[gui-talk] anyone know Woody Anna Dresner?

Tue Aug 14 11:11:50 CDT 2007

Hi Dave,

Sorry  if I gave you the impression I was upset. I wasn't. Everything's 
okay. I should have used a smiley face. the implication would have been a 
friendly sarcastic grin, like "thanks for that info, but it seems like a 
non-sequitur ("nonresponsive," as a lawyer might put it during a deposition) 
but no problem. If I ever become a private investigator and someone hires me 
to find her, I'll keep this on file. Is that better? I do have a thing about 
connecting things in written communication, and react to disjunctures that 
wouldn't throw me for more than a second in spoken conversation, at least 
not when I could still see someone's facial expression. I'd have knit my 
brow and maybe said nothing, or just said, "Okay..." in a slightly 
interrogative tone, and the other person would then have smiled (if we were 
friends or friendly acquaintances), shrugged their shoulders in an 
exaggerated comic display of perplexity,and said "Well, I don't know what 
mailing lists she's on, but that's where she works, anyway." And I'd have 
said "Yeah, she said that on the radio. Must be nice to live in Hawaii. You 
ever met her?"

and so forth. I just get a little off-key in a laconic email exchange 
sometimes. I ask X, you answer Y, and when I say "I already knew that," you 
think I'm saying "Whaddaya think I am, dumb or something?" But that isn't 
where I'm coming from at all. Ack.

Way it goes. Not to worry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] anyone know Woody Anna Dresner?

Joel, you are way to defensive here.  You just asked an innocent question, 
and I made a comment.

I saw a presentation on change a couple weeks ago.  Part of it was "rule 6." 
the question was asked, of course, what is rule 6."  It is "don't take your 
self to seriously.!

It was of course then asked, what are the other five rules, and the answer 
is, there are no other rules!

Dave

At 05:10 PM 8/12/2007, you wrote:
>yes, I know that, Dave. She even said so on thee air. I was just trying to
>figure out which lists she hung out on, that's all. Wasn't trying to track
>down her employment. Does anyone know where that unusual name comes from?
>Woody Anna? When I first saw it as her email handle on a mailing list, I
>thought it was one of those corny combo email handles that married couples
>who use the same account like to put together. You know, Woody and his wife
>Anna. But no, that's her name.
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 2:56 PM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] anyone know Woody Anna Dresner?
>
>
>I believe she works for National Braille Press, NBP.
>
>Dave
>
>At 02:17 PM 8/12/2007, you wrote:
>>I have seen this woman on other blind technology mailing lists to which 
>>I'm
>>not subscribed at the moment, but I also feel as if I've seen her posting
>>here occasionally over the years. Maybe I misremember. Maybe she lurks? I
>>know she's supposed to have some access tutorials posted on the Web as
>>podcasts, or some instruction books?
>>
>>But this seems the most likely list where I could mention that I heard her
>>on National Public Radio this morning, as the contestant on the word 
>>puzzle
>>segment with crossword puzzle master Will Shortz. Like a lot of NPR
>>listeners, I hear this every Sunday morning, and I was surprised and
>>delighted for someone I actually knew, sort of, to pop up as a contestant
>>who'd won the weekly lottery to be on the air by answering a word puzzle 
>>in
>>email.
>>
>>Anyway, she did a great job, coming up with correct answers to a series of
>>word and letter rearrangement problems, hesitating only on one of the
>>entire
>>series of questions, as I recall. That was a lot of fun. So if anyone 
>>knows
>>her, congratulate her. I'm not sure if the segment is included with the
>>segments/articles/features NPR keeps on the site for streaming under the
>>program name (MWeekend Edition Sunday, in this case).!
>>
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