Amazing New Phenomenon. Years ago, when I used to do a bit of home-brewing, my best batch was named “Bruce’s Naked Ale” and subtitled “A Strong Creamy Nude Brew”.  The reasons for these names are unimportant to this story. What is important is that rearranging the letters (as an anagram) in “A Strong Creamy Nude Brew” gives “Bruce Dewayne Armstrong”, my full name. Some of my friends theorized that my mother must have known that I would eventually become a beer-brewer and had to have taken that into consideration when naming me.

So this next phenomenon is amazing, but not without precedent. As many of you know, Andrew’s nickname at school has been “Ace” for a few years now. For many years throughout my youth, I used my initials “BDA” for signing artwork and had a particular stylized version which was all straight lines and angles. Recently when the kids were playing with some sidewalk chalk, I drew my initials in that style, and since Andrew liked how it looked, he wrote out “ACE” in the same style. I didn’t think too much about it for a while, until over the weekend we were painting some boomerangs and were trying to think of something cool to make a stencil of. We decided that he would make an “ACE” stencil for his boomerang and I would make a “BDA” stencil for mine. Imagine my shock when I realized that the same stencil would work for both! Freaky!

We didn’t get around to using our stencils yet, but I did whip up a quick animation to display this Amazing Phenomenon!