{"id":124,"date":"2007-08-20T08:13:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/comic-relief\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T07:43:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:43:48","slug":"comic-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/comic-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a little levity and I came across the popular web comic <a title=\"A Webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math, and Language\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\">XKCD<\/a> which is full of geek related giggles.  The comics were so good that I read them all in a single sitting.  If you start at the beginning you can watch the author <a title=\"Author Within a Five Foot Diameter Forcefield\" href=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/blag\/lecture_mob_450.jpg\">Randall Munroe<\/a> refine his style as he progresses through more than 300 comic strips.<\/p>\n<p>But before you set out on your comic adventure, I feel it&#8217;s only fair to warn you that Mr. Munroe used to work at N.A.S.A developing robots and whatnot so an appreciation for <a title=\"Fourier Transforms Cat\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/26\/\">occasional high level math references<\/a> will prove beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my favorites<!--more-->:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/184\/\">The math behind rotation explained<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/200\/\">Why I don&#8217;t answer every Page Flip question<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/209\/\">A boat is never just a boat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/221\/\">Guaranteed to work at least once<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/222\/\">Small talk and big ideas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/227\/\">A joke that only a person who&#8217;s written too many color-fading tutorials could love<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/229\/\">Looking for meaning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/230\/\">Big pictures and small insights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/245\/\">The quiet and awkward<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/246\/\">I always get the third guy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/250\/\">Moebius Snopes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/275\/\">Honesty is not always the best policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/276\/\">Loving the beauty of emerging patterns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/291\/\">A good point<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PixelWit discovers XKCD and shares a long list of cartoon favorites.  One lies, one tells the truth, and the other stabs people who ask tricky questions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}