Saw this optical illusion yesterday. and it is Really Freaky!!

Do we see what we think we see?

Do we have to see to believe?

The blocks “A” and “B” ARE the same shade, i checked!!

So, the advent of a new Douglas Coupland book is enough of an event to trigger a blog post!! I love his books. Girlfriend in a coma is the tops for me! I used his first book, Generation X, as the basis for an essay at bible college! To be honest the subtleties of that were missed somewhat by the lecturer!!

So maybe I’ll order a copy?!

There was a nice interview in the Guardian today: Douglas Coupland: The Writer Who Sees into The Future [In his new world, people don't do anything any more, but merely cut and paste from the past].

Here’s a good quote:

A friend asked him recently, if he had the choice would he go back to the 90s? He might as well have suggested returning to the middle ages; Coupland was horrified.

“No! Because I would miss the sense of frontier that we have right now. Soon it won’t be the internet any more, it’ll just be like air, like somehow they’ll integrate the internet into the air. And God’s name will have ended up being Google, because that’s the way it worked out.

“It could have worked out that God’s name ended up being Yahoo, of course,” he adds. “But they lost out.”

This is for those at the Christmas Dinner. Adrian mentioned about teh tradition of the Gavle goat in Gavle, Sweden. Since 1966 it has been the tradition to build a 5 metre high goat. and it has also been the tradition to try to burn it down, to the point point where they have webcam’s trained on it. You can read more about it here.

The question was whether it would it survive this year:

That’ll be a “No!”

With something that makes me chuckle of course…

[It's close to a cute photo, Adam]

From The Ongoing Adventure of ASBO Jesus

Coffee gives you
a legal shot of
energy when your
eyelids are feeling
down.
Coffee kills time
when you’re washed
ashore on the streets
of London.
(Coffee can even
help rainstorms
disappear.)
Coffee is something
to dangle your lips
in when conversation
is scarce.
Coffee is a good
place to take a
new friend.
(Coffee is an excuse
to stay half an hour
longer.)
Acquaintanceships end
on the doorstep but
friendships begin
with a coffee.
Coffee can be
appreciated by all
generations.
Coffee is multilingual,
multi-racial, liquid esperanto.
Yes.
There’s something quite
religious about coffee.

a poem by Steve Turner
others here