If you’re not familiar with the webcomic XKCD it probably means you’re not one of the following:
- IT Nerd/Geek
- Gamer
- Physicist
- Redditor
- Digger
If you are one of those people and still haven’t heard of XKCD, let me give you a little exposition. Randall Munroe used to work for NASA and in his spare time decided to make a comic about life, the universe, and nerd stuff. Mainly the jokes revolve around scientific principles, computers, and sometimes pop culture. They also poke fun at the internet culture that has sprung up in the last decade. You can read more about it on the wiki.
So I was sitting around today and was perusing Reddit when this little gem popped up and it hit pretty close to home. Sure enough I am the guy at work now and then who will send out funny webcomics to people when I’m short on things to do. David and Gary know what I’m talking about.
Signs Your Coders Don't Have Enough Work to Do
Believe me I’m also guilty of scouring the company web pages for crappy code and making the XHTML strict. But then I realized 90% of my company uses IE6 and that raises a million other problems. That’s when I switched to reddit, digg, and webcomics. By the way Reddit is far superior to Digg.
