Monday: Draw a panda day.

Here's last year's DaPD, and one from four years ago.  Also, in checking, I discovered that I missed yesterday's anniversary.

I realized that there's no constraint saying it has to be an Ailuropoda melanoleuca, so I went with the Ailurus fulgens, which is totally one of my favorite animals.  This was my reference, and I'm not super happy with the face and butt.  "It's close enough!"  Thanks, red panda.

• Squirrel.
• Badger.
• Mr. Cat.
• Alice Roosevelt.
• Two questions from this news:
• Does this mean they're introducing Mephisto, who was a big part of the Infinity Gauntlet comic?  I thought everyone assumed they'd just use Loki for that, since it'd be easier.
• Wouldn't you change your name if your name was "ERIK KILLMONGER"?

Friday: It's annoying when you are 99% sure something should be in the data, but simply can't find it.

Clearly, giphy isn't trying very hard.

• Yes, I'm linking to this solely for the squirrel.
• This is a good thing.
• It's good that they got the best voices back.
• That's cool.

Thursday: Less productive than I would have liked

It turns out I might have written a perl script to automate production of "red panda says: fuck you, X" style images.

I arrived at work today to discover that a power surge last night had killed one of my monitors on my work computer.  I replaced it with an ancient monitor that is nearly dead.  It's hard to switch between them, because the regular one is nice and bright, and the old one is dim and yellowy.

Then, piles of emails all wanting immediate attention.  Woo.  Then I decided after everyone else had left that the new ventilation was trying to kill me.  Either due to dust or something, I basically became unable to breathe in my office.  That's always a bad way to do work.

And I discovered after getting home that there's a major problem with the one project I have left to finish before I leave on vacation.  Wonderful.  Maybe I can sort that out tomorrow.

"Hey, what's that?" "Nophing."

• Santa puppy.
• I have not seen this joke before.
• That's kind of cool.

Wednesday: There's a hour down the drain

Turns out it was me overrunning an array by using <= instead of <.  Still.

• Stupid Flanders.
• This is good news.
• That'd be cool until whatever lock failed and you slam face first into the ground.
• Did this actually happen?  I'm curious as to whether I should try to find video clips.