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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 7:48 AM
To: Nathan Normal
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: I gotta get this off of my chest
Hi Nathan!
how scarry a bunch of ilitterate blind people not reading because they
think braille is outmoded?
Paper is bulky I agree with that but braille can be minaturized via Braille
sense, braille note etc.
sounds like the year 25 25.
Just make synthetic seeing eyes and be done with it.
Your experience with the braille watch seems to echo mine with talking
watches.
True I've had some junky braille ones and because they are so pricy it's
anoying to do the cleaning thing so seems cheaper to spend $60 every couple
years than to pay someone $30 a year to keep the old one running.
But with talking watches I've had bands break, the band holder where the pin
clips to the plastic watch break off, speakers dent sound muffle and it's
anoying at a meeting when you want to look at the time but you can't because
the watch makes noise or at a library.
Oh and in those public bathrooms that sound like a cave anyway you anounce
your presence to everyone.
Not as bad as it used to be because sighted folks don't seem to know how to
turn off their cell phones when hearing the ringtones would be inapropriate.
Oh and by the way talking watches especially some of the radio shack ones
don't keep good time either. but if you have a gps on your braille note
braille sense whatever even the cell you can synchronize with the atomic
clock.
BTW you could get a talking watch cellphone it would be better than a
talking watch anyway more utilitarian. maybe in a few years you could use it
as a small computer or an Ipod.
Some of the smaller flip phones and the LG NV let you do a lot now including
using a navigator built in and telling you the time and they are somewhat
blind friendly with a small typewriter keyboard.
Don't have the old watch on now and don't feel like checking the computer
but I know it's time to go get some doughnuts and coffee!
Unless that is I check my slim line clock where did I throw that thing
anyway!
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Normal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: I gotta get this off of my chest
> Wow, Braille watches ha?
> Have not seen one of those since the early 1970s.
> The thing was the biggest piece of junk I ever seen in my life.
> Yes, I could read it, but, the thing would not keep time for more than six
> hours at a time, then, forget it.
> I've had three, actually four, talking watches since 1996, I still have
> three of them, the fourth got accidentally drowned in the Caribbean, well,
> suffice it to say, neither of these watches exhibits what John talked
> about in that message, if I hit the button, it just says, "it's 9:15 pm,
> or whatever.
> What more or less does one need?
> Go figure!
> Nope, no braille for me, I think it's getting to be a space taking, long
> outmoded medium that has been replaced a long time ago.
> Nate Normal,
> Montego Bay, Jamaica
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "DayStar Promotions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:19 PM
> Subject: Re: I gotta get this off of my chest
>
>
>> Well John what about Braille literacy now that we're discussing this.
>> Most braille watches don't make noise except maybe the click of the door
>> opening. For those who have problems reading the smaller dots they have
>> pocket watches.
>> And perhaps although I don't know for sure watches in jumbo braille.
>> Maybe they could make a vibrating watch that acts like an optacon
>> vibrating your wrist for the numver of hours minutes etc. No not for me
>> I'll stay with braille.
>> I wouldn't mind a water proof braille watch though.
>> Mike
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "DayStar Promotions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>;
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 10:20 AM
>> Subject: I gotta get this off of my chest
>>
>>
>>> Please be so kind as to forward this onto anyone and everyone who can
>>> help me out with this matter; and please do it in a timely manner.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Sorry for the cross posting folks, but I gotta get this off of my chest:
>>>
>>> Let's see. What time is it?
>>>
>>> This is the year 2009, right? Technologically speaking, it seems that
>>> mankind has come a long way. We regularly fly people around in outer
>>> space, or explore the depths of the ocean, or the depths of our DNA, or
>>> the depths of quantum physics. We are daily dazzled with digital sound
>>> and pictures. We regularly communicate on several high-tech devices,
>>> sometimes all at the same time. And of course, we can go on and on with
>>> our good and wonderful accomplishments; many of which were had without
>>> sight. Yet, and it must be simply because you are a visually blinded
>>> individual, it is important to notify everyone around you with the loud
>>> sound of a "bong" or "ding" or some stupid rooster crow that you wish to
>>> know what time it is. Furthermore, again, because you don't have the
>>> use of eye sight, it must be important for you and everyone else around
>>> you, to hear the words, "the time is now," or, "the time is..." It must
>>> be important to incorporate these extraneous, unnecessary expletives in
>>> order to snap us unfortunate blind people out of the foggy stupor we
>>> were in when we reached for our timepiece! Oy vey! I'm going to
>>> develop a device that must by law, be put into all visual clocks that
>>> produces a loud "bong" or "ding" accompanied with verbiage that states:
>>> "the time is now;" every single time a sighted person simply glances at
>>> a watch or clock to see what time it is! What the heck is wrong with
>>> this world! Where is all this ingenious brilliance we see displayed
>>> everywhere else? Why can't we have a watch that simply tells us what
>>> time it is without all of that extra, extraneous stupidity added? Why
>>> if I happen to be near my computer, I could find out what time it is in
>>> the middle of the Pacific Ocean; and that without one stupid "bong"
>>> added. I want blue tooth timepieces with a blue tooth ear bud! I want
>>> what everyone else on this planet wants: -
>>> Privacy, independence, expediency, and dignity coupled with a deserved
>>> level of intelligent consideration!
>>>
>>> I know, I know. I shouldn't use so many explanation points in my
>>> writings. But, on the other hand, I get one or two of them every time I
>>> wish to know what time it is. Would anyone of these clock or watch
>>> manufacturers like to ask a blind person what he or she would like in a
>>> timepiece? I want a meeting with everyone of them, and right away too!
>>> I just pressed a button that snapped me out of it to let me know that
>>> time is running out on such ignorance. Please pass this along to
>>> anybody who produces radio alarm clocks, clocks and watches for the
>>> blind, and be sure to tell them that their time is up! And furthermore,
>>> make it more then "affordable" for us as well!
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> John Chilelli
>>> Erie, PA
>>>
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