cross-product
Original: cross-product on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Sound effect (car horn): HONNNNNK!
A man honks the horn of his car at a woman walking past in a crosswalk.
Panel 2:
Woman (shouting back): I'M WALKING AS FAST AS I CAN!
Panel 3:
Man (in car): YOUR ABSOLUTE SPEED IS RELEVANT BUT IS NOT DECISIVE!
Panel 4:
Man: THE DETERMINER OF MY WAIT TIME IS YOUR ABSOLUTE SPEED MULTIPLIED BY THE SINE OF THE ANGLE YOUR PATH MAKES WITH THE CURB!
(He holds up a yellow diagram showing a triangle with angle theta and labels.)
Panel 5:
Man: YOU ARE WALKING AT AN EXTREMELY ACUTE ANGLE, SUCH THAT THE PROJECTION OF YOUR VELOCITY ONTO THE Y-AXIS IS PRACTICALLY ZERO!
Panel 6:
Woman: DO YOU JUST CARRY THAT DIAGRAM AROUND WITH YOU EVERYWHERE?
Man: TRIGONOMETRY IS THE ONLY THING MY WIFE DIDN'T TAKE WHEN SHE LEFT!
Votey:
The same man's face, drawn in rough black-and-white sketch style, looking distraught with a quivering mouth.
Man: Tell me I'll get through this.
Sound effect (car horn): HONNNNNK!
A man honks the horn of his car at a woman walking past in a crosswalk.
Panel 2:
Woman (shouting back): I'M WALKING AS FAST AS I CAN!
Panel 3:
Man (in car): YOUR ABSOLUTE SPEED IS RELEVANT BUT IS NOT DECISIVE!
Panel 4:
Man: THE DETERMINER OF MY WAIT TIME IS YOUR ABSOLUTE SPEED MULTIPLIED BY THE SINE OF THE ANGLE YOUR PATH MAKES WITH THE CURB!
(He holds up a yellow diagram showing a triangle with angle theta and labels.)
Panel 5:
Man: YOU ARE WALKING AT AN EXTREMELY ACUTE ANGLE, SUCH THAT THE PROJECTION OF YOUR VELOCITY ONTO THE Y-AXIS IS PRACTICALLY ZERO!
Panel 6:
Woman: DO YOU JUST CARRY THAT DIAGRAM AROUND WITH YOU EVERYWHERE?
Man: TRIGONOMETRY IS THE ONLY THING MY WIFE DIDN'T TAKE WHEN SHE LEFT!
Votey:
The same man's face, drawn in rough black-and-white sketch style, looking distraught with a quivering mouth.
Man: Tell me I'll get through this.
Alt text
A six-panel color comic. Panel 1: a man in a car honks (HONNNNNK!) at a woman crossing in front of him. Panel 2: the woman, annoyed, shouts back: 'I'm walking as fast as I can!' Panel 3: the man replies, 'Your absolute speed is relevant but is not decisive!' Panel 4: he holds up a little yellow trigonometry diagram and explains that his wait time equals her absolute speed times the sine of the angle her path makes with the curb. Panel 5: he continues that she is walking at such an acute angle that the projection of her velocity onto the y-axis is practically zero. Panel 6: the woman asks, 'Do you just carry that diagram around with you everywhere?' and the man, eyes wide, answers, 'Trigonometry is the only thing my wife didn't take when she left!' The joke: his absurd math pedantry is a thin cover for the pain of his divorce. Votey (black-and-white sketch aftercomic): a close-up of the same man's stricken, trembling face as he pleads, 'Tell me I'll get through this.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.