Another public service announcement

[kestrell]

Every once in a while, my favorite blog, "The Art of Darkness," posts a list of amusing things the blogger has seen online. I found the most recent of these posts
http://www.shadowmanor.com/blog/?p=16502
particularly entertaining, as it included, among other quotes, the following:

"I will be buried in a spring loaded casket filled with confetti, and a future archaeologist will have one awesome day at work." JiminyKicksIt

"I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert “by zombies” after the verb, you have passive voice." johnsonr

and
dammit owls you KNOW who this is" donni.

However, I feel compelled to correct a misapprehension of sighties as expressed in the following statement:

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man doesn’t really have to wear clothes ever. KenJennings

In my experience, I can almost always tell when a man is naked, because there are basically two kinds of men (outside of one's partner) in the world.

One is the kind of man who sounds really embarrassed when accidentally caught naked, even by a blind woman.

The other kind of man sounds really proud when caught naked, even by a blind woman.

Three- or four-year-old boys exhibit no particular affect when caught naked by anybody. (I have my suspicions that housemate T. falls into this category.)

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Well, fuck me with an NFB cane, there's more than one person with that experience? I'm thinking of Michael May, a lawyer, ace blind skier and president of the Sendero Group.

Links to some of the hundreds of articles about him:
http://www.senderogroup.com/mm/mikemedia.htm

Mike's surgery gave him very low vision, and he was pretty much fine with that. Still uses a dog guide, reads braille, etc.

Now I'm gonna track down Lovier Sacks.

[kestrell]

Oops, that was supposed to be Oliver Sacks, sorry. The blind cognitive psychologist, Zoltan Torey, also mentions that his doctors told him that it wasn't even worth trying to remember colors, because he would completely lose the ability to even visualize them, but he ignored the "experts." There were a couple of news stories this year about how opthomalgic surgeons have recently changed their opinion again, and now believe that older people who lost their vision very young can have useful vision restored, as opposed to the previous opinion, which was that the formally blind person would not be able to cognitively adapt to the new sensory information.