2010-09-03

A tall SMBC comic. Panel 1: A red-haired woman sits at a laptop in a dim room surrounded by men and thinks, 'My god. I'm the only woman in the CS department. Shit. Everyone's going to try to date me.' Panel 2: A crowd of men lean in, all shouting at once, 'Wanna get a coffee?!' Panel 3: The woman thinks 'import nerdSort,' and a large flowchart shows rows of colored cartoon faces being run through a sorting algorithm, branching and merging down the page, ending with the caption 'Complete. Nerds sorted from least to most attractive.' She tells a man named Abu, 'Okay, fine. My merge sort selects Abu.' Abu replies, 'Merge sort? For only five parameters? Why didn't you use insertion sort?' Another man bursts out laughing, 'Hahahahahahaha! Women are adorable.' A final panel labeled 'Later...' shows the woman at a computer; she asks 'Hey, has anyone seen Sandy?' Abu answers, 'She's dating some guy in the history department. But they won't appreciate her!' Votey: A bearded man at a drafting table glances back over his shoulder and says, 'Whoops.'