Thoughts, ideas, and narratives from a deaf firefighter
I emailed my previous blog entry to the reporter of MSNBC’s coverage of PASS alarm shortcomings. In that posting, I indicated that I suspect firefighters’ prolonged exposure to loud noises and design limitations in regards to the alarms themselves should also be considered. Bill Dedman was very receptive and has kept me updated [...]
This morning, while waiting for my coffee to brew, I was watching CNN and they had a segment on about Amanda, a woman with autism and a movie she posted on YouTube.
In short, the video tries to make the viewer understand how she views her environment and her frustrations when it comes to dealing with [...]
Want to touch on a few things here.
1) I wanted to admire Jill Bradbury and apologize to Ridor. (yes, I used those two phrases in the same sentence.) In an earlier post, I criticized Ridor for what I perceived to be a personal attack on Ms. Bradbury.
Ms. Bradbury added a comment saying [...]
The incessant mentions of vlog/blogging conference by bloggers/vloggers on DeafRead.com are getting boring and decidedly misleading at its best — none of them reflect the true pulse of what is happening across the nation. For example, I got in touch with a friend in DC whether if he is going to vlog/blogging conference? He said, [...]
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16890732/
In this article, author Bill Dedman explores the shortcomings of the U.S. Government in investigating failures of the Personal Alert Safety System (PASS) devices that firefighters across the country wear.
The PASS devices are set up to emit a shrieking alarm if the user does not move for 30 seconds. Some other models also [...]
I saw some bloggers using bubbleply.com to create captions for their videos. So I decided to play around with it a bit and captioned the music video “Shine Your Light” from Ladder 49, sung by Robbie Robertson.
Ladder 49 has been held up as a more realistic version of what FF’s do day-in-and-day-out as well as [...]
I was invited to attend courtesy of my good friend, the Sandman. The guy won, incidentally for Best Single Entry.
It was really great to associate faces with so many names. Amy Cohen Efron, WildStarrySkies, Joey Baer, and Rebecca Wilova of Bellamoden. It was great to reconnect with Ella Mae Lentz (my roommate at the Laurent [...]
In a past life, I worked as an application developer in Lotus Notes. Like any good worker bee, I tried my best to stay current in what was going on with the program by reading the online materials and blogs.
Ed Brill, a major big executive at IBM in relation to the Lotus Notes [...]