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Tag: vision

  • That moment when you realise that you forgot your sunglasses but figure you'll just squint.

    Full image of A fawn-coloured French Bulldog sits on the wooden decking outside a back door, squinting as she looks towards the sun (evident from the direction of the shadows).
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    A fawn-coloured French Bulldog sits on the wooden decking outside a back door, squinting as she looks towards the sun (evident from the direction of the shadows).

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    • posted 10 September, 2026
  • A brown horse with a white forehead star, wearing a blue jacket, walks in a circular pen in which arms encourage it to continue moving.

    Horse Gym

    My current temporary home - and, necessarily, office - is directly next door to some kind of "horse gym": a contraption a little like a huge revolving door to encourage one or more horses to exercise by walking around it.

    Every now and then my peripheral vision registers that there's a horse outside the window and, for the dozenth time, I look up from my work and glance around to barely catch it vanishing off on yet another lap.

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    • posted 9 March, 2026
  • Animated illustration showing how an eyeball that rotates to face a light source can have that light obstructed by an intermediary obstacle, but when it looks "away" some of the light can hit the pupil as a consequence of its curved shape now appearing "above the horizon" of the obstacle.

    Peripheral Vision

    The other night, I encountered an optical illusion by which I could see a particular partially-obstructed light only when it was in my peripheral vision. This put me in mind of the experience of being only peripherally able to see the internalised quirks of your employer that were once obvious to you, and this lead me to reflect a little on my first six months at Firstup.

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    • posted 19 January, 2026

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