earlier today, i went to a panel to discuss about deaf environments at pratt institute in brooklyn. a few pratt professors, pratt grad students, and deaf members were in hand to yap about what can be done to 'space' that we, the deafies, would love to have. while i didn't learn much in this forum from the panelists, it made me realize that they were substantially enthusiastic in creating deaf space beyond the basic mandates of the dodderin' ada. it's all that same ol' discussion where a deafies gives hearies a crash course about deaf culture; but we did give out some new ideas on how to refine the use of deaf spaceness. a grad student expressed an idea about using an analytic visual signer in which a person approaches to a deaf person closer, the light will brigten up.. once the person goes away, the light will dim and switch it off. now, the question i have to ask is how will this handle the high traffic of people moving by in front of my cubicle at work? i think i'd rather stick with the old mirror trick, in which a small circular convex mirror can be placed on the top of my monitor to track the people behind me. there's another solution... there could be a thermal monitoring in which a heat sensor is placed above the ceiling above me, and i could just see who's coming into my way... and i can even know whether that person gets turned on by my presence or not ;-) ohh.. what fun is it to dream away...