For those of you who don’t know xkcd is a webcomic. Now I know I have been known to proclaim that webcomics, with the possible exception of exception of Penny Arcade are the devil, but that was before xkcd. Anyways, its great and amazingly popular. I’ve definitely had random people at parties, gaming, and even work bring it up unprompted. This is of course not withstanding the Online Communities poster thats been making the rounds. Amazingly enough if you write the name of a certain social networking site really large on an image and put it online, n00bs will link to it. I can’t say as I’ve introduced many people to xkcd as, most people I know had already learned of it and had failed to introduce me to it.
Anyways, the author of xkcd, is giving a talk at MIT soon, and I ventured to campus yesterday to purchase tickets well in advance, as I totally expect it to sell out. I got there too early and had to wait around (damn quick efficient public transport). Eventually someone showed up indicating tickets would be coming. This is par for the course for student organized events, so no big deal. In the end the student in physical possession of the tickets was described as having “fallen off the face of the Earth.” Not much you can do about that; Hopefully said student will return to the Earth by next weekend.
Your “Mission Failure” headline is a knock off my “Mission Failure Wii”