{"id":573893569,"date":"2021-09-22T21:48:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T01:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893569"},"modified":"2021-11-22T18:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:47:53","slug":"a-case-of-pareidolia-not-smooshed-flat-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/09\/22\/a-case-of-pareidolia-not-smooshed-flat-after-all-these-years\/","title":{"rendered":"A case of pareidolia not smooshed flat after all these years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I park in a parking deck on campus. It&#8217;s a block from the office. I like the walk, most of the time, because it&#8217;s almost enough to separate the parts of your day. (Plus it keeps my car out of the weather!) So you figure I&#8217;ve parked there almost every working day for five years. Which means I&#8217;ve made that walk more than 1,000 times, allowing for parking in other places and what not. <\/p>\n<p>Which means I&#8217;ve made that walk, back <em>and<\/em> forth more than 2,000 times or so. <\/p>\n<p>Which means I&#8217;ve walked by this speed bump that same number, whatever it is, and never noticed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept32.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But I saw that expression this evening and my immediate thought was, <em>Now here&#8217;s a speed bump that&#8217;s seen some things&#8230;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannercapers.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>The daily duds:<\/strong> Pictures of clothes I put here to, hopefully, help avoid embarrassing scheme repeats.<\/p>\n<p>Today it saw a classic pocket square. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept33.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all a part of my fall collection. I did not make that square. It came with a tie I bought years ago. Later this autumn I&#8217;ll wear the tie. <\/p>\n<p>Here are today&#8217;s bespoke cufflinks.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept34.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I made these last summer. The colors mean they&#8217;ll match a lot of shirts. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept21\/sept35.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of that sort of utility. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannercapers.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s TV productions &#8230; the news!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pnk9Q54Xyf0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And the pop culture!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2eplNpho-z0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tonight we were in the studio again, and it&#8217;s all about sports. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just a loaded, loaded, episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUSTVsports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iustvsports<\/a>\u2019 Hoosier Sports Nite with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaraAdams2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@karaadams2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ta_lao19?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ta_lao19<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Noah_Aeneas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Noah_Aeneas<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUSTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iustv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gzyX7MPpeK\">pic.twitter.com\/gzyX7MPpeK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1440821974125596676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This episode, which I&#8217;ll share here tomorrow, boasts of origins from Indiana to Thailand to Alabama. And, no, that part isn&#8217;t me. Noah, the third person in that gif, is from Montgomery. Studios may as well be home, and you always want to have a bit of home around you. But it&#8217;s even more fun to talk about the same towns and schools and restaurants and such with someone who grew up not far away from where you did.<\/p>\n<p>Someone has to tell all these midwesterners about good food, after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I park in a parking deck on campus. It&#8217;s a block from the office. I like the walk, most of the time, because it&#8217;s almost enough to separate the parts of your day. (Plus it keeps my car out of the weather!) So you figure I&#8217;ve parked there almost every working day for five years. 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