Bread and Butter for a Smile: cupcakes

I like cupcakes. They are almost as good to look at as to eat, and looking at pictures of cupcakes is almost as good as looking at cupcakes:

$\lambda_1 \lambda_2 [\text{Eating cupcakes}] < \lambda_2 [\text{Looking at cupcakes}] < [\text{Looking at pictures of cupcakes}]$

where I'd approximate

$\lambda_1 = .5,\quad \lambda_2 = .75$

(Note that the goodness of eating cupcakes is slightly decreased by the way they make my stomach feel post-eating ... I ate a cupcake for breakfast ...) So, this blog post is not completely worthless; by my calculation it is at least .375 times as good as eating a cupcake. Yum.

Photos from the "Cupcakes Galore" photo set by the Bleeding Heart Bakery on Flickr: