I missed two on my first read of the cartoon. Answers are in the reader comments at the GoComics source.
Part two:
Name the world capital closest to "Null Island" (0 degrees north, 0 degrees east) (five letters).
The number of letters is specified, because I encountered this while working the most recent Sunday NYT crossword puzzle. Since I was on the clock, trying to finish in 20 minutes, I didn't take time to reason it out and wound up having to back into the answer via crossing clues.
More on Null Island. You learn something every day.
Null Island? No island. We got no island. We don’t need no stinkin’ island!
ReplyDelete0°N, 0°E = nothing. It’s a made up point on the map, 350 miles from land, in 16k deep Atlantic ocean.
What do you do for a living? I wake up... necessary for function, but redundant, useless information.
xoxoxoBruce
Rockapella - Capital.
ReplyDeleteI'm changing my last name to Null. Looks like it could be fun messing with the computer nerds.
ReplyDeleteA 2018 story in Wired explains why this would be an unfun idea. A guy bought California vanity plate "Null," and found himself inundated with tickets for parking and traffic violations from all over the state. It took years to straighten it out.
DeleteSadly I was never required to learn the state's capitals so I don't know all of them but I managed to get 11 .
ReplyDeleteFound 'em all! I never thought learning state capitals was going to be useful, but there you go.
ReplyDeleteGoogle Maps does not know about Null Island and you must enter "0, 0" as the coordinates. A restaurant is listed nearby - ေလး ရာသီစားေသာက္ဆိုင္四季啤酒烧烤.
ReplyDeleteBut if you enter "null null" it takes you to an Italian restaurant on the Kongens Gate in Oslo
DeleteSo all the time spent committing the state capitals to memory results in the success of winning against a Stephan Pastis challenge. That's in addition to making you a more knowledgeable person, unlike we google dependent masses. Kudos.
ReplyDeletexoxoxoBruce
The geo displays would sometimes default to 'zero zero'. Of course, that was not obvious. So there you are, trying to set up a missile strike plan, and you would always be 'out of range'. It was a solid "WTF?" until you figured out the display was at default.
ReplyDeleteAccra, Ghana
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