Tuesday: A picture, some car stuff, then some links

Someone left their grocery list behind.  And in Japanese.

Car Thing 1:

Dear trunk in front of me, I'm pretty sure that you're not allowed to have open beers in your car, even if it is just your passenger dumping it out the window.  You didn't seem to be driving drunk, but you were a jerk who didn't use a turn signal, and didn't even wave after I let you not crash into my car.  But, I guess you do have 811 Perfectly Zeroed Valves, so you have that going for you.

Car Thing 2:

People who back into parking spaces.  Here's mathematical reasons why you're stupid:  Assume you need to put the car into a space of width W.  This is easy if you're driving forward, as you have more control due to the way the front wheels turn and the back doesn't.  Therefore, there's a difficulty factor d depending on which direction you're going.  Finally, the time to position the car is going to be something like t = d / W.  It takes longer to do something hard, and as the space narrows, you have to spend more time doing it (conversely, parking a car in a stadium takes zero effort, because you can just stick it anywhere).  So why insist on taking way longer to do something that doesn't really have any benefit?

Links

• Animation.
• The internet.
• Cool, a new WF.  That's closer, but only marginally faster to get to than the one I usually go to.  It kind of sucks that it won't be open for another three years, though.
• I saw this a few days ago, and took it as another "Game of Thrones is best, because..." with this time the reason being "dragons."  I was pleasantly surprised to see someone else had made this.  Ancalagon the Black.  Yes.  The Silmarilion is really tricky to get through, but if you do, you get to read wonderful stories.