so much - how is the joke, on its own?
I say: Pretty bad! The joke seems to be that much like the character in The Telltale Heart, who (spoiler alert!) hears the beating of the victim's heart after the murder has happened, the main character here hears the pounding bass of one "Daft Punk" band of musicians, known, as we are aware, for their steady techno beat (commenters! this is your chance to harangue me for my usage of "techno" right there! go!).
So, to reduce it further, the joke is that he killed the band, and then he heard their beating, which is sort of (like most beats) a heart beat, so it is a lot like the story. But - that doesn't really make sense. Throwing out the whole premise of "wait, you killed the band? what's the story there? why did you do that? oh, i guess we are supposed to not care and just go with it," it's still not done right: The "crazy twist" is that he killed a modern popular band, giving what should be a humorous contrast between the format (gothic-y horror) and the content (daft punk). But that contrast is given away in the first panel! and it doesn't even get emphasis, it's just an aside! it's just "ever since I murdered daft punk, [rest of the sentence]."
An even better joke, as many people pointed out, if to have the beating be real, and just be coming from the floor below (bass being a frequency of sound noted for causing reverberations elsewhere nearby). In fact, he could basically have just pasted comic 411 right underneath this one, and that would have worked pretty well.
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Community of Gardeners, A Throughout Washington, D.C., people of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities are gardening side by side, growing vegetables, fruits and flowers in community gardens. Some are looking for basic sustenance, others for a way to remember their homelands, still others for a place to find a respite from their troubles. D
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Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Quantum Mechanical Universe" A last look at where we've been and a peek into the future. D
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Caillou "My Family" Today Caillou learns that being a part of a family is something very special. Dad lends Caillou his old camera and helps him take pictures of every member of their family - including Gilbert. Looking at the photo album, the family remembers when Gilbert was a kitten and first came to live with them. D
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Barney & Friends "The Good Egg: Kenya" When the kids find a mysterious, colorful egg in the park, Barney takes them on a trip to Kenya to try to find out what kind of animal could have laid the egg. While in Kenya, they meet Ayira who introduces them to many people, cultures and animals of Kenya!. D
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Thomas & Friends "Helping Each Other" Stop that Bus! - Thomas feels bad that Bertie doesn't get to travel on the rails so he decides to take Bertie on a tour of Sodor by rail. Bertie rolls onto Thomas' flatbed and soon they're off on their adventure. Bertie loves the sights but he needs to go and collect Dowager Hatt and her friends. D
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Wild Kratts "A Huge Orange Problem" While Chris and Martin are off searching for the endangered Orangutan in the deep forests of Borneo, back at the Tortuga HQ Aviva, Koki and Jimmy get carried away swinging on vines and their muscles so get incredibly sore that they can't do anything. The bros attempt to rush back with the first aid kit but a huge orangutan keeps tossing them back into the forest. Here they learn that orangutans use a special leaf and chew it into a lotion to ease muscle soreness, and return with this orangutan medicine to help their friends. D
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Cyberchase "A Whale of a Tale" With special guest star Al Roker. A trip to R-Fair City nearly turns into a monster mash when Hacker abducts Glowla, a beautiful cyberlady who generates pure energy. Hacker is able to snatch Glowla by reprogramming her trick whale, Snout. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Just Toying with Ruff" Harsha and Sammy become radio reporters and do a news piece on Brian Freeze while Noel and DJ invent a new Ruff Ruffman toy. D
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Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report - another big swing in the market. NBR will look beyond the volatility to help you invest for the long term. And who wins and who loses with interest rates at record low levels?. D
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NOVA "Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Life Explodes" Half a billion years ago, Australia was still part of the super-continent Gondwana. While the oceans were teeming from the ongoing explosion of weird and wonderful animals, the world above the waves remained an almost lifeless wasteland. All that changed in the Silurian period when the conquest of the land began. Part 2 of 4G
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Guts with Michael Mosley Using the latest in medical imagery and a tiny state-of-the-art camera "pill" that he swallows at the start of the film, host Michael Mosley takes viewers on a remarkable journey through his own internal system. At each stage he talks to medical experts and explains the amazing functions that happen without our conscious effort.G
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Battlefield Medicine From the trauma wards of Camp Bastion field hospital in Afghanistan, to cutting-edge medical research labs, Michael Mosley follows the medical pioneers behind procedures that have seen the survival rate among injured servicemen and women rise to 90 percent. Designed for the war zone, these developments are already making waves in emergency rooms, from spray-on skin cells to heal burns, to innovative surgical techniques like rebuilding damaged hands from scratch. Part 1 of 2G
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Comic 930: Invitation To Love
Hello all, Carl again. I was going to write a post about the last comic - the one where a conversation about google plus ends, hilarious, with a crossbow deflating a basketball - but Rob pretty much covered the main issues there (the main issue was: WHY IS THIS HAPPENING). It seemed like such a bad comic, by xkcd standards, that I figured I would have to wait at least a few weeks before another one came along that inspired enough wrath for me to write about it. Well I was wrong.
Actually, that's unfair. This comic doesn't inspire wrath in me, the way some used to. This is just extreme puzzlement, and disappointment.
As you may know / remember / guess, I never liked these google-search-result comics. For one thing, the number of results that google tells you it has are notoriously unreliable, sometimes by an order of magnitude or more. For another, Randall seems to take as gospel that these results are direct proxies for whatever it is that he is interested in. For example, a few years ago, he wrote a comic about google search results for "I should have kissed her" vs "I shouldn't have kissed her." But just looking at the number of results for each one is a terrible measure of whether more people regret kissing versus the number of people who regret not kissing. Plenty of people don't put that stuff online! As a scientist, I'm really kind of surprised Randall thinks that this logic is ok. It's very clearly not.
A similar problem exists here, though it's worse in every imaginable way. For one thing, this research isn't trying to answer an interesting question. For all its flaws, the kissing google search was at least trying to answer the question "is it better to kiss this person and maybe regret it, or not kiss them and maybe regret that?" which I think we can all agree is a pretty interesting question (even if his method of answering has many flaws). But this comic is asking - what, exactly? I guess it's something like "which day of the week do certain things happen on?" That's - that's not very interesting. Take the three most correlated phrase/day pairs:
--Church is strongly associated with Sunday
--Getting drunk is strongly associated with Friday and Saturday
--Ladies night is strongly associated with Wednesday.
# 1 and # 2 are fairly obvious, and #3 is boring. Unless we can learn that there is an interesting reason why ladies night is on wednesday, I don't see how anyone can react to this with more than a "huh."
And those are the best ones! Look in the center and you see things like "[blank]day sucked" or "due on [blank]day." None of them are interesting at all! The dark purple is probably my favorite: "Announced [blank]day." What is that, even? That seems like such a vague term that it could encompass almost any type of event, and when it's that vague, hey, guess what: people are just not going to care.
The other problem is that the text is way crazy small, and constantly overlapping. It makes it very hard to read even the large version, and downright impossible for the regular size.
It's not the clearest way of presenting this data, either. I don't think the polar graph is the best way to go about it, but even it was, wouldn't it have been easier to just use solid lines of different colors and then have a key for which phrase each line represents? This post in the forums is exactly in line with my own feelings.
Actually, is it possible that the forums have gotten to be better? Seems like there's a good debate going about this comic.I find much that I agree with. What a strange experience!
Anyway, keep on rockin',
--Your dear pal Carl
133 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 9:37 PM
This comic was the first time I thought tl;dr for something with so few words. Although I suppose it's more of a "too obscure+boring+poorly-designed; didn't give a fuck." But that is way too long for the single thought that I gave this "comic" the first time I saw it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 10:16 PM
Yeah, this is actually the only Xkcd comic I have not and will not ever bother reading (or viewing, whatever). Even that cumbersome chronological interactions for movie plotlines I analyzed a bit. Not this shit though.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 10:24 PM
I was wondering just how bad Rick Santorum's Google problem is, so I tried Googling "Rick Santorum"; Google says there are 3,790,000 results. So, how many of those results don't mention his Google problem? To find out, I searched for "Rick Santorum" -"Dan Savage", and got 7,000,000 results. The more restrictive search has more results? That's when I finally realized just how unreliable those numbers are.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 10:49 PM
What!? There's no way Google fudges their numbers!ReplyDelete
Also, since Randy doesn't record his results, and once such a comic is posted the results will be royally fucked, I wouldn't doubt if he pulled most of these "results" out of his ass.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 11:36 PM
carl i wouldn't talk about comics being visually unappealing if I were youReplyDelete
(because you're so ugly)
I hate these 'comics' as well. Or rather, poorly represented dumps of unreliable, meaningless, boring data.ReplyDelete
There are some 'potentially' interesting things here, but of course randall doesn't actually analyze them. For example, getting drunk and going to church both spike on wednesday. Or maybe they don't; I have a hard time telling because randy used a fucking polar graph. I think the 'comic' might be a lot better if he had attempted clever little descriptions of the patterns for each phrase.
But I guess he is too busy analyzing the menstrual cycle data to determine when megan will most likely be lactating.
wednesday night church is a fairly common thing. not really sure whyReplyDelete
- Andrew "Tubbs" McGeeJuly 28, 2011 at 12:10 AM
Gotta get down on [x]dayReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 12:12 AM
Well, if praying once a week ain't enough, the second day would naturally be Wednesday. That way you're doing your god-lovin' at regular intervals.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 1:35 AM
How can that really be Carl when he's under my desk right now playfully flicking my testicles with his tongue?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 2:01 AM
OH GOD RANDY YOU STUPID FUCK JUST DRAW A BAR CHART AND LABEL THE SERIES.ReplyDelete
A line chart would be misleading because the time axis isn't continuous - if a lot more people do X on day T+1 than day T then it doesn't necessarily mean that the number of people doing X increases as day T approaches day T+1.
This attempt suffers exactly the same problem except that these misleading interpolations - the curves plotted in the white space - form the majority of the diagram. Also it's incredibly hard to read because he's turned the curves into the labels.
It's no surprise that the same NASA which just fucked up with its Constellation programme and got beaten down by some copycat start-up which was happy to give the first hit free also interned this kid.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Ladies night is on wednesday because of some song from the 70s.ReplyDelete
So not a very interesting reason.
- Hi, I'm Anonymous and I'm a MANJuly 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM
This blog needs more Carl.ReplyDelete
xkcd, especially as of late, needs less total pointlessness.
- Penile burninationJuly 28, 2011 at 10:07 AM
This blog needs more naked girls.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM
@Penile use your allowance on a prostitute.ReplyDelete
Remember the number one rule of prostitution: all women will; some are cheaper than others.
- HolywarJuly 28, 2011 at 1:57 PM
This comic is anti muslim! how did noone notice? Friday is not fucking highlighted!!!!!ReplyDelete
I declare Jihad against Rand al Munroe!
Kill the infidel!!!
I guess I just have a keen eye.ReplyDelete
Okay, I want to know, why did Ravenzomg leave? I know we can only guess. Let's dedicate this comment thread to answering that question. Let the Wild Mass Guessing begin!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM
As as fule kno, all women hate all other women (the hatred being proportional to the perceived thinness*youth differential).ReplyDelete
tl;dr ALTF's dominance.
There are no computers in my cellar.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM
hey guys did you hear about those people who got killed in norway? the LIEberals are trying to pin it on religious people when a moslem terrorist group has already admitted they didd it? WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 3:26 PM
Shake up, weeple.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 3:34 PM
Jon Levi, why don't you write about it in your fanfic?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 3:49 PM
It is a shame, ravenzomg's reviews were half decent... Unlike GAYmer2k4, more like NECKBEARDER2k4 amirite?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 4:22 PM
You should all get glasses. I thought assburgers and pattern recognition mixed.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 5:49 PM
@4:22: Asperger's is a disorder, not a mark of talent - people who genuinely have it work harder to operate despite it.ReplyDelete
And I'm fairly sure everyone here hates people who e-self-diagnose, a clear cuddlefish trait. Maybe you're talking about that sort of aspie.
the "should have kissed her" vs "shouldn't have kissed her" thing isn't about what people are doing, or what they want. To me, it's just presenting an idea about regret. People are posting about this? Why are they even thinking about it? Why are they even worrying about what might have been, when they will be dead in a relatively short time?ReplyDelete
All flesh is an abomination. We are all born of sin and filth. Also, this was a crappy comic.
Looks like everyone but the anonfags steered clear of this one.ReplyDelete
Also, does anyone find it odd that RavenZOMG and ALTF disappeared at the SAME TIME?
Has anyone ever seen them in the same room together?
ALTF hasn't disappearedReplyDelete
I haven't seen her flooding this comment thread yet.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 11:15 PM
So, 931, right?ReplyDelete
Randall is talking about cancer again, so that's cool.
It's definitely not supposed to be funny, so I'm not going to hold that against it, but on the other hand I really don't care about it, and I'm not sure if I should hold that against it...
He definitely made a mistake and isn't sure what the 60% is referring to:
[First mention]: "a 60% chance that some cancer will slip past the treatment and get out."
This is definitely referring to a 60% chance that you will cancer again.
[Second mention]: "But your odds are still 60%."
I would say this one is unclear. Is it your odds of surviving or your odds of cancering again?
[Third mention]: "The only way to know if it worked is to wait for tumors to pop up elsewhere. If you go enough years without that happening then you were in the 60%."
Unambiguously talking about 60% of people not cancering again.
Now, let's all start making fun of how Randall can't get milk to come out of Megan's boobies again.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 2:24 AM
"[First mention]: "a 60% chance that some cancer will slip past the treatment and get out."ReplyDelete
It says 40% in the comic. Did Randall change the comic, or are you a fucking idiot?
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 2:45 AM
God fucking dammit, I hate Randall.ReplyDelete
(1) Not all cancer is deadly the first time round, even if you don't cure it - I accept that this point is more relevant to older people, many of whom will have slow-growing cancers and die from something else way before. But it's awful the way society views cancer as OMG INEVITABLE DEATH when e.g. prostate cancer may just be slowed further with hormones and no further treatment needed;
(2) Not all recurrence of cancer is deadly - just because you get it a second time it doesn't mean you're going to die or even suffer horribly;
(3) Worrying about odds of getting cancer again is not healthy. Put another way, one in three people get cancer and one in three of them in the milkbags: that 40%-ish figure applies to everyone, although having it once means it's perhaps likely to happen again sooner than later. Be aware of any symptoms and make sure you are being regularly screened. I know this is hard when you have the double whammy of living in the third world USA and not having a real job to pay for healthcare, and I don't blame Randy for this.
(4) Is this strip designed to get Megan panicking and needy so she'll never leave Randall? "Hey, babe, the doctors are dealing with your cancer, but THINK ABOUT IT IT MAY COME BACK!!!"
(5) The worst thing is she probably wanted a total mastectomy recommended by her consultant but he threatened to leave her if she had one. We have the privilege to see the dramatic irony that no woman so disease-riddled will ever produce delicious milk again.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 2:55 AM
Wow guy above me, you're a bit of a douchebag aintcha?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 3:01 AM
2:55 you are a cuddlefishy (fishy as in dishy) cuddlefaggot (faggot as in you secretly love dick).ReplyDelete
Dtop trying to paint your dick white to use it as a mighty sword for slaying the evil cyber baddies.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 3:02 AM
So say for example hypothetically you have cancer and your boyfriend has this webcomic and tells everyone about it. Then let's say just hypothetically, your boyfriend starts calculating all the odds of it coming back and of dying and all that stuff, and you just want to get on with life despite your hypothetical cancer. THEN your boyfriend makes a shit comic about it that served no purpose other than to scare everyone else into thinking about cancer.ReplyDelete
Okay that wasn't headed anywhere so I'm going to say that Randark spent far too much time on this comic without even making any point, cos it was too fuckin hard to understand anyway. All that art and text was wasted.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 3:20 AM
3:01 Oh sorry I didn't realise that accusing people who make bad webcomics of bullying their partners into not having a mastectomy was the reasonable position, and not the sort of thing some sort of sociopath would come out with. My bad.ReplyDelete
This comic was terrible because Randall was just stating what everyone knows: cancer is a terrible disease.ReplyDelete
That fact is though, is that Randall is so self absorbed that he didn't give a shit about cancer until it affected him. The only one who needed this comic was you Randall, everyone else who matters already knows the facts.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 3:48 AM
@3:20: There's only one person under discussion here who has made a comic for his fiancee effectively saying, "YOU MAY BE ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY BUT THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE IT'LL COME BACK!"ReplyDelete
Remember that xkcd isn't art for art's sake. It's Randy's business. He's emotionally torturing his fiancee for money.
And, like Scott 3:21 said, where's the evidence that he actually cares about cancer, rather than his milky pet project?
Who is the sociopath, really?
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 3:59 AM
Anon2:25 - Anon3:20 sounded fairly balanced and accurate. Read it again.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 5:38 AM
3:20 & 3:59 = samefagReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 6:13 AM
Anon 2:25 - Anon 3:20 sounds really attractiveReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 7:36 AM
Thank you, Randall, few people have the courage to take such a strong stance against cancer.ReplyDelete
The Alternate Universe has banned me, apparently for criticising Randall's latest gem of sensibility and poignance: "Fuck cancer".ReplyDelete
Apparently, the sycophant forumites are sadder with Megan's cancer than Randall himself is.
Captcha: hicat. Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan
- Anal condensationJuly 29, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Damn, you know an album is going to be shit if three of the tracks on it have "love" in the title.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Scott hit the nail on the head.ReplyDelete
"I didn't know shit about cancer, even though it's one of the most common killers in America, until it personally affected me. And now I find out it totally sucks! Did you guys realize that?!"
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Anon 11:15 back.ReplyDelete
I swear some Orwellian shit happened and it originally said 60% for every number in the comic.
some people in the forums noticed it too:
"Secondly: the first panel doesn't make sense
"if your 10 year prognosis is 60% that means a 60% chance that some cancer will slip past the treatment and get out"
surely that should be "40% chance some cancer will slip out within 10 years"? "
"Also, shouldn't it be a 40% chance that some cancer cells slip by?"
Next time I notice something like this, I promise I'll save a copy.
Isn't there already someone who saves a webcite of all the xkcds?ReplyDelete
@Fernie CantoReplyDelete
I didn't see that. Did your post get deleted?
http://xkcdwebcited.blogspot.com/ - it's 35 comics behind though.
I was up when this comic got launched; it definitely said 60% everywhere. Left me pretty confused...ReplyDelete
- ♋♋♋♋♋♋♋♋July 29, 2011 at 12:06 PM
I dunno, I didn't bother looking at the thread. But they usually don't delete posts.ReplyDelete
I actually think they were very tolerant to let me hang around for so long. What amuses me is that they are all so touched and saddened by this cancer thing, while Randall is milking it further and further for notoriety and sympathy. Fortunately, I think we're living in a world in which attention whoring with shit webcomics like that only work with those sycophantic forumites, and not with people that matter.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Hey how about this you idiotic assholes: DONT FUCKING READ THE COMIC IF YOU DONT FUCKING LIKE IT. Anyone who argues is retarded.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 12:42 PM
Also stop making fun of a guy whose wife has cancer. Youre just be fucking assholes to a guy who's just trying to raise awareness because his wife has a deadly disease. Get a life you stupid idiots.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Whoa, how dare you call me an idiot. My wife has cancer so I'm immune to everything you can say to me and anything you say to me makes you a complete monster. Thanks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 12:54 PM
12:42 3/10.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 1:01 PM
Hey how about this you idiotic asshole: DONT FUCKING READ THE BLOG IF YOU DONT FUCKING LIKE IT. Anyone who argues is retarded.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 1:02 PM
re: 12:42ReplyDelete
butthurt anon is butthurt
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 1:06 PM
anon 1:07 is samefagReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 1:07 PM
no i'm not, 1:06ReplyDelete
- ShifraJuly 29, 2011 at 1:29 PM
Randy clearly has been reading the wikipedia entry on cancer rather than, say, his fiance's oncologist or someone who knows what they're talking about.ReplyDelete
That "40% relapse" is a lot more complex than just "some cells dodged the treatment." To transform into cancer, cells have to accumulate a lot of mutations in regulatory mechanisms. These mutations are preserved in the entire cell line, and only a few cells go all the way to cancerous, most others stay in the pre-cancerous state. Even if every single tumor is removed, these semi-transformed cells are already predisposed to transform into cancer, which can cause a relapse of an entirely independent cancer line.
Cancer biology is an incredibly complex field, and the above scenario is just one of many things that can cause relapse. For someone who claims to be scientific, he sure doesn't do his background research.
@Anon 1:01ReplyDelete
Hey how about this you idiotic asshole: DONT FUCKING READ ANON 12:36'S COMMENT IF YOU DONT FUCKING LIKE IT. Anyone who argues is retarded.
I would have been able to not read it except for one thing: HE UNLEASHED THE FURY WITH CAPS LOCK.ReplyDelete
Caps lock is an unholy, vile technique used only by the Machine Messiah and his brainwashed minions in an attempt to befoul all that is beautiful on the Internet.ReplyDelete
Captcha: boomen. Yeah, that's what they call them.
So we meet again, Carl. I'm impressed. How do you like the fruits of your work? I've got a lot to thank you for, although I'm afraid I'm gonna have to kill you anyway.ReplyDelete
We'll meet again soon.
Bet on it.
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 8:37 PM
It's hard to take a webcite of every comic once you stop caring.ReplyDelete
Bad comics breed anger. Mediocre comics breed apathy. And XKCD's been falling on the latter side for a while now.
One would hope Randall would have a more uplifting message about his fiance's cancer being in remission. I mean usually that's at least a positive thing, even if it doesn't mean you're "out of the woods".ReplyDelete
But no, he has a comic about how incredibly likely it is that his fiance will die. This is not healthy behavior.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 1:29 AM
12:27, this strip is Radnall's way of posting a personal ad. Think of the number of cuddlefishettes he will have queueing up to have sympathy sex with him after Megan's too weak to open her eyes and notice.ReplyDelete
(OK, still zero, but this is part of the white knight's delusion...)
oncology isn't "real" scienceReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 6:14 AM
Dearest Our Pal Carl said:ReplyDelete
"....with a crossbow deflating a basketball -...."
I see no evidence that the ball has been deflated. Sure there is represented the perturbation of the Naismithian Orb by the impact of the arrow in the penultimate frame, but in the ultimate the ball is still spherical. Perhaps it was self-sealing?
@ Rob July 28, 10:27 PM,
Are you sure?
Appearances can be deceiving and all.
@ ThePirateKing,
Ravenzomd is a citizen of Soviet Canuckistan. I am not.
Well it's interesting to see the forumites gushing over this comic, expressing such sympathy for a guy they don't even know, telling their own cancer stories. No one has yet said "Get out of my head, I've had cancer too.", but I wonder...ReplyDelete
> When I scrolled down to the final panel I started to cry
I know it's sad. I'm sure a lot of us cried over 631 too.
> Ban all carcinogens. Now.
This guy is an idiot, if he's being serious. He gets called on it in this post.
> BTW is "out of the woods" a Firefly reference?
No it is'nt, Auliya. It's just a common saying.
> If I had one criticism of this comic, it's that 'Fuck' isn't a strong enough swear. v.v
You're right, squareroot. "Cunt cancer!" is better. Cunt cancer to hell!
> Please, please, PLEASE do not say unkind things to one another concerning this issue or anything touching it.
Thank you for what?
> Today is day +606 for me after my transplant, and day 984 since diagnosis.
Don't count the days. That's just morbid.
And now, the phrase from the thread most likely to become a meme. For the record I counted it at least 30 times.
> I hope everything turns out alright. Fuck cancer.
> Fuck cancer, truly.
> i agree seriously.. fuck cancer
> Fuck cancer indeed.
> I have bumper sticker on my car that says "Fuck Cancer".
> But yeah, fuck cancer straight to Hell.
> We try our best, fuck cancer.
> What the hell kind of an ending is "Man, fuck cancer. Really."?? Man, fuck xkcd. Really.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 6:52 AM
If one 'fucks' cancer does it not eventually give birth to little baby cancers?ReplyDelete
Kill it with kindness I say.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 7:52 AM
@ Jon Levi,ReplyDelete
"....You're right, squareroot. "Cunt cancer!" is better. Cunt cancer to hell!...."
Only in the Land o' The Yankee, and perhaps Canada too, does the word 'cunt' supercede the word 'fuck' in sweariness severity.
The non-Yankee/Canuck English speakers use 'cunt' in the same way as the Yankee/Canucks use 'asshole'. Presumably because the Yankee/Canucks are still culturally in their 'Anal Phase' and/or consider the anus to be the preferred penile receptacle. Non-Yankee/Canuck folks prefer a vagina for such activities.
Oh, and outside North America, only men can be pejoratively called 'cunts' - it has 'male gender' status now.
Then again, what do I know?
"fuck cancer"ReplyDelete
I keep saying it to myself and thinking what it means. Forgive me for jumping to conclusions, but I think Randall might have a cancer fetish.
Repeat: RANDALL HAS A CANCER FETISH
I just think maybe the time during Megan's breast cancer has been the best time in his life. It's a double-whammy of fetishes!
There was a line, and you just crossed it.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 8:53 AM
R is young.ReplyDelete
He/She/It knows no better.
He/She/It is also unaware of the concept of Karma - Instant or otherwise.
Re: JonReplyDelete
Oh god, please don't say it's the Moral Event Horizon. I JUST HATE TVTROPES SO MUCH!!!@ BLAAAAAaGHGH!!
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 9:33 AM
Suck it bitches! Can't criticize this comic can you? Bitches.ReplyDelete
R.@8:31 and 8:58 = Jon Levi = Anon@9:33 = samefagReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Dearest Kitten,ReplyDelete
Why is your 'Profile' no longer available?
Are you the real Kitten?
And why do 1,000,000 1,500 Watt kettles become operational within 5 minutes of the end of an 'East Enders' episode?
@ Anonymous 9:33 AM,
Only cunts spell 'criticise' with a 'Z'.
@Jon Levi[230 on July 28]: I went on vacation. I can't tell you 100% why I don't have a blogger/google account, though.ReplyDelete
Hmm, on second thought I think it would be funnier if I had some sort of Randallian conversion. Yeah, let's go with that. LONG LIVE OUR GLORIOUS MAN-LORD YOU CRETINS ARE JUST TOO DULL AND DREARY TO UNDERSTAND HIS GENIUS AND PAIN.
captcha: minitt. HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE ALL UR COX.
jon levi stop using my nameReplyDelete
i know no-one gives a shit about anyone on this blog including me but not you
not you jon
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 10:13 AM
"....YOU CRETINS ARE JUST TOO DULL AND DREARY TO UNDERSTAND HIS GENIUS AND PAIN....."ReplyDelete
Our dullness would explain our inability to discern genius, but one would think our dreary disposition would make us uniquely qualified to apprehend pain.
I'm guessing Raven's internet name got leaked into her real life, and she deleted everything about that name because she is thoroughly ashamed of it.ReplyDelete
@ALTF – I am actually Raven.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 10:26 AM
cancer is best :D and lactation D:ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 10:37 AM
Better than being Spartacus I reckon KittenReplyDelete
@Kitten 9:52ReplyDelete
That would be giving me too much credit. True, I did write the two R. posts, but I could not have produced the linguistic masterwork that is Anon 9:33's post.
It's true, Jon. Never have I seen such masterful use of the word 'bitches'. How is it possible to weave that literary sonata around so simple a subject?ReplyDelete
The hell?ReplyDelete
Someone made three comments with my name. I did not write those.
stop it jon.ReplyDelete
you are the shittiest impostor(s) i've ever seen. put some effort inReplyDelete
i said stop itReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 11:48 AM
To truly pettifog the great and powerful R one must artfully employ the phrase 'fuck off'.ReplyDelete
For example:
"Fuck off out of here and die ALT-F."
Or some such.
- Rave N. Z.July 30, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Dearest Kitten: I do not need internet evidence to be ashamed, my life is nothing but a big ball of shame. Shame and angst. Also omelettes [spell-check suggests: "letterbombs". wat].ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 12:00 PM
This acute but nonspecific sense of anxiety, shame, angst, remorse, or dare I say, dread, is caused by your awareness that all your future selections of omelette ingredients are not determined for you but must be freely chosen by you.ReplyDelete
11:18 is not me. i never use caps except in my name.ReplyDelete
This just in -ReplyDelete
Forumite 'Ephemeron' has posted an image macro of the phrase "fuck cancer", saying that he "must make this a meme". Quite unusual for an xkcd thread where everything is taken so darn seriously. How will the forumites react to potentially tasteless act? We'll have more information on this story as it unfolds.
did I make all these comments while drunk or something?ReplyDelete
12:38 is an obvious fake. if you're going to impersonate me, at least wait longer than three minutes.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 1:06 PM
@ Jon,ReplyDelete
I wonder if Mr. Dawkins, the celator of the word/concept 'meme', approves of the way his word is used/misused on the Internet these days.
He probably prays to god that he'll die before it gets to out-of-control.
@ All the Rs, real, imagined or wannabe,
Fuck the fuck right the fuck out of here.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 2:15 PM
That's 'Non U'ReplyDelete
and 'U'
I'm U and you're Non-U,
Ask a Brit what that means.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 2:47 PM
I wonder if Mr. Dawkins, the celator of the word/concept 'meme', approves of the way his word is used/misused on the Internet these days.ReplyDelete
Except it's not misused at all, when Dawking originally coined the term in 1976 he said "Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches." It's not like catchy phrases on the internet are somehow less worthy of being called memes than "tunes" and "catch-phrases".
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 3:07 PM
Fuck this guy with his fuck cancer meme.ReplyDelete
Fuck this comic and its crap and bad science.
Fuck the forums and their cancerous bile.
... Fuck...
"I'm U and you're Non-U,ReplyDelete
Ask a Brit what that means."
That should be 'Ask a Brit over 65 years old what that means'.
Kitten, you've regenerated! You must be on at least your tenth regeneration by now. You do know you're only allowed twelve?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 4:09 PM
@ALTF celator? He is a bit of that in the genitive. And your grasp of British culture is out-of-date: 'cunt' is regarded as more offensive than 'fuck' and thanks to Thatcher everyone's non-U in both senses (though no-one wants to admit it and/or is proud of it).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 4:12 PM
Wow. Randall really is milking Megan's cancer.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 6:08 PM
Does anyone actually read the shit ALTF posts? I can never get through it. Your style of writing isn't endearing or clever it's just fucking hassle.ReplyDelete
If I wanted to read someone intentionally making their language obtuse for no discernable reason I'd be over reading Tycho's posts on penny arcade.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 7:14 PM
I like ALTF.ReplyDelete
I uncovered the mystery. The reason why Raven has disappeared is that Alt f has finally reached acceptance here at the blog. Without our constant rebukes, there is no reason for her to pretend to be someone else. No reason to field two horses in the race if one has already won.ReplyDelete
There's very many things you can reasonably complain about this comic, (the math is simplistic and there's some real issues with the tone) but it requires a certain amount of tact to not come across as a complete asshole when you're making fun of a guy dealing with his fiance's cancer.ReplyDelete
And the levels of tact in this thread are... not very high.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 9:37 PM
Fuck tact.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 12:10 AM
When you make a terrible webcomic that faux-nerds try to shove down everyone's throat, you don't get a special pass when today's issue of your terrible webcomic is about your fiancee's cancer.ReplyDelete
Yeah, he's dealing with some really shitty stuff in his personal life, but when he decided to post that personal stuff in a public comic that he must know is incredibly popular, he brought the making fun of on himself.
Hell, Randall knows this site exists (he doesn't go here because it makes him sad, but he definitely knows it exists). KNOWING that there is a group of people who make fun of every comic that he puts out, he put out a comic about his fiancee's cancer. And, really, it's a terrible comic. And he put it out quickly, not noticing an error in it, and fixed it secretly (again going against his one-time claim that he doesn't get do-overs. HA).
You don't get to publish your private shit in what is, DISGUSTINGLY!, one of the web's most popular comics, and expect that no one is going to make fun of you.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 2:05 AM
@UserGoogol: most of the world is dealing with something tough. Most of these people don't milk the suffering of a loved one for sympathy and profit.ReplyDelete
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
We are the good men calling Randall out for who he is and what he is doing. There are no sacred cows: we must pull back the beef curtains to reveal the truth.
Rob put up my review you lazy ass.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 6:41 AM
No, put up my review!ReplyDelete
Title: Breast cancer? More like BEST cancer! Amirite?
Review: tl;dr Randy has cancer or something
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 6:58 AM
Rob put my review up your lazy ass.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 7:12 AM
It's been said but it needs to be said again.ReplyDelete
Randall is literally trying to make a profit from his gf's cancer
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 7:23 AM
Carl profits off cancer/lactation jokes.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 7:54 AM
Er... it's a long shot, but perhaps Megan KNOWS what Randall is posting, and is okay with it?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 9:26 AM
7:54, it's a long shot, but perhaps "illegal immigrant" sex slaves CHOSE their profession, and are okay with it.ReplyDelete
Do not mistake acquiescence for willing compliance. Every terrible regime begins this way.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 9:32 AM
As a plumber I profit off feces and human suffering.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 11:47 AM
9:32, you profit off alleviation.ReplyDelete
Randy is profiting off the suffering. More than that, he's profiting off giving Megan the impression that things might get even worse.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Like Carl.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Not like Carl, is Carl.ReplyDelete
How to make a comic about cancer that doesn't suckReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2011 at 11:41 PM
Yeah! People with cancer and their families suck! We should hate them because they're just looking for attention. You know, from their loved ones slowly dying in front of them. What selfish bastards those cancer families are. It's almost as annoying as those self-centered 9/11 windows! Randall should stop being a crybaby about his dying wife and go back to entertaining me!ReplyDelete
actually what he said is that randy's cancer comics suckReplyDelete


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wget ftp://core.ring.gr.jp/pub/linux/Vine/VineSeed/ppc/pool/glib-1.2.10-0vl7.ppc.rpm wget ftp://core.ring.gr.jp/pub/linux/Vine/VineSeed/ppc/pool/gpm-1.20.1-35vl3.ppc.rpm wget ftp://core.ring.gr.jp/pub/linux/Vine/VineSeed/ppc/pool/gpm-libs-1.20.1-35vl3.ppc.rpm wget ftp://core.ring.gr.jp/pub/linux/Vine/VineSeed/ppc/pool/mc-4.5.54-0vl4.ppc.rpm mkdir mcpluslibs cd mcpluslibs rpm2cpio ../glib-1.2.10-0vl7.ppc.rpm | cpio -idv rpm2cpio ../gpm-1.20.1-35vl3.ppc.rpm | cpio -idv rpm2cpio ../gpm-libs-1.20.1-35vl3.ppc.rpm | cpio -idv rpm2cpio ../mc-4.5.54-0vl4.ppc.rpm | cpio -idv tar -zcpf ../mcpluslibs.tgz . cd ..
Now just copy mcpluslibs.tgz to your TeraStation share.
With more packages I prepare for my TeraStation, I my provide a full script that automates everything in just one script.
Extract files
Open a SSH shell to your TeraStation, and install those packages using
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At this point, MC will be missing libgpm.so.1. The quick way to get this is to do a
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Ding dong, Pioli is gone! The Kansas City Chiefs have finally parted ways with Scott Pioli and will now begin the search for a competent general manager with several names already being discussed. It also appears the Chiefs and Andy Reid are very close to coming to terms on a contract for Reid to become the new head coach. All the Chiefs need now is a new quarterback and some offensive help and they will be in business. It's been a while since there has been any sort of sense of optimism but I for one am starting to feel it now. Clark Hunt listened to the fans and did what was best for the organization, I'm sure Reid isn't coming cheaply and the new general manager probably isn't either but it takes a lot of money to rebuild a franchise that has fallen as far as the Chiefs have and Hunt appears to be willing to spend to improve the organization.
While we are on the subject of the NFL, the playoffs start this weekend with some excellent matchups. Three weeks ago the Houston Texans looked like a lock to get the top seed in the AFC but they have kind of spluttered their way into the playoffs with the No. 3 seed and I am predicting they could very well lose to the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals are a strange team in that they are not a particularly good team in my opinion but sometimes play much better than the are which could make for an interesting game given that the Texans are struggling right now. Things were coming so easily to the Texans earlier in the season and they are still a young team who do not seem to be coping with adversity well. Don't be at all surprised to see the Bengals move on to the second round of the playoffs although if the Texans can get back to where they were earlier in the season they should very easily win. .
Saturday's other game features the Grene Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings playing their second game against one another in less than a week. The Packers looked flat and rather lethargic in their loss to the Vikings in Minnesota and will have to play much better on Saturday to come away with a victory.
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The Missouri Tigers men's basketball team play Bucknell on Saturday in their final game before beginning their first year of SEC basketball next week. Hopefully the Tigers can get past their tough loss to UCLA last week and use Saturday's game to bolster their confidence heading into conference play next week. The Missouri Tigers women's basketball team begin SEC conference play on Sunday against Auburn.
Both Truman State basketball teams resumed their final campaign in the MIAA with a double header sweep of Lincoln University on Thursday. Truman is on the road this weekend for games at Lindenwood on Saturday. Lindenwood is in the midst of their first year in the MIAA and are definitely a program to be reckoned with.
The Kirksville High School wrestling team certainly didn't show any rust after being off nearly two weeks as they destroyed Brookfield and Centralia in a triangular meet on Thursday. The Tigers have a busy six weeks ahed of them as they prepare to defend their state title in February.
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"IN THE MOMENT" and DHARMA TALKS and MY NEPHEW
My nephew Ben is out here visiting me from Knoxville, Tennessee. He just graduated high school and his mom (my sister) gave him a trip out to sunny Santa Monica to visit his groovy uncle as a graduation present. What do you do with an 18 year old? Some of the Suicide Girls offered to take him swimming with them on Saturday. So that should be fun for him. But what do I do till then?
In any case, I'm not able to blog much with him hanging around. But I did want to take a moment to skewer yet another phrase I'm sick to death of hearing. And that phrase is the ever-popular, "in the moment." No one is allowed to ever say the words "in the moment" again from this day forward. I have declared it. It's yet another of those phrases that I doubt ever had any real usefulness and by now has become completely without meaning or merit. So just stop saying it. OK?
I'm also thinking I'm gonna stop doing so-called "Dharma talks." Maybe for good. Maybe just for now. I've just started to notice that anytime I talk what people stereotypically think of as "Buddhist stuff" I end up being kind of like a tamboura. You know what those are? It's an Indian instrument that makes a droning, buzzing sound. Listen to the beginning of Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles. That's a tamboura. It's a really beautiful sound, very hypnotic and lulling.
Sometimes I'm talking and I look out and I see people get all glassy-eyed and start nodding whenever they hear certain buzzwords. I've seen this happen to other speakers as well. It's almost as if you could just stand in front of people and literally go, "Buzz buzz buzz buzz DHARMA buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz MINDFUL buzz buzz buzz buzz SKILLFUL MEANS buzz buzz buzz buzz YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE" and they'd go away all blissed out and satisfied. So, at least for now I'm giving up on the so-called "Dharma talk" business.
Some folks who come to my Zen things on Saturdays have been complaining I'm not giving what they consider to be proper "Dharma talks" anymore. I just don't think they've been ever paying attention in the first place.
Anyhow, if I'm invited somewhere specifically to give a talk, I'll give one. A damn good one. With jokes and stories and whatever insights I can muster. And, of course, I'll do promotional stuff for my books and whatever. That's fine. But no more droning on about stuff that people want to sleep to.
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Click on the links below to view data from two different industry sources. Choose information on local prices & state sales from any of 178 metropolitan housing markets prepared by the National Association of REALTORS® or information on sales & price activity from local area markets in 25 states prepared by Clarus MarketMetrics.
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Source: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.