[optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
- From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:54:53 -0800
Yes, I have read a fortune from a fortune cooky with the optacon; the print
was very clear. A neat thing to do!
Lori C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan and Bonnie Tonge" <dandbtonge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:46 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
> That is a neat story, and I have also had times when I didn't think there
> was anything I could read on a box or something and then picked it up
> again later and found that there was, even on just an electrical adaptor.
> Has anyone ever read their fortune from a fortune cookie with the Optacon?
> I didn't think it would work, but hey, it did. I thought that was pretty
> neat reading my fortune with the Optacon. I thought the writing would be
> too small, but there it was.
>
> Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Optacon List" <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:31 AM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Yet Another Neat Optacon Story
>
>
> Yesterday I received a package which didn't contain any labels that could
> be felt. I scanned the
> package on both sides perhaps too quickly with my Optacon, finding
> primarily information about sending
> packages via priority mail for a flat shipping rate but nothing as to the
> package's sender or
> recipient. Too curious to leave it at that, I opened the box, thinking
> that if there were a note inside,
> it would be typed if the package was for me. Alas, the note appeared
> handwritten, but I was too tired
> and frustrated to try to discern whether the note was printed or in
> cursive writing. A friend happened
> to call last night, and I was filling him in on this whole story, griping
> that the post office had
> probably, as usual, misdelivered a Christmas package to my address.
> I decided this morning when I got up to re-examine the box, and finally, I
> found a zip code which I
> recognized as being that of my brother and his family near Washington,
> D.C. And the note turned out
> to be in print and in all caps! So, the wonderful and beloved Optacon does
> it again! All it takes
> is a lot of patience sometimes!
>
> Linda Gehres
>
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