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Longtime readers of this blog -- all both of you -- will recall that I stumbled onto the artistic genius of Klio![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meritahut via 2004 Clarion classmate slithytove. Since then, Klio has embarked on quite the epic comic, SPQR Blues, a swords & sandals Roman epic, taking place in the sleepy little mountainside/mountain-near city of Herculaneum somewhere around, oh, 79 AD...
Mountain? Uh, exactly which mountain would that be? Say, what year was that? (Ooops)
New Swoon
The Physics/Computer/SF&F Geek that I am, however, is totally delighted to discover XKCD. The artwork is tres subtle -- stick figures lovingly drawn -- but to truly appreciate it, you need to mouse-over the comic and read the HTML TITLE tags. (NOTE: There's a bug in Firefox which prevents you from seeing all of some TITLE tags.) Wikipedia has a nice entry.
I think I've seen this guy's work before, but a bit of dust up over on Scalzi's blog deep in the comments about centripetal versus centrifugal started by yours truly, included this fine comic reference.
Hee-hee.
(And there still is no such thing as a centrifugal force.) (*raspberries*)
Dr. Phil
Longtime readers of this blog -- all both of you -- will recall that I stumbled onto the artistic genius of Klio
meritahut via 2004 Clarion classmate slithytove. Since then, Klio has embarked on quite the epic comic, SPQR Blues, a swords & sandals Roman epic, taking place in the sleepy little mountainside/mountain-near city of Herculaneum somewhere around, oh, 79 AD...Mountain? Uh, exactly which mountain would that be? Say, what year was that? (Ooops)
New Swoon
The Physics/Computer/SF&F Geek that I am, however, is totally delighted to discover XKCD. The artwork is tres subtle -- stick figures lovingly drawn -- but to truly appreciate it, you need to mouse-over the comic and read the HTML TITLE tags. (NOTE: There's a bug in Firefox which prevents you from seeing all of some TITLE tags.) Wikipedia has a nice entry.
I think I've seen this guy's work before, but a bit of dust up over on Scalzi's blog deep in the comments about centripetal versus centrifugal started by yours truly, included this fine comic reference.
Hee-hee.
(And there still is no such thing as a centrifugal force.) (*raspberries*)
Dr. Phil
Test and XKCD
Date: Sunday, 22 April 2007 06:33 (UTC)http://www.xkcd.com/c135.html
Might come handy as an extra credit question on your exams. //Jim Wright
Re: Test and XKCD
Date: Sunday, 22 April 2007 17:40 (UTC)Dr. Phil