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#1616 Lunch I'm trying to be healthier, so after I eat this brick of cheese, I'll have a spoonful of grease-soaked vegetables.
#1617 Time Capsule Oh no, I changed the future and now I'm disappearing! Wait, never mind, it was just my hat slipping down over my eyes.
#1618 Cold Medicine Seriously considering buying some illegal drugs to try to turn them back into cold medicine.
#1619 Watson Medical Algorithm Due to a minor glitch, 'discharge patient' does not cause the algorithm to exit, but instead leads back to 'hunt down and capture patient'.
#1620 Christmas Settings SOUND DOGS MAKE: [BARKING] [HISSING] [LIGHTSABER NOISES] [FLUENT ENGLISH] [SWEARING]![SOUND DOGS MAKE: [BARKING] [HISSING] [LIGHTSABER NOISES] [FLUENT ENGLISH] [SWEARING]](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1620/0.png)
#1621 Fixion My theory predicts that, at high enough energies, FRBs and perytons become indistinguishable because the detector burns out.
#1622 Henge I've got the Craigslist post ready to go! I wasn't sure what category it should go in, so I listed it as property and put that it has 'good sun exposure.'
#1623 2016 Conversation Guide The real loser in an argument about the meaning of the word 'hoverboard' is anyone who leaves that argument on foot.
#1624 2016 Want to feel old? Wait.
#1625 Substitutions 2 Within a few minutes, our roads will be full of uncontrollably-swerving cars and our skies full of Amazon delivery dogs.
#1626 Judgment Day It took a lot of booster rockets, but luckily Amazon had recently built thousands of them to bring Amazon Prime same-day delivery to the Moon colony.
#1627 Woosh It also occasionally replies with 'Comment of the year', 'Are you for real', and 'I'm taking a screenshot so I can remember this moment forever'.
#1628 Magnus In the latest round, 9-year-old Muhammad Ali beat 10-year-old JFK at air hockey, while Secretariat lost the hot-dog-eating crown to 12-year-old Ken Jennings. Meanwhile, in a huge upset, 11-year-old Martha Stewart knocked out the adult Ronda Rousey.
#1629 Tools I make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for managing job-hunting sites for people who make tools for ...
#1630 Quadcopter I always have to turn off nature documentaries when they show these scenes.
#1631 Longer Than Usual '--> [ Well, this is embarrassing. ] <--'!['--> [ Well, this is embarrassing. ] <--'](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1631/0.png)
#1632 Palindrome I hope that somewhere in the world, "Panamax" is the last option on a "size" drop-down menu on a sex toy site.
#1633 Possible Undiscovered Planets Superman lies near the bird/plane boundary over a range of distances, which explains the confusion.
#1634 In Case of Emergency I keep first aid kits in those emergency lockers. Sure, it's expensive to have them installed in the wall, but at least for those ones there's no need to pay extra for safety glass.
#1635 Birdsong Maybe if I put it in a box for a while with a speaker playing some pleasant pastoral music, I can reprogram it.
#1636 XKCD Stack This site requires Sun Java 6.0.0.1 (32-bit) or higher. You have Macromedia Java 7.3.8.1¾ (48-bit). Click here [link to java.com main page] to download an installer which will run fine but not really change anything.![This site requires Sun Java 6.0.0.1 (32-bit) or higher. You have Macromedia Java 7.3.8.1¾ (48-bit). Click here [link to java.com main page] to download an installer which will run fine but not really change anything.](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1636/0.png)
#1637 Salt Mine This one is a little bland. Pass the saltshaker?
#1638 Backslashes I searched my .bash_history for the line with the highest ratio of special characters to regular alphanumeric characters, and the winner was: cat out.txt | grep -o "[[(].*[])][^)]]*$" ... I have no memory of this and no idea what I was trying to do, but I sure hope it worked.![I searched my .bash_history for the line with the highest ratio of special characters to regular alphanumeric characters, and the winner was: cat out.txt | grep -o "[[(].*[])][^)]]*$" ... I have no memory of this and no idea what I was trying to do, but I sure hope it worked.](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1638/0.png)
#1639 To Taste Look, recipe, if I knew how much was gonna taste good, I wouldn't need you.
#1640 Super Bowl Context Why did the chicken cross the road? It begins over five thousand years ago with the domestication of the red junglefowl in southeast Asia and the development of paved roads in the Sumerian city of Ur.
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