I'm glad you got it! I think this past year I received more personal, non-junk mail than I have in the last seven years total, but to be fair I was pretty unreachable by post for almost five of those years. So far I've received stickers, books, a few letters, electronic cigarette supplies of various kinds and some tools. I have also received lots of information about law schools and various schools I'm interested in attending for grad programs. The things I've ordered have usually come from small-business owners who typically write little thank-you notes for purchasing their products or using their services. It's nice that for certain markets, big business has yet to penetrate in any meaningful way and I hope it stays that way. All the vendors I've dealt with have been responsive, gracious and kind which has kind of surprised me! As for the school info, the information packages typically have a few glossy photos of multi-ethnic groups of students smiling and holding various academic-looking materials, accompanied by a link to the info page where I requested more information in the first place, which is somewhat dumb in my opinion. I'm looking to go back to school to get out of a cyclical thing, not get stuck in another! As for the penis naming book: I guess someone had to do it. I wonder if there's a vagina version coming out? I have met several people who have taken the time to name their genitals and it strikes me as something kind of odd; sometimes the names are endearments (like the dude that called his dick Paco) and other times the names show the discomfort a person has with using conventional references to genitalia (like my ex-girlfriend who referred to my penis as "your friend"). I get that people are sometimes uncomfortable in/with their bodies, but to refer to one's own genitals as being apart from the self rather than part of the self is alien to me. It's like inviting someone to your house and only allowing them in the shed out back, or something.
I've always loved this XKCD on University pages. Very accurate, imo.I requested more information in the first place, which is somewhat dumb in my opinion.
No. 1 XKCD used to be great. Like...9-10 years ago. It hasn't been anything new, brilliant, clever, or relevant[2] since. [2] I'm lying about relevant, there's evidence that comics still go up that pertain to current events, which could be construed as "relevance."
I get cranky about XKCD because I come from a background of people essentially circlejerking about XCKD. I would say, read the early stuff, if you have time, and want pseudo-insightful/intelligent comics. The problem with XKCD is because it's pseudo-insightful/intelligent a lot of people then use it as a marker of intelligence and insight, aka, "I read XKCD, I'm so great, if you know XKCD you're so great too, we're so smart because we read a comic that is ostensibly smart!"