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The future culture of work
This is a very long presentation about work policies at Netflix but you can skim through it pretty fast. I’d love it if I could get my company to adopt some of the freedoms seen here. 80% of my job is done on the computer (reports, CAD, reports, planning tests) and I can work on it [...]
Thoughts on improving education in the US
First note, this topic isn’t aimed at education of kids with a hearing loss, it’s just about education in the US in general. Last week I saw someone post an article on Twitter about all the funding towards increasing technology for schools. Computers, networks, infrastructure, educational software programs, etc, etc. Billions of dollars each year. (That [...]
Tweets from Hi_Dan, A Twitter Troll
A month or so ago I was contacted randomly on Twitter by a guy named Dan Schwartz. We chatted a bit and it was a somewhat interesting conversation but the guy was obviously closed minded, ignorant and opinionated. When he called someone a cu*t I un-followed him. When he started going off on someone about [...]
Raining, sunshine and birds
We were covered in pollen which coated the new patio furniture no matter how often you brushed it off. When it started raining four days ago we were relieved. Everything was now so fresh, green, cleaned off. Today was the fifth morning to wake up to gray skies. It poured last night. A huge thunderstorm. [...]
More on the Med El DUET hybrid CI and on my CI
I was going to add this to the previous post but decided to start a new one here: Hearing preservation was a goal of mine and my surgeon going into my CI surgery. We did implant the worse of my two ears, but I had a fairly significant amount of hearing in the lower frequencies. As [...]
“I won’t think about that now, I’ll think about it tomorrow.”
Surgery went fine. Everything fine. I just got home (8:30pm) – exactly 12 hours after they took me into the OR. Where’d my 12 hours go? Well, 3ish hours for surgery, 4ish hours to wake up enough to be able leave (did I tell you I spent 10+ hours in the car yesterday between work and driving to [...]
A Note About House
I don’t watch House, or much TV at all honestly, but apparently they had a patient receive a cochlear implant on the show tonight. I read a summary of it in Nabeel’s blog and just from reading that decided I should make a ‘that’s not how it works, folks’ post, just in case.
Lilacs
Lilacs Originally uploaded by sajego Growing up in upstate New York one of the surest signs of spring was the lilacs blooming. Rochester even has a festival celebrating lilacs (http://www.lilacfestival.com/) but it won’t start until the 2nd week of May. Here in Virginia there are so many spring flowers. In March we had daffodiles and [...]
Spot the ASL interpreter
Spot the ASL interpreterOriginally uploaded by sajego This is only the second band event I’ve been to at Monticello (Thomas Jefferson’s house here in Charlottesville) but both times so far they have had a sign language interpreter for the event. This doesn’t help me much since I’m seated in the band and can’t see much [...]
Good Morning
Good MorningOriginally uploaded by sajego Hard to get up with such a cuddley pillow.
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