Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toA really useless transcription Uncategorized A really useless transcription December 28, 2009 Barely enough to get the gist of what he’s saying…. could have done better just focusing on trying to hear. I prefer using text relay versus captel. The relay operator is a better advocate than I am for myself. Outcome: no CI activation until the 4th even though I had an appt scheduled for tomorrow […] Number of comments: 5
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toWaiting and snow storms Uncategorized Waiting and snow storms December 23, 2009 Today is the day. I’m not first this time so have to wait more I think. Not terribly hungry due to stomach butterflies. I had to reschedule/cancel my pre-op appointment that was supposed to be two days ago because Charlottesville got over two feet of snow. The snow stopped Saturday night but my street didn’t […] Number of comments: 0
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toResidual hearing post Medel CI Uncategorized Residual hearing post Medel CI November 10, 2009 I just had my 6 month mapping and will post about that soon. In the mean-time for those who are curious, here is a comparison of my implanted ear’s audiograms before and after the CI (residual hearing). Hearing With the CI is 15-25 across the board, 250 to 6000 (they don’t test 125 Hz but […] Number of comments: 8
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toPlaying with Google Wave… Uncategorized Playing with Google Wave… October 28, 2009 By now you’ve probably heard of Google Wave. It’s a new “collaboration tool” from Google designed to replace email some day… or something like that. Right now, to me, it just feels like a cross between threaded instant messaging, a multi-user forum, email, twitter, a chat room… I’ve used instant messaging (IM) for years and […] Number of comments: 7
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toMore about work and motivation Uncategorized More about work and motivation September 12, 2009 Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com I love the talks at TED.com. Not only do they have subtitles in multiple languages on I think ALL videos, they are recorded in such a perfectly clear and high quality way that I can understand them without the subtitles. Even on my […] Number of comments: 0
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toThe future culture of work Uncategorized The future culture of work September 12, 2009 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 […] Number of comments: 4
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toThoughts on improving education in the US Uncategorized Thoughts on improving education in the US June 10, 2009 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. […] Number of comments: 6
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toTweets from Hi_Dan, A Twitter Troll Uncategorized Tweets from Hi_Dan, A Twitter Troll May 14, 2009 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 […] Number of comments: 20
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toRaining, sunshine and birds Uncategorized Raining, sunshine and birds May 7, 2009 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. […] Number of comments: 3
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toMore on the Med El DUET hybrid CI and on my CI Uncategorized More on the Med El DUET hybrid CI and on my CI May 2, 2009 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. […] Number of comments: 7
