Author: Darryl
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Audio Books and Dylan Alcott
My first experience with audiobooks was back around 1982 when I borrowed the autobiography One Step at a Time by Dr. John Hickman from the school library. It was a box set of approximately 12 cassettes. I think I listened to the entire book over a weekend, though changing the cassettes took some time and…
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Journaling, and is this good enough…
I was going to start this entry with, “For about 18 months, I have been journaling daily…” but I looked, and I am a week from two years journaling daily. Originally, I was hoping that some journal entries would lend themselves as good enough for publication on my blog, yet this has rarely happened as…
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The Bummunicator Blues Comes Alive in Mexico
Ten years ago I wrote a song about my bum … er, about a speculative assistive technology device called the Bummunicator. At the 2023 ISAAC conference in Mexico, Robyn (a music therapist from Sydney) asked if I had written any songs. I had forgotten about it but I had written a song about the Bummunicator.…
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ISAAC Conference 2023 Reference Material
I am presenting at the ISAAC Conference 2023 in Cancun, Mexico. Here are the handouts and reference lists for my presentations. Please note: the text in the handouts has been formatted to try to make the text-to-speech engine sound more natural, so there may be some strange spelling and peculiar grammar. Monday morning – Can…