Oh boy did I get that in Hawaii."You can't bring that gps on the boat, what will everyone say?" I said, "they will be mighty intrigued that me a totally blind person has something like that and you can stay downstairs if you have such aproblem with it." I got that the whole time especially when I ran the gps so I just turned the speach off and told them I was reading a book, and "saw" more of Hawaii than any of them did. Interestingly when they were havingtheir sighteddiscussions about lattitude and longitude I jumped right in with the numbers." What is worse is now back in chicago they all are telling everyone how "cool" I was with my gps and how I saw more than they did. Ok I'm overstepping my boundaries and so I will go find out how to download web braille files. I am really intrigued about it.
Mary Ellen Earls Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 5:33 AM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] braillenote pk > Hi all, > > Terri Pannett writes: > > I think I would want to read with the display higher than my belly button. I'm also concerned about what it looks like to sighted people, especially if I'm dressed up. > > > Terry, if you're concerned about how it looks to sighted people, then > I suggest you go back into your bedroom and go to bed for the rest of > your life. If you need to use a BN while you are standing up and > while you're "dressed up", then you will just do it, and to Hell with > the prissy, self-centered idiots who are "concerned that it doesn't > look right". It's your pencil and paper, b'God, and you have every > right in the world to use it when and where you will!! If you have a > tool that you need to use in order to accomplish a task, then you use > it. Terry, you're blind. Nothing is going to change that unless God > does. In the meantime, you live your life the best way you can. > > People who refuse to use tools that will enhance their lives because > it looks bad to the sighted are playing into their game. They don't > want you to "look funny". It makes them uncomfortable! So what! > People need to be made uncomfortable every once in a while. It's good > for their psyches. > > Sorry for the rant, but this "I'm worried about how it looks to the > sighted", gumbus makes me seethe! > > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. > Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >
