I don’t know if it’s just me, or if this happens to everyone, and I just happen to find myself slightly more interesting than other people do, but I was moving some stuff around in the kitchen today, and noticed that the bottle of TUMS would look like SMUT if it was mirror imaged, and tried to take a picture of it, but it didn’t work out (too fuzzy, and hey, that’d be a “Z” wouldn’t it?), but then I noticed the can of coffee right behind the Smutty Tums, and flipped it over:
and started looking at it. But, like, really looking at it. In that Close Encounters of the Third Kind “This Means Something” kinda way.
First I thought “Splempe”, and ran that around in my head a bit. Nothing. My techie-sense was tingling though, and I took a photo of the coffee can and later cropped it to this:
Does it mean anything? Nope.
Does dyslexia have it’s self-discovery upside? Not as such.
Am I getting a little stir-crazy, and likely to start my next post with “So I was interviewing my cat about the new baby in the house and…”
Perhaps.
Posted on October 10th 2005 in People
October 11th, 2005 at 9:58 am
See (see. Duh.) I saw that mp3 right away … I think Edwards is trying to send us a message that we should all go out and – not buy coffee – but buy one of those little things you can carry everywhere that plays music, and has pictures, and generally persuades us “we are not alooonnnneeee”.
I spend much of my life distracting myself by images that I know if I tried to explain them … someone really would clap the plastic cuffs on me and lead me away speaking verrrry gently …
October 11th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
You are fated to start a Shoutcast server called SPJE.mp3. .ogg is nice too.
October 12th, 2005 at 11:06 am
Maybe you shouldn’t publish this, it could make you rich…mp3 players on coffee cups anyone?
October 12th, 2005 at 11:13 pm
Or maybe the MP3 Juicebox player?
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000203045338/
October 14th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
Only an original thinker would wander his or her house, flipping over products and trying to see alternative messages in the mirror images. Either that or you were stinking drunk.
November 19th, 2006 at 12:30 am
[…] We’ve got programs that makes phones call other phones, taxidermied robotic owls, optical mice and turntables *do* mix, iPods minus the iTunes, awesome bluetooth iPod remote headphones that crack in half three weeks after you get ‘em, elderteapots and yell-controlled blenders (both in one post, too!), sites you don’t click on, network drive mapping problems (my MOST popular post ever, sadly), video/audio fragmentation performances, wicked-looking games that never actually get launched ever, me writing about DNS and Active Directory the way some blogs write about food, Google putting yoni in my bible pocket, going on an absolute TEAR regarding LG’s marketing video made in 2001, commenting on Boogaloo Shrimp (from Breakin’ and Breakin2 – Electric Boogaloo) and then having HIM SHOW UP in the comments on my very own blog, hassling the guy who put Princess Leia in the GoldBikini (it’s okay, I work with him), finding secret messages regarding a certain digital audio format in my can of Edwards coffee, our cat smuggling LEDs in her ocular cavities, guys playing a cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” while ruining a number of kitchen appliances, fighting with a whole bunch of people online over who gets to spell what with fridge letters, insane robofish, the Rohypnol version of “Who’s On First?”, carrying a midget around as a cryptographic tool, and who could forget “Why a deep focus in my temporal lobe makes me hate Kirk Cameron in specific, and religious zealots in general.” […]