Mission Impossible

Give it up, haters. Your epidermis is showing and it's not very pretty. Your efforts are not working, and it's only making you look worse than you already do.

Okay, with that out of the way, today's our office Christmas party. We're closing down early and having our yearly gift exchange and traditional lunch bought by one of our PA's. It's always a fun time. We also have a raffle of little treats and gifts. I'm looking forward to it.

I'm also looking forward to my four day weekend. We'll have a big turkey dinner Sunday night and James will be here, too. We're planning on seeing Rogue One on Saturday with Joe in the new theater, so that'll be fun.

I got a book the other day--the declassified CIA manual on deception and trickery. It was very useful, and no, not to help me deceive others, but about how the treasure hunt is set up. The manual was written by a magician in the 1950's and focuses a lot on misdirection. Direct someone's eyes in one direction so they miss the important thing (like the passing of information from one person to another in the case of the CIA) in the other direction.

I think FF does this often. He's not misleading us. He's misdirecting us, purposely, to see if we can spot his "sleight of hand." He's using words and photographs and drawings to misdirect us to things he knows we'll perceive as important, resulting in us missing the actual important information hidden in plain site where we aren't looking. Remember when he said no one is looking AT the right spot? It's because our perception is skewed, and his special, "secret where" is in the opposite direction of where we're looking. Maybe slightly offset to the right. Lol.

He says the aberrations live on the edges, right? In a photo or drawing, usually the eye is drawn to a certain object, usually the subject of the photo. Like the picture of Skippy with the dark background of trees. Our eyes are drawn to the center, the subject of the photo--Skippy. But what about the edges? Could there be useful information there?

And remember that bit of advice he gave on Jenny's site? "Autobiographers always lean toward the subject." Same thing with our eyes--they lean toward the subject, potentially missing important information on the fringes.

Anyway, time to get going! Happy Tuesday!