Find it and win a prize II.

2 posts in one day, but this really deserves its own separate entry. Some of you may already know this, but for those who don't, go to a past entry of mine - http://chrisredness.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-many-lectures.html - and highlight the whole text. Yes, you'll see an encrypted message.

Jo hadn't realised that the picture in front of his desk had been tainted with Hitler moustaches. For 10 days. And he found out yesterday because we gave up on him ever noticing by himself so we told him. But get this, we STILL had trouble making him realise even when we made it so obvious.

First we told him to sit at his desk. Then we asked him to check the time. So he looked at his wrist watch and we told him to ignore that. He looked at the clock on his desk. We told him to ignore that too. Then his mobile. He had to ignore that as well. Finally he had no choice but to check the time on his clock hanging on the wall. He looked at it for a second, looked back at us and shrugged.

We just stared in awe at him. We could have written a giant sign in red on his wall and he still wouldn't have noticed it. The thing is, it IS noticable. It's not like they were tiny dots or something. So we told him to focus on the picture, and I mean really focus, until he burst out laughing.

Sigh.