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TED Talk on Cochlear Implants and Music
I have a lot of work to do this time of year, but wanted to post my first thoughts on this TED video.
First - no captions yet! gah! I can understand the main speaker, but the video clips aren’t clear enough to hear.
Second - I’m entirely happy with my two CIs. It’s been almost 2 years since the second one was activated and this is definitely my new ( Read more... ) -
Stolen Photos and Copyrighting or The Internet is Not the Wild, Wild West
A week ago a potential iPad Engraving customer of mine expressed concern at sending me his expensive electronics. He wanted to know if I had a way to reassure him that everything about my company is legit. I was just a tiny bit annoyed, but this has happen before, so I knew what to send him. Even though my business website is professional looking ( Read more... ) -
A year with bilateral cochlear implants
So now it’s 2011. I received my first CI in April 2009 and the second in late December 09 - so I’m officially over a year being bilateral. It’s been great. Life is good and pretty much what I’d call normal. I can hear a lot better in many situations. I find myself having one-on-one conversations in very noisy places (a Wine Guild holiday party ( Read more... ) -
More about work and motivation
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com
I love the talks at TED.com. Not only do they have subtitles in multiple languages on I think ALL videos, they are recorded in such a perfectly clear and high quality way that I can understand them without the subtitles. Even on my tiny laptop speakers I understood a large part ( Read more... ) -
Four months, research, music
Let’s see how I do with my last post’s list. I’m going to take CI/hearing topics today.
1. 4 months with CI
That’s right. I was activated way back on May 4th. I’ve been in for just 3 mappings since then at 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months (though all were a bit late).
My audiogram has remained hovering around 25-35 all the way across. I think it ( Read more... ) -
Music lately
I can’t get myself to start typing this because I’m listening to music on my iPhone (built in iPod) and I’ve managed to load lyrics to almost all of my 1500 some songs. If I type then I can’t read along and the lyrics get lost.
Music is sounding pretty good, even with just my CI. The bass is a bit tinny… the vocals quite squawky, chipmunky but ( Read more... ) -
The Med-El Opus2
I finally got around to taking some photos of my cochlear implant and accessories. It came with a lovely briefcase in the color I had chosen (reddish). The Opus2 consists of, from top to bottom, the ear hook, the processor which attaches to the wire going to the magnet coil head piece, and to the power pack. The power packs hold the batteries ( Read more... )
