No axis labels

December 13, 2010

Topic

Miscellaneous / axes, comic, xkcd

xkcd geekdom for your slow Monday afternoon. Can you imagine being with someone who doesn’t label axes? Outrageous. [xkcd]

6 Comments

Pat Eyler — December 13, 2010 at 1:41 pm

Of course, now I’m stuck with the mental image of hatchets, splitting wedges, and axes all neatly labeled with a little dymo style tag.
RG — December 13, 2010 at 9:18 pm

Serves her right, huh? Maybe she is so smart and did it on purpose to ensure that if the data didn’t achieve the objective, the formatting does!?
- Nathan Yau — December 13, 2010 at 10:15 pm
  
  Touché.
  - RG — December 14, 2010 at 10:06 am
    
    :-)
    
    BTW, no axis labels is a sin I equate with another (more often seen) sin–blank subject email.
BK — December 14, 2010 at 6:28 am

Way to spoil the punchline. :-(
- Nathan Yau — December 14, 2010 at 3:46 pm
  
  My sincerest apologies, Mr. King.

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