#xkcd No. 2931
Date: 2024-5-10
Title: Chasing
Alt text: Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.
https://xkcd.com/2931/
#xkcd No. 2929
Date: 2024-5-6
Title: Good and Bad Ideas
Alt text: While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.
https://xkcd.com/2929/
#xkcd No. 2932
Date: 2024-5-13
Title: Driving PSA
Alt text: This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.
https://xkcd.com/2932/
#xkcd No. 2935
Date: 2024-5-20
Title: Ocean Loop
Alt text: I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.
https://xkcd.com/2935/
#xkcd No. 2938
Date: 2024-5-27
Title: Local Group
Alt text: Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.
https://xkcd.com/2938/
#xkcd No. 2939
Date: 2024-5-29
Title: Complexity Analysis
Alt text: PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.
https://xkcd.com/2939/
#xkcd No. 2937
Date: 2024-5-24
Title: Room Code
Alt text: Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.
https://xkcd.com/2937/
#xkcd No. 2940
Date: 2024-5-31
Title: Modes of Transportation
Alt text: My bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.
https://xkcd.com/2940/
#xkcd No. 2947
Date: 2024-6-17
Title: Pascal's Wager Triangle
Alt text: In contrast to Pascal's Wager Triangle, Pascal's Triangle Wager argues that maybe God wants you to draw a triangle of numbers where each one is the sum of the two numbers above it, so you probably should, just in case.
https://xkcd.com/2947/
#xkcd No. 2942
Date: 2024-6-5
Title: Fluid Speech
Alt text: Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
https://xkcd.com/2942/
#xkcd No. 2945
Date: 2024-6-12
Title: Broken Model
Alt text: In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.
https://xkcd.com/2945/
#xkcd No. 2943
Date: 2024-6-7
Title: Unsolved Chemistry Problems
Alt text: I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.
https://xkcd.com/2943/
#xkcd No. 2946
Date: 2024-6-14
Title: 1.2 Kilofives
Alt text: 'Oh yeah? Give me 50 milliscore reasons why I should stop.'
https://xkcd.com/2946/
#xkcd No. 2948
Date: 2024-6-19
Title: Electric vs Gas
Alt text: An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
https://xkcd.com/2948/
#xkcd No. 2952
Date: 2024-6-28
Title: Routine Maintenance
Alt text: The worst was the time they accidentally held the can upside down and froze all the Earth's magma chambers solid.
https://xkcd.com/2952/
#xkcd No. 2955
Date: 2024-7-5
Title: Pole Vault
Alt text: Ugh, and we JUST went through this yesterday with javelin.
https://xkcd.com/2955/
#xkcd No. 2949
Date: 2024-6-21
Title: Network Configuration
Alt text: If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.
https://xkcd.com/2949/
#xkcd No. 2951
Date: 2024-6-26
Title: Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas
Alt text: Although Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it's actually their outer edge.
https://xkcd.com/2951/
#xkcd No. 2975
Date: 2024-8-21
Title: Classical Periodic Table
Alt text: Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element.
https://xkcd.com/2975/
#xkcd No. 2950
Date: 2024-6-24
Title: Situation
Alt text: We're right under the flight path for the scheduled orbital launch, but don't worry--it's too cold out for the rockets to operate safely, so I'm sure they'll postpone.
https://xkcd.com/2950/
#xkcd No. 2953
Date: 2024-7-1
Title: Alien Theories
Alt text: They originally came here to try to investigate our chemtrail technology, and got increasingly frustrated when all their samples turned out to just be water ice with trace amounts of jet exhaust.
https://xkcd.com/2953/
#xkcd No. 2960
Date: 2024-7-17
Title: Organ Meanings
Alt text: IMO the thymus is one of the coolest organs and we should really use it in metaphors more.
https://xkcd.com/2960/
#xkcd No. 2956
Date: 2024-7-8
Title: Number Line Branch
Alt text: Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.
https://xkcd.com/2956/
#xkcd No. 2974
Date: 2024-8-19
Title: Storage Tanks
Alt text: We're considering installing a pressurization system to keep the tanks at constant pressure solely to deter them.
https://xkcd.com/2974/
#xkcd No. 2957
Date: 2024-7-10
Title: A Crossword Puzzle
Alt text: Hint: If you ever encounter this puzzle in a crossword app, just [term for someone with a competitive and high-achieving personality].
https://xkcd.com/2957/
