Got tipped off about this little trailer…
WOOOT! ohboyohboyohboy, I can’t wait!

Short but sweet: I stumbled across this article which discusses how to best improve the image you get from the webcam. He discusses various issues with lighting, how to deal with “blue glasses” and why the webcam goes through rainbow colors, and how to fix all of that…

“Mouth” is a fun word, isn’t it? Could be the mouth on your face that you open and close, eat food with, kiss with, etc. Could be “mouthy” — that mouthy kid who always has a smart-alec answer for everything (and gets him in trouble). Could be an opening of […]

I’ve just finished reading Mindfield by John F. Egbert, who kindly sent me a copy. I thought this was an excellent book, and I think it might be a good way to introduce issues surrounding deafhood and deaf culture via an enjoyable piece of fiction. As good as some other books are, some […]

OK, I confess that my last post was more a reaction to another post that stated NAD uses “visual language” instead of ASL and I neglected to investigate the facts. However, one of my commenters asked where on the NAD site do they use “visual language” in the first place?
Um.
Very interesting. OK, a […]

What is a visual language? I really hadn’t thought about it. Seeing it on NAD’s site, it seems obvious to me that it’s another phrase for ASL. Still, why not use “ASL”? Why this longer locution?
What other visual languages are there? Well SEE1 and 2 aren’t languages. But they […]

I keep thinking about this whole issue about writing in English. In some ways I’m very fortunate, because, for whatever reason, I have always been a good writer. I think I benefitted from some very good teachers at just the right time along the way in my life, and perhaps there’s a natural […]

In which I describe some good new words I learned from the last vlog fiasco and in which I describe my observations at the last deaf meet I went to.
Transcript:

Notes: I’m actually pretty proud of this one, as I did it all in one shot, on the first try. I didn’t mean to re-do the whole Two Wolves story, but I love this story, and I had practiced it for the Silent Weekend but didn’t do it. […]

OK, first of all I’m having a LOT more fun vlogging than I thought. I did not expect to already have a couple of them up at this point, once I had done my first one. But I guess I’m like a kid with a new toy. Anyway, I have a longer […]