Experiments

I’ve been doing some research and some experiments lately. Some of these were at Ms Cassandra’s direction. Others were done out of my own curiosity.

Corner Time
There is a program out there that watches your webcam and makes sure you don’t move. Basically it’s a constant electronic monitor that enforces the directive that you to remain motionless.
The Good: It works. If you move, it will be reflected in your final report. It also works in reverse. So if you position the camera, and anything moves into the field of view, the program will record the violation. So, for example, if Ms Cassandra wanted me confined to a room for a few hours, I could set up the CornerTime monitor outside the door. If the door opens, she will know. But I would otherwise be free to move around inside the room.
The Bad: The monitor’s voice is male. The program doesn’t work with many web browsers. With my browser it works, but it does not allow me to see the cam. So you kinda have to guess on where to point the lens. Also, it’s limited to 24 hours. So it wouldn’t work for a weekend prison sentence in the closet, for example

Write For Me – writeforme.org
I posted earlier about Fond Of Writing. Ms Cassandra had some technical difficulties with it. But there is a solution. Write For Me is a web-based tool that does the exact same thing. It forces the slave to write lines. Unfortunately it does not allow assignments to be assigned based on time. Rather tasks are given in repetitions of the line to be typed. Also, it only allows one text. FOW allowed up to 8 different texts that could cycle randomly throughout the task. It has mostly the same cruel twists as FOW. It doesn’t seem to have the reverse text feature. However, it has something called a “chinese whisper” which seems pretty devious.

Bondage Mittens
I was brainstorming about frustrating, maddening tasks for a slave to do in bondage/captivity. And one idea that came up was to use bondage mittens to negate the use of fingers, and thus make every day tasks seem like torture. So I did some experimenting….it works. Sort of.
I tried working on a 300 piece jigsaw puzzle with the mittens on. It was really really really hard. I didn’t try for very long. I spent maybe three minutes picking up pieces, and moving them around. All I can say is that it’s possible. However, I would say that this goes beyond mere torment and time wasting. This is actually a really cruel task that may best be suited for corrective punishment. It could be made easier by doing a puzzle with fewer pieces, and/or larger pieces.
Another idea I had involved identifying objects by feel. Obviously that’s alot harder without fingers. I have a large bowl of change and I tried sorting the coins without looking. Again it’s possible. But definitely not easy.
Another interesting thing to note: I pulled mostly quarters during my test. This is interesting because I think it mirrors what happened when I was sorting 15-bean soup for Ms Delia. All of the biggest beans were sorted first. The task got harder as it went on because the remaining beans were smaller and smaller. I suspect the same thing happened with the coins.
Overall, I’d say the mittens work, but not as well as I had imagined. These definitely rate high on the cruelty scale.

Alternative to Bondage Mittens: I suppose I could duct-tape my hands in a fist position, but leave one finger on each hand sticking out.