Happy news...

[fajrdrako]

I was just talking to Sandi. She and Pat think they've fixed my nonfunctional DVD recorder. Her (rather technical) explanation of the problem: "You put way too much on the hard drive and it had a nervous breakdown."

Hope is in sight.

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Re: Am I a Human?

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Um. That reply, above, was supposed to go under this reply, below. Don't ask me how the shift happened....

Now, replying to: They aren't always easy. Luckily, these places usually give you multiple opportunities with different graphics to decipher.

I once had to ask for four additional ones, till I could actually decipher one. Felt quite... stupid. Didn't like the feeling.

Just more stuff to put on my list of "Proof That I'm Not Neurotypical (No Matter How Much Certain People Protest That I Look Totally 'Normal')" is what I would say, huh? Oh, but maybe you don't know that yet: have I mentioned to you that my eyes are not fooled by most optical illusions? Used to think it was just me, being able to very quickly logic them out; instead, this apparently is a trait rather common among those of us on my end of the autistic spectrum. Is that intriguing, or what?

Re: Am I a Human?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

How do you do with those pieces of art which are also puzzles, where a 3-D picture is hidden in a repetitive series of designs? Stereograms? For example... let me find one online... here (http://www.techmind.org/stereo/dolgochs.jpg). I used to be very good at seeing the picture there; I can't do it tonight, perhaps because of a change in eyesight?

In any case, I'm not sure what you mean by being 'fooled' by optical illusion - they're usually just two ways of looking at the same thing, and the trick is to see if you can see them both ways at will. Have you tried the one with the twirling girl? It's rather fun. It's here. What do you make of her?
(http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/23/twirling-dancer-opti.html)

Re: Am I a Human?

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Ugh.

No, I don't see anything in those things. At best they are colorful nonsense, at worst they hurt (as this one did). I waited for the image to load with my pointer on the back button and my eyes on the keyboard, watching the screen with my top peripheral vision. Which was still much too keen. I say ouch.

Dancer: I also could not look at this. Basically, anything in silhouette like this is simultaneously face-forward and face-away, to me, and after only a few seconds I had to exit. Angst arises from the what-actually-is-it-ness of the no-details form.

Have you watched fan blades or airplane propellers, and seen them "reverse direction"? I assume that is what this was, too. Yes, I see that. It's a nifty little eye-brain fool, it is.

The full exploration of my visual tendencies is yet to happen. But it's on my list!

Re: Am I a Human?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Interesting comments. I can never (except in one instance) guess what will visually bother you and what won't.

The exception is that icon of Martha. When I said I wondered whether icons with faces would bother you, it was specifically when I was loading that one, as if some intuition made me think of it at that time. I've no idea why, but I did think it might bother you, when the whole notion has never occurred to me. And of course I use portrait icons all the time, because I love them.