The Scholarly Authorities On Freezing To Death

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.

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.

When Designing An Interface, Imagine That Your Program Is All That Stands Between The User And Hot, Sweaty, Tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back Sex.

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.

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.