A perceptual illusion I hadn't seen before

Mr. Angry and Mrs. Calm. Which is which? How far away are you standing?

And how'd they do it? Mr. Rowland doesn't understand how it works, but I think I do: from close-up, your eye and brain's feature detectors are mostly registering high-frequency information in the picture; from far away you can't see that at all so you use the low frequencies instead. So you can make an ambiguous image like this just by superimposing images made with different Photoshop filters.

The page it came from has another one with Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, in which they pull a trick with the background to make it work better (to compensate for Thatcher's bigger hair).

Watch repair

I got a free battery replacement in my old watch today, because after putting the battery in, they gave my watch to the wrong guy and had to call him up to get him to come back and exchange it for his similar-looking one.

Fortunately they had his cell number (I think he'd dropped his off for more extensive repairs). He was at somebody's wedding when they called. When I got mine back, the repair guy said "He said thanks for giving him an excuse to get out of the wedding."

I'm glad our wedding had volleyball and horseshoes.