Faces

Creepy Kilroy house is here, being creepy.

This is one of my favorite faces yet. College Town recently installed a central kiosk thingy for paying for your meter at the public parking lot where the transit center for our buses is located. Now, instead of being able to step out of your car and put money in the meter immediately in front of it, you can walk over to the machine, perhaps stand in line with other people who arrived about the same time, and put your money into the machine. Won't that be fun if you're running late and/or it's pouring down rain? Oh, and you need to have noted and remembered your space number to make it work. The individual meters are still there, but you can no longer put money into them. Presumably, once you've paid the main machine and correctly entered the meter number, the time appears on your meter.

Have you ever noticed that a lot of so-called modern "conveniences" such as this are really only convenient for the people at the top of whatever organization operates the service in question? The city of College Town now only has to pay some guy to remove the money from one machine instead several dozen machines. Great savings for the city, I suppose, and thus for the local taxpayers. How much you wanna bet that the guy who removes the money gets his hours cut? Not so convenient for him.

Okay, I got off topic there. The new parking kiosk has one of the most face-y of all faces on an inanimate object I've seen to date. I wonder if they did it on purpose. I mean, look at that "nose"! It's even outlined in white for better visibility, unless it's wearing sunscreen to protect itself from skin cancer in the harsh Northern California summers.

Admittedly, it's got some extra non-facey features, such as the green thing between the uneven "eyes", and the thing to the left of the "nose", which I shall think of as a mole. I like the less conventional faces, personally, and I don't think I'm alone. How else can we account for the popularity of such odd-balls as Lyle Lovett and Ellen Barkin?