So, tonight’s XKCD’s alt text mentions the plane on a treadmill argument. Not sure if it’s a reference to SDMB or Mythbusters though (the debate started here, right?)
Anyhow, I can’t even get the link to Search to work, much less do a search, so I dunno if the topic has been touched here tonight yet, or even when the original PoaTM thread was.
Can someone please explain the previous (IHOP) strip? Is it just a surreal mood piece, or is there some reference I’m missing?
Look at the very top, above the comic, above its title, but below the xkcd logo: he gives a special message explaining it.
Doesn’t look like much of an explanation, but it does remind me a lot of Fight Club.
How much more direct an explanation can you get than “TODAY’S COMIC IS A PARODY OF HOUSE OF LEAVES”?
Ah, didn’t see that part. For some reason my brain just filtered that out as part of the logo.
I wrote the line “Just stay in the air, Claire”. Yep, my existence in the world won’t go by without leaving a legacy.
Ah. Never heard of it.
You have that kind of influence on Randall Munroe?
So Randall does have some pasing connection to the Dope?
No, it appeared on at least one other message board I know of prior to the SDMB.
I just hang out in an irc channel which he used to write in.