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at&t 3G Quicksilver Modem Review
I’m not crazy about at&t as a cellular provider. Their 3G network is awful and slow and shattered — but, I have an iPhone and I have a 3G data plan with at&t as well — so I’m stuck with the...
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Owning Information Through Inquiry in Missouri
At the Passover Seder, things are structured in such a way to incite inquiry in the minds of the children who are present. The sequence of the meal is different than that of any other meal. Foods are...
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Falling into a Fool's Queue: My Failed iPhone 4 Upgrades
Today, I fell, once again, into a Fool’s Queue and helplessly tried to upgrade my two iPhone 3GS devices to iPhone 4 cellphones. I should’ve known better. Upgrading your iPhones has never been an...
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Canceling a Skype Subscription via PayPal is Impossible
I’ve had a Skype account since the service started. I’ve never used Skype to make a single personal or business phone call — even though I always thought one day, any day, I would start Skype-ing like...
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Facilitated iPhone Conversation with Proloquo2Go
Would you spend $200.00 USD on an iPhone App to give back your ability to communicate via voice? That might sound like a lot of money for a little bit of software, but for the disabled who can regain...
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The Chinese Subway Fire Drill
I was ready to write a humor based article on how you can gauge the importance of a subway service announcement from how easy it is to understand it — the more important the announcement, the more...
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The Necessary Genus of Jerzy Grotowski
If you are in the theatre — and if you are not aware of the germinal revolution Jerzy Grotowski had against Theatre of the Status Quo — then you need to dig into his oeuvre to discover how this...
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Compromise About A Crying Baby
It’s two in the morning and my son is crying. I stir a little bit and turn to my right and notice that my wife, Elizabeth, is not there next to me and that our son is in his bassinet, possibly the...
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The FCC Serves the Deaf-Blind in the 21st Century
We received terrific news last week from the FCC that they are spending a lot of time and money to guarantee the Deaf-Blind will be included in the current century. Here’s the celebratory PR Blurp from...
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Ordering Fast Food by the Number
I was in a fast food restaurant the other day with a friend when I realized there is a specific reason for creating combination orders. I had always thought the reason for “order by the number” was...
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What's in a Deaf Sign Name? Hunter and his Gun!
The last week of August caught a firestorm in the Grand Island, Nebraska Public Schools system as administrators scrambled to recover from banning a three-year-old Deaf child named Hunter Spanjer from...
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End of the Copper Line
I am concerned about the abolishment of reliable, mechanical, communication when it comes to “plain old telephone service” — POTS — and the future of voice and data communication. Hurricane Sandy has...
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Three Days of a Hundred Years of Darkness: Hurricane Sandy and 12 Months of...
One year ago today, 8.5 million people in the New York City area were without heat or power as Hurricane Sandy blasted the soft middle of our lives — thrusting us backward a hundred years behind a wall...
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On Being AWOL: The Great 80 Day Internet Disconnect
You may have noticed that I have been absent a while — there are two reasons for this. The first was losing my internet lifeline — the first storm of the season rendered our already stressed internet...
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Michelangelo’s 16th Century Cipher Image Communication
One internet meme that is taking flight on social media is the handcrafted glory of a grocery list Michelangelo created in the 16th century for his illiterate servant to use while shopping. “Because...
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A Romanov in a Pau Garden: A Glorious Last Moment in Living History
One sunny morning in Pau, one of the neighbors came to take some plants for his garden. The elderly gentleman in the photograph on the right is Monsieur Romanov — a descendant of the Romanov family,...
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How to Ack Back
I’m never at a loss learning how many young people are uneducated in the proper way to communicate online with those outside their immediate generation. Over the last couple of years, I’ve noticed...
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Romanian Distress Call from Kew Gardens
A little over two years ago, I wrote an article about mobile phone usage in public called Banning Cell Phones in Public Places. I was, and still am, of the opinion that most public spaces are not the...
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The Shape of Water: Guillermo del Toro and the Failure to Consecrate
Guillermo del Toro’s new movie — The Shape of Water — is a high-minded movie that looks great, sounds good, but ultimately fails to consecrate the point of the story: Communication Creates Love. There...
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Busy People Are Not So Much
Have you ever noticed how “Busy People” — people that always reply to any inquiry or favor with, “I’m busy!” — are really the least busy people on the planet? Where do you think that need to always say...
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