The Thing About The Internet

The Thing About The Internet Is That You Can Write Something... For A Very Narrow Audience And Make A Living At It.

Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones, But Words Can Make Me Think I Deserved It.

One Of The Things I've Learned With Doing 'xkcd' Is That You Sort Of Give People, 'here's The Thing, And Here's The Button You Can Press To Get Another Thing.' Sometimes That Can Be More Easy To Digest Than, 'here's A Long Page Of Things.

Space Is About 100 Kilometers Away. That’s Far Away—i Wouldn’t Want To Climb A Ladder To Get There—but It Isn’t That Far Away. If You’re In Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, Central Japan, Central Sri Lanka, Or Portland, Space Is Closer Than The Sea.

I Think The Really Cool And Compelling Thing About Math And Physics Is That It Opens Up Entry To All These Hypotheticals - Or At Least, It Gives You The Language To Talk About Them. But At The Same Time, If A Scenario Is Completely Disconnected From Reality, It's Not All That Interesting.