Special K: North Korean TV intercepted.
b1-66er: That qualifies as "legitimately strange."
(My favorite part was the puppet show.)
b1-67er: I notice the Korean newscaster and the puppets both look a little Kim Jung Un.
13.8.24
11.8.24
What's your aim?
b1-66er: https://youtu.be/SDhTeRpWc6k?si=qGGI4pzjtir-sfQk
b1-67er: Really tall seems to make the most sense where the land is really expensive. Land is cheap in Oklahoma, so I'm not sure it makes sense. I wouldn't build the tallest building in the US. You might as well paint a target on the side of it, since that's what you are building.
10.8.24
The Bacon Powdered Sugar Madison
Suttonhoo: Greetings from the Wisconsin State Fair
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9.8.24
In a dream state, the end is rear
b1-66er:
11:15 second sleep
(Today's Break Fast Day, although I have not yet eaten...
Had electrolytes for the first time in several days yesterday [I'm certain they do something encourage/enable/help me remember dreams.])
On with the show...
I'd been reading in a chair just inside the entrance of a grocery store. Not unlike the ones at a video poker machine in a casino.
I'm not in LV. The climate's wrong. Probably Denver.
Apparently I had fallen asleep(?) when you called.)
I apologized for being asleep and in a store, telling a joke about it that fell flat.
I couldn't hear you very well and switched from ear to speaker...
...a young teenage girl had just come in and leaned in a bit to say something snide in the conversatio we were having.
"Here you can talk to him. It's my pal, Smokey. He's used to lifeforms of your kind..."
She sneers at me and mumbles a dismissive line.
I say, "Isn't it amazing how your phone grocery store interactions with people are just like your real life?"
It starts raining hard enough that the drops coming are under the pedestrian overhang.
You say something I only can ½ hear. It's something like, "You know, I'm WORKING..."
"Well you know I was SLEEPING... And YOU called ME."
Phone call drops.
[EOD]
I wake up thinking, 'oh geez. Now I've got to call him back.' But my phone's not in my hand. I'm not even in a grocery store.
Oh geez.
I'm in bed.
•••
Smokey: So weird. I had the exact same dream except you weren't in a grocery store but a store that sold tack for horses and were wearing a bear suit and waxing on and on about how much you like carrots. I said I wasn't much for root vegetables which appeared to offended you and you screamed "If I had a boiled egg right now, I'd jam it in your face hole!" It was at this point I realized we would be friends for life. Except that that makes no sense at all since I don't like boiled eggs.
Ok, so maybe the dream has some subtle differences.
28.7.24
25.7.24
A cultural look at (and with) blind Barbie
b1-66er: F3m, you need to have your first Barbie movie experience with a new pal...
F3mb0t: Me, to Blind Barbie: "Have you seen the Barbie movie?"
BB to me: "No, but I heard it is fabulous."
66: So bad.
The Accomplice: Hahaha. I saw that you'd replied, and I was certain it was going to be something about how bad it was that blind Barbie couldn't see Ken on the big screen
•••
b1-67er: Weird. Blind barbie is kind of interesting.
D4rw1n: I'm a fan of the blind Barbie concept
67: So my question is: should they remove all added color from blind Barbie? Make her plastic colored, whatever that is, and make the textiles whatever their natural color is? All that color is added for the people with vision. Maybe blind Barbie doesn't need all that color baggage?
66: Oooh. Heavy duty. A question that makes you ponder the inner-life/meaning of blind Barbie...
... But:
1. Is playing on the colors possibly offensive to color blind owners? (ie. "The swine at Mattel think color blind is some kind of grand disability like being Real Blind!?")
2. Should BB, therefore, focus more on texture? Pore-up her skin, por ejemplo?
67: There are people with really bad eyesight that are effectively blind. I wonder if those people have certain wavelengths that they see better? You could go that way.
66: If there's an engineering solution my brother will find it...
... and the true 'beauty' of everything here? It doesn't have to look good. Barbie is blind, afterall.
For your hard work, we'll make you a special edition
"b1-67er Colorblind Barbie"
Which will be normal production Blind Barbie, but a specific frequency of red will be grey.
So maybe she'll have something like a full red spectrum wrap, cape or skirt that'll have a grey band through it?
OR MAYBE MAYBE have the tape demarking the end of the cane be grey...
The thought being, "You trip on this? You understand my pain."
D4: No. Blind Barbie should look like other Barbies, only blind. That's the point. To mess about with the colors would undermine the concept of bringing people with different abilities into the frame together as equals
66: You're right. Of course you're right.
67: I say there is some pounding round pegs into square holes. It needs some traditional Barbie elements to make it a Barbie. But it should also be modified to make it more interesting to a blind user. And I think removing some unneeded features for the sighted makes the case that this thing really is for the blind.
Special K: Why is it only for blind people?
66: As usual, The K has found an awkward way to word my question that I hadn't even considered yet: Who do you think BB is for?
Meaning, what is the target audience?
Sighties to help incorporate blindies into their lives, ideals and minds...
... Or blindies to be represented in the Barbie World?
K: Well, both. And friends / family / advocates of the blind.
66: I'm not asking you.
K: And yet I answered.
I see it has braille packaging.
I thought there already was a blind Barbie. But my Barbie knowledge is limited.
67: I think it's for blind kids to have a more suitable toy for their strengths. At the bottom of this, there is a very complicated question. My daughter has been around quite a few high functioning autism spectrum kids at her college for people with adult disabilities. What I often wonder is: is all of this training: to smile, to behave more like normal kids for the kids sake? Or is it to make everyone around them be more comfortable?
66: That is a good question.
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