I wonder if I could make this fit on the back of my business cards…. (Click on it to see the original full-sized at XKCD.)

Image from XKCD.com

When a foot doctor goes to his family reunion, he probably gets asked to diagnose someone’s scalp condition; and I always ask my tire expert brother-in-law about mechanical issues, figuring he’s more likely to have run into them before than I have.  So I suppose it’s only fair that “computer experts” get the same thing.  But if you ask me to fix your PC or diagnose a Windows error, be warned that I’ll be doing exactly what this flowchart says, while trying to look like I know what I’m doing.

This reminded me that, believe it or not, the American Diabetes Association still recommends the USDA’s high-carb Food Pyramid diet.

XKCD.com

This strip from the excellent XKCD.com pretty well sums up my thoughts on both schools and the perl programming language, so I had to share it:

11th Grade Activities

Happy Easter, everyone!

Ok, I think the author of XKCD is reading my mind a bit too much lately.

• Here’s one about me.
• Here’s one about what I do for a living.
• Here’s one about one of my favorite books of all time.
• And here’s one that’s just plain funny.

Actually, they’re all pretty funny, although sometimes the math gets a little obscure for me to get. If you like geeky humor, though, check it out. It’s like The Far Side squared.

Another web comic I really like is Copper. There aren’t very many of them, but the artwork is gorgeous.

As long as I’m on the subject of funny stuff, Lileks’s collection of dog pictures from newspapers is pretty great. Also, he’s started on his Joe Ohio matchbook-story series again. It’s not funny, just good, if you like 50s-era dime-store novels.