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Introducing Purple Sonic The Hedgehog

This is a bit off topic, but my five year old daughter asked me to teach her to draw Sonic the Hedgehog today, so I walked her through it by drawing him myself as she followed along step by step. The results of that exercise are below:

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As you can see, she opted to make her sonic a giant balloon. Not content stopping with that bit of artistic license, she decided she wanted to make a “Purple Sonic”, which came out with a decidedly Picasso-like feel:

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You’re forgiven if you initially though he was facing the left (he is not). As a tribute to my daughter’s creation, I’ve created a videogame version of Purple Sonic to be played exclusively in Microsoft Excel, free to play for anyone here. I’ve attached it below for your gaming pleasure.

Enjoy.

Purple Sonic

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Welcome to my new site

So far, I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to write here, but I’m sure I’ll think of something. I guess I can start with the origin of the very dumb name of this site. I was sitting with my 3 year old daughter watching Peppa Pig when I couldn’t stop noticing how much the shape of Peppa’s head matches a certain style of centrifugal pump drawing I have seen on Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams. Since I was not following the plot of the episode very closely, I whipped up the following diagram with the help of MS Paint:

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Not content to let such a remarkably idiotic and engineering-specific sight gag go to waste, I decided I must find an appropriate domain to host such things. VeryProfessionalEngineer.com fit the bill perfectly. Unfortunately, when I went back to find a more appropriate web address for more serious matters, I found that most were taken. So here we are. We’ll see where this goes.