[stylist] Writing Prompts & chortling at Vejas's email address

Sat Feb 4 19:06:57 UTC 2012

Robert,
I'm guessing that for Vejas, with his love of wordplay as demonstrated in
"Integra-tea," that both of these explainations are valid.
Donna

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From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Leslie Newman
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 12:51 PM
To: writers nfb
Subject: [stylist] Writing Prompts & chortling at Vejas's email address

Hi you all:

First --- Writing Prompts: I enjoy reading what you all write in response to
posted prompts. And --- the reason you don't see much coming from me in
response to these challenges meant to have us work at challenging ourselves
to improve our craft --- I don't write one, nor take the time to go line by
line and look for what I might suggest to look at for improvement ---
because the thought of doing it stresses me out! Guess I'm stuck in a
mind-set where I've got stuff to do, and only so many stress resources to
work with and adding one more thing is --- stressful and to be avoided! But
hey, this is just where I am at. I love seeing you all mixing it up, working
to better yourselves by this method. 

Second: in relation to Vejas's chosen email address of  brlsurfer at gmail.com
--- for background, I personally am fascinated by what people choose as an
email address. Funny, you can tell when you've run across a real dye-hard
amateur radio buff, because the before-the-at-sign is clearly a radio call
designation like- k7uij or w0egm (this second one is for Hank Vetter, a
Omaha Chapter member and that first one is for a guy that you may have seen
about on NFB lists and national conventions, Mike Freeman). And some you'll
see are of blind guys who are super dog guide freaks (not saying this
"freak" thing in a disrespectful manner), but an example here might be
superdog at gmail.com Or another seem is a favorite sports team, a religious
reference, or hoppy, personal talent of some kind, or maybe its all in the
person's name, like mine newmanrl (Newman Robert Leslie). 

And so getting to Vejas and his choice of b r l s u f e r --- I'm thinking
down two different lanes of thought about his and I'm hoping he will read
this and give us the secret to his choice- #1 My first thought is, that the
brb r l which is the 3 letter contraction  for Braille, and putting that
with the surfer part of the email address, tells us that the owner is a guy
who surfs the Internet by means of Braille. Then my second thought is that
our friend here came up with this email address after his surfing adventure
that we all read about in "The Braille Monitor." And so this guy is someone
who is a blind guy who uses touch as his main mode to surf. 

Robert Leslie Newman

President, NFB Writers' Division

Division Website

 <http://www.nfb-writers-division.net/> http://www.nfb-writers-division.net

Chair, Newsletter Publication committee

Personal Website-

 <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info

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