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NTID Laptop Thief Using Info?

RSGeo-007 Earlier today I got back from visiting the local Capital One bank. Yesterday, I had received an account opening statement from them which had the correct address, but wrong addressee. I took a look inside to find that it was an account that had been opened in someone else's name and SSN but the account opener used my address. It was dated a day or two after the theft....
Higher Education Culture Wed, Sep 03 2008

Give Out Your Password? NOT! NEVER!

RSGeo-007 There's some AIM screen names, most notably "powerball4real8," that are being used to scam more deaf out there. Watch also for any with "emerson" in it, like "pacemerson247" that kept getting others. This time it's of someone who is trying to ask you for your password to "open the briefcase" to get the person their money.First, this is another variation of the Nigeria...
Tech Culture Tue, Sep 02 2008

Textwalking, Textdriving, textwhatever...

RSGeo-007 Sherlock Steve has had some pretty good points when talking about texting while driving. The recent Washington Post article, Textwalkers: Do They Need A Heads-Up? talks about things like this including textwalking. There's even mention of laws being passed related to texting.Folks, put down your pager and walk normally. You really do not want to be in NYC or other cit...
Tech Culture Tue, Aug 26 2008

NTID Reunion Recap

RSGeo-007 What a time at the reunion. I didn't want to leave, but I had to. Whoever plans them, keep doing so. They keep getting better every year. I'm hoping future gas prices will stabilize or at least be lower than how they were at the time, hovering around $4.15 a gallon. Where the artwork was, they had a slideshow of previous SVP events, with me being in one of them with m...
Higher Education Tue, Jul 22 2008

Doctors and the relay - Hung up? - Part 2

RSGeo-007 Those of you who were following my previous post can relax. As it turns out, I went in today (Monday morning June 23) after they opened and talked to the front desk person. She took one look at my paper and computer records and realized that she had neglected to call me to reschedule. Since the doctor was there, they were able to get me in for a checkup of my knees an...
Legal Mon, Jun 23 2008

Doctors and the relay - Hung up?

RSGeo-007 Has anyone had a doctor appointment seemingly be cancelled for no reason, and when you show up at the office, no one is there and you find out that the doctor's on vacation or something? Then when you check your emails, you see a collection of relay calls that you don't know who they're from, who called, and they're all hangups? I sent this message to the Quality Mana...
Audism Tech Legal Thu, Jun 19 2008

Forget the DC Tax Scam. We Got An Interpreter Scam.

RSGeo-007 Never mind it being Friday the 13th today... The Washington Post Metro section had a story about an embezzlement case involving the local community college. What upset me was finding that the former coordinator of interpreters for the deaf was involved as well as one of the interpreters, and I knew Mark Kreidler from when I attended and worked with him on getting int...
Higher Education Language Fri, Jun 13 2008

The 'Wrong Game' Review

RSGeo-007 A couple weeks ago, I was with Jamie Berke to watch The Wrong Game at Gallaudet's Foster Auditorium. Little did we know we'd be sharing the campus with a festival and what looked to be a basketball game. The movie itself was quite good, the first time we've watched a full-length ASL/signed movie. The first thing I'd noticed was no sound. Next thing I noticed was that ...
Art and Storytelling Sat, May 03 2008

Designer Babies or Borgs? Deaf or Not?

RSGeo-007 I was reading up on the UK controversy regarding IVF and deaf embryos on The Deaf Embryo Debate i711 and a few more on USA-L News. Here, it's more a question of ethics. Others have asked why are we trying to play God? This same subject has often been in forum- and list-demolishing abortion debates.First, a little science fiction. How many of us are familiar with the S...
Media Tech Legal Culture Sun, Apr 06 2008

You Can Use VP Without a TV!

RSGeo-007 Have you ever wanted to connect your VP to something other than a TV? Some of you have probably hooked it up to your some sort of external standalone recording device with some success. You can hook it up to your computer with the right TV card.Most TV cards can handle this if they use the same kind of push-in plugs the VPs use. It's best to read your manual before yo...
Media Language Tech Sun, Mar 30 2008

RSGeo-007 I just had to start out this blog with a title like this, since for some reason, John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" came to mind. I've not yet read the book which is a classic often read by literature students.I've been following the battles of those for and against cochlear implants including Tuscany mom's Re: Ci Controversial, Why? post. Both hearing aids and CIs ...
Tech Culture Tue, Mar 11 2008

Deaf College Students Without Support Services

RSGeo-007 As a college student myself, it's hard enough going back to classes after some time. But when you find you have to rely on other students to help out in getting notes, you risk getting a student who does not take good notes. While it's good to have an interpreter, it's even better when you have one who reads the course text(s) and sometimes actually tries to do the co...
Higher Education Tech Legal Thu, Feb 21 2008

Repairing a Sidekick II

RSGeo-007 Anyone have two Sidekick IIs that work to an extent? I had an SK2 with a working unit but bad screen and another with a bad unit and good working screen. In this case, you need a T6 torx screwdriver and a place to keep the screws. Avoid the hex drivers, as they won't do the job. They will damage the screw heads and make it nearly impossible to remove. Finding the T6s ...
Tech Sat, Feb 09 2008

AOL Releases Real-Time IMing for the Deaf!

RSGeo-007 Just came across this article;AOL Launches Real-Time Instant Messaging Targeted to Deaf and Hard of Hearing UsersWhat does this mean for us? It means that rather than waiting for the other person to finish typing SEND or ENTER to send the entire message, we can see everything the person types just like on a TTY!No more waiting for the other person! Real-time communica...
Tue, Jan 15 2008

Deaf Scams via AIM

RSGeo-007 Did anyone get an AIM message from someone claiming to be an FBI agent, law enforcement officer, etc? It most likely is a scam. They will often offer you something like this if you work for them online;- cash every month or week, usually nearly $1,000- a new vehicle- pay for vehicle registration, typically a few hundred- have you fill out an application which most lik...
Tech Legal Mon, Jan 14 2008

Oops! I did a Faux Pas Again!

RSGeo-007 I had to laugh when I read this blog entry back in October and it reminded me of some other things.Mind Your P’s and Q’s, Or in This Case: D’s and H’sThose of us who tend to alternate between the hearing and the deaf worlds usually know what they shouldn't do, but now and then a foulup will happen.Sure, we've all had to make relay calls. The post comments about how so...
Art and Storytelling Mon, Jan 07 2008

We're not too disabled to work?

RSGeo-007 Back in July, I posted about this same issue, "ADA Updates? Should I Hold my Breath?" I had to deal with college classes before coming back to this, so I'm behind a bit. Reunify Gally posted this earlier;Qualifed to Work = Disqualification from ADA ProtectionToday, I'm wondering what's going on with the ADA updates. Are they stuck in a rut, going into continuous argum...
Legal Mon, Dec 24 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 24

RSGeo-007 Attending Summer campsI had my share of summer camps including the day camps. One was a church thing that went for a few weeks. I had one counselor who kept accusing me of being able to hear. I don't remember what someone told him that made him quit saying that.Another one was in Illinois with my church group and I was the only deaf person there. I did sign a song at ...
Language Fri, Oct 26 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 23

RSGeo-007 Intro to captioning in theatresWhen I lived in Illinois, sometimes I watched movies at the theatre, reading the book first. With "Back To The Future" and some other movies, I didn't need to read the book.In 1996, I was in Michigan with someone and watched Schindler's List. Later on, I watched Titanic in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fortunately, captioned movies became more commo...
Language Art and Storytelling Tech Wed, Oct 24 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 20

RSGeo-007 Teasing and Mistreatment - Part 3 of 4With late high school, it got less. Some hurled pennies at me. They're pretty much lucky that they didn't nail my eyes in the wrong way. Remember my electronics class? Charged capacitors can be electrifying. However revenge-bent the mindset some of these kids were, I'd most likely be beaten up or something. I should have just told...
Audism Education Thu, Oct 11 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 19

RSGeo-007 Teasing and Mistreatment - Part 2 of 4At the end of eighth or ninth grade, someone broke into my locker and took everything. I had a few things at home, but the major stuff I needed for studies were gone. That meant I couldn't study for my finals or get homework done after the theft. I told my teachers and they said that what my grade average was before the finals, th...
Audism Tue, Oct 09 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 15

RSGeo-007 Attending College - Part 2Since my family lived in southeastern Illinois at the time, I was able to take Amtrak home and back to college. It would take about 23-25 hours. The layover in Chicago would be around 8-10 hours. I managed to pass it by walking around the area including going up Sears Tower, putting my stuff in the station's lockers.While on Amtrak from home ...
Higher Education Tue, Sep 25 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 14

RSGeo-007 Attending CollegeI was accepted by NTID and I went into SVP 1983 (Summer Vestibule Program). It marked the first time I was going to be on my own in the dorms on campus away from home. That plus I was finally with other deaf people, more time spent with them than other times combined. This is where I was finally able to make and keep friends for much longer than my [...]
Culture Thu, Sep 20 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 13

RSGeo-007 Going to School - Grades 10-12 - Part 2Some classes in high school have pretty much stuck with me no matter what over the years.I had a Photography class where we did black and white photography and developing. I'm still doing photography today. Even though I bought a used manual camera back in college and digital camera years later, I still prefer the manual camera. [...]
Art and Storytelling Education Wed, Sep 19 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 12

RSGeo-007 Going to School - Grades 10-12Then with tenth grade, my parents transferred me to a small Christian school. This showed that they were aware of the problems I had in the School From Hell. With this school, everyone treated each other better. I had one instructor that went to the hospital for a heart valve replacement and was out for a couple months. The principal was [...]
Thu, Sep 13 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 10

RSGeo-007 Going to School - Grades 1-5In first grade, I had this deaf oral classroom, and at the end of the year they told mom and dad that I didn't need to attend deaf classes at all. For the next few years, I'd be tested in my English skills, and was always reading and writing at or above my grade level. I had the hearing tests as well.In second and third grades in Florida, I [...]
Language Audism Education Thu, Sep 06 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 9

RSGeo-007 Speech therapyAround the second year of kindergarten in Kentucky and/or first grade, I had speech therapy. I believe I did quite well, so I never went for a long time. It was, if I remember right, an Easter Seal Society thing in the downtown area. I'm hoping that next time I'm back I'm back in KY, I can go visit them again and see if by chance they'll still have my [...]
Art and Storytelling Education Tue, Sep 04 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 8

RSGeo-007 Learning and Using SignI never quite knew what sign language was, even when one time I was with my family visiting a family friend. We went to church with them and then to their house afterwards. The husband's wife's parents were deaf, didn't speak, and only signed.I never learned sign up til I was on a school bus with some others who signed, much less understood what [...]
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Thu, Aug 30 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 7

RSGeo-007 Getting hearing aids - Part 2About ten years later, I finally get behind the ear hearing aids. They were better than the body aids, less showy, and you could hide them with hair. I couldn't always, since I've kept my hair short. I heard from someone who had longer hair who accidentally jumped into a pool with his hearing aids on. The aids were fine. He said all he [...]
Tue, Aug 28 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 6

RSGeo-007 Getting hearing aids - Part 1My first hearing aids were body aids, which I got shortly after my hearing loss diagnosis. Mine was a single body aid with a splitter cord, held in a pocket or under the shirt via harness. It got annoying after some years of receiving stares from people who were wondering what that thing was. Was it a radio or something else? Mish's [...]
Art and Storytelling Thu, Aug 23 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 5

RSGeo-007 Hearing loss diagnosisHowever, the first five parts of this serial don't quite answer the question of how I was found to have a hearing loss. As I said in part 1, I was born hearing, then it started going downhill when I was age 5, learning to talk before then. A doctor's letter mentioned the mumps, and a blood titer test indicated the mumps as well, essentially my [...]
Language Education Tech Tue, Aug 21 2007

Article: "Sound and the Fury"

RSGeo-007 No, it's not something about the classic show "Sound and Fury." It's about a deaf football team.It's about Coach Hottle and when he started with Gallaudet University. Teams thought they could easily beat Gally. With Hottle as coach, it was the other way around. Gally beat them.Read Washington Post article.
Higher Education Mon, Aug 20 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 4

RSGeo-007 Adoption part 3 - Birth mom and I meetWe met up at her place in Arizona a few months later. The reunion was nice and quiet, one long hug in the baggage claim in the airport. Her husband has said I'm like a son to him. He's taken me on buggy rides through off-road trails in the Arizona desert.Shortly after our second or third visit, her previous husband, my birth dad, [...]
Art and Storytelling Thu, Aug 16 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 3

RSGeo-007 Adoption part 2 - Birth mom finds me.My birth mom beat me to the punch by finding me first, shortly after 9/11. Shortly after that, my Geo Metro was totalled after returning from an event in the late evening. It had 166,500 miles on it. Someone went in front of me at an intersection and I hit their rear passenger door. I wasn't injured, thankfully, despite the 35mph [...]
Culture Tue, Aug 14 2007

Deaf Actors on Star Trek (Part 2)

RSGeo-007 My Deaf Actors on Star Trek post got good comments, and yes, I'm familiar with how the show is fantasy and sci-fi. Some of the storylines have reflected real life to an extent. Some things have become reality, as their communicators have become today's cell phones and PDAs to name a few things.However, even though it's set in the future, with the the occasional [...]
Tech Sat, Aug 11 2007

Growing up Deaf - Part 2

RSGeo-007 My AdoptionUp to my birth, birth mom was, in her words, a recluse in her home, going out for her classes and meals. She took vitamins and that kind of thing. All this most likely kept her healthy enough to keep us from having rubella. Unfortunately, she gave me up for adoption right after birth. Even worse, her mother, who would have been my grandmother, never [...]
Art and Storytelling Thu, Aug 09 2007

Growing Up Deaf - Part 1

RSGeo-007 One of the things about growing up deaf is that you learn to come up with little coping mechanisms to deal with various things as you grow up. You still use them even in adulthood up til your passing. In my case, I was born hearing, then it started going downhill when I was age 5. I learned to talk before then.Over time, I never quite found out the cause of my hearing [...]
Art and Storytelling Education Thu, Aug 02 2007

Defining Total/Simultaneous Communications

RSGeo-007 This is a response to Patti Raswant's blog post as well as the DBC requests.There seems to be some confusion about what total communications and simultaneous are. I was brought up via the oral method as a child, but then started using simultaneous communications later on. I often use sim comm when I'm with other deaf and with those who don't use or don't know sign [...]
Language Tue, Jul 31 2007

ADA Updates? Should I Hold My Breath?

RSGeo-007 I was reading the ADA Restoration Act of 2007 post by Roblog, Jamie Berke, and a couple other places. True, we can use today's technologies and devices to keep in touch with people, but we're still missing things in vocal/spoken communications, especially in some critical places like airports and other loudspeaker-using locations that don't use visual alerts as well. [...]
Tech Legal Mon, Jul 30 2007

Affected Emotionally by the AG Bell Protests?

RSGeo-007 I find I'm not alone when I read back on the protest blogs, old emotional feelings like anger and sadness come up. I was going to put this in my Growing Up Deaf serial, but I felt it may be of interest to others out there. This was after reading Jamie Berke's Deaf Protestors at Alexander Graham Bell Convention on Deafness and The Deaf Sherlock's Protest 2007: Against [...]
Language Audism Art and Storytelling Education Culture Fri, Jul 27 2007

Growing up Deaf serial

RSGeo-007 I'm going to be doing a weekly posting of my Growing Up Deaf serial. Jamie Berke did this on her Deafness site, and this gave me the idea of writing my own. Others have done the same as well. I showed my own family what I had so far, and even a year later, no one's sent me any corrections, updates, additions, whatever, except for a few minor things.Comments are [...]
Wed, Jul 25 2007

Ridor on "Perseverance or Persistence?"

RSGeo-007 I should have mentioned this earlier, but I've followed a lot of theatre chains on their odyssey of making themselves accessible to everyone. Some places go all out. Some places need a bit of encouraging and pounding to include a bit more accessibility. What Ridor did in his "Perseverance ... or Persistence?" post last week got me thinking and looking back.Sometimes [...]
Education Tech Culture Wed, Jul 18 2007

Deaf Actors on Star Trek

RSGeo-007 Have many deaf actors been on Star Trek, not just as a brief walkon, but as part of the storyline interacting with the crew? So far, we've had Howie Seago in Next Generation's Loud as a Whisper episode.We've seen LeVar Burton's blind character Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge. LaForge used a vision enhancement device that went across his eyes to allow him to see. [...]
Art and Storytelling Tech Mon, Jul 16 2007

The 4th, NTID, Gally, and Adulthood

RSGeo-007 Gotta give the Deaf Sherlock a big hand at his style of making Shrimp BBQ Kabob. As it turns out Jamie and I were at the local Costco picking up a few things, and I had to make a fast run to the seafood kiosk to pick up something there. Seems the guy was towing away the first of several pieces of large ice coolers with various seafoods to the freezer in back. I nailed [...]
Education Fri, Jul 06 2007

Lost and Found Pagers

RSGeo-007 Shortly before Berke Outspoken posted "Data Only Plan? Not Quite!" on her lost Sidekick, I managed to restrain myself rather well from killing her due to her nearly going overboard bonkers about it. I got plans for her next time that happens. Not to worry... I won't hurt her.Since The Deaf Sherlock posted on this as well, I started wondering about a few things.The [...]
Tech Mon, Jul 02 2007


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