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Here is an interesting example of the concept of an “after image.” Your eyes have a “refresh rate” that sometimes leaves behind after images. The after-image color is always the complementary color of the original color. We spent a few days playing around with this concept in my color theory class my freshman year. Here is one of the more interesting demonstrations of this concept that I have seen.

Focus on the center “+”. In your periphery vision, you will notice that a green dot appears whenever the pink dot disappears. Now, keep focusing on that center “+” and eventually all of the pink dots disappear and you see a green dot circling around.

If you move your focus back to the dots, you will realize that this was just an illusion - the pink dots are all still there (Except for the rotating “lack of pink dot”).

[Via Outrageous Ebay Auctions (even though it has nothing to do with eBay)]

Although she’s not quite showing yet, Aubrey is pregnant. We’ve known this for a little while but were waiting until we went to an actual doctor to confirm it. (Also, I hear you are supposed to wait to tell people until after the first Trimester.) Whatever the case, she should be having her baby in the beginning of June - roughly around June 13th. If you want to start a betting pool on the exact day, that’s fine - just be sure to cut us in for half of it
Although we don’t know the gender yet - I’ve started stocking up on old socks and things I can stich together into little baby “hobo suits” for him/her. (Kids clothes are expensive these days!).
If our baby is the opposite gender of either Paul & Larissa Cuff’s recent child or Pace and Joy’s soon-to-be-born baby I’ll go ahead and propose an arranged marriage now.

I’m going to Chicago to interview with Sears for a position in their Management Trainee program tomorrow. I guess their interviews are pretty thorough, because I’m checking out of the hotel at 6:30 AM and then interviewing from 7:00AM to 4:10 PM. I will be flying back tomorrow night.
I’ve not been posting much information about my job hunt online, but since this one will prevent me from posting to my blog for a while I figured I would explain it to you.

Here are interseting tidbits about Sears for you. They have 873 full-line stores, each averaging 91,000 square feet. They average $200+ per square foot in sales. (You do the math). They had offices in the Sears tower until 1995 when they completed their move over to a new office complex in Hoffman Estates, IL - close to Chicago.
Sears.com