Thursday, January 28, 2016

Thursday: Today I finished up like three tasks. It was shockingly productive.

No thanks to you, Giant Gob of Feta.  You need to be smaller to be a helpful part of the salad.

And I saw a helicopter when I was leaving work.  Doing image registration based on clouds is hard.

The links today are two anniversaries, four jerk cats, and a rant about cartoon characters.

  • The Challenger disaster was thirty years ago.
  • Alan Alda is 80.
  • Cats.
  • Are.
  • Just.
  • Jerks.
  • WTF?  Let's go in order of least to most infuriating.
    • The Flintstones have never been interesting.
    • Wacky Races was interesting, but mostly due to the things that make it a cartoon.
    • Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Venture Bros.  Oh, sorry, that's just all the other, likely better, redos of the Alex Toth characters.
    • Someone should send Jim Lee pictures of real humans.  I'm not skilled at the kind of redraws they do at Escher Girls, but:
      • No one stands like Daphne is standing.  Also: at what point did Daphne carry stupid looking guns?  Why are their four cables on that gun?  Is the gun designed to tangle the user up?
      • I'm pretty sure Fred has no right arm.  That hand is just attached to his stomach, which explains why he's pointing some sort of "shooty beam" gun directly at his other elbow.  Probably how he lost hte first one.
        • Also no one stands like that.
      • I've seen lots of people complaining about Shaggy's mustache.  This ignores the fact that his chin is like a foot long.
        • No one stands like that unless they are actively falling.
      • Velma is like four feet tall.  Using Fred's humerus as a length scale (and taking 14.4 inches as a standard length), Velma from top to estimated waist is roughly 27 inches.  Double this for her height, and she's 4'8".  She's also is like four heads tall, which is in the infant range.
      • Scooby Doo.  Is a talking dog.  Why does a dog who is known for having an actual mode of communication appear to be leaking emoji bubbles?  And magic floating eyebrows.

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