Oops (delayed post)

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In today’s comic, I have the rain-stick thing happening in Jaynestown, when it actually happens in Our Mrs. Reynolds.  I lose three nerd points.

When writing the comic, I actually compiled a list of references to wood in Firefly by searching the scripts. They included Badger serving Jayne wood alcohol and Inara likening Mal’s sword technique to ‘chopping wood’ (both in Shindig). I should put it on Wikipedia so nobody has to duplicate my efforts.

Note: I actually wrote this post from the road early this morning to try to stave off the subsequent flood of email, but in my sleepiness I accidentally published it as a “page” instead of a “post” (a WordPress distinction that’s confused me before). So, all told, this was not a good day for my internet skills.  I think I’ve dropped from 1337 to 1334, maybe 1335 tops.

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  1. >In today’s comic, I have the rain-stick thing happening in Jaynestown, when it actually happens in Our Mrs. Reynolds. I lose three nerd points.

    I tried to click on the edit button to fix this, but a yellow box got in the way.

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  3. Some Random Guy

    I think I’ve fallen in love with the comic you’ve worked out there 😛

    Pure genius, I tell you, pure genius…

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  4. @skittledog: What about Adama’s model ship? I do believe he made that out of wood

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  5. Beachton: Of course you’re right, rainsticks are made of rain.

    I didn’t notice the mistake, I was picturing the floral bonnet bit and didn’t even stop to think that it wasn’t Jaynestown it was Our Mrs Reynolds. Shocking, I know.

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  6. @Lackluster: ohhh, dumb me. Yes, good call. (Except where does he keep getting more wood from, every time it gets smashed up?)

    One of my friends did also point out that we have to assume paper is made from wood and thus there are rather a lot of octagonal bits lying around the place…

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  8. I was going to make an “over 9000” joke, but i got beaten to it:

    Balath Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 6:51 am

    Far, far under 9000, Mr. Munroe.

    Hats off to Balath. He gets 2 nerd points.

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  13. I’d assumed that the comic was a comment on one of two things:
    1a) The unbearable triviality and nerdosity of “In Popular Culture” sections,
    1b) the fact that few people can leave an IPC section alone without adding their own favorite geektastic reference, or
    2) That Munroe and xkcd have a rabidly loyal fanbase who will follow him into the depths of hell.

    I knew as soon as I saw the comic that somebody, indeed several somebodies, would have already tried it

    — A.

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  14. Is it weird that while I am among those who would follow xkcd into, as Aaron so eloquently put it, into the depths of hell, I only just now found out the name of the guy who makes it? (that is who Munroe is, right? The author of xkcd?)

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  15. @skittledog

    Also, I believe that the handle of Helena Cain’s razor was made of wood.

    Also, didn’t boomer have a set of wooden Elephants that were given to her by her nonexistent parents?

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  17. the best story for 445 is read counter clockwise starting at the bottom left corner.

    4A 3A 2A 1A 1B 1C 1D 2D 3D 4D 4C 4B 3B 2B 2C 3C

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  18. I THOUGHT that Jaynestown was wrong when I first read it, but I couldn’t off the top of my head remember which episode the rainstick was from. He got it from a backwater planet while inebriated, and that’s all that really matters. Made me laugh, either way.

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  19. 😮

    Somone see thet math process in the comic?
    Its a white-gray but is easy to see 😛

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  20. Wikipedia also locked the article on Popular Culture. Whether that was directly in reponce to xkcd, or just a general precaution against the implosion of the blogosphere, I don’t know.

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  22. So Because firefly was mentioned in the comic and the blag, I’m going to go off on a tangent here…

    Anyone seen the new Whedon Project? With Captain Malcolm Reynolds?

    http://www.drhorrible.com

    It looks cool!

    (sorry if we’re not supposed to promote stuff here, but come on. It’s Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion!)

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  23. Heehee, I thought of xkcd when the Captain Hammer comic recommended turning any of your friends who are good at maths and science over to the police. Otherwise, who knows what they’ll do…

    @Not_a_spambot: …okay, now I’m a little scared. And fearing that any minute now the usages of wood in BSG are going to spell out the name of the final Cylon.

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  25. learn to draw. lots of fancy words, so what. go to my comic site and be prepared to see real art, you know, recognizable images, and concise humor. your dry jokes suck and no one is laughing, mabey your mom tells you you are funny but she’s lying. no one likes a snob who thinks a slide rule is superior to human relations. you can hire me to illustrate your future efforts, If you hire a writer too. good bye reply if you dare.

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  28. Off-topic: Will bestthing.info be back up in the near future? Searching forums.xkcd.com indicates it was down on July 1, which makes me worry that it’s been down all the time since then.

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  29. Has anyone here ever considered that 50 $ can educate A child in Afghanistan for a year and that the Average Canadian teen spends 100 $ A week and you can guess it’s mostly on crap.

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  30. @ Zombie (who said)
    ”
    What gives you any right to dictate what goes on wikipedia other than that moderators tag? Admins and mods on wikipedia are usually the worst form of trolls whose policical bias and means allow them to close off articles of value (I?m look at you locked down aXXo article).
    ”

    Admins follow the rules which are set by the community. If an admin doesn’t follow the rules you can report them. If you don’t like the rules; propose that they are changed. I’ guess you were engaged in a dispute over a political article and your view wasn’t accepted so you left. Adding silliness to the articles isn’t allowed, not even on April fools day.

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  31. >>bozo rebebo Says: July 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
    >>learn to draw. lots of fancy words, so what….your dry jokes suck and no >>one is laughing…no one likes a snob who thinks a slide rule is superior to >>human relations.

    stfu.

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  34. “# bozo rebebo Says:
    July 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    learn to draw. lots of fancy words, so what. go to my comic site and be prepared to see real art, you know, recognizable images, and concise humor. your dry jokes suck and no one is laughing, mabey your mom tells you you are funny but she’s lying. no one likes a snob who thinks a slide rule is superior to human relations. you can hire me to illustrate your future efforts, If you hire a writer too. good bye reply if you dare.”

    1. The essence of the humor is the language, the “fancy words” as you put them. the visual certainly has it’s place, but in xkcd, stick figures would suffice. and do.

    2. i looked up “bozo rebebo”, since you kindly didn’t leave a link to “your comic” if you’re even mr williamson… and what i got was a website where i could buy pieces of art, about flatulence. very classy.

    3. We like him, there are thousands of us. and if you bothered to read xkcd, you’d see that it’s all about human relations.

    4. Don’t be alone at night. we are everywhere

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  35. eitje, it only mentions his name in one place on that whole page, and then with no explaination. It doesn’t even tell you it’s a name- given that XKCD is semi-random letters, I wasn’t going to make unwarrented assumptions.

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  36. @Not_a_spambot: “Downloaded” features numerous other references to wood, including the Cylon tree planting campaign and the clothespin/cigarette bomb trigger.

    @DKH: Of course, the botanical ship!

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  38. A reward for anyone reading so far down this page:

    1A 1B
    2A 2B 2C
    3A
    4A

    4B
    3B 3C
    2D

    It’s the simple things in life.

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  40. @bozo rebebo

    I’m pretty sure this sums up what i need to say:
    http://xkcd.com/438/
    Clearly, you hate people. You can insult a man you don’t know on the internet, but I’m willing to bet you have no interaction with people outside of cyberspace. And no, phone sex hotlines don’t count.
    Also, if you would look at some of the comics, you’ll see plenty of lovely artwork. So next time, do some research.

    You might not read this, you might never come back to this site. But my guess is you will, because this is as close as human interaction as you ever get, and you want to see if anyone has noticed your existence.

    -Summer Glau

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  41. YOU’VE BEEN REFERENCED IN FOXTROT’S SUNDAY COMIC JULY 13TH 2008!

    THUNDERCATS GO!

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  44. In foxtrot. So made the big time! I like how he states: “With Apologies all around”

    Great stuff!
    -B

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  46. ….everybody else gets fox trot on sundays? I get it on my saturday papers…. lol

    hence, i said it a few posts ago =P

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  47. I provided a link. My information is therefore way better 🙂

    It’s like a thing of “pics or it didn’t happen”

    I cut out today’s foxtrot 😀

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  48. I owe you an apology, Mr. Munroe. I’ll stop spamming your comment box with “Megan”, now…

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  49. I like that I can now read #445 variations without looking at the comic. I don’t see much use for this skill.

    Incidentally, the counter-clockwise effort of Ian is my favourite thrown up here so far.

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  50. I think that Wikipedia has a HUGE relevance problem. It’s everywhere in there. New articles on interesting topics are declared “irrelevant” because the admins have never heard of them before.
    And articles written with meta-humour, which always reminded me of Hitchhiker’s Guide (for those who don’t know the book: in contrast to the Encyclopaedia Galactica, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a bit cheaper, it’s not objective at all and it has tha words “DON’T PANIC” written in large, red letters on its frontside), are being made more “neutral” (which basically means ‘more boring style’). There was a time, when articles contained hints how to use certain things, tips, what better not to do, lists, enumerating things in an entertaining order and so on. And the attempts to make a cold, lifeless place out of a wonderful idea make me sick, really.
    xkcd’s “problem with wikipedia” has always been the fact that made Wikipedia that interesting. And now our good old Wiki tries to be like the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and fails.
    There are so many articles which are also at least as useless as knowledge about which episode of which TV series contained what. What’s wrong about one or two useless facts at the end of an article?

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