Mommy, Santa smells like a hobo!
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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.

You, too can earn a living with visuals.
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December 21st, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Thanks for explaining why Santa likes to quaff scotch when he goes on break.
December 21st, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I had a ‘close encounter’ with the man last night and I needed a drink at the end.
December 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
I could also be that the nice Santas have a wet problem after a days worth of scared kids sitting on them.
December 21st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Ewwwwww
December 21st, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I would think this would be a step function. Presumably not all children contribute to Santa’s dampness problem. This straight line graph implies that all children contribute.
Although, if the number of children is sufficiently large, I suppose the scaling of the graph could render the step function to appear as a straight line.
December 21st, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Ugh. I’ll remember this the next time the insane idea of becoming a part-time Santa for a few extra bucks floats through my head.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 am
@qka
as there are no half or quarter children (at least as far as I know) it actually should be a dotted graph, that is: a dot for every amount of children showing the corresponding dampness. And I don’t see any problem with “every child” contributing to it: every child on his lap makes Santa sweat a little (espacially sitting in clothes made for the northpole in the fully heated mall).
But I see a problem with the maximum capacity of liquid the cloth can hold. Depending on cloth and time of use it will eventually reach a point when no more liquid can be added (so the graph at the end should stop rising but stay on a fix level)!
All of that of course does in no way influence the graph’s conclusion …
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
@qka
I also believe this is called “a line of best fit”. Somewhat like an average/estimate.