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…

Well I finally got to see Through Deaf Eyes this morning (actually half last night and half this morning; it’s been a busy few days). I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. I should note that my perspective on this is as an orally educated deaf person; I have been largely ignorant of deaf culture [...]

Someone uploaded Through Deaf Eyes (with the captions turned on) to GoogleVideo! I’ve just safely downloaded the little sucker to my laptop at 909M — since I suspect it will get yanked shortly for copyright violation or somesuch. (NB to you nasty DRM folks - I have preordered the DVD so your [...]

The author of the Alone in the Mainstream book was on, talking about finally realizing others like her out there…very cool! The music stuff’s on now, and I had to laugh when the guy was talking about how they make the music loud loud loud so everyone can feel the music…and he wonders Gosh, [...]

So I got the webcam working with via Yahoo earlier this evening. Woot! I only had to sacrifice two goats…
The webcam seems pretty choppy for ASL, though. I’m going to google around and see if that can be improved, we’re both using cable and should be able to do better than [...]

I’m pretty pleased with my progress in ASL and while I have a long way to go, it’s interesting to see what a long way I’ve come. Example, I passed along the Deaf Ninja video to a friend of mine, on the assumption that the pantomimes were enough to get the story across, and [...]

I just checked out their website and it looks to me like they’re starting up sort of a “Deaf MTV” site where songs are reinterpreted with captions, ASL and so forth. If this sticks around and expands, this might be the best place for me to discover new music.
I’m definitely keeping an eye on [...]

Definite food for thought here. What struck me about this video was yet another way in which people equate spoken language with intelligence. Just note: the first three minutes of this video has only background sounds: I believe it’s the water running, some humming, that sort of thing. After that, she uses [...]

So I’m going through more of the vlog entries I can find for various different clips I can look through. I’ve also actually made one myself (although it’s very basic) but I notice that there are very few female vloggers. I’ve seen individual posts done, but are there regular ones a la Joey [...]

Over at Mike Schmidt’s Oh I See blog, he’s got a great vlog called From Solitaire to Poker. Go take a look if you haven’t already. I very much enjoyed watching it and picked up a couple of new words as well!