Short post today. Mostly because it’s contents will make you think I’m crazy/obsessive/creepy.

I’m sure most of you are familiar with my love for XKCD. The author shares my EXACT sense of humor. Sometimes it’s kind of eerie, especially on those occasions where we make similar jokes only weeks apart. Think back to my Jurassic Brunch post, and then check this week’s XKCD out: Forks and Spoons
If you mouse over the image, you see it’s alternate text, which is usually a related joke. To make life easier for you, here it is as well:
“Their biggest mistake was bringing Rachael Ray and Emeril to tour the lab and sign off on the project. That’s when Spielberg caught wind of it.”

A couple of months ago I left the following on a white board in the Computer Science lab:
“O(n) solution to the traveling salesmen problem: Jetpack.”
Which was followed a few weeks later by this XKCD: The Traveling Salesman Problem.

Of course this could all be attributed to the following:
1. Computer scientists aren’t funny.
1a. When a computer scientist is funny, it’s funny to other computer scientists.
2. Computer scientists are almost all exactly alike.
3. The number of possible jokes stemming from advanced topics of computer science are very small.