*Since, if you choose to abide by the rules, you must announce your loss, would you mind doing so by sending the message "I just lost" to heidi@losethegame.com? I'm involved in their email Lose the Game Challenge.
Sometimes I am glad there are people who have more time than I do!
(If you can't see high quality click here and click on "watch in high quality" in the lower right.)
By putting up a new post, I lost my favorite picture off of the bottom of this page: "I'm Telling You It's Not Straight!" by Seb Przd. (Click on the title to see it.) I love this artist's work, so I tried to create some like his. For my first attempt I chose to work with a picture of Cancun. Having been there, I figure if anything is going to be the center of the world, it should be. This technique is trickier than I had thought. If you'd like to see some really good examples, go to this link to see more of Seb Przd's excellent work. Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs. Jsut kdindg. Msot popele can raed tihs wtih no porlebm. Gvien the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a reesarcehr at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?!So why do we spend so much time teaching spelling?
PS Thanks for the link, Delrae! :-)
I found this while exploring mathpuzzle.com. It was created by Seb Przd. More of his work can be found at this flickr site. His work is quite Escheresque, and I like what I term the "small world" images as well. (They are actually called stereographic projections, and well worth checking out!)
Either the students in this school are phenomenal geniuses at physics or the person in charge of putting statements on this sign is phenomenally inept with punctuation. - image taken from "Say What?!: Curious Signs I Have Known"
Given my love of all things British and my detestation of all things political, I am posting a shortened version of an email I received today that brought a smile to my face.
The United States is getting repossessed.
A Message from John Cleese
To the citizens of the United States of America:
In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).
Your new prime minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Colony, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
01. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
02. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
03. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix "-ize" will be replaced by the suffix "-ise".
04. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (Look up 'vocabulary'). Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
05. You will relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen".
06. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
07. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
08. You will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
09. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
10. An official from Her Majesty's Inland Revenue (i.e. tax collector) will be with you shortly to ensure the collection of all monies due (backdated to 1776). Until these are paid, there will be no representative government in the USA, in line with the policy: "No representation without taxation".
11. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups and saucers (never mugs), and with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; strawberries in season.
12. Some tea has gone missing, and we expect it back. We'll be searching Boston first.
God save the Queen.
John Cleese
What special property does the following sentence have?"I prefer pi."To visit a site dedicated to Pi Day, click here.
I'm just REALLY hoping that the engineers who design the vehicles are much better at geometry than KIA's marketing staff that designs the advertising!
