Xkcd-inspired personal ad
How sweet! Good luck, College Station! Link (Thanks, Zach!)But I'm just a male stick figure. I have no squiggly hair.
Surely there exists someone out there who is wandering through this world with the same hopes and uncertainties as me. Surely they've spent hours playing out those same little scenarios only to find that they were short one stick figure as well.
Let's run away and find a nice dark corner in which to do long division.
See also:
xkcd: The malware aquarium
XKCD creator in Wired; reappearance of blog-goggles in today's strip
Scary MBR-nuking program inspired by XKCD geeky webcomic
Ninjas attack Richard Stallman, reenacting xkcd comic
Cory Doctorow cosplayers at the XKCD picnic
Xkcd fans bring chess-sets on roller-coasters
Where LOLCats come from
Ironic Internet malapropism grid
Geeky comic about chess and roller-coasters
Nerd humor about Katamari Damacy
Sarcastic comic about computational linguistics (and emo kids)
Funny map of online communities in the style of a D&D map
Geeky comic strip uses Cory as the punchline
Bloggin' 'bout my generation
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It might be the holiday season talking, but I was immediately reminded of this Toothpaste For Dinner strip: Nerds Need To Learn
Which are those top two XKCD comics? They're too small to read.
One of my greatest joys in life is having a woman who loves (and understands!) XKCD as much as I do.
I saw a girl reading XKCD during a lecture class. I was so intrigued.
Aaawwww!! Ain't that cute! Too bad most girls aren't into math.
Looking for a girl that is into xkcd is kinda like going to a Star Trek convention looking for a date.
don't lose hope, texan guy! women who love and understand xkcd do exist, i promise. to paraphrase randall munroe himself, people do meet people.
XKCD, at the moment is definitely my favorite online comic -- <tangent> it would have huge competition from Perry Bible Fellowship, except that PBF is so infrequently updated these days and the recent ones aren't as consistently spot-on as ones in the past.</tangent>
The strip posted here and the ones in the ad are highly representative of that certain unspecifiable "something" that makes XKCD truly a work of art that transcends the apparent cheapness of its visual style. Pure genius. Toothpaste for Dinner tries and sometimes succeeds, but as the fellow says, XKCD speaks to peoples' souls. :o)
On the other hand, I have to say ... The type of girl he's looking for does exist (or at least I really hope so... *sigh*), but the likelihood he'll find her in College Station is unfortunately pretty bleak. I got out of there as soon as I could, and have been enjoying my years in Austin. This town feels more like home than CS ever did, and if you could calculate a ratio between XKCD fans and the local population, I'm just going to guess it would be several times higher here. :o)
I am a girl and I love xkcd. I also lived just outside CS. (I was 6 and went to Crockett Rocket Elementary) However, I am now married and live in Canada. But hey - girls who read xkcd exist.
As the submitter of this silly little craigslist post, let me first say thanks for the notice.
It has been wonderful to hear from so many people who seem to have absolutely nothing in common other than their sense of identity with XKCD. I have an inbox full of feedback from across the country, ranging from friendly encouragement to full-on flattery.
It's true, the XKCD-esque "female stick figure" girl exists in many different forms in real life. There really are people who embody the same traits that make me so attracted to the comic itself.
Of course, the biggest issue is that they're all at least a thousand miles away. How do I know? Because almost every e-mail had some variant of this sentence: "I would love to meet up and talk sometime, but I'm in [distant city]!" For a group of people who can feel such a strong sense of identity with an online cartoon, I'm astonished by how strongly they still prefer to only engage in relationships within their surrounding 20-mile radius.
Anyway, the whole point of my post wasn't so much to find a single person who behaved a lot like the female stick figure, marry them, and live happily forever. I really wanted to dive into this subsection of society (which I almost never encounter otherwise) and connect with people that my standard living and working environment don't tend to put me around. Thanks to my impulsive little post, I had a chance to do that, and that's completely awesome. ;)
Patrick says: "I thought that you may find it interesting what Richard Stallman (RMS) replied when I sent him the cool angular momentum cartoon from Boing Boing."
RMS: "It is an amusing idea, but I should point out that physically it
doesn't work very well. When you stop spinning your body, the angular momentum goes back to the Earth. Also, if you are not near a pole, your angular momentum axis is at quite an angle to the Earth's
rotation, so only a fraction of your own angular momentum affects the
Earth's spin rate."
O lente, lente currite noctis equi!
Eclectro (5), have you actually been at a convention? Star Trek fandom is full of women.
Mark, I love the Stallman quote. It makes a good test: if you say that to a woman, and it makes her think you're even sexier, you've got the right kind.