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Random Thoughts or Whatever

Security cameras. Shouldn’t they be called insecurity cameras. More and more people are putting them in their homes.
Speaking of security or insecurity cameras, I wouldn't mind having a few. Not for watching people, since I have never had issues with people messing with my place. I would like to be able to watch footage of what animals do when I am sleeping and not home. I see rabbit and coyote tracks in the snow and would love to see what they do. Probably interesting.
 
Speaking of security or insecurity cameras, I wouldn't mind having a few. Not for watching people, since I have never had issues with people messing with my place. I would like to be able to watch footage of what animals do when I am sleeping and not home. I see rabbit and coyote tracks in the snow and would love to see what they do. Probably interesting.
They plot.
 
Speaking of security or insecurity cameras, I wouldn't mind having a few. Not for watching people, since I have never had issues with people messing with my place. I would like to be able to watch footage of what animals do when I am sleeping and not home. I see rabbit and coyote tracks in the snow and would love to see what they do. Probably interesting.
I have gotten up in the middle of the night and sat on my back porch. Sometimes there is a lot of activity. Seen a couple of beavers by my dock. Once I saw one chewing on the neighbors tree. I had an armadillo under my porch, skunks, raccoons, deer. Even a wild pig once. Sometimes when it is really dark I hear noises in the leaves. Not sure what it is, but sounds bigger than a raccoon. I love nature.
 
A lot of people use the term "gaslighting" without knowing where it comes from. It's the title of a 1940 movie about a man who attempts to drive his wife crazy by leaving the house and then sneaking up to the attic. He then turns on the gaslight causing the other gaslights in the house to momentarily dim. This makes his wife think someone else is in the house.

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That's where the term comes from.
 
A lot of people use the term "gaslighting" without knowing where it comes from. It's the title of a 1940 movie about a man who attempts to drive his wife crazy by leaving the house and then sneaking up to the attic. He then turns on the gaslight causing the other gaslights in the house to momentarily dim. This makes his wife think someone else is in the house.

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That's where the term comes from.
Men are amateurs at that stuff.
 
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I'm familiar with the 1944 version. Ingrid Bergman was outstanding in it. :thumbsup:
 
A lot of people use the term "gaslighting" without knowing where it comes from. It's the title of a 1940 movie about a man who attempts to drive his wife crazy by leaving the house and then sneaking up to the attic. He then turns on the gaslight causing the other gaslights in the house to momentarily dim. This makes his wife think someone else is in the house.
That's where the term comes from.
Gaslight responses and social media → a match made in Heaven!
 
I'm not writing off bline people at all. I see quite a few of them walking the streets in DC and Old TOwn Alexandria, and I am so amazed at how well they get around.. I can't even imagine how they do it. Never thought of the dog taking them to the door, then them felling for the sign... I've never known a bline person, so I'm pretty oblivious as to how they do things we take for granted.
ESL?
 
A lot of people use the term "gaslighting" without knowing where it comes from. It's the title of a 1940 movie about a man who attempts to drive his wife crazy by leaving the house and then sneaking up to the attic. He then turns on the gaslight causing the other gaslights in the house to momentarily dim. This makes his wife think someone else is in the house.

Gaslight responses and social media → a match made in Heaven!
Or maybe a match made.....somewhere else. ;)
 
There is a lot to it. One part is being familiar with the layout of locations. A long time ago, I learned how to navigate my way in the dark. When it's a place that I know and have walked through multiple times, it's not very hard. In unfamiliar territory, it can be painful. This of course, is only a small part of the picture for those who are completely without sight.
 
There is a lot to it. One part is being familiar with the layout of locations. A long time ago, I learned how to navigate my way in the dark. When it's a place that I know and have walked through multiple times, it's not very hard. In unfamiliar territory, it can be painful. This of course, is only a small part of the picture for those who are completely without sight.
I can't avoid tripping over a shoe on my way to the kitchen in the middle of the night. :)
 
There is a lot to it. One part is being familiar with the layout of locations. A long time ago, I learned how to navigate my way in the dark. When it's a place that I know and have walked through multiple times, it's not very hard. In unfamiliar territory, it can be painful. This of course, is only a small part of the picture for those who are completely without sight.
I remember in college, there was this blind student who could navigate one of the cafeterias without a cane. She knew the layout perfectly.

Then, one day, someone decided to put up panels around the cash registers. And bam! Right into one. So sad. She was very upset. Luckily, she was okay.
 
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