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55cb567496578d596803a20bc317901c
13 years ago
You missed one hand movement commonly used by 50% of the population FD, I would put it next to praying. I was glad to see you covered the other 50% with clicking the mouse!
Innocent Until
13 years ago
How else do you tell whether an avocado is ripe?
In a collection of gestures and other things for which we might have used our hands since ancient times, I can’t help wondering whether the Dogonauts will fill in some of the more obvious gaps.
Buzz
13 years ago
It’s because our hands touch a thousand things a day that I have little bottles of instant hand sanitizer stashed everywhere – because I don’t want to indirectly touch a lot of the other things that other people do.
And frame 1 perfectly illustrates my daily morning ritual as I rise from the evolutionary swamp of the newly awoken to something resembling a functional human.
Peter Forrester
13 years ago
An anhedonic dystopia; how unpleasant.
@ Innocent—what about scratching your bum? (I wonder if I should have put a space in the middle of that word? Will I it be redacted? [Redacted—one of my favorite new words from 2010])
Peter Forrester
13 years ago
thumbing your nose, picking the same, pimple squeezing, nail gazing, thumbs upping, giving the finger, dipping a finger into the honey, peeling a grape……OMG this could go on forever! Can’t do any of that virtually though, so I don’t feel in any danger of giving up on good old sensory reality.
You missed one hand movement commonly used by 50% of the population FD, I would put it next to praying. I was glad to see you covered the other 50% with clicking the mouse!
How else do you tell whether an avocado is ripe?
In a collection of gestures and other things for which we might have used our hands since ancient times, I can’t help wondering whether the Dogonauts will fill in some of the more obvious gaps.
It’s because our hands touch a thousand things a day that I have little bottles of instant hand sanitizer stashed everywhere – because I don’t want to indirectly touch a lot of the other things that other people do.
And frame 1 perfectly illustrates my daily morning ritual as I rise from the evolutionary swamp of the newly awoken to something resembling a functional human.
An anhedonic dystopia; how unpleasant.
@ Innocent—what about scratching your bum? (I wonder if I should have put a space in the middle of that word? Will I it be redacted? [Redacted—one of my favorite new words from 2010])
thumbing your nose, picking the same, pimple squeezing, nail gazing, thumbs upping, giving the finger, dipping a finger into the honey, peeling a grape……OMG this could go on forever! Can’t do any of that virtually though, so I don’t feel in any danger of giving up on good old sensory reality.