June 5, 2023May 29, 2023 by EditorM

Which approach would you take?

Two related task-management life-hacks from Tuesday.

Wait, I have a solution for her! She can just leave some OTHER task undone and its checkbox unchecked! That should w…. Oh.

April 16, 2023April 13, 2023 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 16th, 2023

Two comics from Ian with the common element of unpaid internships, which he notes “seem to be everywhere at the moment!”

And finally, an Ewww-LOL from BillR. It’s the “number 2” that clinches it!

February 7, 2022February 4, 2022 by EditorM

Ichnospecies

Thanks to Peter T for sending this in, and saying “I don’t know what the ‘microbeads’ are. Is this some sort of sex joke?”

November 23, 2021November 21, 2021 by EditorM

Getting a little help from the IT crowd

Sent by Chemgal, who says “It’s often out there, but this SMBC has me stumped”

The hover-text: “Sometimes it mutters but I think the CPU is permanently broken.”

And the bonus panel:

I’d venture that the advice in the bonus panel is meant as a variation on the (ahem) traditional “Try turning it off and then on again.”

August 20, 2021August 10, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Sexism and Beverages

The main cartoon makes sense to me. But I don’t understand the bonus panel at all:

March 30, 2021March 17, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Pandora’s Box

This is just the legend of Pandora’s box (or at least one particular variant of it), without any modification. How is that a joke?

February 22, 2021February 17, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Second Person Plural

Bonus Panel:

Is this a real, current, debate? I’m aware of debates about gender neutral pronouns, but not of any debates over second person plural in the last few hundred years.

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Violates logic itself?

Does this really violate logic? And which miracle is really more impressive?

It doesn’t seem to me that sorting a list in linear time really violates logic itself. It seems plausible that a divine being might be able to do any number of things that would violate the conditions that prevent sorting in linear time. e.g. perform multiple operations or comparisons at once. Or omnisciently perceiving the distribution of the numbers and then using it to perform a bucket sort.

I’m not saying that sorting in linear time isn’t impressive. But the crowd does have a point here. Violating conservation of mass does seem more impressive.