more san diego tomorrow. later today. whatever.

[jazzfish]

LOLGrues: delightful. Zarf is amazing and weird, as he often is.

Etch-A-Sketch for Windows(tm): "Rumors that Mr. Gates has poor color sense are slander, unless you expressed them in a message to Microsoft Customer Service, in which case they are libel."

New British coins, which are awesome. Also, the 50p and 20p are heptagons, which are even more awesome. (Yes, I know, they have been for ages.)

Thursday focus group: Consensus Items and Action Suggestions.

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[laughin.livejournal.com]

Etch-A-Sketch - love it

[nixve.livejournal.com]

Those new British coins are stunning! I wish our money was that gorgeous.

[jazzfish]

No kidding. Partly it's that coins are inherently cooler than paper money, but even beyond that they did a really excellent job with these.

[selki.livejournal.com]

they're sooooo pretty!

[sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

Some people are sad that they're removing Brittania, the personification of the UK. I agree the new coins look kickass.

[jazzfish]

Meh. Tradition's one thing, but designs as awesome as the new ones are worth blowing away tradition for.

Meanwhile, the US gets stupid purple numbers on its new five-dollar bill. *sigh*

[selki.livejournal.com]

Pulling out a $5 for the toll booth on Saturday, I was surprised by the color -- hadn't heard about them yet! But the booth worker took the money, so I figured it was legit.

[jazzfish]

Or you got a random poorly-counterfeited bill, and the booth worker was seriously colorblind . . .

[timotab.livejournal.com]

something else about the 50p and 20p. The edges between the points are slightly curved, and the coins actually have a constant diameter. So if you made a prism using the coin as the face, you could make rollers that didn't feel bumpy for the thing that's rolling on top.

[jazzfish]

. . . I'm confused. They're not actually heptagons, they just look like it?

[timotab.livejournal.com]

They are not strictly heptagons - yes, they have 7 sides and 7 vertices, but the sides are slightly curved, and not straight.

[timotab.livejournal.com]

oh, and note that having a constant diameter is not the same as having a constant radius.

[jazzfish]

Right! That's the point I got hung up on. (Today Tucker remembers elementary-school geometry.) Thanks.