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14 December 2007

Bump. I am two weeks late posting this, but really wanted to show you guys and tell the story.[More:]

When I got around to loading this photo onto the computer, it was too dark to see. I couldn't remember why I took the picture, but that it was of cool. So I adjusted the light in the photo to get the image to show up.

Even though I knew it looked like a bird, I had no clue what it actually was. I spent a whole weekend playing with different filters, trying to get a clue to where the picture was taken or what it actually was.

Then it hit me:
I was wasted one night when we came home from the bar. I was eating tater tots with nacho cheese - the cheese being in a glass bowl. I was tanked, but aware enough to see the bird that had been made in cheese as I swiped the tots on the side of the bowl. The blue glow is from the computer monitor.

I wonder if I would have seen the bird if I had not been drunk.
I'm putting the original here so it's easier to compare back and forth, with the tracings below. (Don't look down-thread yet if you want to spot the bird yourself!)

≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by taz 14 December | 20:58
I wonder if I would have seen the bird if I had not been drunk.


Maybe that's why I'm not seeing it - I'm stone cold sober. Or, maybe I'm just not terribly observant. I could see it going either way, really.
posted by bmarkey 14 December | 21:27
Duuuuude. That's cool.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some birdwatching to do.
posted by CitrusFreak12 14 December | 22:07
I see the bird! It's just the face, right?
posted by jrossi4r 14 December | 22:46
Where?
posted by bmarkey 14 December | 22:50
A pelican, right?
posted by brujita 14 December | 23:07
I WANNA SEE THE BIRD!!!
posted by bmarkey 14 December | 23:14
I can actually see two birds.
posted by taz 15 December | 00:07
≡ Click to see image ≡

Maybe I should have specified that it was just a head, not a whole bird.
posted by youngergirl44 15 December | 00:15
Now I can die happy.
posted by bmarkey 15 December | 00:18
Woah, that's totally not the bird I saw in the cheese, but now that you point it out, that one is obvious.
posted by CitrusFreak12 15 December | 00:22
See? I told you - two! Here's the other one:

≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by taz 15 December | 00:26
I saw taz's bird, too.

Now what you need to do is turn this into an emblematic psychological test and cash in. Which bird do YOU see?

I did see it, but my honest-to-god first impression was, there's a bird here? Girlfriend, you was drunk.
posted by stilicho 15 December | 00:50
Uh oh. I just saw three more birds in my bathroom floor. How do you turn this thing off?
posted by taz 15 December | 00:53
This is the best nacho cheese bird thread ever. (I saw the taz bird.)
posted by typewriter 15 December | 01:13
I didn't know there were two birds hanging out in my cheese! Cool. I wonder what each bird says about the person who sees it.
posted by youngergirl44 15 December | 01:30
Thanks for the tracings, folks. I often look and look at these kinds of things, and the only recognizable things I ever see are Geronimo (and he's still mad), and sweet Jesus help me, virgins, merry.
posted by paulsc 15 December | 05:34
OOOH! i saw the second bird right away. cool.
posted by shane 15 December | 11:17
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