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Sep. 2nd, 2018 11:24 am...because apparently preparing for all those conventions really takes it out of me. (I designed two different posters on different subsets of mine and a coworker's research and presented them both in a space of about six weeks.)
I keep forgetting how rough transitions between summer and the regular academic year always are for me. I'm still ridiculously freaked out about the possibility that I won't finish, but I also know for a fact that my PI gives enough of a shit about my progress to ask people on his facebook how you help out a student who is dealing with confidence issues, and I'm moving fine on my new project which is more interesting than my old one anyway.
Anyway.
I also fell facefirst into Daredevil fandom, of all the stupid damn things--or hell, maybe not, because fucked-up Irish-American Catholicism + actually attempting to interrogate disability (not that the show bothers, but fuck it) + digging into attempts at realistic representation of relying on non-sight sensory modalities without, god help me, resorting to fucking echolocation really kind of is my jam.
(Does Matt Murdock rely on echolocation to "see" things? Well, he ain't wandering around squeaking at high pitches at intervals, and he doesn't seem to be tapping his damn cane either to get high frequency noises smeared across that atonal click, so I'm going to say that he probably doesn't use that as much as he's using a mixture of wind currents, extremely acute spatial sense and calculations, and smell to localize things.
I gotta rant at some point about how my observations of Dent inform my perception of points where Murdock's lack of sight is actually going to cause him some issues, because to be honest the show appears to have given him sensory modalities that are actually more powerful than my cat's. Dent gets around just fine, but vision actually isn't interchangeable with echolocation and dammit, different modalities are useful for different things; that's why species with different ecologies rely on different signaling to different extents, and existing human adaptive tech can compensate for some of those difficulties but not all of them.
Might send that to the relevant comm first, though.)
I keep forgetting how rough transitions between summer and the regular academic year always are for me. I'm still ridiculously freaked out about the possibility that I won't finish, but I also know for a fact that my PI gives enough of a shit about my progress to ask people on his facebook how you help out a student who is dealing with confidence issues, and I'm moving fine on my new project which is more interesting than my old one anyway.
Anyway.
I also fell facefirst into Daredevil fandom, of all the stupid damn things--or hell, maybe not, because fucked-up Irish-American Catholicism + actually attempting to interrogate disability (not that the show bothers, but fuck it) + digging into attempts at realistic representation of relying on non-sight sensory modalities without, god help me, resorting to fucking echolocation really kind of is my jam.
(Does Matt Murdock rely on echolocation to "see" things? Well, he ain't wandering around squeaking at high pitches at intervals, and he doesn't seem to be tapping his damn cane either to get high frequency noises smeared across that atonal click, so I'm going to say that he probably doesn't use that as much as he's using a mixture of wind currents, extremely acute spatial sense and calculations, and smell to localize things.
I gotta rant at some point about how my observations of Dent inform my perception of points where Murdock's lack of sight is actually going to cause him some issues, because to be honest the show appears to have given him sensory modalities that are actually more powerful than my cat's. Dent gets around just fine, but vision actually isn't interchangeable with echolocation and dammit, different modalities are useful for different things; that's why species with different ecologies rely on different signaling to different extents, and existing human adaptive tech can compensate for some of those difficulties but not all of them.
Might send that to the relevant comm first, though.)
