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Goodbye Deaf Studies, Hello History!
Goodbye deaf studies, hello history! No, not my major. But I’ve dropped DST 101 in lieu of HIS 111. The reason is that supposedly the GSR 103 class is going to replace the DST 101 class, so they might be considered equivalent, and I might not need it for the major. Time is money, and … Continue reading
Getting Wings
Thanks to curvedmetal I am now coveting a smartphone other than a Blackberry. When I got my Sidekick 3, I had no phone at all because I’d just cracked the screen on my Sidekick 2. So I ran out and upgraded to a SK3 immediately and it was $300. But if I’d taken the time … Continue reading
OCZ Rally 2 Review
For a long time I had a $15 1GB thumb drive that I picked up at MicroCenter. It had no name at all, and it sucked! It took quite a long time to write anything to the USB drive, and some portable applications (like Firefox) wouldn’t run fast enough to even use. I’d been making … Continue reading
New Laptop, But Not for Me
My sister-in-law got a laptop for her birthday. Her parents had asked if there was anything she needed for school, and she said “a laptop.” So her dad gave her his, which is less than a year old and way better than mine! This is actually the second laptop they’ve given her, the first one … Continue reading
Headphone Update
Well, I guess my ears are just shaped weird, or something. They are at least two different sizes, I can tell that much. I went to the drugstore at lunch and bought the Philips SHS3201 earhook earphones for $10, and the right one sits pretty comfortably on my ear but the left one feels like … Continue reading
Video Communication
There is video communication equipment all over my building. In addition to the deaf employees who have videophones at their desks, there’s also multiple small rooms that are set up for video conferencing – some are casual and some are more formal. I do at least one video conference a week, in one of the … Continue reading
Auto Satisfaction
I just satisfied all of my auto technology needs in one fell swoop. I got a car charger for my Sidekick, a car charger for my 3G iPod, and an audio-cassette adapter for the iPod so I can play it through my car’s cassette player. Plus I got a spare home charger for my Sidekick, … Continue reading
Look Closely
I was just talking with :A: last night about how I refused to dissect animals in Biology class in 10th grade. But I do remember peering through microscopes to draw amoebas or whatever they were – of course I’m not much of an artist, so I found looking back and forth between a lens and … Continue reading
Copying VHS to DVD
I missed a woot for a combination VHS player/DVD recorder, and that got me thinking about transferring my old VHS tapes to DVD. The one I’m most concerned about is my tape from the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea – it has been watched a few hundred times and the tape is probably near … Continue reading
Sidekick Noodlings
I was noodling around a bit on eBay as a result of a conversation with firesign3000 and I was looking at Sidekick prices. I originally bought a color Sidekick, used from eBay, in January 2005 for about $130. That same phone is currently selling for about $50 on eBay; I still have my old one … Continue reading