I’m kind of torn by these detergent prices at Target.
On the one hand, I do like to celebrate consistent pricing. I find the consistent unit price of $3.84 for each type and size of detergent very satisfying.
But on the other hand, isn’t a fundamental principle of sales that the more you buy, the better deal you should get?
I appreciate the simplicity and elegance of this build-your-own-burger a la carte menu, but it does create some real problems.
From an ordering perspective, it’s nice that all toppings are a uniform $1 in cost. But is it fair?
A burger’s worth of applewood bacon is probably worth a buck; a fried egg is reasonably priced at a dollar.
But how many bread-and-butter pickles would I expect to get for a dollar? Or pickled jalapenos? Way more than I could put on a burger, I suspect!
I feel bad for the uneven bars. They’re parallel, too, after all.
This video demonstrates a really cool and simple experiment that can be conducted with milk, food coloring, and dish soap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs8masuu5oE
Watching this pattern change and evolve made me think of chaotic dynamical systems, and their representations like the Mandelbrot set.
I wonder if there is mathematics that models systems like this and describe how they behave?
This is a clever and interesting idea: creating a new font by taking the average of all existing fonts.
By overlaying all the small letter a‘s, say, from all the different fonts, one can take a visual average and create a new letter a. Repeat for the whole alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks, and voila!, you’ve got Averia.
The idea of taking a visual average may be a bit mysterious, but the author describes a few different approaches in how to combine the images. Essentially all of the instances of a particular symbol are placed on top of each other, and the the darkest parts of the new image are where the instances intersect the most. The result is then smoothed over to create a readable letter.
And the font looks pretty nice, if not too exciting. Just what you might expect from the average font.