I've been aware of xkcd from reading Language Log, but Ekrem's recent pointer to the xkcd Scrabble comic made me want to go through and view each comic. I did that finally, and wanted to share my favorite two:
I had a logic professor whose fetish was Godel and Frege, and I learned a lot of them by association as I garnered my concentration in philosophy. (I remember the rapturous day that I learned MIT would give me humanities credits for classes that assigned problem sets instead of essays.) That combination made this comic appeal to me:
This comic, on the other hand, just pleases me because it exemplifies the curiosity I share with many of my fellow scientists and other nerd types:
I had a logic professor whose fetish was Godel and Frege, and I learned a lot of them by association as I garnered my concentration in philosophy. (I remember the rapturous day that I learned MIT would give me humanities credits for classes that assigned problem sets instead of essays.) That combination made this comic appeal to me:
This comic, on the other hand, just pleases me because it exemplifies the curiosity I share with many of my fellow scientists and other nerd types:
Pull the leeever... pull the leever!!! Maybe not, maybe not!!! What's a little voltage?!
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