Sheer genius

http://www.xkcd.com/c149.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c163.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c138.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c125.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c218.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c114.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c230.html (Crop to just panels 1-3; it’s funnier that way.)

http://www.xkcd.com/c215.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c214.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c213.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c205.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c189.html (I think this explains the popularity of martial arts at MIT.)

http://www.xkcd.com/c182.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c178.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c217.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c78.html

http://www.xkcd.com/c91.html

21:02 EST | permalink | /computers/internet

When it rains, it pours

Here’s more from the “unsolicited parenting advice” department:

This is what 3 a.m. looks like at the Costello house, a diminutive red brick three-story in the West Village: On the second floor, Harrison, age 5, is splayed, sideways and snoring, across his parents. king-size, Anglo-Indian four-poster, having muscled his mother out completely and pushed his father, Paul, a 35-year-old photographer, to the extreme edge of the bed.

[…]

“I used to get hysterical and wonder, what is this new life of stumbling around in the middle of the night?” Ms. Costello said. “Now it’s just so oddly part of the routine. Paul and I wonder, will we ever sleep together again?”

W. T. F.

Allow me to rip off an Internet celebrity: if your kids aren’t capable of handling the “stay the hell out of the bedroom” rule, then you have failed as a parent.

It’s parenting like that that creates kids like this.

00:44 EST | permalink | /issues/parenting