Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Flake Equation

From xkcd:

(As always, click on the image to embiggen)

In a conversation a few months ago, an acquaintance was describing something that had happened to her. At the end of her tale, she said: "I can't explain it, it must have been a miracle."

I said: "What do you mean by `I can't explain it', you just did."

She looked at me as though I had just switched over to speaking in Swedish. I left it at that rather than go on and point out that not having a rational explanation for the occurrence, she was offering an irrational explanation.

There are times that I'd like to have a retail store, just for the fun of pricing something as "$√-36, one per customer", just to see how long it would take for someone to try to pay for it with imaginary money.
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4 comments:

  1. smellsofbikes3/24/2010 4:34 PM

    Oh, paying for that would be easy: you just need to scrawl the sum in on the check with a pen that writes at a right angle to the paper.
    It's an Apple product: the iPen.

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  2. Cujo3593/25/2010 1:29 AM

    The link thingy doesn't work. (IOW, clicking does not embiggen).

    I'm sure that comic equation's resemblance to the Drake equation is no accident. It certainly makes it funnier.

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  3. Cujo3593/25/2010 1:38 AM

    Then I re-read the title of the comic. Yes, I'll go have some quiet time now.

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  4. Comrade Misfit3/25/2010 7:15 AM

    I was going to say......

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