*Another* Five ~on~ a Friday? Huh!
Jul. 10th, 2015 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mni1: How long do you think it'll be before this recent picture of Pluto (7-7-2015) gets turned into memes, macros, and icons everywhere?
{... give me an hour, maybe, at least for here? ;-)}
2: On this week's Radiolab (Wednesday), there was an interview with two men who are both completely blind (Audio -- sorry there's no transcript).
The man whose blindness developed gradually decided that to be fully present and connected to the world, he had to break himself of the habit of "Visualizing" anything, and to conceptualize the world entirely using his other four senses. Because to do otherwise would mean clinging to his memory of a world that doesn't exist anymore.
The man who lost his sight in a single, devastating, moment insisted that to retain your full humanity, you have to imagine a visual world, even if you have to work at it, because humans are visual creatures, full stop.
Yeah. You can probably guess which side of the argument I side with; I'd be more sympathetic to the second man, if he hadn't insisted what was true for him was true for 6,999,999,999 other people.
Anyway, it occurred to me afterward that, compared to blind people, we sighties really live in a 2-D world (well, 3-D, but that's only if you include "Time"). Compared to the actual space around us, the surfaces of our retinas are really, really, flat. After all, that's the only reason we can get away with trompe-loeil at all.
3. The weather is brain-meltingly hot and humid, here. So this item will only be two sentences long.
4. Doctor Who Series 9 will start September 19th! Permission to Squee? I still don't have any headphones or speakers, so I don't know how the official trailer sounds.
But:
Does it seem like Capaldi's hair is channeling the spirit of Doctor Four? Or is that just me? ;-)
5. Speaking of dates in the calender being closer than they appear, I don't think I'll be able to meet my self-imposed date for getting Monsters' Legacy: Disability, Culture and Identity self-published. I mean, maybe I could. But only if I worked a lot faster than I seem to be able to at the moment (*points to #3*), and only if I skipped getting the prose portions beta-read. And I don't want to skip that. *sigh*
{... give me an hour, maybe, at least for here? ;-)}
2: On this week's Radiolab (Wednesday), there was an interview with two men who are both completely blind (Audio -- sorry there's no transcript).
The man whose blindness developed gradually decided that to be fully present and connected to the world, he had to break himself of the habit of "Visualizing" anything, and to conceptualize the world entirely using his other four senses. Because to do otherwise would mean clinging to his memory of a world that doesn't exist anymore.
The man who lost his sight in a single, devastating, moment insisted that to retain your full humanity, you have to imagine a visual world, even if you have to work at it, because humans are visual creatures, full stop.
Yeah. You can probably guess which side of the argument I side with; I'd be more sympathetic to the second man, if he hadn't insisted what was true for him was true for 6,999,999,999 other people.
Anyway, it occurred to me afterward that, compared to blind people, we sighties really live in a 2-D world (well, 3-D, but that's only if you include "Time"). Compared to the actual space around us, the surfaces of our retinas are really, really, flat. After all, that's the only reason we can get away with trompe-loeil at all.
3. The weather is brain-meltingly hot and humid, here. So this item will only be two sentences long.
4. Doctor Who Series 9 will start September 19th! Permission to Squee? I still don't have any headphones or speakers, so I don't know how the official trailer sounds.
But:
Does it seem like Capaldi's hair is channeling the spirit of Doctor Four? Or is that just me? ;-)
5. Speaking of dates in the calender being closer than they appear, I don't think I'll be able to meet my self-imposed date for getting Monsters' Legacy: Disability, Culture and Identity self-published. I mean, maybe I could. But only if I worked a lot faster than I seem to be able to at the moment (*points to #3*), and only if I skipped getting the prose portions beta-read. And I don't want to skip that. *sigh*
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Date: 2015-07-10 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-10 10:36 pm (UTC)My glasses keep sliding down my nose, 'cause sweat.
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Date: 2015-07-13 12:13 am (UTC)My most recent Radiolab was about the Mau Mau in Kenya. I had read four different takes on this anticolonial rebel army (they didn't exist; all men; all women; there were 25 and the Brits blew 'em up to get access to more military hardware). The podcast presented an entirely different reality. Life is strange.
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Date: 2015-07-13 10:02 am (UTC)Life is strange.
It is. But I think the real culprit in this case is multiple layers of government coverups.
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Date: 2015-07-11 12:24 am (UTC)3. We've had similar weather here, one day last week a torrential downpour followed by bright sunshine and steam rising off the ground.
4. I immediately thought his hair was more like Pertwee's than ever. (Am still hoping the Pertweeness continues to him driving the Whomobile at some point)
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Date: 2015-07-11 01:02 am (UTC)