Toothpaste for Dinner
toothpastefordinner.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Toothpaste for Dinner is a webcomic by Drew, with irreverent, often absurdist single-panel jokes about technology and daily life.
What HN saysHN commenters link individual strips they like, and one compares the comic's prolific output to The Far Side, though not always sensible.
16HN people shared it
12linked it in comments
4stories submitted
6story points
8 months agolast shared
2008people per year2026
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What HN people wrote when they linked it
highstep · 2020-07-27
Toothpaste For Dinner feels like he's carrying the farside torch. prolific, albiet sometimes at the expense of sensibility http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/
Tossrock · 2017-04-30
A webcomic called Toothpaste For Dinner has my favorite take on this idea: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index.php?date=051810
psawaya · 2010-02-01
Another great one:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/031208/how-many-digits-of-pi-do-you…
klyrs · 2020-06-29
You should ask Drew.
http://toothpastefordinner.com/
Lammy · 2026-03-05
I imagine some sort of intersection between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibitionism and https://toothpastefordinner.com/051810
rahimnathwani · 2020-07-07
I expected this to be a flow chart like this:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index.php?date=020605
gav · 2020-05-02
Similarly, "The Creative Process":
http://toothpastefordinner.com/103012
vanzorn · 2018-10-17
A few years ago I came across a comic[0] that stated "Serotonin and Dopamine are technically the only two things that you enjoy," which had an surprising impact on the way I look at happiness. I'm still processing the idea that on a fundamental level, joy is just a chemical response.
Long story short, I'm trying to focus on fulfillment, scaling the Maslow pyramid[1], and accept that happiness may or may not be a byproduct.
Money seems almost always necessary for the journey, but I have no idea if it gets you past the first few levels of the hierarchy of needs. Direct observation shows me that it can help a person acquire the trappings of all five, but I'm not convinced about the authenticity of self-actualization or esteem based on materialism.
[0] http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index.php?date=013111
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
ksrm · 2013-09-28
fixed your link: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index-mobile.php?date=062513
cgag · 2013-09-28
This sums it up well for me: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index-mobile.php?date=06251
mvid · 2009-04-15
reminds me of an old rule of thumb:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/031208/how-many-digits-of-pi-do-you…