Last Thursday I posted a clip "The Boy Who Sees Through Sound." It's a CBS clip I found on YouTube after watching a documentary on the cable TLC channel called "the boy who sees without eyes."

The documentary tells a more complete story than the CBS clip, including Ben's refusal to use a cane because he doesn't want pity, or to appear handicapped. Ben learns the value of the cane at the end when Dan Kish—another who is blind from birth—takes Ben and others on a mountain hike.

After more searching I found the entire documentary broken up into the 5 segments below. This is a must watch.

The boy who sees without eyes [1/5]




The boy who sees without eyes [2/5]




The boy who sees without eyes [3/5]




The boy who sees without eyes [4/5]




The boy who sees without eyes [5/5]

Dan Kish, who helped Ben Underwood in the last couple clips runs a website called World Access for the Blind, with methodology, instructions, workshops and videos.

Yesterday I watched an amazing documentary on the cable TLC channel, of a boy who had his eyes removed at age 2 because of cancer. Soon after Ben learned to see using sound instead of light. He makes clicking noises, and uses echo location like a dolphin or bat. This may be old news to some of you because he has been on Opera, CBS and other shows. However I'm not a fan of either.

Ben can shoot hops (and he's good), skate in the street seeing and avoiding traffic, rides a bike, plays video games, and trounces people with sight at foosball.



Or read the CBS article about how Ben conquered the darkness with echolocation.

A fitting day to take this test. Have at it.

Do you have what it takes to become a citizen?

My score was 100 percent. However I took a wild guess on:

19. What INS form is used to apply to become a naturalized citizen?

Is there something erotic I'm missing about having sex at great heights? About a week and a half ago, I posted on a naked couple in South Carolina that fell 50 feet to their deaths from of a downtown office building rooftop (see chained post below).

Now a British couple on the island of Majorca, in the Mediterranean Sea fall 50 feet from a view point next to their holiday apartment. Fortunately a fig tree broke their fall, so this couple lives to play amorous games another day.

I suppose it is fitting though that throughout the Bible, the fig tree symbolizes prosperity and peace. Then OTOH reading some background on the fig tree, for this post, I find it more fitting that in Gnostic Teachings, "The fig tree symbolizes the feminine sexual forces that we must learn how to control." But if you can't control them, hope that a fig tree is nearby?


I'm guessing that maybe the adrenalin from the danger heightens the fireworks in the release. However I'll stick to a 50 centimeter or so high bed.