I don't claim to be an expert on Wikilaw. I leave it to you to judge our friend Randall Munroe. You and I know him as the author of the webcomic xkcd. You may not know, however, that he is...
- a famous Slashdotter
- a notable resident of Chesterfield Court House, Virginia (aside: I thought he lived in Massachusetts)
- a notable person from the Lehigh Valley
- a notable endorser of Barack Obama
- a notable Browncoat
- a notable Randall
- a notable Munroe
The guy gets around.
Well, at least all of these mentions of Randall call him "writer of xkcd" or something equivalent, rather than "former NASA contractor".
ReplyDeleteI just looked at the xkcd article, and they finally fixed it. It used to open, "xkcd is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe, a former contractor for NASA". Yeah, he worked for NASA for a bit. He's also a former high school student, may well have formerly had a job flipping burgers, and has surely done lots of other things for short periods of time that shouldn't define him.