exposé: poorly Lego'd Eggos
It's always interesting when a new mix of two different worlds pops up. Remember when Drew Barrymore married Tom Green? Sometimes these things work out - like the glory of rock stardom and video games. Other times the result is disturbing and creepy - like anime and ronald mcdonald.
I try to be optimistic, so I was pretty excited when I found out Eggo had released a Lego-themed waffle. At long last, food I can legitimately play with! This was awesome - two things I really enjoyed as a kid (and still do, though less often) - creativity and edibility, all in one.
Imagine the profound depths of my chagrin when I discovered the horrible truth. Gentle reader, let my folly be your tale of caution:
Someone, somewhere along the way made an unspeakably heinous design decision and decided that three holes on the bottom of the wafflebricks would fit just fine with the 8 pegs on top. Please refer to the photographic evidence.Why?!?!? As a mathematician, I can attempt to quantify the magnitude of this engineering catastrophe with a simple formula:
As you can see, these wafflebricks do not stack any better than standard waffles.
You have been warned.
posted by Tyler | 5:19 PM
3 Comments:
get a shrink ray and then combine 8 3-holed waffles with 3 8-holed waffles.
hehe nice idea :)
You could build 4x6 bricks this way - using 3x1 to build one side, and the 2x4's on the other side. We picked 24 as the least common multiple of 3,8. I wonder if there are some brick sizes that wouldn't work out, though -- maybe we can think of sizes axb and cxd where no rectangle with area = lcm(a*b, c*d) is simultaneously realizable as a rectangle tiled exactly into those brick sizes.
tylerneylon.com; You saved my day again.
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