Samuel Smiles

Finished reading the books by Samuel Smiles: "Character" and "Self-Help", currently half way through "Thrift".

Seems very little has changed in industrial society, we get good times and otherwise avoid tackling the under lying problems within society which make the bad times the worst of times: namely that individuals squander and waste their own resources and try to live beyond their means.

It seems that which was starting to emerge during the 1800's if not before, has simply grown and, magnified, with the emergence of ever increasing forms of credit. Plus we have some push away from savings, as saving ties money up and so potentially shuts business down.

Its a problem: how to keep the economy going, and consider each individual as contributing fairly to society, but with out driving unwarranted consumption of material resources?

Visual Perception

Casual Fridays: TK-421, why can't you spin that woman in reverse?

Simple answer, she is not rotating, its a 2D image. One of her legs is sticking out and moves from one side of the screen to the other. The leg sticking out can be either the left of right leg: take your pick. The leg either moves from the left to the right of the screen, or vice versa.

You can either have perception of the woman rotating clockwise, anti-clockwise, or simply moving her leg from left to right never completing a full turn.

I believe its a matter of timing. Take your finger point at the foot and drag from one side to the other: that is use your finger to spin her clockwise, anti-clockwise, or back and forth.