If there’s one lesson I learned down-pat in first grade, it was the necessity of sharing. In particular, I love to share nifty things I find online, usually comics. I’ve been browsing XKCD archives tonight and very frequently stumbling on a comic that I just had to email somebody about (really, that could almost be done with all the XKCD comics, they’re all so good). For example, I found one dealing with the Poisson distribution and immediately my old statistics professor came to mind, since I learned about the Poisson in his class last semester. I often email old professors about things relevant to their field, even though it makes me feel slightly stalkerish to do so, like I can just picture them reading the email and not remembering me at all. I also worry, Omigosh, are they going to think I have no social life whatsoever, emailing old teachers about non-class-related stuff?? Seriously, I have a social life! Todd and I almost went out to see a movie tonight, actually, and we would have, too, had we not gotten waylaid at Walmart and bought The Jungle Book on DVD! Doing so enabled us to snuggle on the couch and eat Jello Instant Pudding together while we watched, which was nice.

Anywho, my current problem with sharing an XKCD comic is that it combines two subjects for which I think the overlapping section of the associated Venn diagram would be very small: cryptography and Missy Elliot songs. I’d love to send the comic to my old high school friend Candice, since we sang [bad] karaoke back in the day to the Missy song referenced in the comic, but I really doubt she cares/knows anything about cryptography at all. Even my geeky self almost passed the comic by, since I know jack about cryptography, until I read the words “Missy Elliot” at the bottom of the comic.