Comments on: Predatoreidolia

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:52:09 +0000

Ah yes. I remember Baal the Magnificent, where women were payed a few coppers to offer up their new born FEMALE offspring to propitiate the god. It was the only birth control technique they had that actually worked(well, there WAS the Greek method).

Ah, the exigencies of ruling a vibrant, growing city-state. Will religion(and its adherents) never cease to amaze? or, for that matter, our ability to fool ourselves,,,

GAry 7

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:53:11 +0000

Look out they may have an alien hive some were in the house the predators bread the aliens for hunting its a right of passage thing also look out for the wrist nuke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Bill Roberts

Bill Roberts — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:09:23 +0000

That’s one ugly mudda$%#$%.

By: Strangel

Strangel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:08:20 +0000

The little girl and her dad are creepier looking….

By: Mathamatical Mystery

Mathamatical Mystery — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:56:51 +0000

Looks like Frank to me as well!

By: Reader5000

Reader5000 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:22:32 +0000

Oh, come on. Isn’t it obvious? It’s Frank from “Donnie Darko”!

By: Crudely Wrott

Crudely Wrott — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:16:11 +0000

It should go without saying that it’s not just wood that works this way. If you can halve it and keep the two halves oriented around one hinge side the same effect is evident. Large pieces of Crazy Lace Agate work very nicely. Very.

Book matching is even more common; open a loaf of bread and remove two adjoining slices. Compare their adjoining faces. They are near mirror images, no? Then how come we never see two mirror images of Jesus on the Toast?! That’s might suspicious right there, innit?

By: Crudely Wrott

Crudely Wrott — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:03:57 +0000

The able duo Beryl and Mark beat me to it but, yes, this is book matched veneer and it’s a common and wonderful way to exploit the beauty of wood.

Take a wide board and cut it edge to edge across it’s thinnest section. Along the grain, of course. Open the board like you would open a book. Sand, polish, apply finish and presto! Stunning Graphics ™ with amazing symmetry!

Ok, not perfect because the cutting and sanding and all remove some of the wood that used to be between the final two surfaces but what is not perfect to the eye is conveniently, if misleadingly, made to appear so in the brain.

Also, when you first slice that wood open and look at it you are the only one in the entire universe that knows what it looks like. Makes me chuckle every time I do it. Small things bring great pleasure.

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:11:42 +0000

Bill, I would go with the simple explanation. The image looks like it is of the center line of the door which is where you’d expect to see the division in the laminate. The reason they haven’t seen it before? Well, I think Phil covered the most likely reason. That, or it wasn’t “convenient” to notice it before then.
I think the family is safe though – at least until they start noticing a group of three red dots…

By: Beryl

Beryl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:39:21 +0000

Bill, “book-matching” veneer on doors and panels is common. This is done precisely to create symmetry in the grain. I was looking for the seam at the axis of symmetry, but the resolution isn’t high enough.