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Talk:2236: Is it Christmas?

2019-12-02T21:42:22Z

172.68.90.76:

Talk:2236: Is it Christmas?

2019-12-02T21:41:09Z

172.68.90.76:

"Because only one day out of the year is Christmas, it is right 364.2425/365.2425 (approximately 99.726209299 %) of the time, which Randall rounded to 99.73 %, a level of precision which leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not the calculation takes into account leap days." ....actually, since you have 0.2425 days in the calculation, you are automatically calculating leap days also. So there is no ambiguity. But otherwise very well written. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.90.76|172.68.90.76]] 21:40, 2 December 2019 (UTC)SiliconWolf

Talk:2236: Is it Christmas?

2019-12-02T21:40:36Z

172.68.90.76:

"Because only one day out of the year is Christmas, it is right 364.2425/365.2425 (approximately 99.726209299 %) of the time, which Randall rounded to 99.73 %, a level of precision which leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not the calculation takes into account leap days." ....actually, since you have.2425 days in the calculation, you are automatically calculating leap days also. So there is no ambiguity. But otherwise very well written. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.90.76|172.68.90.76]] 21:40, 2 December 2019 (UTC)SiliconWolf

Talk:2231: The Time Before and After Land

2019-11-21T23:03:03Z

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I believe that the "bees" are paired with words like "for" in the chart to draw similarities to the word "before"? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.34|172.68.54.34]] 21:49, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
:They weren’t though. [[User:Netherin5|“That Guy from the Netherlands”]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 13:08, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
Agreed. Has been changed. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.132.155|172.68.132.155]] 21:59, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

While the chart begins with Big Bang on the left side, I bee-lieve it's a history of our solar system, not the universe. When Rocky Planets formed is not a single specific point in time across the entire universe, and we have no idea if bees or thyme even exist beyond our planet. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 23:12, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
: Not quite. The Earth formed with the rest of the solar system. And since "Rocky planets form" is shown earlier, it's presumably refers to rocky planets in the ''universe'' -- in ''other'', older star systems, rather than our own. --[[User:Aaron of Mpls|Aaron of Mpls]] ([[User talk:Aaron of Mpls|talk]])

As of this comment, this page is the first page to pop up when typing in the phrase "The Time for Beeland".
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.90.16|172.69.90.16]] 23:51, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

What's missing is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY7BusJNU Time after Thyme] [[User:Capncanuck|Capncanuck]] ([[User talk:Capncanuck|talk]]) 00:45, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
:And big missed opportunity for "Four bees land on thyme" [[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.226|162.158.78.226]] 05:16, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
::Fortunately, we seem to have avoided "the land after bee's time". At least for now. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.90.76|172.68.90.76]] 23:03, 21 November 2019 (UTC)SiliconWolf

The Big Bang of course has two bees in it.
:…But those bees did not develop until long after homo sapien did, the written word, the latin alphabet, et al. Indeed, “The Big Bang”, is a rather more recent construct, although the event is pre-Plank time. [[User:Logics|Logics]] ([[User talk:Logics|talk]]) 17:22, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
:: Ty for missing and/or killing the joke... [[Special:Contributions/172.68.90.76|172.68.90.76]] 23:03, 21 November 2019 (UTC)SiliconWolf

I accidentally deleted the "incomplete explanation" tag after completing the transcript. Sorry about that, I'm new to wiki editing :( [[User:Duraludon|Duraludon]] ([[User talk:Duraludon|talk]]) 16:05, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
:Fixed, no worries. :) [[User:Hawthorn|Hawthorn]] ([[User talk:Hawthorn|talk]]) 16:56, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps missing from the hovertext: The home of LEGO? ;) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.85|162.158.154.85]] 17:17, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Talk:2180: Spreadsheets

2019-07-29T19:45:09Z

172.68.90.76: my job is sometimes like this.

I really hope Randall shares this formula he made. It sounds incredible. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.126.34|162.158.126.34]] 21:15, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
: Seems to me to perhaps be a bit of nerdsniping (a la XKCD 356) bait...

My unofficial job title is the Head of the Department for Extreme Spreadsheeting. There are multiple reasons for this, including that we need to share info easily across different offices, I'm very familiar with spreadsheet formulas, and I have no f***ing clue how to get a SQL database functioning properly. [[User:Misterblu28|Misterblu28]] ([[User talk:Misterblu28|talk]]) 21:48, 24 July 2019 (UTC)misterblue28
: It involves chickens, black candles, a full moon, and one of those fancy space-age pens that can write on any surface.
:: I think that traditionally, one only needs the blood of the chicken unless you're making a chicken salad sandwich for afterwards. [[User:Mootstrap|Mootstrap]] ([[User talk:Mootstrap|talk]]) 12:05, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

The "devil" is clearly a reference to the FreeBSD daemon mascot. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.38.64|172.68.38.64]] 04:42, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
: The devil is clearly a devil.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.148|141.101.98.148]] 08:48, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

The devil is clearly the strong one for everyone working in my company. A list used by ~50 people, 3 times a day? lets just put an excel sheet on sharepoint.... A complex design tool? Give me 2 days and a lot of hidden sheets in the back of the file and do it in excel - everything is excel. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 06:04, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Anybody remember Oracle’s SQL*Calc spreadsheet application? Individual cells could not only contain select queries but also insert, update, and delete, all using variable data from the spreadsheet. So you could select data from tables into a multidimensional array of cells in s spreadsheet, manipulate the data in the cells, then insert in back into the same (or different!) tables. Powerful but dangerous![[Special:Contributions/172.68.46.167|172.68.46.167]] 06:15, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Remember all the TV Tropes links? We could totally put “Good Angel, Bad Angel” here. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.148|172.68.141.148]] 10:41, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

I refuse to accept this as complete until somebody can get the original script out of Randall or somebody here manages to make something that does the same job, or better.

Here's a start to the formula; it doesn't use REGEXMATCH() however. Uses a named range 'DatesList' which has the list of dates. Generates a calendar with Sunday in the first column where the only dates showing are those in the list -- wasn't sure what sort of output to target. =ARRAYFORMULA(IF(ISERROR(MATCH(ARRAYFORMULA(SEQUENCE((MAX(DatesList)-MIN(DatesList)-WEEKDAY(MIN(DatesList))+1)/7+1,7,MIN(DatesList)-WEEKDAY(MIN(DatesList)),1)),DatesList,0)),"",ARRAYFORMULA(SEQUENCE((MAX(DatesList)-MIN(DatesList)-WEEKDAY(MIN(DatesList))+1)/7+1,7,MIN(DatesList)-WEEKDAY(MIN(DatesList)),1))))

Relevant other comics about Excel (from a developer's perspective): http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/07/23/excel-the-poor-mans-ideexcel-lide-du-pauvre/ and /2014/12/19/the-coder-and-the-beast/ [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.136|108.162.229.136]] 19:57, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

My goto functions tend to be LOOKUP() (or HLOOOKUP() and VLOOKUP() for various subtelties like matching unsorted arrays), LEFT(), RIGHT(), MIDDLE(), COUNTA(), COUNTIF() (especially for range A$1:A''current_or_preceding_row_number_for_this_cell'' to establish "this is the ''n''th example of some quality in this column", usually for firstness), FIND(), ISERR(), ISNUMBER(), SUBSTITUTE(), and of course loads and loads of IF()s, ...usually heavily nested. And at least these days Open/LibreOffice accept comma seperation of function params, 'cos forgwtting I'm not in Excel and not using semicolons in such a scratch-built monstrosity leading to an error that ''wasn't'' bad logic or nesting was a bummer, until I realised... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.148|141.101.98.148]] 20:56, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

I was hoping the explanation would say what those named functions do, LOL! Never used Google Sheets. But I've used the hell out of Excel. Can't imagine how a single cell could display a calendar, but I've often done a quick on-the-fly calendar where each cell is a day... Usually to check what weekdays certain days are. Like "What weekday was I born?". Often I designate one cell as a starting date, the first row uses the WEEKDAY function to check "Is that this weekday, an earlier weekday or a later weekday?". A later weekday, leave it blank. An earlier weekday, take yesterday and add one. This weekday, show it. Then Week 2, Sunday is Saturday + 1, Monday is Sunday + 1, etc. Copy / Paste to finish the week, Copy / Paste the week to finish the calendar. I change the cell formatting to show only the Day of the date, but each cell stores an entire date. And the 8th column shows the month every time the month changes (usually a VLOOKUP on a reference table I make with Fill Series). I can then just change the master cell to change what date range the calendar shows. I might use Excel the most for mass renaming files though. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:24, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
::excel to rename files? How very Rube Goldberg. Windows still includes shell batch commands (.bat files) for that kind of functionality.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.246.82|162.158.246.82]] 14:44, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Something about the display is bugged out. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.67|162.158.107.67]] 05:43, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

QUERY() is overrated. FILTER() is more advanced and usable in other formulas.

I find this comic to be an accurate reflection of part of my job. I am the IT guy for our company. Which means that I'm also in charge of taking the basic reports that came with our point of sale program and editing the data into reports that are custom designed to answer the question that the manager asks. And the question is often different every day. So dropping the 10 page report into a spreadsheet to massage the data into 5 lines of 'boss answer' makes sense. But sometimes the question is a repeat. And after the 10th time the manager asked the question, I added a procedure into the database. So now every time I get a 'boss question', I have to decide if I'm going to make a procedure for it or a spreadsheet. The comic gets amusingly ridiculous for me on the 3rd panel, because running a query in the spreadsheet has pushed the complexity of my work up to the point where it's just as easy to make the procedure in the database. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.90.76|172.68.90.76]] 19:45, 29 July 2019 (UTC)SiliconWolf

Talk:2176: How Hacking Works

2019-07-15T14:56:14Z

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any idea what the title text is referring to? some smash mouth lyrics, maybe? [[User:Gir|-- //gir.st/]] ([[User talk:Gir|talk]]) 13:48, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
:The first line of their most popular song, All Star, is "Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me". [[Special:Contributions/162.158.123.97|162.158.123.97]] 13:55, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
::welp, i could have figured that out! to my defense, ducking "roll them like this" only brought up the comic itself. Thanks! [[User:Gir|-- //gir.st/]] ([[User talk:Gir|talk]]) 14:06, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
: I think Randall is referring to this https://xkcd.com/792/ with himself is the "someone" who warned them. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.142.239|172.68.142.239]] 14:20, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
::I doubt that the title text was a reference to this comic, but I've linked to it in the section about the second panel. Thanks! [[User:Gir|-- //gir.st/]] ([[User talk:Gir|talk]]) 14:28, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
I always (not really) thought hacking was more like "My latest scan of the internet found a computer that hasn't updated it's OS or it's antivirus in two months!" "Score! Hack in and steal their money!" [[Special:Contributions/172.68.90.76|172.68.90.76]] 14:56, 15 July 2019 (UTC)SiliconWolf

2164: Glacier

2019-06-17T20:45:43Z

172.68.90.76: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 2164
| date = June 17, 2019
| title = Glacier
| image = glacier.png
| titletext = The Norwegian adaptation of The Sword in the Stone takes things in a weird direction.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by the Meteorological Society. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

In fencing, an advance is a basic forward movement. Glaciers movement is rarely actual movement, but is instead growth and shrinkage.

Beret Guy confuses the glacier movement term with the fencing term. Noticing that the glacier lacks a sword, Beret Guy fixes this issue and then takes a defensive position. It's unclear at this time who will win.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

[[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]
{{comic discussion}}

Talk:2141: UI vs UX

2019-04-26T22:07:42Z

172.68.90.76:

The comic as a whole is making fun of how meta software developers get about the user experience, seeking to name all the different types of interactions a user can have with an app or webpage.
This comic is massive for me on my desktop (chrome); I wonder if this is a joke about bad UX or if it is a genuine error? [[User:Fwacer|Fwacer]] ([[User talk:Fwacer|talk]]) 18:50, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

:It's not this big on xkcd.com. Did it start this big and got fixed on the original site? Update: replaced with the image from xkcd.com which was much smaller. [[User:Cgrimes85|Cgrimes85]] ([[User talk:Cgrimes85|talk]]) 18:55, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

::Looks like it is fixed now, but yes it was also that big on xkcd.com initially. [[User:Fwacer|Fwacer]] ([[User talk:Fwacer|talk]]) 19:19, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

To me, it comes across as a hyperbolic play on the common confusion between the meaning of UI and UX. [https://twitter.com/sdw/status/709853249407361024] [[User:Ahiijny|Ahiijny]] ([[User talk:Ahiijny|talk]]) 19:06, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

It makes sense that it would be alpha and omega, but I originally thought it was the "proportional" symbol. I only ask because alpha is lowercase and omega is uppercase, although perhaps this was to avoid confusion with the Latin "A". [[User:Cgrimes85|Cgrimes85]] ([[User talk:Cgrimes85|talk]]) 19:13, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
:Concerning the lowercase/uppercase difference, since alpha is the beginning and omega is the end, then consider that in the beginning we are born little and then grow up - we start out as lowercase and end up as uppercase. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 19:30, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

This is a joke on integration, yes?[[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.129|172.69.68.129]] 19:33, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -- I guess the big in the comic being about the arc of the moral universe can reference the fight against segregation and thus for integration...
:: I meant mathematical integration...

I'm happy with the explanations I just added for everything but "Life's experience of time" -- does anyone know what that phrase is from? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.54|172.68.133.54]] 05:48, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
:I thought it was made by a U[unprintable glyph] designer. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.226.64|172.68.226.64]] 07:40, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

No UK - well that is about par [[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.240|141.101.107.240]] 20:45, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

On what level are those idiots who say "user doesn't need this setting, it would only confuse him"? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 22:20, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
:UG<sub>2</sub> - user second-guessing. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.142.197|172.68.142.197]] 06:27, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Why has Randall chosen this particular set of characters? Why Z? Why alpha and omega - the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, used in the bible quote "i am the alpha and omega" i.e. the beginning and the end, but what link with the subject? Or is it just a sequence of increasingly improbable characters from latin through Greek, then glyphs then unprintable glyphs..?
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.82|108.162.229.82]] 07:34, 26 April 2019 (UTC) Dancergraham

:UX comes after UI in the alphabet, and so Randall first extended that to the last letter of the Latin alphabet, then Greek. Infinity then also makes sense, but I don't know about the bullet. [[User:Oliphaunt|Oliphaunt]] ([[User talk:Oliphaunt|talk]]) 09:08, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
:Other than being the last letter of the Latin alphabet, I can't come up with any other meaning for "Z" to represent something in psychology. As for the remaining symbols, I think alpha might represent the "a" in actualization or the beginning of the user's awareness or life because alpha represents beginning. Since Omega means the end, this likely represents the end of the user's life, which determines the length of the arc of their life. I believe the infinity symbol is a reference to how time looks to the typical life of a user, since it extends well before and after a user's life. Lastly, I think the black circle might represent a view of morality as either a black hole or a dark subject. This is just my impressions. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 13:31, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
::I did think about "Z" representing Zen, but I'm not sure how that connects with psychology. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 13:57, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

My initial thought was that the black circle represents the "black point message" that crashed apps like whatsapp a while ago. I never saw it personally but Tom Scott did a video on it last year. It might be a commentary on how understanding of the universe's moral arc could be considered untouchable/unobtainable. [[User:Blik|Blik]] ([[User talk:Blik|talk]]) 14:30, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Hmm. It looks like UY got skipped. The study of the user's motivation and goals. Like UI and UX, it's a real thing. But that's really the job of concept or marketing.

2104: Biff Tannen

2019-01-28T16:23:56Z

172.68.90.76: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 2104
| date = January 28, 2019
| title = Biff Tannen
| image = biff_tannen.png
| titletext = I can't help myself; now I want to read a bunch of thinkpieces from newspapers in Biff's 1985 arguing over whether the growth of the region into a corporate dystopia was inevitable.
}}

==Explanation==

{{incomplete|Created by a BOT in an alternate universe. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

Hill Valley is the fictional town in California as shown with the clock that serves as the setting of the Back to the Future trilogy and its animated spin-off series.

''[https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture/dp/0062300547 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.]'' is a book published in 2016 is an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class

"A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country."

This comic is a play on the title of this book, which has been described as explaining the "social, regional, and class" issues in white working-class America that led to the election of President Donald Trump. Cueball is proposing a similar book, set in the Back to the Future town of Hill Valley, that would describe similar factors leading to the rise of Biff Tannen, the main antagonist of Back to the Future II. In that universe, while the rise of Biff (and subsequent dystopian society) is the result of his using a future sports almanac to cheat at sports betting, the rest of the population would have to guess at the societal structural issues that might have caused Biff's otherwise indescribable success.

This makes White Hat Guy mad because it's such a painfully long set up for a really stupid pun. There is also a decent chance that the book White Hat Guy is currently reading is the Hillbilly Elegy, which would give the pun more punch.

==Transcript==

[Cueball talks while walking up to White Hat, who is reading in an armchair.]

Cueball: You know, in the universe where Biff Tannen took Marty McFly's sports almanac back in time, the people wouldn't have any counterfactuals to work with.

Cueball: Their world would be ''the'' world.

[White Hat Turns to look at Cueball as he keeps talking.]

Cueball: They would have spent decades debating which structural problems enabled the rise of BiffCo, the decline of the city, and general social decay.

Cueball: Everyone would find reasons it confirmed their pet theory.

Cueball: I'm going to write a book set in that universe. I'll call it ''Hill Valley Elegy''.

[White Hat turns away in disgust.]

White Hat: ... I ''hate'' you.

{{comic discussion}}

2087: Rocket Launch

2018-12-19T21:57:55Z

172.68.90.76: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 2087
| date = December 19, 2018
| title = Rocket Launch
| image = rocket_launch.png
| titletext = NASA tries to coordinate launch timing with the Care Bears' cloud castle, but unfortunately sometimes collisions with stray Care Bears are unavoidable, so they just try to make the fairings sturdy and hope for a glancing impact.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a CARE BEAR. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

Main Steps:
* Liftoff
* Max-Q: Peak aerodynamic stress
* Booster separation
* Max-CB: Highest chance of collision with Care Bears
* Main stage separation
* GPS silenced so it will stop saying "Make a U-turn"
* Pilot panics, copilot takes command after struggle
* Inter-stage dogfight
* Winner proceeds to space

Side Steps:
* Booster separation
* Main stage separation
* Reunification (of boosters)
* Pursuit Phase
* Inter-stage dogfight

Only a few of the steps listed are typical of rocket launches. Liftoff, Max-q, Booster Separation, and Main stage separation. Of the 'non-typical' steps:
* Care Bears are cartoon characters. There are no known instances where a rocket has collided with a cartoon.
* GPS, the Global Positioning System, is designed for travel and transport that remains within Earth's atmosphere.
* Panicking pilots - has a copilot ever taken over? Someone answer this.
* Reunification and Pursuit phases are not possible. Separation occurs when a section of the rocket uses up all of it's fuel. Without fuel, these parts could not reunify as drawn on the outline nor engage in pursuit.
* Inter stage dogfight is not possible with current rocket technology

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

{{comic discussion}}

2075: Update Your Address

2018-11-21T20:05:56Z

172.68.90.76: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 2075
| date = November 21, 2018
| title = Update Your Address
| image = update_your_address.png
| titletext = This is my four-digit PIN. It was passed down to me by my father, and someday I will pass it on to you. Unless we figure out how to update it, but that sounds complicated.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by someone with an OLD ADDRESS. There is no explanation. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
In this comic, Cueball is facing several instances where entities asking or confirming his address find that the address they possess is incorrect - each address is progressively more outdated. In the final comic, Cueball gives up and confirms that yes, he is still living in a country that hasn't existed for over a century.

Inaccurate addresses may be a common problem for someone who has moved constantly in his lifetime. Alternatively, Cueball and his family do not find it important to update addresses for those particular businesses / entities.

{{w|Austria-Hungary}} was a European empire that existed between 1867 and 1918, {{w|Austria-Hungary#Dissolution|dissolving}} during {{w|World War I}}. It is possible that Cueball's ancestors hail from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, though it would be even more absurd for that to be used as an address, given that the polity ended a century ago, whereas the earliest programmable computer was created 20 years after the country was dissolved and personal/small business computers approximately 40 years after that.

Ash Tree Lane refers to {{w|House of Leaves}}, a postmodern novel from 2000 in which one of many nested plots involves a house on Ash Tree Lane that is bigger on the inside than on the outside, and in fact contains a {{w|labyrinth}} with a {{w|minotaur}}. The book, and Ash Tree Lane specifically, have previously been referenced in [[472: House of Pancakes]] and [[886: Craigslist Apartments]].

The patent for PIN codes was submitted in May 1966, and the first public use of a {{w|Personal identification number|PIN code}} was in 1967, when {{w|Barclays}} used them to process {{w|cheques}} at {{w|automated teller machines}}. It would be somewhat unusual for Cueball to an inherit both an active account and the PIN associated with it.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[Cueball is standing, holding a phone.]
:Voice: Do you still live at 342 River St?
:Cueball: No, I moved last year.
:[Cueball is standing behind a counter with Hairy, whose hands are on a keyboard.]
:Hairy: Is 21 Ash Tree Lane still a good address?
:Cueball: What? That's my childhood home. How is that even in your system?
:[Cueball is holding a phone again.]
:Voice: The address we have is 205 Second St #2.
:Cueball: I... think that's where my parents lived before I was born!?
:[Cueball stands behind another counter with Ponytail and a tablet.]
:Ponytail: Are you still living in... "The Austro-Hungarian Empire?"
:Cueball: You know what, sure.
:Ponytail: Austria-Hungary dissolved in 1918.
:Cueball: Well, I come from a long line of people who hate updating stuff.
{{comic discussion}}