a calculator's cry of anguish

Megan's solar-powered calculator has been struggling recently; it only comes on at all after a couple of minutes' exposure to light (and even that's an improvement over its state last week).

Today I noticed that its display is now reading

n A A 0

If I see it later saying

7hA75
inP055iblE

I'll be strongly tempted to take pictures and think about appropriate news venues. :)

blindness and synesthesia

I recently ran across this beautiful LJ posting courtesy of rosefox.

I never really quite had the experience described here--not exactly. But I was extremely myopic for about 25 years, and while the strangeness of being able to see when I wake up in the morning is fading, in a way it still feels a little bit wrong somehow...and I may always miss, on some level, the ability to retreat into fuzziness by taking my glasses off or my contacts out.

(The sardonic part of me, of course, says "Look on the bright side: in 10-15 years you'll probably start going presbyopic and then you'll get some of your fuzziness back--in reverse.")

Corwin pictures, month 5

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden/corwin

Great-Aunt Carol visits, night walks, Father's Day, and first attempts at solid food. Oh, and cuteness.