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I Used To Work At Nasa In Virginia. It Was Nothing Glamorous; I Was Just Tasked With Making Code Compile For Obscure Projects, And I Wasn't Very Good At It. Now I Spend Most Of My Time Drawing Pictures And Looking At Funny Things On The Internet, Which In Retrospect Is Largely What I Did At My Old Job, Too.

Take Wrong Turns. Talk To Strangers. Open Unmarked Doors. And If You See A Group Of People In A Field, Go Find Out What They Are Doing. Do Things Without Always Knowing How They'll Turn Out. You're Curious And Smart And Bored, And All You See Is The Choice Between Working Hard And Slacking Off. There Are So Many Adventures That You Miss Because You're Waiting To Think Of A Plan. To Find Them, Look For Tiny Interesting Choices. And Remember That You Are Always Making Up The Future As You Go.

One Of The Things I've Learned With Doing 'xkcd' Is That You Sort Of Give People, 'here's The Thing, And Here's The Button You Can Press To Get Another Thing.' Sometimes That Can Be More Easy To Digest Than, 'here's A Long Page Of Things.

Space Is About 100 Kilometers Away. That’s Far Away—i Wouldn’t Want To Climb A Ladder To Get There—but It Isn’t That Far Away. If You’re In Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, Central Japan, Central Sri Lanka, Or Portland, Space Is Closer Than The Sea.

When Designing An Interface, Imagine That Your Program Is All That Stands Between The User And Hot, Sweaty, Tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back Sex.