Thoughts, ideas, and narratives from a deaf firefighter
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I love music and my iPod. One of the interesting trends I’ve noticed for myself recently, is how I usually hate a song at first but after hearing it a few times on the iPod’s shuffle feature, I really start to like it.
One of these songs [...]
My good friend, Sandman, tagged me the other day as being a “Thinking Blogger”. I’m sure my wife would disagree with that notion that I am capable of “thinking” but I certainly do appreciate the honor.
Apparently, part of the rules require me to tag 5 other people as “thinking bloggers”. I’m a [...]
Ridor apparently has a love-hate relationship with authority figures: He loves to hate them.
In a recent posting, he pointed out media coverage of another incident where a deaf person was “shot” with beanbags by police officers who thought the vehicle was related to an earlier incident where shots “may” have been fired.
In [...]
From your non-fans at Virginia Tech regarding your comment that you were “amused” at the shooting:
UPDATE: Ridor deleted the entry the day after he posted it. You can read it here.
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, [...]
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 [...]