7Oct/095

Conversations

by Mike

Image Text: If the dysentery graph looks historically inaccurate it's because I got all my data from Oregon Trail.

Dysentery is a disease that causes fatal diarrhea.  Frequently caused by an infectious bacteria, virus, or parasite, this disease was a common way to die in the computer game Oregon Trail.  This comic suggests that it is spread more easily while on the toilet and with the rise in laptop sales (and rise in people are "conversing" over the internet while on the toilet) we will see a new rise in cases of dysentery.

UPDATE: "There are three graphs. It doesn’t imply that “we will see a new rise in cases of dysentery.”, it implies more conversations will take place with someone on the toilet due to using a laptop, when in the past it was due to dysentery." - Thanks Dave!

5Oct/0910

Reverse Polish Sausage

by Mike

Image text: It looks good, but it needs more postfixins.

This comic is based on the Reverse Polish notation proposed for use in mathematics.  It's also sometimes known as postfix notation because the operators follow all of it's operands.   For example, In normal notation if you wanted to add the numbers 3, 4, and 5 you would write 3 + 4 + 5.  Using reverse polish notation it would be written as 3 4 5 +.

Filed under: Math 10 Comments
2Oct/090

Surgery

by Jeff

Image text: Damn. Not only did he not install it, he sutured a 'Vista-Ready' sticker onto my arm.

This comic is a joke about the advances in Linux hardware/software support.  "Eventually" there will be support for all sorts of hardware in Linux.  As soon as an independent project picks up the case.

Unfortunately when he asked for a prescription for a free Windows 7 upgrade his insurance denied it.

Filed under: Color, Linux, Windows No Comments

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