Written by Lincoln Adams on
March 8, 2011 |
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Travelogues
For the first time ever (I’ve been saying that a lot lately, but anyhoo…), this lone ranger will soon be rangering it up in the grandest state of them all: TEXAS! I have been anticipating this trip literally since last August when I registered early to attend SXSW, which takes place every year in Austin,…
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Tags: adventure, alone, Austin, blog, blogger, BlogWorld, dallas, food, friend, fun, hearing, hearing loss, internet, itinerary, network, social, SXSW, technology, Texas, travel, trip, writing
Lately I’ve been thinking about how simple life was back in kindergarten. Yeah I know, I’m going WAY back here, but bear with me. :-D I started school for the first time shortly after I had been diagnosed with a profound hearing loss, and sentenced to wear clunky hearing aids that might as well have…
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I recently caught this article on the BBC: People’s health could be harmed by social networking sites because they reduce levels of face-to-face contact, an expert claims. A lack of “real” social networking, involving personal interaction, may have biological effects, he suggests. He also says that evidence suggests that a lack of face-to-face networking could…
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Tags: community, deaf, disability, friend, friends, health, health problems, hearing, internet, life, lonely, network, online, people, personality, relationship, single, social, social networking, social networking sites, social networks
I’ve been checking out OKCupid lately, and I have to admit there’s something to be said for their personality quizzes, which are fun to take. I don’t care for some of the raunchiness (the Slut Test?), but the results I got from taking their dating persona test intrigued me, considering the fact that it pegged…
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Hearing aid fittings seems to be more of an art than a science, evidently. I noticed a clarity right away to the sounds I was hearing after being fitted with my new aids, but it’s possible these aids might be a bit underpowered for my degree of loss, so the audiologist wants to fit me…
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Today I get fitted with my new $6000 hearing aids, the Destiny 1600 by Starkey. I’m not expecting miracles, or the ability to hear conversations from 100 yards away, but it would be nice to have a normal conversation in noisy settings for once without finding myself trapped in a puffy shirt situation. I grew…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
July 7, 2007 |
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Blogging
Inspired by Mashable’s latest streak of publishing insane link lists for their readers (covering images, audio, video, analytics and podcasting), I decided to publish my own personal toolbox for bloggers in general. Enjoy! Analytics This Add This! – Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your blog and subscribe to your feeds. Saves you…
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Tags: ads, adsense, advertising, blog, blogging, blogs, charity, community, css, deaf, design, digg, fun, google, IM, internet, Links, marketing, mobile, music, network, news, photo, Photos, podcast, review, seo, social, technology