This one requires that you answer in the comments, so don't be shy! Here's the quiz: define the words “biannually” and “bimonthly”. No cheating by looking it up! Answer based on your current knowledge only.
Category: Language
This optical illusion, if it can be called that, is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. Stare at the center, don't move your eyes, and don't blink. It's like magic! Even the name—motion induced blindness—is cool.
Bonus points if you can get all three dots to vanish—I've done it once, so I know it's possible.
Category: Random
On Tuesday I experienced my first earthquake—I slept through the one the week before, and I didn't notice the one or two small ones I've technically been through in Oregon. It was strange, because I mostly heard it, rather than felt it, so I was sitting there trying to figure out what someone could be rolling around above my office that would make so much noise... it sounded like a truck. So that was kind of fun, alough I'm glad I was 120 miles or so away, since I don't think being right on a 6.0 would be so much fun.
Then, to round out my California experience, Cupertino had a power outage on Friday (although to be fair it wasn't a true California blackout, but instead the more pedestrian someone-screwed-up-a-transformer kind of outage that was all too common back in Cleveland Heights). It was a new experience in that it was my first power outage while in a building with fire doors that all close automatically when the power goes out. Having all the lights go out then hearing doors slamming shut all around me gave me a momentary feeling of being in a supernatural horror movie.
So having had both an earthquake and a power outage in the same week, I think I can really start to feel like a true Californian. If I'd been more on the ball, I could have gone surfing this weekend and rounded out the experience.
Category: Life