It’s All In How You Look At It
>office furniture in Bulgariasure that you’ve probably seen those images that different people see different ways. Some people see the image of a vase, and others see the faces of two people looking at each other. There are some cases where people can’t see the other image at all.
For the last few months one of the other companies that share the building I work in has had a poster hanging from the cafeteria door. This poster is for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. It is a large poster that covers the upper half of the door. Most of the poster is devoted to some images of the kids you could help out by donating, along with a description of their wish. Along the bottom is a strip of space devoted to tracking the total donations to date. You simply color in the bar graph as the donations climb. This area isn’t just white space, or graduated with percentages of the goal. There is an image there, and it’s not just one image, it’s a pattern of the same image repeated along the length of the area.
As I said, this has been hanging for months. The whole time I have been wondering, “Why would they have a poorly drawn outline of Idaho on that poster?” I just couldn’t figure it out - until today.
Today was the day that I walked past the poster, and like the vase and faces image, the true nature of the appearance of the bad outline of Idaho revealed itself to me. It’s not the state of Idaho, because you are not supposed to be looking at the black area of the image.
The white area of the image is the profile of a face.
Lesson of the day - try to look at something you see everyday in a different way, you might be surprised.
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How To Remove A Stubborn Lug Nut
If you’re trying to remove a stubborn lug nut, maybe your shotgun will get it loose. At least that is what the man in this article thought.
Most reasonable people would not even think to use a shotgun to remove a seized bolt of any kind. Maybe he saw the episode of The Simpsons where Homer was using a gun for all sorts of houshold tasks.
I thought it would be fun to make a list of things you can do with a gun, so you can replace many items with just one useful tool. Some of these you probably already know about, some no so much.
So, here it is, my top 11 list of useful things you didn’t know you could do with a gun:
- Open another beer - I say “another” because it’s likely that you have already had a few.
- Paper punch, just make sure that if you are punching holes for use in a 3-ring binder you space them properly.
- Tire removal, as described in the article.
- Releasing air from a tire.
- Celebrating, just like they did in the old west, or at least in movies about the old west.
- Signaling the start of a race.
- Adding ventilation to the soffit of a house.
- Fixing a leaky faucet.
- Aerating your lawn. There is a potential safety issue here - make sure you have your utility lines marked before you do this. A shotgun with large pellet size would probably work best.
- Harvesting apples.
- Getting a cat out of a tree.
I feel it is my responsibility in this world where people don’t know that coffee is hot before they pour it into their laps that I am not responsible for anything you do with this list. Actually, it’s probably best if you don’t read it at all.
If you have any uses for guns, other than their intended purpose, share and enjoy!
Best. Commercial. Ever.
Personally, I think this is one of the funniest commercials that I have seen.
Enjoy.
