New! South Korean SF author Djuna's Not Yet Gods in a new English translation by Jihyun Park and me, coming soon (2026) from Kaya Press. Click here to visit the Kaya webpage for the book and order it from the publisher, or get it on Amazon (in the US) or at Aladin (in Korea)!
New! Further Strangeness: Twelve New Knights, Seers, and Myths for Mythic Bastionland is an unofficial and unlicensed supplement for Chris McDowall's wonderful new game, and my entry for the Mythic Bastionland Game Jam. Available for free over on my itch.io webpage.
New! Circe's Grin is a system-agnostic old-school RPG adventure, and my entry for the Appx. N 2025 game jam. Available for free (for now) on my itch.io webpage.
New from Knight Owl Publishing: Isle of Joy is a harrowing old-school adventure on a mysterious island full of secrets and stories. Order a copy on Knight Owl's website.
Something Tookish! is a Brindlewood Bay RPG hack for those who want to solve mundane, cozy mysteries in a halfling village. With art by Justin Howe! Get your copy on itch.io!
Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.
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I thought the point was something akin to one of those paragraphs where you have to count the “s”s or something, and so was entirely focused on the balls. But I still noticed the gorilla!
Yay, I usually never get things like that. Took me a few days to figure this one out for instance:
http://www.chessbase.com/puzzle/christmas2004/chr04-6a.htm
(Don’t worry, it’s not a chess puzzle)
Hee… how can you know what he was dreaming, let alone what he was dreaming at the precise moment at which he was pinched? :)
(It’s a viewpoint problem. I betcha any serious fiction writer would catch it immediately or almost immediately. We’re trained to catch ourselves doing it, is why.)
:) (Answer whited out, select if you are dying to know, as per James’ request I not spoil it.)
Hooray for change blindness! It took me two reads to get the story about the grandfather. Here’s one that I found a bit harder:
http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/ECS/kayakflick.gif
Gord, don’t spoil it for everyone! :)
James,
Good point. I fixed it.
Tristan,
That kayak image IS hard. Took me a couple of minutes of staring.
I noticed the gorilla, but I was certain I’d fail the quiz because the gorilla distracted me from counting the passes :) Your prompt to count the passes gave me an idea to prepare for a math quiz. And from what the article says about the positive relation of math to processing visual information perhaps that’s why I noticed the gorilla right off. Then again, I’m terrible at math. Fun quiz, the grandpa one too.
My brother-in-law sent me this link, it looks like you’ve discovered another viral meme…
Well, anything on Boing-Boing is almost guaranteed to be a meme. (Though when I was on Boing-Boing I didn’t become one. But I was just a name in a list that time.)
Man, I must be incredibly perceptive today or something. I caught the gorilla even as I was counting the passes. I also figured out James’ puzzle on the first read through. And the kayak gif took me about ten seconds, which was about how long it took me to figure out that I was supposed to be looking for a difference between the flashes.
I think I should take advantage of of this mental clarity and try to get some work done before my brain turns to mush again. :)
Yes, go do some work.
(I should note it took me a couple of minutes with the kayak image because I was staring at the clicking waiting for something to load so I would know what to try figure out. But even when I realized what was going on, it took me longer than it did you.)