Dizzy
The Mets got hammered by the Pirates this afternoon, 13-1. We had two hits and three errors. Even though we trailed 7-0 after two innings I kept following the game, thinking that we’d stage a comeback. Talk about Blind Faith:
We were wasted and couldn’t find our way (to) home(plate), either.
OK, so the game made me dizzy, and it didn’t help that I read this and was able to see the dancer spin clockwise and anti-clockwise: The Truth About the Spinning Dancer. (The latter being my more dominant perception, which isn’t surprising — if the thesis is correct — as I am right-handed.)
It’s much too nice an afternoon to be indoors (no DP: this blogger doesn’t blog in her underwear from her mother’s basement) so I’m going outside to commune with nature in the backyard and see what I can do about the weed situation. We spent all the money from the mlb.tv refund on corn gluten, an organic method for controlling crabgrass. Just about all the neighbors use pesticides and herbicides (and the ones next door still got crabgrass, which then spread into our yard — geez, Louise ….) so all the time we spend hand-weeding seems kind of pointless sometimes. I mean, how much are we saving the earth when everyone else is pouring on the chemicals? Us versus Weeds is like Sisyphus versus Boulder. But at least we have a clean conscience (and dirt under our fingernails) when we read about things like groundwater contamination.
well that was fun - the spinning dancer. on first view, the direction is clockwise. after looking at the “cheat view” the counter-clockwise image hung in my head, until I glanced to another part of the page with the dancer still visible peripherally, whereupon she started flipping. cool. that peripheral vision technique is something I picked up somewhere to force/allow my brain to see what my eye denies.
I’m right handed, but left eye and ear dominant. hate listening to the phone in my right ear, always use the left eye for viewfinders, etc. I switch hands fairly often with manual tasks, but write and mouse and draw righty.
a long time ago I took a class on brain hemisphere dominance. some tests suggested I’m an “alternator.” either way, or both, it makes for a busy corpus callosum.
Comment by rrgirl — 1 May 2008, Thursday @ 13:36:58
Almost everyone on our block has a lawn service. You can tell they’ve been out after they treat lawns and then leave the little warning flags all over. When I see them I think of them as flags of death.
Comment by Barb — 1 May 2008, Thursday @ 20:09:12