New Apartment

Posted byRandall 265 Comments on New Apartment

I’ve finally left Virginia and moved to Boston (the Cambridge-Somerville area). I’m really excited. I try to avoid the teenage-ish tendency to blame everything on wherever I am (“I just need to get out of this town! This place sucks! Hey, can you put on another Simple Plan CD?”). But I really think the Virginia town I lived in wasn’t my kind of place. So Boston’s going to be good. I feel at home here already (it helps that I have some lovely friends in the area). Hooray for things happening!

I put a whiteboard in the front hallway so everyone could leave notes and so forth. Hmm. A shared space that anyone can write/draw in …

I couldn’t help it:

(click for larger photo)

I’ve got some Sharpies in a drawer in case I need to lock it from editing.

265 replies on “New Apartment”

  2. Ohh, Cambridge/Somerville area. Boston in general. You’re so lucky to have moved there, this statement coming from someone who would sell their soul maybe if she could get into Tufts.

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  3. Oh man! Awesome! Cambridge! That’s where I live! I hope I will see you around town! Most people here are actual humanoids and not animatronic stick-figure representations of them, so I figure you will be pretty easy to spot!

    This message brought to you by the National Exclamation Point Advisory Council!

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  4. “This message brought to you by the National Exclamation Point Advisory Council!”

    Oh, so that’s how Ryan North makes a living.

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  5. Welcome to Our Fair City. Of the free commuter papers, the Metro has slightly better news but only one sudoku, while the upstart Boston NOW has three sudoku puzzles in every issue.

    Re c276: I’m sure Rob realized, as soon as Emily disconnected, that “for real” has the same number of characters as “just sex”. Sigh.

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  9. @Angie: I don’t know how good those Raptors are at hiding. They seem to make the news on ESPN a lot.

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  11. Is that really Spam Protection, or Liberal Arts Majors protection?

    We should get together this fall and take control of the lightning generator at the Boston Science Museum to recreate comic 260. As Carl’s post said, you’re internet famous now. Time to utilize fame and conquer the Museum for fun… and profit….

    XKCD Fulgurite necklaces would be naturally enchanted with +1 to WIN. They’d also have the effect of Work Evasion +20 for the creator.

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  14. okay, so basically, i love your comics. and now that you live in the cambridge-somerville area, you cannot get out of coming to Tufts to have a talk or something. Pleaseeeeeeeeee!! 🙂 You really do have tons of fans up here. And it’s crazy to think you’ll be up here now. Awesome.

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  15. …..this is amazing.

    when I wikipedia you.
    I’m pretty sure there is a link for amazing.

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  16. Hey wait, the rob and emily one doesn’t make any sense!

    ‘for real’ is the same character length as ‘just sex’! He’s trying to cover up his callous, coldhearted nature by making out that he’s got Asperger’s, that creep!

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  17. Welcome to Camberville!

    If you like Guitar Hero enough, there’s a bar called River Gods that hosts a Guitar Hero night starting at 9 (actual playing starts at 10) on the last Tuesday of every month. It’s five minutes from Central Square, which should be easily accessible from just about anywhere in the area.

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  18. this is my favorite online comic, and second favorite… comic? (Sorry, no one beats Lenore.)

    I’m particularly happy that you Raptor-Proof your house. i’ve been telling people for years….

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  19. LOL… welcome to Taxachusetts… er, I mean, Massachusetts. Moving from one Commonwealth to another, eh? How appropriate.

    Maybe it’s just me, but I always thought it would be difficult to raptor-proof homes and buildings in the Boston-Cambridge area. I hope you get that done soon!

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  21. Quotes of note from the article

    “one-and-a-half-tonne”

    “five-metre-tall”

    “slim “chicken-like” legs…suggest(s) that it could also have been the fastest dinosaur on two legs”

    “It was likely an open pursuit predator that would have been difficult to escape,”

    “only a Tyrannosaur is of similar size”

    (second and possibly last post, moving to Canada so I don’t die for real)

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  23. your white board is upside down.

    data was provided by the white board

    take notice the orientation of the logo in the top left of the wood border

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  24. This is hilarious. 🙂 I’m a Wikipedia admin and a huge xkcd fan and I think you have to be both to completely appreciate it. I especially like how the TOC lists “Controversy” and “In popular culture”, which happen to reference a couple of the more controversial practices in Wikipedia (POV forking and trivia sections). The languages list is cute too. What do the last two tabs at the top say? Great stuff.

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  25. Hey – you’ve been mentioned on slashdot! Check the links in “Youtube to Host Presidential Debate”. Nice one!

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  27. This isn’t specific to this blog, but your comic is so beautiful that I thought I should say something. I have fallen out of my chair laughing at nearly all of the funny ones and I can completely relate to the other ones. Thank you so much for existing and for making this comic.

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  28. Heyhey! Welcome to Boston. I’ve loved your comics forever so if you ever need someone to show you around the area, it’d be like repaying a debt for hundreds of laughs.

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  31. I’m a bit late here, but I just had to add a comment to say how brilliant this picture is. (Particularly the ubiquitous ‘Controversy’ and ‘In popular culture’ sections.) If the flat I lived in had one of these, I’d actually want to do the chores. 🙂

    Anyway, keep up the good work – XKCD really is one of the best comics on the web!

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  32. My boyfriend sent me a link to the “Thoughts” one with a note that he was going to find it really hard to meet my parents. I was confused until I clicked and then LOL’ed for about five minutes.

    …and I’ve been beaten to the news about Gigantoraptor. There’s something funky about it being the world’s biggest BEAKED dinosaur. Pecked to death? *shudders*

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  35. love the pick up lines!! 🙂
    the cheesiest one i’ve ever gotten was: I’ve lost my number, can i have yours?

    it made me giggle, at least! still… a better response would have been to deadpan him with something like the xkcd number! XD

    do guys actually think lines work??? 🙂

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  37. Welcome to Boston, I go to school here, at Northeastern University. I think you will like it MUCH better than Virginia, (though I have nothing against said state.)

    Additionally, I’m worried by the fact that I had to think about the question in the spam protector, and I once called myself a math major.

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  38. “Is there a mirror in your pants? Because I can totally see up your girlfriend’s skirt”

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  40. you moved into a place that wasnt raptor-proofed????

    im never even in any area that isnt.

    you used to be my idol what happened?

    the raptors will get you in the end if youre not careful

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  41. I know this is a bit out of place, but in comic 276, wouldn’t have “for real” aligned just as well as “just sex” ?

    Y’know. Just sayin’. Absolutely love this strip.

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  44. You’re amazing, love the whiteboard idea. All of my programming- and internet-savvy friends love your comic, and I got my dad hooked.

    Keep it up, I wish I had friends like you in high school.

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  46. Listen to Emily. Schoenhof’s is excellent, and what’s the use of claiming to offer Sumerian 1337-speak* if you can’t actually support it?

    *That is what you’re claiming, right?

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