ME Whelan Online Writing And Notes: Close-Captioned Television - Not Just For The Hearing-Impaired Any More

Friday, May 29, 2015

Close-Captioned Television - Not Just For The Hearing-Impaired Any More

October 8, 2013 Close-captioned TV - not just for the hearing impaired.

Whether I'm alone or with a friend, if it's evening I often watch what my friend(s) and I call "Gist TV". That is, have the television on in order to keep the house from feeling like a morgue, but keep the sound off. (If it's day-time there won't be any television on in my house at all, because I have a "policy" about how television and daylight don't belong together at all.)

Anyway, "Gist TV" allows me/us to get a rough idea of what's happening without having to pay a lot of attention. Television can sometimes be so predictable that there's never much need to have the sound on, as long as one can see the overall picture and activity. Sometimes, of course, something will go on that peaks the interest. When that happens I temporarily put on the sound in order to figure out what's going on before I return to "Gist TV".

"Gist TV" goes very well with listening to music, something I far prefer to watching television. Again, the occasional glance over at the television is enough to get a rough idea of whether I can immediately return my glimpses to my monitor, or whether I should temporarily restore the television's volume in order to know what's going on - or at least in order to know as much as I want/need to know about what's going on - on television.

News, of course, is best watched with the sound on. On the other hand, I've been known to leave Jeopardy on because of its colorful background (lots of purple) without sound. I'm not a fan of that show, but I'd rather have soundless Jeopardy than the more aggravating-looking entertainment shows that are on the other stations at that time.

Truth be told, however, I have to admit that I do sometimes miss something I probably would have preferred not to have missed; and only because "Gist TV" is - well - just the gist.

While I'm reasonably happy to miss even stuff I, maybe, would rather not have missed; my guest(s) sometimes show signs of frustration, even when they're ordinarily as indifferent about television as I so often am.

The answer? Two words: "close captioned". It's perfect. AND, sometimes when I may actually be a little curious about the answer to one of the written questions on Jeopardy, I'm no longer left feeling as if I'll never know if I was correct or incorrect when I thought I knew the answer but didn't feel certain about it.

As I write this I'm also listening to music AND watching the eleven-o'clock news (with the help of close-captioning). Ah, yes... multi-tasking AND "Gist TV-Watching" at their best.

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Note I

As I continue to reorganize, trim down, consolidate, further develop, and/or otherwise work on any number of my own blogs/sites, there may be the occasional "No Page Exists" message on this blog. That's temporary and not something I can avoid at this stage in my reorganizing "project".

I've got my Google+ profile settings so that all but this blog and a couple of other things are hidden from the public. Because of that, but because I don't particularly want to keep some of my writing a big secret, I'm including a few links that will get anyone who may be at all interested to a page that is far less of an apparent dead end than my Google profile is right at this time. Here's one link:

ME Whelan Online

In order to keep this "explanatory note" relatively brief, I'll write a post (February 21, 2016) to further make it clear what I'm doing with this blog. My plan is to revise and/or delete this note in the very near future, when it no longer seems necessary to include it (or parts of it).

Because I've transitioned from having once used a pen-name to (in more recent times) using my real name, I'm also including a link to my "pen-name blog".

That page is "The Lisa H. Warren Blog"

"The Writing-Reorganizing Project Continues" is the title of the February 21, 2016 post, to which I referred above.

Note II

What's On This Blog

This blog, as its title suggests, is a collection of online writing and random notes/thoughts of its author. Since material posted on or before February 21, 2016 has been imported from a number of my other sites/blogs there's a little bit of clean-up that still needs to be done on those posts, particularly with regard to some formatting issues. I'll be working on improving the presentation of the older posts. There won't (or at least shouldn't) be any issues with material posted on or after the date mentioned here.

Note III

The following is a transfer from another one of my blogs/sites. It appears more attractively presented elsewhere, but I've chosen not to link to that because a) I don't want this blog to be a "dreaded" "doorway page", and b) I'm trying to "bury" (without completely deleting, at least for now) some of the sites where posts already appear. It know there are easier, more automated, ways to transfer material, but with a large variety and number of different types of material to be transferred, I've found that in some instances "more automated" means "further, even if relatively minor, complicating things". In other words, I have a real online mess on my hands. I don't want more of the same, which, for my purposes/aims, often means limiting the "automating".

For now, I'll mark transfer posts as such. (Oh, and way at the bottom of the blog there's a link to the latest incarnation of an old blog. The link is there for my own convenience as I work on things here Links on this sidebar are old stuff. I'll do something with links to new stuff some other time.)

OTHER WRITING

"Other Writing" is a post title (and label) I've used on two posts ("Other Writing A" and "Other Writing B") with links to a big mix of (what else) other writing I have that falls under the category of "free time" or "casual" online. There's also a third post related to other writing, and that describes what much of that "other writing" is and why I included the other-writing-related posts, all of which are dated February 24, 2016.

(In a nutshell, I want those links available on here but don't want to highlight them.)

Also, see March 2, 2016 post " -
A Note About...
Posts/OtherContent"..."

ABOUT 'WORDCRAFTER"

If you've arrived here via my HubPages "WordCrafter09" profile or from any of my pen-name pages here's a link to a blog that I set up as I was making the transition from a long-time, well established, pen-name to using my own name. Until very recently I've linked from my "WordCrafter09" profile to the blog, but since I've made substantial progress with the transition I decided to de-emphasize that blog (while still making a link to it available - at least for awhile longer).

It's not so much "blog" as it is part dumping ground and part explanation. In any case, here's the link (for now, anyway...):

WordCrafter09

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Close-Captioned Television - Not Just For The Hearing-Impaired Any More

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