The first item returned by a search on "couch" is ABC-00927226, which "features a rectangular form resembling a couch, characterized by a solid, box-like structure." In other words: it's a box.
HOWEVER: We KNOW it's a COUCH, because: "One side prominently displays the word "COUCH" vertically, rendered in a bold, modern font."
In three decades of surfing the web, I've never encountered more than a couple of those error messages. This set of pictures makes me wish I'd run into them more often.
The one I love is Microsoft's project manager, MS...
...wait for it...
...Project.
Was charged with managing a department-wide installation about fifteen years back, now. You want to have fun looking for relevant docs, try a search on "Microsoft Project". Good times!
I think the one exception to Microsoft's generic naming convention is Excel. Visio probably qualifies, too, but they bought that from someone else.
... might be considered rather self referential (especially if I have got my rather dodgy notation right). Note how I leave out several important definitions and leave them to your imagination. I will resort to hand-waving as required.
Hmmm: FIRST, THAT, DON'T, WHOLE, RIGHT. I speak en_GB you monster!
My original post was from work, and when I tried to find a reference, I was blocked from following any links! Think they recently instituted a policy...
So I finally do the lookup from home, and what do I find at the bottom of the first page, but a link to YOUR REPLY!
I first read about this back in the 1980s, in an issue of Science Digest. Couldn't find a link or reference on short notice, but here's something from the American Academy of Ophthalmology that explains the phenomenon, with an experiment to see the blood vessels in your eye:
Apparently, the brain tends to ignore visual stimuli that don't change over a short period of time, which allows you see "around" the blood vessels passing through the middle of your eye. By closing your eye, and moving a penlight around against your eyelid, you can make the vessels cast a shifting shadow on your retina that makes them visible.
The reason you usually see everything out in front of you is that various actions cause your eye to shift about just a little, just enough to cause the image on your retina to shift about enough for the brain to notice.
Starting from March also sets up a neat pattern that can be used to generate accurate month/day values from day-of-year numbers, IF you number them from zero. You can also go back the other way.
March through July follow a simple two-month cycle of 31 days, followed by 30, repeating at May and July. August breaks the cycle with 31 days, but it essentially restarts, and runs a second five months before it breaks again, at January (the 11th month, since we started from March). The third run obviously runs out after February, ending prematurely, but this doesn't really break the cycle, either. You just restart again with March!
This allows you to write some (relatively) simple conversions using just a few divisors, along with some conversions from 1-based to 0-based numbering, and back. 153 days every five months, 61 every two, and of course 31 for a single month. Divide the remainder from each prior division by the next divisor, and the final remainder is your (0-based) day of the month. The month itself (taking 0 = March) is then the sum of each quotient multiplied by the associated count of months.
More seriously, how DID you wind up with those call letters? Do applicants get some say in the selection, or is it just whatever they give you?