So a week or two ago I signed up with www.yourmail.com which is a free service that intercepts your voice mails, transcribes them, and emails them to you. You can still retrieve them from your voicemail as usual, but you can opt to get a copy in the email or even have it texted to […]

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’ll be taking ASL classes starting in January. Should be interesting! In the meantime I’ve been looking at online resources.
There’s a dictionary here that’s been around quite some time.
There are actually online signing classes, such as this one although I have no idea of their extent or quality.
I also know […]

After the sturm und drang of yesterday, I wanted to delve into some articles, blogs, and folks on the net that I’ve found very interesting and providing lots of food for thought…
One of the first blogs I did come across was Deaf in the City. He has a number of very thoughtful posts and […]

I’ve heard different things about what sort of issues to worry about with the police. Of course everyone has their own opinions, but I used to have some close connections with the police so here are some thoughts I’ve got.
Depending on where the police are and what sort of people they get to deal […]

Jesus. Take a look: smoke alarms

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