Today’s irony

Last night I had dinner with Tom Meunier (a fellow Exchange MVP) and my partner, Peter. One of the topics for discussion was closed captioning; Tom mentioned that he and his wife often turned on captioning for DVDs so they could still follow the action when their kids were being noisy. It turns out that The Miracle Worker, a biography of Helen Keller, doesn’t have closed captioning. This struck us as particularly ironic: if you were deaf and wanted to see the definitive biography of perhaps the most famous deaf American, you’d be out of luck. (According to Tom, the DVD has French and Spanish subtitles, so all is not lost.)