[bksvol-discuss] Re: Slick iPod, WAS: Re: Re: Publishers and Bookshare As a Library
- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:44:03 -0800
It should,
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"If you go without playing the trumpet for one day, no one knows, two days,
only you know, and more than three days without practicing, girl you better
look out, because everyone will know!"
Today, I find myself constantly saying those words, just to get myself
going, to not give up, and it works. Since I learned to play the trumpet at
the tender age of 10, I have spent so much passion and much diligence with
that instrument that I will not give up on it. Sometimes my instrument puts
me into awkward situations where I feel like they won't ever end, but the
trumpet gives me a lot of hope with the majestic, crystal-clear sound it
brings to my ears.
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Chela Robles
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From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Slick iPod, WAS: Re: Re: Publishers and Bookshare
As a Library
Hi Judy!
This was an amusing conversation.
It isn't here yet from Amazon, so I don't know exactly what it is like,
but I bought a Speck PixelSkin Rubberized Case for iPod touch 2G, 3G for
my husband's iPod Touch, because he is concerned that it might slip out of
his hand when he is using the iPod Touch, because the thing is so
unnecessarily slick. I wonder if that would help you keep the darned
thing in place as you are using it.
Debby
At 06:50 PM 12/12/2009, Judy s. wrote
Misha, LOL, you've exactly got the right image! grin. The only thing left
out is me telling the iPod, in rather colorful terms as I'm shoving it
about, how lucky it is that I can't do what I'd like to do to it and its
designers and its sleek little shiny case and innards if I could swing a
baseball bat!
Judy s. (who really wouldn't swing a bat at anything, even if it was
possible, but enjoys the thought anyways!)
Mike wrote:
OK, Judy, please laugh, you've made my day. I now have this picture
stuck in my brain and can't get rid of it...a woman with her nose pressed
up to the touch wheel of an ipod as it sits on her desk. She moves her
head, trying to push her nose around the touch wheel to select songs, but
instead the ipod skitters across the desk on it's slick back. Yes, it's
extremely frustrating, but at the same time quite hilarious.
Misha
Judy s. wrote:
My favorite was the U.S. Representative (from Wisconsin) who tried to
kill the NLS program for the new digital players because, heck, the
blind and disabled could just use an iPod so why waste all that money?
He actually SAID THAT!
HELLO? That would be the totally unusable iPod? The iPod that relies
on a touch screen that you a) can't see and b) doesn't and won't ever
have a braille display and c) sure as heck doesn't work with your nose
trying to manipulate the screen! (trust me on this one! wink). It
requires working hands AND working eyes AND working ears.
Duh.
It's not only companies that forget, it's also the people who are
supposed to represent all of their constituents.
I suspect the representative's office now knows me by name and dreads my
calls because I've contacted them to chew him out about several things,
including the above. grin.
Judy s.
Lynn I wrote:
You've hit the nail on the head, Judy.
I think back to the time when VCRs first came out. I wanted to record
the
Young and the Wrestles--my favorite soap at the time. It was quite a
process--making sure to program the VCR in the proper way. I learned
though.
A few years later, one manufacturer came out with a VCR that had
talking
menus. The only problem was cost (around $900.00), not really
affordable.
The point I'm trying to make here is that often manufactures forget
that
people who are blind enjoy TV, movies, computer technology, caller ID
phones, and a whole host of other products. They tend to leave us out
of the
loop, however. Maybe that isn't all bad--many of us have learned to be
quite
resourceful with Braille labelers and using our brains to remember
step-by-step programming procedures. How many more products would be
sold if
manufactures realized that people who are blind and/or visually
impaired
spend money too? *smile*
Blessings.
Lynnsky
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