# ­xkcd thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574 "2020-05-28T00:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 89
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1762 "2022-11-02T18:28:31Z")
> **[Wirecutter Recommendation](https://xkcd.com/2693/)** > > Their 'best philosophy of epistemology' picks are great, but you can tell they're struggling a little in the 'why you should trust us' section. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1763 "2022-11-02T19:00:40Z")
I assume Wirecutter is some sort of review site. The joke’s probably funnier if you’d ever heard of it before. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1764 "2022-11-02T19:03:55Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I assume Wirecutter is some sort of review site. Yes, it’s one owned by the NY Times. I only have heard of it because I get the NYTimes daily email and they have a small section with Wirecutter recommendations. I ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1765 "2022-11-02T23:38:50Z")
Yeah, I just thought it was about wire-cutters (electrical engineer, here - I know where my towel is at, but also where my wire-cutters are). ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1766 "2022-11-02T23:41:12Z")
If you need advice: > **[The Best Wire Cutter](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-wire-cutter/)** > > We put 13 pairs of wire cutters through relentless testing. Read on to see what we recommend. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1767 "2022-11-02T23:47:41Z")
Now that’s a useful website. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1768 "2022-11-05T11:06:04Z")
> **[Königsberg](https://xkcd.com/2694/)** > > At first I thought I would need some gold or something to pay him, but then I realized that it was the 18th century and I could just bring a roll of aluminum foil. Better bring along a few ballpoint pens to season the deal. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1769 "2022-11-05T13:00:08Z")
I’d known about this famous problem since encountering it in a puzzle book when I was a child. More recently, I learned a lot more about the problem from the always-entertaining [Cliff Stoll in a Numberphile video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18FDEA1jRQ). Today, I was curious what [explain xkcd had to say about it](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2694:_K%C3%B6nigsberg) so I read what they had so far, and learned a couple new things. And then I rewatched the video, and with one of the new things I learned from explainxkcd I was able to spot a mistake Cliff made in his explanation that I didn’t know enough to understand the first time around. 🙂 The mistake I spotted was: Cliff uses the term “circuit” incorrectly at least twice during his video, at stages where he says a “circuit” is possible, but now I know wouldn’t be. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1770 "2022-11-06T14:51:39Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > always-entertaining [Cliff Stoll](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18FDEA1jRQ) So that’s what happened to Clifford Stoll. Huh. Good for him. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1771 "2022-11-06T23:22:46Z")
Yeah, I remember him from his highly entertaining computer-sleuthing book in the early 90s (Cuckoo’s Egg), but hadn’t heard much from him since his less-entertaining Internet skeptical book) ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1772 "2022-11-07T00:25:04Z")
He’s been [selling Klein bottles](https://www.kleinbottle.com/), and [appearing in Numberphile videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJeBhzCJ_JXdaIXi_YJl7Bh). ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1773 "2022-11-07T01:50:04Z")
His website for the Klein bottles is a hoot. It looks like something that my first-year web design students would write at about week three of learning about HTML. He dates it as first published in 1995, so it was probably state-of-the art back then, but looks like he keeps updating the contents including 2022 contact information. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1774 "2022-11-07T02:37:15Z")
Last I checked (back when I bought one), he was still updating his youngest kid’s opinion of the biodegradable packing pellets. But by now, that kid is probably in or past college, so they’re probably not eating the pellets any more. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1775 "2022-11-07T11:39:54Z")
Thanks ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1776 "2022-11-07T16:12:33Z")
> **[Soil](https://xkcd.com/2695/)** > > You might want to bring your frost-sensitive plants in from the patio. The high-level aerosols may result in short-term cooling across the entire backyard. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1777 "2022-11-07T20:26:58Z")
I am deeply shamed the concept of “volcano seeds” has never crossed my mind up to this moment. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1778 "2022-11-07T20:29:03Z")
They’d better be wearing some fire-resistant boots. Pyroclastic flow across the ankles is no joke. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1779 "2022-11-07T22:56:16Z")
I feel like I’ve seen volcano seeds, or something like them, in XKCD before… ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1780 "2022-11-07T23:08:00Z")
You sure you don’t have them confused with Acme’s tornado seeds? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3-kPGYlRlnE/hqdefault.jpg "LOONEY TUNES: Wile E. Coyote vs. Tornado") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-kPGYlRlnE) ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1781 "2022-11-07T23:08:30Z")
Perhaps this? > **[Subduction License](https://xkcd.com/1388/)** > > 'Dude, why can't you just be a normal roommate?' 'Because I'm coming TOWARD you!' or this? (part of a series of scale models) > **[1/10,000th Scale World](https://xkcd.com/2411/)** > > OCEAN PLAY AREA RULES: No running, no horseplay, no megatsunamis, and no trying to pry the wreck of the Titanic off the bottom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=88) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=90)