#2119 Video OrientationCIRCULAR VIDEO - PROS: Solves aspect ratio problem. CONS: Never trust anyone who talks to you from inside a circle.
#2120 Brain HemispheresNeurologically speaking, the LEFT hand is actually the one at the end of the RIGHT arm.
#2121 Light PollutionIt's so sad how almost no one alive today can remember seeing the galactic rainbow, the insanity nebula, or the skull and glowing eyes of the Destroyer of Sagittarius.
#2122 Size Venn DiagramTerms I'm going to start using: The Large Dipper, great potatoes, the Big Hadron Collider, and Large Orphan Annie.
#2123 Meta CollectingI'm trying to get the page locked because some jerk keeps adding "Yachts".
#2124 Space Mission HearingOur grant application contains one of those little greeting card speakers that plays spaceship noises when you open it.
#2125 Luna 2The flags were probably vaporized on impact, because we launched it before we had finished figuring out how to land. That makes sense from an engineering standpoint, but also feels like a metaphor.
#2126 Google Trends MapsIt's early 2020. The entire country is gripped with Marco Rubio fever except for Alaska, which is freaking out. You're frantically studying up on etiquette and/or sexting.
#2127 Panama CanalOnce they selected the other proposal, we could have kept shopping ours around, but we would had to modify it include an aqueduct over their canal, which would be totally unreasonable.
#2128 New Robot"Some worry that we'll soon have a surplus of search and rescue robots, compared to the number of actual people in situations requiring search and rescue. That's where our other robot project comes in..."
#2130 Industry NicknamesAs far as "being in the pocket of Big Egg" goes, I think the real threat is Chansey.
#2132 Percentage StylesIn a tribute to classical Latin, I started pronouncing it 'per-kent.' Eventually my friends had to resort to spritzing me with a water bottle like a cat to train me out of it.
#2133 EHT Black Hole Picture[five years later] Ok, it seems we were accidentally zoomed in slightly too far. But imagine there's a cool-looking twisted accretion disc just outside this black square!
#2134 Too Much TalkingNext time I go, I'm going to prepare a whole bunch of opinions that I'm sure are good, and make everyone sit quietly while I run through them.
#2135 M87 Black Hole Size ComparisonI think Voyager 1 would be just past the event horizon, but slightly less than halfway to the bright ring.
#2136 Election CommentaryThis really validates Jones's strategy of getting several thousand more votes than Smith. In retrospect, that was a smart move; those votes were crucial.
#2137 Text EntryI like to think that somewhere out there, there's someone whose personal quest is lobbying TV providers to add an option to switch their on-screen keyboards to Dvorak.
#2138 Wanna See the Code?And because if you just leave it there, it's going to start contaminating things downstream even if no one touches it directly.
#2139 Email SettingsWhat are all these less-than signs? What's an HREF? Look, we know you live in a fancy futuristic tech world, but not all of us have upgraded to the latest from Sun Microsystems.
#2140 Reinvent the WheelRight now it's a bicycle wheel, so we've had to move to lighter vehicles, but the reduced overhead is worth it. There was one week when a wheel of cheese got dangerously close to the first page, though.
#2141 UI vs UXU[unprintable glyph]: The elements a higher power uses to bend that moral arc. U[even more unprintable glyph]: The higher power's overall experience bending that moral arc.
#2142 Dangerous FieldsEventually, every epidemiologist becomes another statistic, a dedication to record-keeping which their colleagues sincerely appreciate.
#2143 Disk UsageMenu -> Manage -> [Optimize space usage, Encrypt disk usage report, Convert photos to text-only, Delete temporary files, Delete permanent files, Delete all files currently in use, Optimize menu options, Download cloud, Optimize cloud , Upload unused space to cloud]
#2144 Adjusting a ChairWhen I was looking at the box, I should have thought more about what "360 degrees of freedom" meant.
![[five years later] Ok, it seems we were accidentally zoomed in slightly too far. But imagine there's a cool-looking twisted accretion disc just outside this black square!](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2133/0.png)
![U[unprintable glyph]: The elements a higher power uses to bend that moral arc. U[even more unprintable glyph]: The higher power's overall experience bending that moral arc.](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2141/0.png)
![Menu -> Manage -> [Optimize space usage, Encrypt disk usage report, Convert photos to text-only, Delete temporary files, Delete permanent files, Delete all files currently in use, Optimize menu options, Download cloud, Optimize cloud , Upload unused space to cloud]](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/2143/0.png)
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