Apologies for the picture quality.

The other day Edmund was watching the show Supernatural. We generally have similar taste in things, but his nerd tendencies do outstrip mine at times; times like the other night, when I could NOT get him to go to bed because there was a mini-marathon of Stargate SG-1 on. Supernatural is another show that's just a little too much for me (says the woman who watches The Real Housewives of Orange County). When he gets into these things, I want to keep him company but I occupy my mind elsewhere, so I was a few feet away on this here computer. I happened to look up at the television, and this is what I see:


First thought: Something's wrong with the show.

Second thought: There has been a global disaster and instead of interrupting the program they have put a severe-looking woman on the bottom of the screen to deliver the news.

Then I realized it. She's a sign language interpreter! They superimposed her body onto the screen! It must be for the discriminating deaf people who think subtitles are too distracting. A very thoughtful service. On the other hand, even non-deaf people can follow subtitles, but most can't follow signing, so that's discrimination.



And not at all creepy.