Snurfed from 8th Nerve:
Your Blogging Type is Confident and Insightful
You’ve got a ton of brain power, and you leverage it into brilliant blog.
Both creative and logical, you come up with amazing ideas and insights.
A total perfectionist, you find yourself revising and rewriting posts a lot of the time.
You blog for yourself - and you don’t [...]
I’m still thinking about whether I want to run with an acronym like DOH I’m afraid I’m a product of my times since I keep seeing that as “D’oh” a la Homer Simpson.
But - Deaf of Hearing — there are many of us and we’re quite a varied lot. There’s many of [...]
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 [...]
Pulling a few thoughts together today. Last night I went with a friend of mine to a coffee shop to meet up with other Deaf and signing people. Both of us are basically rank beginners with ASL although we’re both pretty quick linguistically. I had the most amazing and fun evening, and [...]
Wow…it works (the scanner you can purchase at Library Thing). And I’ve got linux, so that’s great news, it seems to be bullet proof.
I am SO in trouble Just wait ’till I get home tonight…
I may be in trouble. This is COOL!!!
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=browneyedgirl65
So help me, I’ve ordered that little scanner they have…
I’ve been watching lots of ASL vlogs. I still don’t understand 95% of them and such, but it doesn’t really matter, I’m also just trying to get a feel for how it looks, the rhythm, etc. One thing I’ve noticed, which is just as ironical as all get out, the ones I have [...]
I thought for a change I’d talk about something I know very well
There’s been some mention of dogs for the deaf on DeafRead and if there’s one thing I know, it’s how to train dogs.
Although let me go on a brief rant: ALL DOG OWNERS SHOULD PICK UP AFTER THEIR DOGS!! Doesn’t [...]
I took these two pics. Are they recognizable? I’m playing around also with an mpeg, not sure how or even if I can post something like that (don’t really want to get into animated gifs…)
(unity)
(chocolate — couldn’t resist )
What is it like to be curious
To thirst for knowledge you can call your own
With an inner desire that’s set on fire—
And you ask a sister, brother, or friend
Who looks in answer and says, “Never mind”?
You have to be deaf to understand
This is quoted in Alone in the Mainstream. While my family, thankfully, doesn’t [...]
