I’m here in Las Vegas hanging with 1,800 Deaf senior citizens. And what a cool group they are to hang out with! I can’t help myself– I find that I get into conversations with them and want to hear their stories of growing up and where they worked at. One guy worked at Coke for 38 years…another is a tax attorney… a couple of them worked their way up at the post office to management level and all sorts of other jobs. At the Z booth, while they try out the Z-340 videophone, some of them have been sharing stories of how they had no phones and had to send letters to their friends to arrange a visit.
Today, we revealed our very own “Dr. Z,” the infamous Phil Bravin who is the original Deaf tech geek. He can remember playing around with code many years back and he recently put together a neat website for everything Z:
