Carl, that is awesome about getting to go to the symphony. Going to catholic
school the only field trips we had were to other religious institutions for
sacraments.
Phooey
Frank
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<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2021 11:25 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Phone ideas?
Two subjects:
First, try going to the ACB and/or NFB web sites and look for their techy
links. There are some very bright blind techies out and about, willing to
assist those of us who are reluctant to enter the modern world. For many
years, due to my work, I would wind up at the Ferry terminal in Seattle. There
was a public coin phone and I would call Cathy and give her the time the Ferry
docked at Bainbridge Island, and she would time it so when I stepped off the
Ferry, she was pulling into the parking lot. One fine day the public pay phone
was missing.
I bought a basic cell phone, learned to use it, and have had it for years. I
am now at home most of the time, so a desk top computer is the best tool for
communicating with the world. And Gmail is providing me with more
communication than I can comfortably handle, although I'm thinking of signing
up with Face Book.
Second Issue: Just because my emotions are tied to music from the 30's, 40's,
50's and 60's, does not mean that I think of them as the best music in all of
Creation. They are, simply put, my personal memory bank. Some great music is
being created today. But it will be my grandchildren's memory bank. I was
fortunate to have parents who believed in exposing us children to a wide
variety of experiences, including what music we listened to. Our school also
had field trips to the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, where we were taught to
appreciate classical music. My mother listened to Country Western music in the
mornings, along with Don McNeil's Breakfast Club, a radio variety program, as
well as the current pop music. My dad had a side business as a radio
repairman, taking over half of my bedroom as his workshop.
Late into the night he would be working on radios, while tuning into the
popular music and programs. From 1939 until 1949 I absorbed a wide range of
leisure time listening, with my ear pushed up to the thin partition walling off
my bed.
My 48 year old son, our middle child, listens to noises and scratches that
cause me to grab the tuner and try to get the station back on its frequency.
But that's the stuff he grew up on, listening to his little radio each night.
I think of this when I begin to attempt to explain how the world was back when
I was a boy. The words can never connect the real emotions that I felt.
But nonetheless, he tries to do the same with his own children, bringing a
smile to my face.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/11/21, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a question. Maybe I should say questions plural. On a list
where people think that fifty-two-year-old music recordings are
something new this might not be the best place to ask, but I am not
subscribed to any lists right now where this would be on topic. So
since nothing is off topic here I thought I would at least start here.
My land line phone is acting up. Right now I am lucky if I get a dial
tone instead of some kind of mysterious beeping and incoming calls are
being cut off before I can answer. I have called the phone company to
fix it now twice and both times it started acting up soon afterwards.
So I am thinking that the problem might be in the physical phone
rather than the line. That would call for buying a new phone. If I buy
a new phone I am thinking that it might be about time for me to get
myself into the twenty-first century like everyone else and give up my
land line for a cell phone as my only phone. But if I do that I am
going into it blind in more ways than just that my eyes don't work. I
have been wanting a smart phone for a long time because I am
fascinated by the many and varied cool things that one can do with
them, but they are expensive and I don't trust myself to be able to
learn using a touch screen very well. I always have been a lot better
at learning things that you know than I have been at learning things you do.
That is why I used to be able to take a lab and lecture
course and ace the lecture and nearly flunk the lab. I know that
there are a lot of choices that are not smart phones too and some that
actually have buttons. I think I could get along much better with
buttons. But I don't know a lot about all the choices that are
available and which work better for a blind person. Most of the people
I know are so sight oriented that they can't imagine a blind person
working any device. So does anyone on this list have any advice? Do
any of you use a cell phone yourselves? If so, can you say something
about why it was a good choice for you and how much it costs and
anything else you might have to say about it?
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disbelief and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something
were so! Your patient's wish to be in God's hands is not truth. It is
simply a child's wish—and nothing more! It is a wish not to die, a
wish for the eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'!
Evolutionary theory scientifically demonstrates God's
redundancy—though Darwin himself had not the courage to follow his
evidence to its true conclusion. Surely, you must realize that we
created God, and that all of us together now have killed him.” ― Irvin
D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept