Fast facts

• At the movies I like to see: originally a huge silent film fan, these days i'll listen to pretty much anything for which Descriptive Video Services (DVS) is available
• Last movie seen: The Simpsons Movie (the first audio described film i've "seen" in a movie theater!)
• Music I listen to: african, medieval, jazz, (roots) reggae, blues, cumbia, baroque, gamelan, hokum, western swing, klezmer, chant (gregorian & otherwise), ska, rock steady, 2Tone, most things percussive, polyrhythmic, and/or polyphonic
• Best album right now: Heliotrope: "In the Time of Daffodils: Music of the Troubaritz"
• Favorite author: Crockett Johnson, AE Houseman, HH Munro, Henry Fielding, Rabelais, Gogol, Jaroslav Hašek, A Bierce, T Paine, JP Martin, HD Thoreau, Chaucer, Gregory of Tours, Gerald of Wales, PG Wodehouse, T Wilder, S Lewis, Boris Vian, Billy Collins, H. Murakami
• Last book read: Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe, by Nancy Goldstone
• Software I use: JAWS (screen-reader), NVDA (open source screen-reader), Thunder (free screen-reader for WinXP/Vista); various DAISY/Digital Talking Book readers
• Hardware I use: BookPort
• If I won 1 million dollars, I would: start a micro-lending bank for the blind so that no matter where they are, there's someone ready to lend something a bit more tangible than merely a helping hand
• Favorite travel destination: anywhere, amsterdam, Oz
• I'm passionate about: equal rights and justice (see: Peter Tosh)
• I don't like: soy (i'm allergic)

Blog posts

• the most depressing day?
• winding down or summing up?
• trickle-down or bottom-up?
• the tipping point?
• an experiment in ALT
• happy fourth, part 2

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