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As many of you know, Randall Monroe of xkcd fame has a website where people send him weird physics questions like "what would happen if a pitcher pitched a ball at 90 percent of the speed of light?" and he tries to figure out the answers. Many of you know that he's taken some of them and made them into a book.
And some of you may be aware that there is an audiobook version (which works surprisingly well -- the visuals help, but you don't actually need the pictures to understand most of it.)
And the book is read by Wil Wheaton. And he is the perfect choice. Because he is a geek and an xkcd fan himself.
So Lis and have been listening to the book as I drive her to and from work. And it feels like Wil is sitting in the back seat of the car, and found this cool book, and he's reading it to us because he thinks it's great and that we'd like it too, so he's talked us into letting him read it to us, and the three of us are friends all giggling together over this stuff.
It's perfect.
And some of you may be aware that there is an audiobook version (which works surprisingly well -- the visuals help, but you don't actually need the pictures to understand most of it.)
And the book is read by Wil Wheaton. And he is the perfect choice. Because he is a geek and an xkcd fan himself.
So Lis and have been listening to the book as I drive her to and from work. And it feels like Wil is sitting in the back seat of the car, and found this cool book, and he's reading it to us because he thinks it's great and that we'd like it too, so he's talked us into letting him read it to us, and the three of us are friends all giggling together over this stuff.
It's perfect.