Bored at work

This is a stupid day to be at work. No one is calling, no one is emailing and most people who are actually around have left early.

It's even worse than yesterday. The only reason people are walking around outdoors at all is to sort out returning unwanted or broken gifts to stores...

So with all this in mind, I decided to wake my team up by teaching them what magic eye pictures are. None of them know! Well okay, a couple had heard of them but they thought the concept was some kind of joke or prank and refused to believe the pictures were real.

I have tried and sadly failed to convince them otherwise. Reactions have ranged from amused to angry. I have used every trick I know to try and convert their naive eyeballs so they can actually view the pictures properly but the best result I had was someone thinking that the images were somehow "hidden" in the patterns on the pictures (as in, really really small hidden in the gaps between dots...).

Sigh. Now I feel like a freak because apparently I am the only one who can see the things in these pictures. My entire team at work are impaired in some way. Now they have gone home in disgust and I am still here being even more bored. I am going to set new performance objectives next year forcing everyone who works for me to learn how to see magic eye pics.

Anyway, happy new year to all the Champ peeps!


p.s. It's really fun when you force yourself to see the magic eye pictures in "reverse", by staring intently at something in front of them. They become floating objects that you can move real objects through.

It's a schooner

Thank you, Champion.

I always cross my eyes then slowly uncross them and find I can see the pictures.

EDIT: for those of you who can't get it, look at the red marks at the top of the pic, cross your eyes until the marks line up together(which actually will make the 2 marks look like three). Then look down at the picture itself.



It's a bird!

I'm having to wait until our stores close today. I'm trying to talk the owner to let them close now, but 10:30am pst is too early for him. He was thinking that maybe around 4pm pst or so. That means I don't get out until about 8pm pst. I have to close the books once the day is done and download the databases and crude so it always takes me longer at monthend to leave.

I love those magic eyes. I purchased the first one that ever came out back about 20 years ago. I had everyone looking at it. Some could get it others couldn't. I had one friend, who at that time, I did not know she had a glass eye. I kept trying to tell her to relax her eyes and look into the picture. She popped out the glass insert and held it up closer to the picture, "Is that what you mean?" I was so freaked out. We laugh about it still to this day.

Thanks for the good memories. I need them today.

Happy new year again peeps, it is 2010 for me

I can see the birdy. I like the really advanced magic eye pictures where they are animated and you can see a fish swim or bird fly. Those are kewl.

Sadly people with a glass eye can't see them but they can see "wiggly 3D" gif pictures which are almost true 3D. Those are nice too