[Ham-Computers] Fw: TEXT

Thu Aug 11 23:27:26 EDT 2005

Dale, (and all)	

You are quite correct. I should clarify blind, however, as it can mean totally
blind or legally blind. Those who are totally blind, as I am, see absolutely
nothing. Those who are legally blind see anywhere from 20/200 or a 90% loss, or
a field restriction of the normal 180 degree visual field to all sorts of in
between areas. Some you would never realize had a vision problem until you saw
specific situations happen, such as holding a piece of paper at the tip of their
nose to read it or putting their eye right in front of a small digital display
to read it etc. All determinations of legal blindness are made 'after'
corrections!	

Why does a totally blind person, such as I, even bother with graphics? Obviously
I can not see them. Because today's world leaves me no good alternatives.
Whether I can see it or not, the person elsewhere wants to see the image and
expects me to send it. Whether I am blind or not does not enter into it, as he
is not, and it is me who is obligated to accommodate him.	

Because I was sighted for just a few hours shy of my eighteenth birthday in
October 1964, and because I was blessed with a near photogenic recall memory
from birth, I remember nearly everything I ever saw in vivid full color detail.
This does help me greatly in understanding what a person is describing as I have
visual memories to use as a foundation for my mind to assimilate the old and the
new into something hopefully close to correct. 	

It also gives me the visual reference points only those who have seen can
possess, such as depth perception or spatial orientation. Today's world forces
me to at least attempt to make a best guess approximation of what 'some thing'
looks like, although I will never grasp what some of these new names for colors
represent!	

Because I have no way to 'look' at the results of what I scan, I have to make
the first attempt the right one. Hence I do ask what may seem basic questions
that might be self-evident to those who can see, sometimes to be sure I
understand correctly and that what I see in my mind matches what a sighted
viewer sees when they look at what I have scanned. Other times because I want to
be sure what the proper procedure is to get the best results for what I need.			

For the insensitive, think about this, for when it happens, that distant voice
you hear laughing, it is mine!	

The next time at night when the power suddenly fails and goes off,  and you have
no useable flashlight batteries, the moon is hidden by clouds, it is so dark you
can barely see your hand in front of your nose, but your bladder is about to
explode! Should you try to find the bathroom or lay there and hope the power
comes back on before you turn the box springs and mattress into a water bed!  	

You get up and aim at where the bedroom door is, you hope. Your second step is
halted mid stride by a piercing pain in your heel as you discover where you
dropped that thumbtack that fell when you were putting up QSL cards on the wall!
As you try not to spring a leak by relaxing muscles to involuntarily scream in
pain, your forward momentum carries you into the closet door you never bother to
shut. Smack! Right between the eyes! At precisely the same moment the toes of
your left foot slam into the door frame and you scream in spite of yourself.
With alump between your eyes, stubbed toes and splintered toenails, and a warm
wet trickle down your leg, you jump backwards by pure reflex. Lose your balance,
stumble into, then over the laundry basket full of clothes you meant to put
away, but never got around to, and land flat on your back with head now
underneath the bed! You try to pull yourself out, but in your haste forget that
you first need to turn your head sideways to clear the bed frame! As you inhale
a lung full of dust mites and a dead spider sucking in air to yell for help, you
receive a red alert warning of an impending flood! 	

You jerk your  head free, leaving some skin from your forehead behind for the
dust mites to snack on, pull yourself upright and lunge at the doorway into the
hall. A few pictures fall from the walls, a bedside lamp shatters as you bounce
off the bedroom door which slams into the wall shelf where that heavy ceramic
bust of Alyce Cooper used to rest sending it sailing into the hand painted
porcelain antique lamp. You are in the hall and stagger into the bathroom
doorway. Only a few more feet to ...OOPS! Cuss Word! As you stumble over those
heavy work boots you meant to put away in the utility room, do a half somersault
into the closed shower doors knocking one off its hinges and sending it crashing
into the tub along with several broken ceramic wall tile! You are at the
porcelain throne! You've made it and no time to spare either. You aim, fire and
... What idiot left the damn toilet lid down! As you try to stop the smaller
scale Niagara Falls flow of water as it soaks your socks, waters the wastebasket
and splatters off the bathroom wall, you think you hear a distant voice
laughing. You will be right!   

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From: Dale Miller <stpatrick3 at twlakes.net>
To: Computers or other used for amateur radio communications or experimenting
<ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Fw: TEXT
Date: Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:35 PM

Duane Fischer W8DBF wrote:

>I hope your seven year old reads this and finds out what kind of parent he/she
>is being raised by.	
>
>
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>From: Richard Ross <rlross57 at sbcglobal.net>
>To: dfischer at usol.com
>Subject: TEXT
>Date: Thursday, August 11, 2005 7:12 PM
>
>You must realy be LONELY_to ask such stupid questions and be so redundent on
the
>reflector why dont you just look in you instruction bood to find out what
>setting to scan for the best results for "text & image's"-let see what my 7
year
>old said whan I asked her the same question-- DUH--look in thebook-so here are
>the answer's !!!!! BITMAP-JPEG-(Multi-TIFF)-PDF-TIFF-there you go-I almost
>always see you with the most childish questions-why dont you grow up!!!!
>
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Richard the guy is blind...have some respect.

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Cheers & 73's
Dale Miller, KC2CBD
Tennessee
Ham Operator since 1997
Member of YahooPipesmokers and ASP since February 2005

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