Sax solo
- Escalate -
Increase the number oftroopspersonnel in the cockpit
Munroe is popular with nerds because he actually expresses the things we really do think about. Or at least, things very much like them.
Oh great, now whenever I visit someplace new, I have to think about locking my path there by finding a loop I can pass through in only one direction.
A ferris wheel isn’t as nice as it seems at first. You do get locked to the wheel, but your path can just get pulled taut against the main axle, so it’s not much better than any other loop.
I’ll bet one could show that it’s an NP-complete problem to prove that you actually have minimized the path length. There’s probably a way to demonstrate equivalence to the Traveling Salesman problem, for example.
I felt puzzled at first, because I had difficulty visualizing what he was describing.
Then I felt personally attacked, because I had the epiphany of what he meant and it was like he was monitoring my interior monologues. That kind of virtual path minimization is one of the little psychological tics I have to fight hard to avoid becoming full-on obsessive disorder.
So, yeah. “One of us”, indeed.
Coincidentally, something very much like this ran through my mind just yesterday. I got on a subway train from a platform on the right, and had to exit to a platform on the left, thus leaving my virtual path attached to the train as it sped away.
I guess it’s comforting to know I’m not the only one who has these weird thoughts.
It’s weird, as I used to have “those thoughts” all the time, but haven’t in quite a while now.
And now I probably will again, at least for a while.
A common one is apparently imagining someone running beside you when looking out of a car or bus window on a journey, with various rules for how they are moving. I was astonished when I read that other people had the same thing.
I used to have a horse. Been quite a while, though I wonder whether that suggestion will bring him back. I wonder whether other people have other animals running alongside the car/bus/etc.?
I thought Eureka was just a town in northern California…
I didn’t know that about Tylenol.
Another such drug is lithium, which is often prescribed for manic depression. It’s been used for about 70 years, but we still don’t know exactly how it works.
I’m guessing that part of the reason why friction electrification is so poorly understood is that friction, itself, is very poorly understood.
How about we just call them fanwanks…
Do we call outdated hypotheses and disproved models “Legends” and de-canonize them?
Yep. Until we’re out of ideas for later seasons, then we file off the serial numbers and revive them - bringing them back into canon. See: string theory. 