Friday: Draw a Dinosaur Day

This is going to be year four for DaDD, and I went digital.  That was probably a mistake, but I couldn't find my crayons, and I could find my tablet.

It's a very chubby ankylosaurus.  With wonky eyes.  Tablet drawing is hard, and doing eyes is the hardest part.

• Super Bowl Sunday should really be "all animals get a bowl" day.
• Pretty much all of these.
• This is an interesting idea.  Since I work with a cluster of computers that has to deal with things falling apart all the time, it would have been useful to hear about this years ago.
• I even more want to go to the Pokemon Cafe.
• I have mentioned how much I love the insanity of Patsy Walker, Hellcat, before, so this is just more a note for myself.
• Ok, fine, but

The biggest problem is that after Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC squished all their different universes together into one, and made everyone live in the same world.  This made some sense, as they owned a bunch of comic universes, and it's probably easier to publish a Batman comic with occasional visits from Blue Beetle who lives a town over than to publish Batman and Blue Beetle, which are just going to directly compete with each other (rich industrialist who dresses up as something and uses technology to fight crime?  Wait, isn't that Mr. Terrific?).  

So, ok, great, everyone lives in the same world.  Except DC keeps making everything super serious and grimdark, so nothing can be fun anymore.  Because that's not grown up or some bullshit.  That's fine for Batman, who does nothing but punch bad guys until they stop being bad.  Superman comes off kind of lame, which leads to shit like him walking across the country instead of fighting crime because I don't even fucking know, he was sad or something.  That's also why they had to murder Blue Beetle, who became known after CoIE for doing shit like this (I couldn't find a single page that had all the important images, so click in order to piece together the story).  He was too funny and silly to fit in to the shitty vision DC was going with.

Now back to Captain Marvel.  His backstory is that he's an orphan who gets magic powers when he shouts his magic word, "Shazam," (basically calling the wizard named that to get the power).  That might seem like it could be grim, but he was originally written years ago, which is why he has a team that contains a useless fat old man, a super obvious ripoff of Bugs Bunny, and Mary Marvel, who got fucked over in the grimdark reboot because she wasn't allowed to just be a good person who tried to use her powers to help anymore.  Oh, and the Marvels were friends with Tawky Tawny, a goddamn tiger who wears clothes and walks around like a person.  And talks.  As you might guess.

And who did three children, an old guy, and two cartoon characters fight back in the past?  A tiny worm from Venus, a stereotypical evil scientist, and a guy named Captain Nazi.  These are simple enemies of the past, who are perfect villains for a kid who can become invincible by magic.  Captain Marvel isn't designed to live in a world where his best friend is gunned down.  He's designed to decide he doesn't like the Nazis, so he's going to fly to Europe and punch their captain until the war is over.

Monday: One of those days

Except the poorly illuminated guy is an amorphous aggregate of non-tangible things.

• Serious things.
• No.  This is stupid.  This is essentially redistributing from the 60th percentile of income to the 40th.  This ignores the fact that the top 10% is grabbing 50% of the income in the nation.
• Since today is the last day of the ACA enrollments, here's the proof that David Frum is pretty much the only sane conservative in existence.  I still disagree with a lot of his points, but he's not a drooling idiot.
• Food things.
• This calzone.
• This burger.
• This curry.
• These dummies.
• Fuck you, Vermont.  Is this why I can't find grade B anywhere?  I don't want to use a spectrum of adjectives just because you're too shit at educating people that grade B is better than grade A.  If you want to use a range, define an opacity number or something, so I can buy an 80% syrup instead of having to deal with the crappy 40%.  You know what I've done since I couldn't find grade B syrup anywhere, Vermont?  I buy local honey instead.  You've lost a bunch of sales to insects.
• Animal things.
• Leopards will generally just try to get away from people.  However, if you poke it in the face, it will do its best to poke you in yours.
• Baby polar bear.
• No one cares about your Rattata, Joey.

Wednesday: I need a tag for images that I'll likely want to use again in the future.

That would save me lots of time trying to find those images over again.

First though: I forgot to post this Pikachu from Saturday:

There's a dancing banana too, but that wasn't the point.  The shrimp udon is kind of cute, too.

Anyway, I saw this link on fark about how mayo is "king of condiments," not ketchup.

If you look at their data, it looks like mayo has lots more than ketchup.  However, if you look at the axis, they're plotting "billions of dollars."  I don't know about you, but I rarely buy my condiments in increments of dollars.  I buy fucking bottles.  Except mayo.  I don't buy that.

So how much does a bottle cost?  Let's have google look that up for us.  I used real brands that have comparable name recognition.  To me.  Plus, these all nicely have various size options.

I don't have their actual data (apparently from this source, which I'm not about to spend $900 to actually read), so I pulled up the plot in the digitizer, and it tells me that in the last year of study, mayo sold about $2e9, and ketchup sold about $0.8e9.  Now pull out the stats, and assume you're buying the cheapest option per ounce.  This gives ketchup at $0.079375/oz and mayo at $0.18136/oz.  This translates to ketchup and mayo selling $1.0079e+10 and $1.1028e+10 ounces each.

"See, mayo still sold more, therefore is king."  Fine, that math didn't totally work out the way I expected.  However, think about how long these things last.  Consumer Reports says you can keep ketchup for six months, but mayo is only good for two.  I can't imagine a consumption model based on those facts that doesn't suggest more mayo is wasted than ketchup.  It doesn't need to be that much more to make up that difference in sales (10% more wasted mayo than ketchup will satisfy that).

Next, McDonalds.  They're not paying retail price for their ketchup, so big consumers like them are going to make the actual sales of ketchup skew higher than this estimate.

Finally, mayo is disgusting.  QED.

• Well.  I think this probably ends up in the "why we can't have nice things" category.
• I would actually care to watch Dr. Who if it was like this.
• Bees and cheese.  And then I looked at their actual flavor list, and it's pretty clear that they're only censoring for certain words.
• "Hey! Let's put this candlestick there instead!  Imagine when he wakes up!"