“Ever notice how when you enter a large grocery store,
Common items like bread & milk are right at the back,
And the journey there is Labyrinthine?
The layout is designed to confuse you,
So you become lost,
And end up impulse-buying items you don’t need.”
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) August 8, 2022
“Sorry. He helped me get out of a maze”
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— Wayno® (@Waynocartoons) July 23, 2022
“The Search for the Center explores the history and cultural significance of Mazes and Labyrinths around the world throughout time.
Examples range from 5000 BC and Greek mythology to current day religious and ceremonial uses in various cultures.”
“The infamous Pac-Man level 256 glitch.
The reason for the glitch is that the level counter in the original Pac-Man is stored as an 8-bit integer, meaning the highest value it can hold is 255.
The level counter starts with 0 internally, but for calculating the fruit counter it adds 1; however, because of overflow, adding 1 to 255 would result in 0, and the game tries to count fruits from 1, causing the game to attempt to draw 256 fruit to the screen until it overflows to 0.
The result is the garbled mess on the right side of the maze, because the screen memory starts with the bottom, followed by the columns from the right side.”
– Nick –
“Trying to leave a Masjid while others are praying”
Okay, I found that funny, as would any Muslim…
Youll never know a real maze until you are trying to leave the mosque while some people are still praying #thestruggle
— Amun Uppal (@amun824) August 3, 2013
Learning about The Pygmalion Effect and this paragraph caught my attention…
“Students were given rats from two groups, one described as “maze dull” and the other as “maze bright.”
Researchers claimed that the former group could not learn to properly negotiate a maze, but the latter could with ease.
As you might expect, the groups of rats were the same. Like the gifted and non-gifted children, they were chosen at random.
Yet by the time the study finished, the “maze-bright” rats appeared to have learned faster.
The students considered them tamer and more pleasant to work with than the “maze-dull” rats.”
Saving it here as I expect to refer to this in the future.
The article concludes:
“The Pygmalion effect is a powerful secret weapon.
Who wouldn’t want to help their children get smarter, help employees and leaders be more competent, and generally push others to do well?
That’s possible if we raise our standards and see others in the best possible light.
It is not necessary to actively attempt to intervene.
Without even realizing it, we can nudge others towards success.
If that sounds too good to be true, remember that the effect holds up for everything from rats to CEOs.”
“When I was a kid (4th or 5th grade), I loved drawing mazes.
I took a small notebook of them to school and a classmate offered to pay me a nickel for one.
He showed his friend, who also wanted one.
I got another nickel.
Word spread, orders flowed, and my pencil scribbled more mazes.
To expand the business, I teamed up with a girl who advertised and took orders at recess while I drew more.
We learned that we could charge a quarter if I drew them on larger paper.
We hired another student to draw more mazes at the same time as me so my backpack wouldn’t run out of stock.
During school lessons, I would peek inside my desk and admire the stack of nickels and quarters that was growing next to my erasers.
Then our teacher overheard us discussing our business strategy on the way back from recess one day and he shut us down.
Potential multi-million-dollar maze factory, dead.
He told us that school was not for selling things.
Then he handed us an order form for the yearly bologna, cheese, and popcorn fundraiser and told us to take our seats.
(True story, but with a slightly heightened ending.)”
“Supposedly back in the Viking days there were many of these rock mazes by sea shores to trap evil spirits.
Here’s how they worked:
A Viking slowly walked in the maze.
His evil spirit followed him in.
The Viking then started speeding up and running and eventually ran out of the maze.
Because bad spirits didn’t move as fast, they were trapped in the maze.
The Viking is then ready to go to sea spirit-free.”
Labyrinth Making Still in Progress . . .
Found this Cartoon in The New Yorker.
While exploring Montréal, my Sister-in-Law Instagrammed this wonderful example of Giant Outstallation Art.
Due to time constraints, my Brother and his Wife weren’t able to walk it.
Almost makes me want to hop onto ViaRail to visit Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal just to experience it…
OR
I just find a street here in Toronto, make one, and save everyone the trip.
We had heard rumors.
Walking outside of Christie station on the TTC, we look down… suddenly we see it… artfully laid out on the ground… The labyrinth.
No, this has absolutely nothing to do with David Bowie.