September 30, 2006
"Special Interest"
There are web comics for everyone. The more I browse, the more convinced I am that this is the case. Take Wilson for instance, chilling (quite literally, soon) up there at Syracuse, staring approximately 3 decades of higher learning in the face.
For Wilson, there is Piled Higher and Deeper: a grad student comic strip:
Well, soon after I started working at the library, I began to notice a few choice strips pinned up here and there, and eventually I went hunting for the source. What I found was Unshelved, a librarian comic strip. I spent the last week burrowing through the entire archive (4 years of an everyday comic strip is not to be taken lightly, it turns out). I decided to finish the whole thing before adding it to my "Funnies" list over to the right . . . And I just had to share a few of my most favoritest ones. So . . . enjoy, and be sure to "check out" (har!) the rest at your leisure.
See? The Internet really is good for something.
Posted by: Wilson at October 1, 2006 08:09 AMVery entertaining. I'll have to say though, I did not really understand part of the first comic strip. Is it assuming that what causes gravity is practical, common knowledge? Last I heard, no one in the world has the faintest idea. Then it depends which theory you use in order to understand what gravity is anyway ... just thought I'd ask.
Posted by: asa at October 3, 2006 10:52 AMWell, for the record, Asa, that comment was funnier than the whole comic . . . Particularly once I've explained, as that rather tends to kill the joke. The confusion about gravity is the entire point. Gravity and its effects are rather fundamental concepts in physics, yet even someone with a PhD in the field won't know what causes it. The entire comic is poking fun at human knowledge. People can spend several years learning everything there is to know within a particular discipline, and come out the other side with nothing more than an understanding of how little they know. They may even end up more uncertain about the answers to the basic questions that might have gotten them interested in what they chose to study in the first place.
Posted by: Blame Jared at October 3, 2006 05:50 PMoops, wasn't reading it right. Thankyou for imparting your great wisdom on my closed mind. The thing about war got me off track. MY bad.
Just for the note, I really like the one where the children are at the job fair and the librarian says "one day that will sound pretty good to you" Okay, well, I'm done looking stupid.
Posted by: asa at October 3, 2006 06:12 PM