Spent part of the couple months going thru the rigamarole necessary to see if insurance would cover replacing/upgrading my cochlear implant processor. I would not have begun the process except the BTE (behind the ear) processor I’ve had for so long stopped working properly. In the interim, I’m relying upon the body-worn processor, which is a clumsy and annoying bit of kit.
Heard back from the insurance company on friday, and now I’m waiting to hear from the company that handles billing for Cochlear.
With a little luck, I’ll have a new BTE processor before too long.
Saw Watchmen the Friday it opened. Review and spoilers after the cut, but briefly: read the comic and go see it.
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Posted 19 March 2009
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I just wrote the following missive and sent it to the ESPN ombudsman.
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Posted 18 December 2008
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Got an AppleTV the other day. Pretty impressed with it on the whole. In the process of ripping a good portion of my TV series from DVD to an AppleTV compatible format. Will probably rip most or all of the TV stuff over time, except for the stuff lacking subtitles.
Far as the iTunes movie and TV selections go, I’m not really that impressed. At least the movies section lets you search for all 90+ movies that have captions. If universal captions appear, or if they merely caption the shows/movies I’m interested in, I may purchase/rent, but otherwise, no sale.
I have not considered hacking the AppleTV all that seriously so far. I can see the virtue of doing so, but, so long as I am hearing impaired and require subtitles/captions, I don’t see the need to mess with it unless I decide I must have real closed caption support.
Gets a vote of support from me overall.
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Posted 24 October 2008
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Watched Iron Man the other day.
Short review: good, not great. Needed more time for the bad guy to flesh the role out and really just needed more time for Iron Man being Iron Man. Otherwise, no glaring flaws. The movie is well made and comes off well. Just feels a little flat with the ultimate conflict being left to just a clichéd, stereotypical sort of “evil uncle decides to take over the company/fortune/etc” gimmick. Needed a bit more meat to that part of the story.
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Posted 13 October 2008
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