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

[vejas]

You're right about the email, though my dad kind of helped me 
decide it.


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net
To: "writers nfb" <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:50:47 -0600
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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