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This illusion was discovered by University of California psychologist Diana Deutsch. Listen first with the left and right channels in balance, then isolate each ear. Though the pattern in each channel jumps around in pitch, when they’re combined we tend to hear two smooth scales. Why?

“It is as though the sounds gravitate towards neighbours, where ‘neighbourhood’ is defined not by the physical proximity of the causative events, but by adjacent places on the pitch spectrum,” writes philosopher Roger Scruton. “Yet the sequences as heard are played into neither ear, and represent no causally unified process in the physical world. The auditory Gestalt is not merely incongruous with the physical events that produce it. It is organized according to principles that are intrinsic to the world of sounds, and which would be operative even if there were no physical events that could be identified as the causes of the individual sounds.”

(Roger Scruton, “Thoughts on Rhythm,” in Kathleen Stock, ed., Philosophers on Music, 2007.)

oakiee:

“Kimiko Nishimoto learned how to use a camera for the first time at the age of 71 and even furthered her skills by taking courses on digital editing to manipulate her images. While she mostly focuses on still life and nature photography, she has a series of hilarious self-portraits involving random costumes and staged falls.” (x)

Hovertext: The key to a solid relationship is winning all the time.

it’s on my diploma and everything. my towels are monogrammed I-F-K

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Hovertext: This is the appropriate response to any form of nostalgia.

Hovertext: I just spent 10 minutes trying to come up with a 'beat the market' pun, and I give up.

 Hey Australia! We are bringing BAHFest to Sydney, and we need your proposals!

Hovertext: Life rule: Never do anything you've done more than 3 times already.

Hovertext: I mean, wouldn't that just be downright terrifying?

Perfect.

Client: I have attached the copy for you all in caps.

Me: Just to clarify, do you want it to be published in all caps?

Client: No, I’d like them all in normal casing please.

Me: You do realise you’ve actually made it more difficult for me to input the content, right? I have to change it back now.

Client: Oh really? I didn’t know that.

Hovertext: Oh, and thank you for birthing me into a period of human history in which natural selection is really really forgiving.

Hovertext: People on the left and right have never been so CUT.

oh hell yeah

Hovertext: Someday, alien intelligences will come and wonder why we thought hoarders were the crazy ones.

It's SO like Unit X2673 to close his eyes in his ID photo. Classic X2673.

Hovertext: SMBC continues in its quest to make jokes that nobody could possibly enjoy.

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optimist-priime:

Black Panther did to Civil War what Nicki Minaj did to Monster. 

So let me get this straight, wait I’M THE ROOKIE?

WHEN MY FUCKING NET WORTH 3000 TIMES YA PAY

Five pic deal for the decade NO MOVIE OUT

My money so tall that my Panther gotta climb it.

Hotter than a Wakandan climate, find it

The name T'Challa on ha titties when I sign it

All these white folks so one track minded!

No really, really, I don’t give a F U C K
Forget Steve, fuck Tony- he’s fake
I’m eatin jollof rice but my pockets eatin cheesecake!

@arthausbeta. I AM SCREAMING

In introducing the puzzle-loving logician Raymond Smullyan, the chairman of a meeting praised him as unique.

“I’m sorry to interrupt you, sir,” said Smullyan, “but I happen to be the only one in the entire universe who is not unique.”

In his early handwritten notes for Dracula, Bram Stoker considered giving the vampire these attributes:

• can banish good thoughts, create evil thoughts and destroy will
• is affected only by relics that are older than he is
• cannot be painted, any portrait looks like someone else
• cannot be photographed, photographs come out black or like a skeleton corpse
• insensitive to music
• cannot cross thresholds without assistance, stumbles on threshold
• can determine and prove if people are sane
• leeches are attracted to him, then repulsed
• can pick out murderers
• despises death and the dead
• can tell if bodies are dead or alive

Jonathan Harker’s stay at Castle Dracula was originally to include “an encounter with a ‘wehr wolf’,” and at the London zoological gardens “Dracula enrages eagles and lions but intimidates wolves and hyenas.”

The notes also shed some light on a puzzle I’d mentioned earlier: Why does Dracula choose England in the first place? Stoker’s notes include the phrase “English law directory sortes Virgilianae central place marked with point of knife.” Sortes Virgilianae is Latin for Virgilian lots, a form of divination in which advice or predictions are sought by interpreting passages from Virgil. In Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula, Robert Eighteen-Bisang writes, “Did Dracula choose his law firm by a stabbing a knife into a law directory, or decide on the location of his new home by thrusting a knife into a map? The vampire’s use of divination is in keeping with the supposition that he is a sorcerer.” None of this made it into the final novel, but it might still be the explanation that Stoker had in mind.

A client wanted a “website that will act like a resume,” but provided no guidance except that it should be “like LinkedIn and Facebook.” I pulled everything job related from the sites, including addresses and emails. I repeatedly asked her for pictures but she wouldn’t supply them. I had to use low res pictures from Facebook as placeholders. She also would not provide samples of websites that she wants it to be modeled off of.

Client: Ew, those are ugly. I don’t like this. I don’t like the colors.

Me: Okay, well send me pictures that you do like. What color scheme do you want?

Client: Something classy, like black and red. And change the font to Times New Roman.

I make all the adjustments and show her the product. Once again, she’s unhappy. We add and then remove a built-in slideshow, insert and remove pictures, write, rewrite, then later scrap bios. She doesn’t like anything.

Me: Is there some kind of website that you saw and liked that had this same layout.

Client: Yeah, do something like Angelina Jolie’s website.

After scouring the internet for Angelina Jolie’s website and only coming up with her IMDB page.

Me: I’m afraid I can’t find Angelina Jolie’s website, can you send me a link?

Client: Oh, I’ve never seen it. I just thought she would have a website. Never mind then.

fact: u r smarter than stephen hawking

I just want to see some good clean hustle and remember… have fun out there.

“he’s right though; his ego was utterly unassailable.”

New Movies with Mikey

Mikey returns with a new MwM, taking on Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005).