I was laying in bed last night trying to go to sleep, when I noticed a pulsing light shining on the wall directly in front of me in the shape of a trapezoid on top of a triangle. It was huge. Straight ahead. And oddly familiar looking….
The source wasn’t a mystery. I listen to talk radio podcasts while laying in bed and when I feel the decent into slumber coming on I close the lid on my Macbook Pro, sending the laptop into sleep mode. While sleeping though, the light on the front of the lid shines a very bright light that fades and blasts non stop. I have no idea why this is a cool feature for a computer, or one that can’t be turned off, but it’s there and on most computers now. My last laptop was so annoying in that regard that I duct taped the light. But that was a black Gateway. This is an aluminum Macbook Pro. So I dare not be tacky and do the same with this delicate beauty.
So instead I just have to put a shirt over it to block the light from filling the room. This time, the shirt failed to cover it all the way though, because the laptop was resting on a desk chair next to my bed and the American Eagle hoodie I had draped over the light was resting on the arm of the chair. This obscured the laptop light in such a way that right in front of my bed, at head level, there was a projection of a very familiar shape.
Very familiar… hmm. What IS that I wondered? I’ve seen it before. I know it.
This must be a sign. I have to figure this out, because whatever this symbol is that I know of, I need to find it…. and do. something.
At first I thought, is that the SeaWorld logo?
But no.
That’s not it.
It’s different than the SeaWorld logo.
Its someone’s symbol though. Something… delicious…
It’s — THAT’S IT! I know exactly what it is, I thought to myself. It’s the “hut” from the Pizza Hut logo. Flashing on my mother effing wall. Duuuude…
All I had to do was imagine “Pizza Hut” written underneath the damn thing and it was a 100% scale copy beaming before me like a vision of the Virgin Mary.
This was too cool; I HAD to show you guys. So I got up and tried to take a picture.
K. So apparently you can’t photograph light with the flash turned on. I’ll alert the photorealism department of the physics of light and sound board of directors tomorrow. In the mean time I turned the flash off and took another picture:
Well dammit. I’m screwed now, right? Wrong.
I went in the kitchen and got some fun tac (that semi-sticky putty used to stick stuff on walls and whatnot) and went back into the room to outline the shape on the wall with it.
Well. I started doing okay. But it kinda got harder than I thought it might be. And also, I ran out of tac…
But you can kinda sorta see how it was, right? Here’s my lame attempt to connect the dots for you:
I’m tellin ya. It was cool. And awe inspiring.
But crap. Now what? Pizza Hut isn’t open now. Mmm. Pizza Hut sounds really fkkn good right now though. But wait. No. If I can’t eat the pizza hut.. then what am I supposed to do with this sign?
What… am I… supposed…. to do?…….
(to be continued)….. (in all honesty, probably not though)
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