Randall Munroe Interviewed: Answers In Comic Form (time.com) 49
requerdanos writes: Randall Munroe, the former NASA roboticist and author of the web comic xkcd, spoke with Time magazine after the release of his latest book, Thing Explainer. Sort of. Time asked questions, and Randall's answers were in the form of seven comics that he drew in response. Obligatory xkcd.
I know why he did this... (Score:5, Funny)
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I found some sunglasses and a "YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" lying over here- I think they must be yours.
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They're mine you STUPID FUCK
Yeah. I could tell that by the lighthearted tone you have in your writing.
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you mean this??
http://instantrimshot.com/inde... [instantrimshot.com]
Thankyou i will be here all week
TRY THE SALMON
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No resistance. Never happens in the real world.
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What, you've never heard of a superconducting snake? [sciencedirect.com]
A Request for Randall (Score:2)
My wife and I want to see you do a reddit AMA with all your answers in comic form too!
Tnx!
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I think you'll find bestiality is at least as unacceptable both societally and in law.
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Your wife gives good head.
is untrue for most values of (wife).
Those answers drove me crazy. (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Those answers drove me crazy. (Score:1)
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There was no alt-text to be found!
yeah I went through enabling scripts trying to figure out why it wasn't working myself.
About this VERY instant, 52 years ago (Score:1, Informative)
One Lee Harvey Oswald was getting his firing position ready.
Bill Gates (Score:1)
I like his recent one with Bill Gates.
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot
It lightly makes fun of us how 'the internet' is always trying to fix things. When execution is sometimes MUCH better than speculation.
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Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but let's see you do it :-)
Ask Slashdot. (Score:3)
Obviously this guy is extremely funny and we'd all like to know how he fooled Nasa in this Robotics thing.
Parallel (Score:3, Interesting)
Back in the early 80s, I was a HUGE fan of this little known alternative rock band from Ireland. It seemed like they were continually churning out amazing albums - Boy, October, War, The Joshua Tree... And, as usually happens with really talented groups, gradually more and more people found out about them. Yet even as their popularity grew, it seemed their music was losing something - I'd hear it and still enjoy it, but instead of "wow that's amazing" it was more "yeah that's more or less enjoyable".
Then, in the late 1980s, Time put U2 on the cover. It seemed like, after that, they changed. I can't blame them - it's likely just about impossible to not let fame go to your head - but they turned into just another group whose new albums had one or two decent songs and ten pieces of forgettable filler.
That's how I've felt about xkcd for some time now. Earlier it was consistently great; but more recently it generally doesn't seem to make me laugh or think. I doubt it's because Randall has become well known... but I do think xkcd has probably run its course.
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"Other people like what I like so I don't think it's as cool anymore. Because I like liking things that other people don't like so much."
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It was your shared secret and now it's just part of the mainstream.
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Re: Randall munroe is a piece of shit (Score:1)
Also an interview in WSJ this week (Score:2)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ra... [wsj.com]
Never thought of him as being so mainstream...
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Very large online following, regularly quoted (in comic form) and actively promoting a new book. Half of it will be his PR team doing their job.