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The fellow from whom I'm taking lessons takes the same position--he wants us to think ASL, not English. (It's going to be hard to do with minimal vocabulary, but I agree with the reasoning.)

Re: My belief is... Leo Rosten's book The Joys of Yiddish has a cute story that explains the fallacy of that reasoning: A group of Russian soldiers were seeking someone to "volunteer" into the Russian Army, and their search took them to a barn, where they found something amazing. A...

I can't vouch for what's best, but lots of searching has turned up some good ones, of which here are a couple: "ASL University", http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/index.htm, is a site that tries to provide " a college equivalent ASL curriculum online that can be used in fulfillment of ASL...

Depends on what you mean by "build a computer." I don't have the money to put together a chip fabrication plant, or even to make multi-layer PC boards. :) OTOH, I have assembled PClone computers from components (i.e. boards and peripherals), with the exception of installing heatsinks--that step...

Depends. What do you mean by good? Does good mean having long battery life? The ability to switch lenses? High resolution images? Lots of storage (lots of RAM, or connection to a FireWire or SCSI umpteen-gigabyte hard drive, or both?) Good performance in low light? Accurate color reproduction...

What's wrong with mastering English in the written form? Nothing at all--but doesn't ASL deserve a written form as much as any spoken language? Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Euclid's Elements...all would be lost to us had writing not been invented. Heck, even with writing we've lost far too...

What I'm wondering about, and what I don't seem to be able to find on the CI sites I've seen on the web is: how well do they really work? To some extent it's like the "deep philosophical conversations" you have with friends: "What if what I see as green everybody else sees as red?" but there...

I'm still learning...my wife and I have been studying sign for at least a couple of years now. We think that the place we started out learning to sign was teaching us PSE, but now we take lessons from a fellow who is an interpreter and very gung-ho about teaching ASL and ASL grammar--which is...

Um, which one? Let's see...we'll do the PClones first. One has an Epox 8KHA+ motherboard, Athlon XP 1500 CPU, 1 GB PC2100 DDR RAM, ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon graphics card, Hercules Fortissimo II sound card, and some random ethernet card. One has a PC Chips 810 LMR motherboard, 800 MHz...

I'd go AMD... Intel's chosen to design the Pentium 4 in a way that lets it run the clock rate up really high to impress the general public. The problem is that the design that lets it do that keeps it from working as efficiently as it otherwise would. Internally, modern processors execute...

TV card? Yes... My wife's system (RH 8.0, probably will upgrade to 9 shortly) has a Hauppauge TV card from a few years back. One of my systems has an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon with Mandrake 9.1. Alas, I'm not set up to take full advantage of the ATI card yet...for some reason, when I installed...

You'd be unique even if you were cloned. A clone would have very different formative experiences than you did, and couldn't help but turn out different from you. (Ask a twin whether he or she considers himself or herself unique.)

No, I don't. None of the alleged proofs of the existence of a god are valid.

That's an interesting question--I don't know the answer. There are deaf Muslims; a web search on "deaf muslim" turns up several interesting links.

Gila monsters are poisonous...but yeah, I'd rather not have a poisonous pet. Koalas are cute, but I'd have to say that dogs are my favorite. (Not the little fidgety dogs.) You can bond with a dog; cats are condescending, haugty little creatures that deign to let you care for them and think...

Coffee smells wonderful--tastes nasty. Speaking of nasty, the barium-laden glop you have to drink before a stomach X-ray is really nasty, even if they try to give it a fruit flavor. Beer is awful. The horror of Moxie builds up as you drink the glass/bottle/can; by the end, you're just...

James here...mostly from Oklahoma, but now in Iowa.