I know that one...LOL! I don't call 37/38 too young, although I call 37 = 10 years old! ---song--- There was a crooked man and he had a crooked smile Had a crooked sixpence and he walked a crooked mile Had a crooked cat and he had a crooked mouse They all lived together in a crooked little house CHORUS Well, this crooked little man and his crooked little smile Took his crooked sixpence and he walked a crooked mile Bought some crooked nails and a crooked little bat Tried to fix his roof with a rat-tat-tat-tat-tat CHORUS Now this crooked little man and his crooked cat and mouse They all live together in a crooked little house Has a crooked door with a crooked little latch Has a crooked roof with a crooked little patch CHORUS CHORUS (Ah, ah) Oh, no, don't let the rain come down (Ah, ah) Oh, no, don't let the rain come down (Ah, ah) Oh, no, don't let the rain come down My roof's got a hole in it (my roof's got a hole in it) My roof's got a hole in it and I might drown --- Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Peters" <albertjpeters@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "National Accessibility Portal mailing list with topics focused on accessibility for users with visual disabilities." <blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "BlindZA" <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:34 AM Subject: Re: [Blind] Drawing on braille paper, on a leather place mat
Jacob, I guess you're too young to know the ditty: "There was a crooked man with a little crooked smile..." Well done! Regards - Albert On 2010/02/19 07:08 AM, Jacob Kruger wrote:Not really relevant to much, but along the lines of what were talking about the other day, and after we discussed something similar on another mailing list, I yesterday got out a softish leather placemat, and took some standard small braille paper sheets, and tried drawing on them using both the stylus, but it seems to hook on the paper surface a bit, so just ended up using a normal ballpoint pen, and the only thing that would really work better is maybe one with a slightly less fine point, and I suppose another point behind using something like a pen instead of just something hard/sharp is sighties will also be to able to look at the drawings after you're done, even though you're sort of drawing in reverse/from behind from the tactile point of view. Anyway, initially just tried drawing simple shapes like squares, circles, triangles etc. using my other hand to sort of keep track of where was drawing, but you can sort of feel the drawn lines from both sides during the process, and they came out not too bad - I suppose - and ended up playing around and drawing a sort of smiley face - a circle where I put a bit of a hair fringe on top to cover up a minor problem since think when the circle wrapped around, the lines didn't meet 100% right, and after that drew two little round eyes inside the circle and finished it off with a smiling line for a mouth inside as well. Will still have to get a sighted person to tell me how it looks, but it feels generally alright from the tactile side, although not 100% symmetrical, but that's not the end of the world, and it's really a sort of first time. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4878 (20100218) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Blind mailing list Blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.napsa.org.za/mailman/listinfo/blind__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4878 (20100218) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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