Sleepy Steve Signs Sloppily!

(This is the content of a short reaction paper for SLG 102, the sign language class Jodi and I are taking at Chandler-Gilbert Community College). Over the last two classes, we watched the recent documentary, Through Deaf Eyes.

Video Blogging Week 2207 Continues!

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I've wanted to try this for a while, and is one of the few reasons I'd put myself on camera on this site. :-) I'm going to start a signing vlog, and I'll try to post whenever I can.

Juixe TechKnow Rails Model Validators

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The recent TWIT was good, especially if you're a massive geek, or really really really bored. I used to listen to the Gillmor Gang fairly regularly, and frankly I just wasn't entertained. Leo and his rotating crew of miscreants are alternately hilarious, self-deferential, pompous, very occasionally crude, and even more occasionally informative. :-)

The Dan Cederholm v. LogoMaid spat has turned into an ugly mess, with the perhaps overly helpful crowd siding with Dan turning into something of a lynchmob.

Politics, Technology, and the Future of Deafness. Text of a speech given by Michael Chorost, author of Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human, at Gallaudet University on March 21st 2007. Still processing.

Jodi and Adelina and I went to her company's family picnic on Saturday, and much fun was had. Of most interest was Jodi's participation in the company horseshoe tournament - she and her partner won their first two games but finally lost as they started to get tired. Pitching big metal horseshoes 30 feet at a time is not as easy as it looks! Ask Jodi and I, who are both nursing sore shoulders and hips! (I did not play in the tournament but I pitched my share of shoes between rounds...) I don't envy Jodi, who as the family Queen Flinger pitched way more horseshoes than I did!

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Last night, we had a bit of fun at the Ivy house. Jodi and I are taking a sign class, and we've been trying to find time to practice, as well as give Adelina time to practice her sign as well. So last night after dinner, I announced that I was "deaf" for the night and that Adelina and Jodi would have to sign to me and vice versa.

I found this comment from former President Clinton quite sad:

I spent 10 minutes at the grocery store the other day looking for a loaf of whole wheat bread without enriched flour in it, and that did not have high-fructose corn syrup as the third or fourth-listed ingredient. What is high-fructose corn syrup doing in my bread?

Well, Jodi broke the news. Not that it was a secret. In fact you, dear Reader, may be the last person to know that Jodi and I have begun another adoption. :-) This time around we're working with a large well-connected agency, WACAP, and we're planning on going to Russia.