One Winged Egret
Also, he was handling food additives. There was no reason for him to believe they'd be toxic.
Too old for this
I'm pretty sure I'd find this hilarious if my knowledge of basketball went beyond being aware that the game exists.
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Lost in Space
Well, just keep in mind that whenever Randall puts out graphs like this, they are always hilarious mashups of bogus data and false correlation.
edited 4th Jun '18 9:50:23 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
I have to wonder about that shot map. Like, are all those actually attempted shots on the basket? Or just whenever he threw a ball in the air? Because I'm wondering how in the world that one from the locker room is supposed to work.
Lost in Space
LeBron has obviously mastered the ability to use macroscopic quantum tunneling to phase matter through other matter, specifically as applied to thrown basketballs.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
Maybe there's a net in the locker room, as well? If that's the case, though, I'd imagine that players would be shooting at it all the time, from just about every part of the locker room.
I liked the Nate Silver/538 bit at the end. I'm guessing it's a reference to the fact that 538 is now owned by ESPN (a famous sports network) and does all sorts of statistical analysis for them. Or rather, as I discovered just now, it was owned by ESPN until April this year, when ABC bought it.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
A procrastination in of itself
Nate Silver actully did sports statistics first, he then turned to election statistics afterwards onc she figured he could use some of the same tactics to model things.
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All it's showing is locations players took a shot (without specifying the type); on a larger map we'd likely see clusters indicating the bars players frequent.
Since no one pointed it out here yet, the XKCD Phone 2000 is comic number 2000.
Meanwhile, there's a new comic, Presidential Succession
. I'm curious whether "Kate McKinnon, if available" implies that Tom Hanks could become President even if he were not available.
Now I'm imagining either Forrest Gump or Robert Langdon as President of the United States. ^_^;; Which is actually very cool. 
Redmess
Well, they do say ANYONE can become president over there... 
meow
On the one hand, I'm surprised Randall didn't do something bigger for the 2000th comic... then again, we've still got 44 to go until the real milestone 
What happens then?
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.
meow
It's a reference to Comic 1000.
One Winged Egret
Wouldn't that be 2048, not 2044?
I think we were at comic 2004 when that comment about 44 to go was posted.
Fresh-eyed movie blog
OMG! Ive always suspected that about Thomas the Tank Engine! Thats totally plausible!
Lost in Space
If only they were that honest.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Lost in Space
Okay, this one is just bizarre enough to be hilarious. I have absolutely no idea what he is proposing to accomplish by shooting relativistic gold ions into cash-for-gold stores, but I would actually support the experiment just to find out.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Absolutely no relation to NLK
The alt text is... golden.
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Right. No need to wash your hands when you don't know what bacteria are.
Optimism is a duty.