Evening Fun

This is a fun brain exerciser and it requires a little blog honor. This is a visual test to see how perceptive you are. The exercise requires you to view the following video and count how many times the players in the white shirts pass the ball back and forth. That's it. But if you view the video more than once, you will not get a true gauge of your perception.

Here is the link to the video, java is required:

http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html

Blog honor should kick in right about now. How many times did the white shirts pass the ball back and forth?

Now watch the video again and this time do not count the balls being passed back and forth, just look at the video.

Did you have surprising results?

It's called inattentional blindness and you can read more about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness

That's pretty cool!

Saturday Afternoon Question

What would you do in this gas gauging price age, if you pulled up to a gas pump and the owner had obviously made a mistake on the price?Instead of cracking your head for $3.32 a gallon, they set the price for $0.33. Would you pump anyway and call your relatives and friends so they can fill their tanks up too? I mean really! The oil companies have been getting us for years! Or would you pass this opportunity up thinking that your integrity is more important then saving a few dollars? What would you really do? Check out this story:
http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/odd/2007/12/07/ODD.33.Cent.Gas/
Hmm since we are actually talking about honesty, let me be honest here. If the kids weren't with me, I would probably pump my gas anyway. If I had to make a decision like that in front of the kids, I'd do what I knew in my heart was the right thing and bite my lip all the way home. Just being honest!

Nevaeh Richardson - Heaven Spelled Backwards

There was a little baby girl born sometime around the 26th of November named Nevaeh Richardson. Unfortunately, she was born into a family where at least one of the parents is a psychopath. She was sexually assaulted and murdered and her 21 year old father, Christopher Richardson, has been charged with her rape and murder. She was 8 days old! WHY?
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/14759394/detail.html?rss=det&taf=det
Nevaeh, You will only know pure love now. I am so sorry that you had to face pure evil while you were here.

Sean Taylor

I feel bad for the family of Sean Taylor and give my sincere condolences and prayers. I have a relative that works for the Redskins and know that Sean was well liked and the entire organization is finding it hard to accept his death . But this is a question that falls in the I'm Just Asking category. Should we, as a society, hold our sports figures up as heroes? Is this one of the ways that we fail our children? I don't have a clear cut answer. Sean's death is indeed tragic, a young man who had found his niche in life with a young daughter who will never know the love of her father. But was Sean a national hero? Should his funeral have been televised on network TV? I'm just asking.......