He’s an “R” - his friends do make plans, they just never get down to him.
Well, one of them wears a beret, one of them has a black hat…
You know the difference between an introverted engineer and an extroverted engineer, right?
The extroverted engineer looks at your shoes when talking to you
The height of the pages seemed way too periodic, but thinking about it some more I guess that’s right if you keep the order of the pages with the same number in the same book order each time.
Of course, I sort all my bookshelves the normal way, alphabetically (by first sentence).
That makes perfect sense, since that’s where the book actually starts. The title, author, publisher, etc are all metadata.
I was wondering what the secondary sort was myself, and to you keep i, ii, and iii in the forward separate from 1, 2, and 3 or intermix them?
While he’s at it, he could fix the aphelion/perihelion problem.
Blame Kepler. If Mr. Copernicus had his way, it would be so much easier.
How would you line up the longest day with the latest sunset (and assuming earliest sunrise), assuming that you can move celestial objects with ease? Would you need to completely circularize Earth’s orbit, or can you just shift it so that the solstices line up perfectly with the apsis?
What’s wrong with them?
I assume that @dtilque is referring to the fact that the Earth is closest to the Sun in winter (or at least, when it’s winter for @dtilque and Randall Munroe).
Not an expert, but I’m pretty sure you’d have to circularize the orbit. Which would take care of the aphelion/perihelion problem, since there wouldn’t be either one…
Kind of. But mostly it was posted without thinking too much about it.
I don’t see that as a problem. For the little effect it has, it mitigates the extreme temperatures of the seasons.
I’m starting to think Randall gets ad revenue from the Explain XKCD website.
I haven’t figured out the main sentence yet. I think I’ve parsed the hover one, though:
An arboreteum owner who was previously denied legal standing in a lawsuit about garden paths (on the legal grounds that the arboreteum grounds were aesthetically appealing), is now filing a legal appeal.
I’m thinking the sentences can be parsed in multiple ways, like “she eats shoots and leaves”.
That may be the case, but a garden-path sentence is a specific case where you get led down the wrong path in parsing the sentence due to specific words being ambiguous. A simple example is:
The old man the boat
Almost everyone reads “old man” at first, but you hit a grammatical collision as soon as you read “the”. The only way to make sense of it is as “The old (people) man the boat.”
Here comes Captain Ahab, always ordering us around with the old “man the boat” routine.
I’m not seeing any word in there that could be parsed as “airplane”, though I think there has to be one… Unless “bird” means “airplane”, but that’s a little too colloquial for a headline.