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1190: "Time"
Postby rhomboidal ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:09 am UTC
Image
Title Text: Wait for it.
I have no patience for entropy.
[The eternal journey continues even after the end of Time, since it seems like t
he essential idea of this epic comic of comics is that while time might appear t
o be a strictly linear phenomenon, its manifestation as life is actually a profo
undly open, richly holistic, poly-temporal inter-creative experience with as man
y entry points, narratives, and interpretations as there are participants in it.
The ever-flowing moment of the present is in fact a portal to all times -- a my
sterious window which invites us to simultaneously invent the world as we explor
e it. While we personally might have different beginnings, adventures, and inevi
table endings, together our searching individual journeys map the living landsca
pe of our boundless humanity and reality.
Also, castle silhouettes look crazy cool. (And I wonder what thermodynamics says
about Time having a sequel...?)
Link to the wonderfulous wiki for The One True Thread.]
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Alsadius ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:10 am UTC
I can't tell if Randall is trying to be deep, or just trying to take a day off w
ork.
Edit: Having now seen the whole thing, I think it's safe to say that "taking a d
ay off work" was not his intention. Wow.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby eaglef2 ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:10 am UTC
I feel like something will happen at sunrise.
"I am a four hundred-foot tall purple Platypus Bear with pink horns and silver w
ings."
-Azula, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
eaglef2 wrote:
True. My first thought was to drag it around, like #1110, but no go. That would
be a worthy alternative, though. (Though if it was going to base off day/night c
ycles, shouldn't it be night right now?)
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby ysth ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:15 am UTC
eaglef2 wrote:
I thought I saw the sun quickly come up and go down again, but can't duplicate i
t and now my eyes are seeing all sorts of oddities from staring at the black and
white too long.
A math joke: r = | |csc()|+|sec()| |-| |csc()|-|sec()| |
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Luggage ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:15 am UTC
I don't really get it. Nothing is happening. Yet I am sitting here, staring at i
t. Thinking about what those two might be thinking about. Maybe they just talked
about something, something important perhaps. Maybe they're content just to sit
there, together in silence. Watching time happen.
Somehow, I feel that this is the strongest xkcd yet. It's in my head.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby goorpy ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:20 am UTC
I just hope his wife is okay. Something in my gut is telling me there's either g
ood news or bad news in that area, and I hope it's good news.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby westrim ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:21 am UTC
Maybe it's not deep or duration based or anything, maybe it's another ubersized
comic that he hasn't quite completed- so, wait for it.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby glasnt ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:23 am UTC
I can't see any javascripty auto-image changing, nor any evidence to suggest thi
s time.png is actually masquerading as a gif. this updating must be manual/time
based.
I don't think it's making be very zen, all this rushing and investigating..
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Quicksilver ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:27 am UTC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby DSDM ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:31 am UTC
Right-clicked, viewed source, the comic was "time.png" not a Flash file, no java
script wrapped around it, so unless there's some PHP that's going to update this
image (at the time of this post, a girl and a guy sitting on a black gnoll with
blank white sky) I'm guessing he's trying to be deep here. I guess we'll see in
the morning.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby DSDM ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:33 am UTC
...Unless it's a multi-part comic. We'll see Wednesday.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby deskjethp ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:33 am UTC
I only waited about 30 seconds. I figure maybe if you load it at midnight or noo
n or 1:37 P.M. or something it might be different. It's more likely it's just a
static image.
arbivark wrote:
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andlord because i'd do stuff like, hey there's a fireplace here, get me a hammer
, hey if i make a hole in my ceiling there's an attic that runs the length of th
e rowhouses.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Exkakx ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:36 am UTC
What an interesting comic. This is probably the most simplistic xkcd yet...
EDIT: Well, never mind! Also, I'm on the first page, whoo!
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I'm too awesome for a signature...
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby joeyvalentine ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:41 am UTC
Changing my computer clock to 9:30 AM didn't seem to do anything...
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby mitchell22 ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:42 am UTC
I think the text that appears is supposed to be a subscript, answer, or compleme
nt to the title. Like: "Time. Wait for it" or "Time: wait for it." The "it" is t
ime, not some event that's going to happen if you stare at the comic long enough
. I don't think it's a literal command. From my interpretation of the comic, it
is just supposed to be poetic.
Either way, I love it. Great comic. I liked it enough for me to sign up for this
forum and give my opinion about it.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby rainspeaker ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:47 am UTC
A cool comic, definitely.
I kinda hope it's as simplistic as it seems, but it may not be. Note that the ur
l of the image is quite different from the url of normal comics images. More pre
cisely, when you open this image on its own, you are redirected to a non-standar
d url:
http://origin.imgs.xkcd.com/comics/time ... 420672.png
Whereas, for example, "Voyager 1" is at:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/voyager_1.png
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby ziphi ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:48 am UTC
What are they seeing, what are they waiting for? I hope there's no problem in hi
s family or anything like that.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby ubergeek ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:53 am UTC
rainspeaker wrote:
d url:
This. If I had to venture a guess, something (probably the date) is being hashed
to create the url. Under different circumstances (like maybe tomorrow), we get
a different url and a different picutre. The hash is to prevent us from skipping
ahead or understanding it ahead of when we're supposed to. I suppose we'll find
out soon enough.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Spaceman_Spiff ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:05 am UTC
I opened the page in a second window and the image was slightly different from t
he first. The lines were thinner and the figures were in a slightly different po
sition. It hasn't changed since.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby arotenbe ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:07 am UTC
I think I may have got it figured out. I just tried refreshing the page after an
hour and noticed that the image looks slightly different than before. Very simi
lar, but the stick figures are positioned a little differently. I had this threa
d open in another tab, so I refreshed it there too and it definitely changed. So
meone should start saving periodic copies if there isn't going to be an archive
with all the variations...
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby WK1 ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:08 am UTC
I looked at the Response when one does a HEAD Request for http://imgs.xkcd.com/c
omics/time.png. It gives a 301 Moved Permanently response. If Randal intended to
change it, he would have used a 302 Found Response.
I also look forward to see where this is going.
I got the same URL that rainspeaker got. The time is now March 24 05:07 UTC.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby typhy ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:09 am UTC
Spoiler:
Found a second slide ^^^
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby sfwarlock ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:10 am UTC
rainspeaker wrote:
d url:
I noticed that too. The morbid side of me says that one of them is going to sudd
enly disappear. (Does the page maybe set a cookie to track the initial time you
viewed the comic?)
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Goggalor ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:11 am UTC
The image just changed for me at 1:10am.
EDIT: Either I am hallucinating or the original image just updated itself to the
newer image.
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1but not from beginning to end to beginning since I'm not a loopist
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Alex-J ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:13 am UTC
As of now, the girl turned her head to look behind them. The boy has shifted sli
ghtly.
I hope some record of the progression will exist when it is finished. The pictur
e at the top of this thread has been updated.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Wtcher ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:13 am UTC
Perhaps time itself is the answer.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Poohblah ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:13 am UTC
Wow, this is really clever. There is no javascript or other client-side function
ality, and the image urls are hashed, so we can't skip ahead on our own. We can
only wait for the server to push out updates.
Very zen, indeed.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby dtbell91 ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:14 am UTC
Bet me to it! Had to sign up and was going to post that the image had changed
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby rhetorical ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:14 am UTC
It appears to update each hour, then.
Edit: or not, as the image has just reverted.
Edit1: and back again.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby abb3w ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:15 am UTC
Previous:
Current:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/time/1e349a ... 589b97.png
Hm.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby arotenbe ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:17 am UTC
I've got copies of the first three images. The two links already posted are actu
ally to the second and third slides; I don't have a link to the first, though, o
nly an image.
Edit: here.
Image
Like I said, it's almost identical to frame 2, but not quite.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Poohblah ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:17 am UTC
sfwarlock wrote:
rainspeaker wrote:
d url:
viewed the comic?)
That does not appear to be the case. My browser is reporting no cookies from XKC
D other than old ones.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Pangolin ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:20 am UTC
Do we know how frequently the comic is changing? I know that in the fifteen minu
tes since I've been looking (and the tabs I opened with previous iterations) it
has moved at least once.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby tarry ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:20 am UTC
No one has talked about the cookies. Are they just red herrings? There was one c
alled "seen it" - I've deleted it and it hasn't come back. But two others are cr
eated when I view the comic.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
I take back my mockery above. If this is meant to be a super-slow-motion video,
I entirely approve.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Quicksilver ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:21 am UTC
no cache, database blob files and AJAX. If I was going to update images periodic
ally, that's how I would do it. Of course, it's probably for the best I'm not in
a high profile coding job.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby rhetorical ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:22 am UTC
So far it's flipped back and forth between two images a few times. There doesn't
appear to be a constant time between changes, but I could be wrong.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby Fredski ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:26 am UTC
I am loving this. We have no way to cheat the system, just wait for time itself
to pass before seeing the next tiny bit of movement in the story.
We all know the level of work Randall has put into previous projects, be it Clic
k and Drag, or some of the more intense graphs. If he applied a similar amount o
f time on this project as he has a graph like Money, this animation could well g
o on for more than a month, even more.
Regardless, I am loving the simplicity and beauty of the story - Up to everybody
's personal interpretation of every frame.
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Re: 1190: "Time"
Postby abb3w ? Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:27 am UTC
Poohblah wrote:
sfwarlock wrote:
rainspeaker wrote:
d url:
viewed the comic?)
That does not appear to be the case. My browser is reporting no cookies from XKC
D other than old ones.
Almost certainly not cookie-based, from opening more browsers that I usually don
't browse from.
Might be based from IP traffic? Anyone got multiple computers behind a NAT box t
o compare?
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