[optacon-l] Re: optacon training
- From: "Marie Rudys" <mrudys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 04:55:12 -0700
Among my first book was Stephen King's Skeleton Crew, and my favorite story
out of that is Word Processor of the Gods. To read that by myself was
something else, back in 1994. The Optacon stood me in good stead when I was
in a battered women's shelter in 1995 and 1997, breaking away from a second
marriage that was violent and stormy. I couldn't handle his temper tantrums
and yelling at me for every little thing and his paranoia. Good thing I
took the Optacon with me. If I didn't, it would have disappeared somewhere
and I would never have seen it again.
Marie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:26 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: optacon training
> My first book was "Close Encounters of the 3rd kind, because my
> Angel-Bride Margie and I were going to see it. I didn't finish the book
> before we went to the movie, but for a pretty good way into the movie, I
> DVS'ed the movie for her.
>
> What really shocked me was when I gained enough speed to read the book
> with a sense of real enthusiasm and emotions springing from the text.
> That was my first real reading experience with it from my perspective. I
> then took on The Star Fleet Manual, and actually looked at uniform
> designs, my first attempts at looking at images as well as text.
>
> I read a wide variety of books from "Selected Writings of Chairman Mao" my
> first possession actually printed in China. Star Trek and James Bond
> novels. It was the beginning of a personal print collection which really
> burgeoned with my acquisition of a KPR model 30 in August of 1989 where my
> Optacon use held me in good stead when I used the hand camera.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <Dacoleman@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:27 PM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: optacon training
>
>
>> Nick and list,
>> Your observations remind me of a remarkable (to me) experience I had when
>> I first began gaining a little real proficiency in reading with the
>> optacon. I had been struggling with the lessons and with some of that
>> nasty junk mail, when I suddenly decided to read a book on the Stoic
>> philosophers. Within a few hours I was reading as i had thought I'd
>> never
>> be able to. And after that I did a much better job with the junk mail
>> besides!
>>
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