Pickles has Captions and some of his friends have glasses. Meeting For Worship Online

RantWoman has been being her usual RantWoman self. RantWoman will spare readers the details except that they involve lots of "try this, try that" with Zoom and other Zoom shepherding Quakers who have all offered to do various things for NPYM Virtual Annual Session.

RantWoman was trying to look up something about her own Interest Groups or Registration but she is delighted along the way to discover this video with Pickles. Take it away Pickles!

Oops. First, does anyone need captions? Sometimes people who watch videos can't hear very well or like to read print to help their brains listen better or want to learn English by reading words as well as hearing them. They might want to use captions, by clicking on the CC in the lower right of the YouTube window.

Shh. Some people will want to show videos during Zoom sessions. Two tricks about captions with Zoom: The person who wants to show videos can use the share screen option in Zoom. If they want to turn the captions on for the whole group, they can turn them on anytime during the screen share.

Sometimes people who do not rely on captions find them distracting. In that case, if only one person wants the captions and they have a link for the video they could watch the video on their own device and turn on the captions there.

RantWoman did not expect to see captions on this video but Voila, RantWoman clicked the CC and captions appeared. The type is kind of small, but RantWoman's ears work much better than her eyes and she will not herself worry about the captions. But sometimes RantWoman has friends who either need the captions or want to make captions on their videos. RantWoman started to write more here but then stopped. Look it up your own selves or ask and see who you find out is worshipping among us.


Shh. Zoom makes it possible for RantWoman to see that some of Pickles' friends also have glasses. Maybe RantWoman will write more sometime about noticing people who have glasses.

Zoom has made it possible previously to worship with Pickles the gorilla and with another stuffed furry thing who got introduced at close of worship. Since fantastical creatures were being introduced, RantWoman briefly introduced her service python, findable via the search bar on this blog. Many grownups laughed. now telling the story, RantWoman also remembers a story she read in a book about blind children in India. The children were out with a teacher in some kind of a field. Somehow a big scary snake appeared rearing up very tall, about to strike. The teacher had to lead the children away very carefully; RantWoman thinks the snake in the story was a cobra, not a python  RantWoman does not think Pickles needed to worry about the service python that day, but the cobra is why worship some days is different from others.. RantWoman also apologizes: she is not any better at remembering the names of stuffed furry things than she is at remembering people's names.

Oh, and one more thing: here is a cool video about grownups and Meeting for worship. RantWoman loves to pass along Quaker Speak videos partly because they are produced with captions by default.