I met a woman a few years back who'd been born blind and gained sight for the first time in her early 40s. She told me that some things were perfectly and immediately recognizable to her, like human faces, and that other things - mostly colors and random objects - were more confusing. She said it took her a couple of years to get "vase" into her head when she looked at one.

She was most confused by colors because to her they seemed so arbitrary. I wish I'd had a week to talk to her. I never found out what her dreams were like before she could see!

I used to pass through there on the way east to the Maritimes. Small but cute.

The Onion did a take on this a while back -- possibly the inspiration:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/pizza-huts-new-pizza-lovers-pizza-topped-with-smal,9891/

I would positively adore a Tokyoflash R75 in black with white LED.

Neat hunt!

I think I preferred the Coraline boxes.

Ah, this would be that "we treat women with the respect and protection they deserve" thing Islamic men keep going on about. Got it. Thanks.

Please please please please please clone her.

Really, they're only doing prep work. Technically, that would make them sous-chefs.

Yes, michaelangelo, there is some talk about his 20+ year relationship with his very close friend John Wickins, whose departure left Newton moody and despondent.