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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 08:40:52 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 62 Message-ID: <bul65jljmcc0n7hpbouqf59n2d1ieovmch@4ax.com> References: <v1e9i1$3gl7l$1@dont-email.me> <v2jogp$10ivd$1@dont-email.me> <v2muhm$1lsbi$1@dont-email.me> <v2qd35$2d01m$1@dont-email.me> <v2qeur$417$1@reader1.panix.com> <v2r2qr$2gqf2$1@dont-email.me> <v2tl76$31v84$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 17:40:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c286214483f2887af4a0a9feed937bb7"; logging-data="3645461"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ndhu4aE2KNW28pB0kaWol5OLwnTPOSGU=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ANdL7Ir42UK3GzpVfjpqdvlzISQ= Bytes: 3147 On Sat, 25 May 2024 17:29:08 -0400, Kevrob <kjrobinson@mail.com> wrote: >On 5/24/2024 6:03 PM, Titus G wrote: >> On 25/05/24 04:23, James Nicoll wrote: >>> In article <v2qd35$2d01m$1@dont-email.me>, >>> Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 5/23/2024 4:25 AM, Kevrob wrote: >>>>> On 5/21/2024 11:24 PM, Default User wrote: >>>>>> Tony Nance wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 5/7/24 6:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>>>>>> xkcd: Good and Bad Ideas >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Humorous as usual, but I'm having a hard time understanding why >>>>>>> Cutting Pizza In Squares is anywhere on this graph - to me, it = seems >>>>>>> to be totally independent of the entire good/bad axes. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> For some varities of pizza, cutting into squares is traditional. = This >>>>>> is especially true of ones that are rectangular, where cutting in = any >>>>>> other form would be rather difficult. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Cutting into squares makes pizza _unfoldable_! >>>>> >>>>> (Yes, I was born in NYC and raised out on Long Island.) >>>> >>>> To expand on this, in NYC, pizza is considered street food. >>>> You go into a parlor, buy a single (pie sliced) slice, and >>>> fold it lengthways through the crust. >>>> >>>> A good pizza slice will then have enough structural integrity >>>> to be picked up with one hand from the crust end, and eaten >>>> while walking. >>>> >>>> This can't be done with square sliced pizza. >>>> >>> What if the square pizza is reinforced with razor-sharp carbon >>> fiber? >>> >>=20 >> You don't walk so far.=20 > > >I made a second rectangular pizza. It came out a bit better. >I cut it along one diagonal. Then I cut it across the >other diagonal. That resulted in 4 triangular pieces. > >They were foldable. Now we'll hear complaints because the ends aren't rounded. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"