Sometimes I Mistake This For A Universe

I Think The Comic That's Gotten Me The Most Feedback Is Actually The One About The Stoplights. Noticing When The Stoplights Are In Sync, Or Calculating The Length Of Your Strides Between Floor Tiles - Normal People Notice That Kind Of Stuff, But A Certain Kind Of Person Will Do Some Calculations.

I Used To Work At Nasa In Virginia. It Was Nothing Glamorous; I Was Just Tasked With Making Code Compile For Obscure Projects, And I Wasn't Very Good At It. Now I Spend Most Of My Time Drawing Pictures And Looking At Funny Things On The Internet, Which In Retrospect Is Largely What I Did At My Old Job, Too.

But I’ve Never Seen The Icarus Story As A Lesson About The Limitations Of Humans. I See It As A Lesson About The Limitations Of Wax As An Adhesive.

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.

There Are So Many Adventures That You Miss Because You're Waiting To Think Of A Plan. To Find Them, Look For Tiny Interesting Choices. And Remember That You Are Always Making Up The Future As You Go.