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Comic by Randall Monroe of xkcd.com, who sounds like a guy with a very compatible sense of humor: “In my spare time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat […]
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