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Razgovory

#13335
January 25, 2012, 08:20:43 AM
Quote from: Josephus on January 25, 2012, 08:13:13 AM
Yeah, that's freaky


I'm not seeing it move.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

syk

#13336
January 25, 2012, 08:21:45 AM

Razgovory

#13337
January 25, 2012, 08:23:22 AM
No.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Brain

#13338
January 25, 2012, 09:22:35 AM
People are morans.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Josephus

#13339
January 25, 2012, 09:30:04 AM
So those of you graphically inclined...what is causing that illusion?
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Razgovory

#13340
January 25, 2012, 09:31:26 AM
Quote from: Josephus on January 25, 2012, 09:30:04 AM
So those of you graphically inclined...what is causing that illusion?

Probably a computer screen.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

#13341
January 25, 2012, 10:43:28 AM
Quote from: Josephus on January 25, 2012, 09:30:04 AM
So those of you graphically inclined...what is causing that illusion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_motion
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Syt

#13342
January 25, 2012, 12:35:56 PM
We had a dinner with two colleagues from UK yesterday evening at http://www.plachutta.at/index.php?id=95&L=1

One of them (my manager's manager), a rather heavy-set traditional (yet funny) type shared anecdotes. One of them nearly made me facepalm.

As said, he's rather traditional/conservative. A few years ago he received from his family (wife + 3 kids) a cardboard cutout of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for x-mas. He didn't explain the circumstances and I'm not sure anyone of us wanted to know.

Anyways, he went on to explain since it kept being in the way in his home, he decided to take it to the office - he's a senior accounting/finance guy. At which point I thought, "Who would be SO STUPID?" His then colleague (now supervisor) suggested that he take a picture of said conservative person with Buffy. The picture naturally went viral in the UK office and caused a lot of embarassment.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Razgovory

#13343
January 25, 2012, 02:39:08 PM
Quote from: garbon on January 25, 2012, 10:43:28 AM
Quote from: Josephus on January 25, 2012, 09:30:04 AM
So those of you graphically inclined...what is causing that illusion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_motion

Nope.  I could never see those magic eye things either. :(
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Josephus

#13344
January 25, 2012, 02:41:03 PM
I can't see the magic eye things either, but I can see this one.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Razgovory

#13345
January 25, 2012, 02:50:45 PM
Sometimes I see things that aren't there.  So it all balances out I suppose.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Razgovory

#13346
January 25, 2012, 02:51:18 PM
Is it illegal to put the brakes lights on the front of your car and the headlights on the back?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Capetan Mihali

#13347
January 25, 2012, 02:52:46 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 25, 2012, 02:51:18 PM
Is it illegal to put the brakes lights on the front of your car and the headlights on the back?

Not if you only drive in reverse on public highways.
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Barrister

#13348
January 25, 2012, 02:56:12 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 25, 2012, 02:51:18 PM
Is it illegal to put the brakes lights on the front of your car and the headlights on the back?

The boring answer is yes, because it is illegal to alter the original lighting your car came with.
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Lettow77

#13349
January 25, 2012, 02:59:07 PM
 http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/01/art-of-japanese-manhole.html
Someone might enjoy this- an unusual and pleasant example of Japan's efforts to make art out of everyday, mundane things.

My favourite from the gallery:
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'
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