Monthly Archives: November 2010
Netflix Rate Hike for DVD Plans is Unfair to Deaf Users
Netflix recently announced that all plans including DVD mailing services will be increasing in price, between $1-8, depending on how many DVDs you have out at a time. They also added a new streaming-only plan, now their cheapest option, as part of their transition to a streaming-focused company offering DVDs, rather than a DVD-focused company … Continue reading
Hormones
This might be TMI, I’ll try to keep it clinical. But it does have to do with gynecology and that sort of thing.
Heartbreaking Hate
This weekend, while attending Philadelphia Leather Pride Night (more on that later), I learned that IML 2010 is Tyler McCormick, a disabled transman. Never before has a transman won IML, and never before has a disabled man won IML (though IML 2009 was Jeffrey Payne, who – like me – is late deafened). That he … Continue reading
Hearing Aids and Phone
My old hearing aids were awesome. They knew when I got a phone call, and switched over to phone mode automatically. If I wanted to initiate a call, I only had to tap one button to switch things over. The microphone unit was small and easy to clip on. Those days are no longer, of … Continue reading