Thought I’d take a few moment to reflect back on the year 2007.
There has been ups and downs like my grandma passing away and staying in a really crappy apartment for 8 months but I’ve accomplished two things. One was getting the job transfer from DC to CA to work as a webmaster for Google. Definitely one of my proud moments in life. Second one was paying all the debts I have including the car, credit cards, and student loan. I’m 100% debt-free. From now on, I’m not gonna put myself in a debt. I’m going to pay any new/used car in full and plan to buy a used road bike from Craigslist and use it to commute to work. Except for the possible mortgage loan in the future, of course.
Last year, I mentioned that my goal is to blog everyday . While it didn’t quite happen like that, I’ve made a lot of progress with my blog and been finding topics that serve both myself and you. I’m definitely going to blog even more this next year and bring useful, interesting information to us.
In 2008, I’m gonna try to focus more on getting things done. It’s been a big weakness of mine and I want to work out more often and consistently and be in a better shape. Maybe I’ll compete in a triathlon later on. I want to do a lot of snowboarding this season. Another goal is to go out more, meet new different people and build my resources.
Jodee Mundy is the only person in her immediate family who can hear. Her mother and father are both deaf. Her two elder brothers, Shane and Gavin, are deaf. So too are her two sisters-in-law (one of who comes from a family with three generations of deafness) and her her two nieces and nephew (one other nephew, Oskar, can hear). Cast the net wider and Jodee’s family includes a deaf aunt, uncle, two great-great-aunts and a succession of deaf cats.
“The fact that most people think talking is the only way to communicate is so narrow-minded because hearing people are the ones who can’t communicate when they are on a bus and there is someone outside waving goodbye. They are the ones who can’t communicate under water if they are scuba diving. They are the ones that can’t communicate across the street or in a loud nightclub. It’s deaf people who can. I wish people would see the richness and the wealth of the deaf world.”
The Board of Education formally approved the ASL program at Montville High in 2004. Now about 70 students take three levels of ASL there, including six students who either are deaf or hard of hearing.
The ASL 4 students also have conducted a mock trial in sign language, learned holiday-related signs and studied the signs of other countries. Last year, Bell said, students created an “ideal room” for someone who is deaf.
The cultural aspects of the deaf community extend beyond theater or art. People who are deaf or hard of hearing, for example, have more in-depth conversations about each other when meeting for the first time, Perkins said.
“You could walk away from the person knowing their history without knowing their first name,” Perkins said.
But the deaf culture has no food specific to it. So when the world language department had its ethnic food night, Bell said, the ASL students found themselves in a bind for a cultural dish.
Read this article and you’ll see why Google is gonna be #1 media company, with YouTube, news aggregator, reader, and ofc the best search engine underneath.
Newspapers also struggled mightily in 2007, in ways that hinted at underlying problems in the business. The New York Times canceled its Times Select online tool because not enough viewers were willing to pay for content.
Two buddies are out hiking and they come across a bear. One of the guys takes off his backpack and gets ready to run. His buddy says, “It’s no use. You can’t outrun a bear.” The other guy responds, “I don’t have to outrun the bear. I only have to outrun you.”
Saw this from friendsofwashoe.org that Washoe, the first non-human to learn sign language, has died.
Washoe was the first non-human animal to acquire a human language and her adopted son Loulis is the first to acquire a human language from another chimpanzee.
Her name sign is formed with the fingers of a “W” hand flicking the ear on the same side. She was named for Washoe county Nevada where she lived with Drs. Allen and Beatrix Gardner until age five.
Washoe was adopted on June 21, 1966. She was cross-fostered; that is, she was raised in the Gardners’ home as if she were a deaf human child.
She was 42 years old, a long life for a female chimpanzee. Most females in captivity live an average of 33.5 years.
I’ve always known that chimpanzees were capable of learning sign language but never thought about who was the first non-human to learn sign language. This sounds like something that should go into Guinness’ World Records.
As usual, I was surfing and saw this page showing YouTube and Products results in the sidebar above the sponsored ad.
I cropped up the images so you can see the difference.
So, Google is combining videos, images, news, and products into the search . That said, it’s a universal search and the one with the fastest engine. I’m convinced that there is no other search engine that can output results as fast as Google does. It’s like you are in a Millenium Falcon (the fastest spacecraft in Star Wars) zooming through the universe.
He’s the guy in the orange shirt and know what? he happens to be my co-worker as a graphic illustrator. I can’t believe the video clip he made has been viewed 6,903,499 times and even more that his desk is right across from mine. His work is awesome.
We wouldn’t usually call people douchebags lightly (ok we would), but when you complain that deaf people are getting special treatment when they’re offered a $27.99 non-voice, data-only plan for their iPhone, you’re one huge douchebag. A Colorado AT&T store was offering said plan for the hearing-impaired—since they get very little use out of a voice plan—but got slapped down by AT&T Corporate Marketing because people were complaining. The upshot? No more data-only plan for the deaf community.
Then they posted again that an AT&T rep told them that there was no such moves to take down the plan but that they plan to offer data-only plan in the near future.
Somebody made a nice comment:
I’m a hearing AT&T iPhone user, and it would totally piss me off if AT&T required deaf people to pay for a voice plan that they cannot use.
I was about to fire off a nastygram to AT&T based on the earlier article when I had a rare moment of clarity and decided to check for an update…
Good call for AT&T to bring back the plan!
So, I’d like to ask if anyone has bought iPhone and has the data-only plan? With this plan, iPhone can go back on my Christmas wishlist. :-)
I knew it. It was a matter of time before Gmail would integrate AIM in. About a year ago or so, Google signed a partnership with AOL and offer their search engine into AOL network.
Looks like I don’t need to use AIM client. The OS is all in the browser.
I found his biography while surfing around. He’s a 15 years old who describes himself as a tech-savvy teenager who once posted 5 consecutive days and each of the post made to the homepage of Digg.com, which is an incredible feat to me and he’s averaging 50,000 visitors a month. I’m only averaging about 2,000 visitors a month and would be a dream if my site ever gets dugged.
Description:
Glenn Wolsey defines, by some standards, the potential of modern web success. Glenn is a 15 year old budding designer and technology enthusiast. His future in technology, became clear in 2005 (at the ripe age of 13) when he took home 1st place in the New Zealand Web challenge. Glenn now maintains a successful blog, Glennwolsey.com and writes for New Zealand’s Mac Magazine. Glenn’s Blog does not receive gigantic, “Tech Crunch” traffic, but maintains a consistent 50,000 monthly visitors; a phenomenal number for a 15 year old.
“Digg Factor”
The definitive standard referred to earlier is the Digg factor. Wolsey, after moving to the (gs) Grid Server, had a taste of the newest form of web rock-stardom in the form of a Digg. Getting “Dugg” entails the posting of your product launch, blog article or video on the front page of Digg.com. Featured Digg pieces are “Dugg” by thousands of Digg members. The more “Diggs” a piece gets, the further toward the front page the piece moves and the more traffic the site will receive.
Getting Dugg often results in a site being shut down or simply crashing do to the traffic and load surge that accompanies this phenomena. Most typical shared hosting set ups are not able to handle massive load surge without creating a problem for neighboring clients on a shared server.
Since January ‘07 to the time of this writing, Glenn’s blog posts have made it to the Digg.com front page 8 times.
Only God knows how many lists of hot girls I’ve read and drooled at in magazines, I figure it’s time for me to create my own list.
1. Jessica Alba - if there’s a woman that God would pick to create, she would be it. She has it all—the sporty body, giggling smile, great personality. She can dress up for any occasion; she can jump into a bikini or a black spaghetti dress with the same ease and commands the same amount of attention without any extra stuffs like make-up or jewerly. When I found out she has season tickets to Golden State Warriors, that does it for me. I bet she knows the difference between ales and lagers. There is no more attractive girls who can put on sexy jeans and root louder than you can.
2. Scarlett Johansson - she has a carefree attitude, a smile that can relax even the most anxious boy and her playful eyes say she’s up to anything, and that’s how you know you both will have tons of fun at anything including the bedroom. That’s what makes her so damn attractive. I still remember her as a young girl from the Horse Whisperer and she gave a ‘wow’ acting.
3. Natalie Portman - she’s the type of girl that you would like to have a coffee at some quaint coffee shops and talk about anything from politics to life. She’s the A+ young actress that every director would die to cast. She’s acted in big budget movies like Star Wars and V for Vendetta. While she has a lot of brain power, she has a shy smile that makes you want to protect her from bad bad things that’s going on around the world.
5. Halle Berry - While she has a heck of a body (James Bond, Swordfish), she has character, determination, a feisty attitude (no wonders she’s acted as Catwoman) and if you met her challenges, the fun is only going to get better and a lot of firepower towards the end.
4. Brooke Burke - she has the most unbelievable body I’ve ever seen. An exotic-looking lady with a fleshy, wholesome, natural body that keeps most men guessing. I even thought she could be a mixed Asian but she’s French and Irish. Her smile tells you that she’s going to take care of you well and you’d think you’re in a heaven.
Well, although my chances with them are pretty slim, I’m happy that God has created women like those and millions more of them. :-)
If I had the money and could live anywhere I choose to, the John Hancock Center would be the place.
Why? While it’s not the tallest building in the world, it is the tallest residence building in the world, meaning you can own a piece of room—-a condominium—-right there in the building. It also has the highest level swimming pool too at the 44th level. There is a very logical reason why it’s come like that.
A brilliant civil engineer named Fazlur Khan invented a structural technique called X-bracing that wraps outside around the building, resulting into a stronger structure and eliminates the need for inner support beam inside the building. Thus, you get a wide-open room without beams, perfect for people who are deaf like me.
It is truly an architectural icon with its angular lines and has the perfect “grey” color—not too dark, not too light. Batman would feel right at home here.
If you ever come to visit this building, do try to visit the Signature room instead of the Observatory where you can actually order drinks and enjoy the awesome views while sitting in a comfy chair, not waiting in visitors lines!
Thought I’d share these with the web audience. :-)
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Not a very long ago, I start tracking what people have been searching that leads to my site. I put down 100 search terms below. There are more than 13,200 search terms.
Does anyone know how long has the website been down?
He posted on his old blog that it would be up on October 26th, 2007. He’s definitely the top deaf blogger because if you type deaf blogger into the google search, his blog would come out first on top.
By looks of it, it appears that he forgot to renew his domain registration and that somebody has taken property of the domain. If that’s the case, hope he can get his website back without paying a lot for it.
Kent Schafer, former student at ISD and now a webmaster at idhhc.state.il.us, sent me an article link to ISD’s increased enrollment number. It’s a refreshing news because ISD has been on the decline for as long as I can remember. It peaked at almost 500 students thirty years ago but now half the number at 252 students.
I’m touched to see this example she used to explain that ISD isn’t really an institution. It’s a boarding school just like Tiger Woods’ learning center or Harry Potter’s boarding school. We had a conversation not too long ago and I was telling her that I watched Tiger Woods’ interview in a documentary video and I learned that he found a school called Tiger Woods Learning Center to provide a place for students with multi-cultural background and kids whose families couldn’t afford to send to private schools. So, that made me realize that deaf schools aren’t really an institution and are more like boarding school where students with similar background go to. She thought it was a great idea and used it in her Superintendent’s letter. Cool!
My alma mater, Illinois School for the Deaf, got published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier about how ISD is seeing an increase in enrollment numbers. I think it’s got to do with the technology and more information available through the web.
Rachel Sweigart heard the wrong words at the wrong time. Or maybe it was simply one word too many.
There wasn’t one particular incident at her high school in Somonauk, said her mother, Arliss. But one day, the normally stoic 15-year-old came home in tears and Arliss and Scott Sweigart knew it was time for a change.
Rachel will soon attend the Illinois School for the Deaf, and she will be one of 46 new high school students there this year. There are 63 new students overall.
“Deafness is a low-incidence disability, if you want to call it a disability,” said ISD Superintendent Mary Beth Lauderdale. “Very few people have it. Fifty-three percent of deaf students are the only deaf kid in their school. They are looking for other kids like them.”
The Sweigarts recently visited ISD and Rachel was impressed, but told her parents she’d think about it. By the time they got back to their town about 30 miles south of Dekalb, she’d decided to go.
The Sweigarts did not know about ISD. Public schools are supposed to inform parents of deaf or hard-of-hearing students of all the options for their children, but Ms. Lauderdale said it sometimes doesn’t happen.
“The dad got on the Internet and typed in ‘deaf school’ and found us,” she said.
ISD is allowed by law to passively market itself — brochures in audiologists’ offices, for instance — but it cannot recruit.
The school is more than equipped to handle the influx of 63 students, said Director of Student Life Randy Shearburn. Thirty years ago, the school had close to 500 students. With the new arrivals, it now has 252. ISD is searching for a new algebra teacher, Ms. Lauderdale said.
So, if it wasn’t for the Internet, the Sweigarts wouldn’t have found out about ISD. The web is the way to go.
I wrote a blog about my experience at ISD. You can read it here.
Someone linked my blog to her ‘Stumbleupon’ and she described that she and her husband own a coffee shop in Greensboro, NC!
I am born deaf in Japan. I came to USA for achieving dream since I found out that Mss. Heather who is deaf was honored as miss America. Now My husband and I own a cozy coffee shop for 2 years. I teaching American sign language and my husband teaches Japanese language at coffee shop. Also, I am looking for people who love to enjoy vacation, and share information how to get 3 things, money and time and health for vacation.
Written sometime in 2002., “Back to the Future” was my fave childhood movie about a young guy who goes back in time with a flying car. The best chilldhood movie ever made.
When the 747 Boeing finally put its wheels on the ground, I made a sigh of relief and stretched out my legs, which hadn’t moved for more than four hours. The plane crawled as it looked for a gate to hug. Gazing through the window silently, I wondered if this was actually where my ticket stub said. It said “Incheon, Korea. Arrival time: 3:37 pm.” If so, I had traveled roughly 7,000 miles from the other half of the world, a 14 hour non-stop flight straight from the United States. The plane paused and I waited to see if it stopped for good. Indeed, it stopped and passengers began getting off the plane. I got up and reached for my North Face backpack in the overhead and stood impatiently as the line slowly made its way out of the plane. My hands began to sweat as I held my backpack and with almost every step, my heart started to beat faster, then into a pounding rhythm. I took a big breath and focused on where I was supposed to be going.
Any doubts of actually being in Korea were put aside when I saw the airport signs in Korean and couldn’t understand any of them. I followed a crowd of passengers as my guide to the baggage claims area and waited for my luggage to emerge. As I looked around the huge void and noticed that the airport wasn’t as crowded as many of the major U.S. airports were. I had expected a full traffic of people but here, only passengers were waiting to pick up their luggage. (more…)
I’d like to share the passing of my grandmother who died peacefully at one o’clock am, Sunday the 18th of November, 2007.
“Madeline F. Kester, 77, of Chatham, IL died Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at St. John’s Hospice. She was born February 3rd, 1930 at Friedheim, MO to Ben and Edna Moore Kayser. She married Harold Wilbur Kester in 1948; he preceded her in death in 1999 as well as her parents, 3 brothers and 3 sisters.
Mrs. Kester, a registered nurse was last employed at Memorial Medical Center where she worked for 18 years. Prior to becoming a nurse, she worked 15 years at the Warren-Boynton State Bank in New Berlin, IL. She graduated from Perryville High School and Perryville School of Practical Nursing, Springfield College, and St. John’s School of Nursing. She was a Member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Chatham and a Memorial Medical Center volunteer.
She is survived by her son H. Wayne (wife Pamela) Kester of New Berlin, grandson Nathan Kester of Mountain View, California, and sister Nell Kieninger of Pocahontas, MO.
Her family will greet relatives and friends from 9 am, until time of services at 10:30 am Tuesday, November 20 at St. John’s Lutheran church, 1225 N. Main, Chatham. Revs. Clarence Rogers and Thomas Philips officiating. Burial at Chatham Memorial Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the St. John’s Lutheran Church in Chatham or the American Heart Association.
Staab Polk Memorial Home, 201 S. Main, Chatham, IL is serving the family.”
She was a dear grandmother to me who gave her unconditional love and support. I thank her for all my success.
Right now, I’m sitting in a hospital room watching my grandma on her deathbed and it won’t be very long before she’s not here with us anymore. This hospital is pretty nice; it has a flat panel tv and a wifi. With a wifi connection and my awesome faithful macbook, I can do prettty much anything like doing my work or typing this entry.
My grandma suffered a massive stroke last Saturday night and my mom asked me what’s exactly a stroke, so of course, I turned to Google to seek out some answers. Here’s what I found:
Stroke is a type of cardiovascular disease. It affects the arteries leading to and within the brain. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked by a clot or bursts. When that happens, part of the brain cannot get the blood (and oxygen) it needs, so it starts to die.
So that results in a brain damage and brain’s the most critical organ that controls everything in our bodies. Once we lose that, we’re not that much different to a vegetable. (more…)
I just got flown in to Illinois to see my only grandmother who suffered a bad stroke and it appears that she will not ever regain consciousness.
I want to share feedback that Southwest Airline is the best, most deaf-friendly airline that I’ve ridden on. They don’t do seat assignments, just A, B, or C group but that doesn’t matter as they will let deaf passengers go in first. All you have to do is to tell them that you’re Deaf.
I was able to find a voucher for only $325 and booked the next soonest available flight and got in Illinois the next day. So, even if you use the best flight search engine like kayak.com or websites like Expedia.com or Travelocity.com, I guarantee that you won’t find the same deal within that short amount of time.
Another cool thing about Southwest Airline is they don’t do stupid late fees, so if you missed your flight, no problem, just wait for the next flight at no extra cost or fines.
Those are enough reason that I will become their frequent miles member and apply for the card.
…Today is the first day of November, the month of thanksgiving and December, probably everyone’s favorite month, rolls in. The year, 2007, closes its door on the last day and 2008 is up next. My mom will be having her 64th birthday in January and I shall have my 27th birthday that next month, February.
It’s just going too fast.
Rapidly expiring, I’ll only have three years left before I turn 30. That very thought has propelled me to re-evaluate what’s going on in my life. My first six years in my twenties has been pretty good, considering how everything has turned out. It’s been 3 years since I wore my graduation gown and shook hands with Al Simone, the highly-respected ex-president for RIT. My college days was pretty good; I’ve managed to balance fraternity life and school, carrying a gpa of 3.4 and managed to secure 4 straight co-ops in consecutive summers, even after the 9/11 event and while I was working, I was envious of my friends who worked in kids’ camps or went backpacking in Europe. (more…)
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Kim Ung-Yong (born March 7, 1963) is a Korean former child prodigy. He scored a 210 IQ on the Stanford-Binet test according to the Guinness Book of World Records. He began to learn differential calculus at the age of three. He was able to read and write in Japanese, Korean, German, and English by his fourth birthday. At the age of four, on November 2, 1967, he solved complicated differential and integral calculus problems on Japanese television, demonstrated his proficiency in German, English, Japanese, and Korean, and composed poetry.
Kim was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University from the age of three until he was six.[1]. At the age of seven he was invited to the United States by NASA.[1]. He finished his university studies, eventually getting a Ph.D in physics at Colorado State University [1] before he was 15. In 1974, during his university studies, he began his research work at NASA[1] and continued this work until his return to Korea in 1978.
When he returned to Korea, he decided to switch from physics to civil engineering and eventually received a doctorate in that field. Kim was offered the chance to study at the most prestigious universities in Korea, but instead chose to attend a provincial university.
As of 2007 he also serves as adjunct faculty at Chungbuk National University.
I still wonder why Koreans tend to be smart. Four languages by his fourth birthday? Shit and that makes it no excuse for me not to learn how to read/write Korean. At least I know two languages, ASL and English. :-)
I’ve just signed up to run in the Habitat for Humanity 12 Annual Home Run, hosted by Stanford University, so I’m going to need your help in donating some money towards the organization!
One sack of cement……..
$10
One sturdy front door………
$275
One complete kitchen………..
$5,000
Giving a hard working family a chance to own their own home…
Priceless .
Participate in the 12th Annual Stanford Habitat for Humanity Home Run!
It is a 5K/10K walk/ run benefiting Habitat for Humanity and Global Partners for Development on Sunday, Nov 11.
Habitat for Humanity works with people from all walks of life to develop communities and build affordable ownership housing, in which families can live, grow and build their future. These families receive a “hand up,” rather than a “hand out.” Partner families invest 500 hours of their own labor—sweat equity—into building their houses alongside community and corporate volunteers. After the house is built, it is sold to partner families at no profit and financed with zero interest mortgages. These payments will go towards the construction of other homes.
Global Partners for Development partners with local communities in Eastern Africa, striving to end poverty and hunger through numerous projects that include development of clean water sources, child nutrition, medical and health care, primary and vocational education, and women’s economic self-reliance.
Race Details:
Location : Pac 10 Plaza (next to Stanford Stadium)
Race Course: 5K walk/run and 10k run courses wind through campus along Campus Dr.
Registration Fees:
Pre-registration (By Nov. 4th) = $10 for Stanford Students; $25 other runners/walkers
Day of registration (Nov. 11th) = $15 for Stanford Students; $30 other runners/walkers
Ways to Register:
1) Online at http://www.active.com/page/Event_Details.htm?event_id=1461062
2) Fill out a flyer ( http://www.stanford.edu/group/habitat/hr07flyerfront.pdf) and mail to:
Stanford Habitat for Humanity
Haas Center for Public Service
Stanford University
562 Salvatieera Walk
Stanford, CA 94305
3) On Race Day starting at 7:45am in Pac 10 Plaza.
DONATIONS and FUNDRAISING:
If you are unable to participate in the event, but would still like to help Habitat for Humanity and Global Partners for Development make a tangible difference in the lives of families, you can donate or fundraise online at http://www.active.com/donate/homerun07. Our online donations goal for the Home Run 2007 is $5000! The award for the top fundraiser of this event will win a plane ticket courtesy American Airlines.
For More info: habitat.stanford.edu
-Stanford Habitat for Humanity
562 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford, CA 94305
stanfordhomerun@gmail.com
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* From Google Reader, click the Settings Link in the upper right hand corner.
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I recently bought a nice-looking external hard drive from Vantec. Since I have both PC and Mac, I need to format the hard drive in FAT32 filesystem and by Windows Vista’s disk management, it doesn’t give you the option to format with FAT32, only in NTFS. That’s no good because Mac cannot write to NTFS, it can only read the filesystem. With some googling, there is a turnaround to this. The command line is your solution.
1. Go to ‘run’ from the start button and type ‘cmd’ to bring up the command window.
2. Type this in the command line: format (Drive letter): /FS:FAT32
That’s all! The format process will take a while, at least it will give you the percent it’s completing at.
I subscribe to Google’s investing email subscription and saw someone posted that Google is now the 5th highest-valued company in the U.S.
It’s time once again to step back, pause, and marvel at the growth of Google. As of the close of trading today, 10/30/2007, a company that is roughly a decade old and that has been a publicly traded company
for only a little over 3 years is now the *5th* largest company in the US by market cap.
A couple months ago we were roughly 15th. Companies this large don’t
usually shift around in the list this quickly, especially in the upward direction. We’ve grown and much of the rest of the market has shrunk recently. In trading today we went up over 2% and closed with a market cap of $216.86B (according to Yahoo Finance) while Proctor and Gamble, the previous #5 went down 4%, closing at $215.18B (after hours the gap continued to widen). Some of the other companies we’ve passed recently include Walmart, Johnson and Johnson, Chevron, Cisco, Citigroup, and Bank of America. The only larger US companies by market cap are now AT&T, Microsoft, GE, and Exxon.
Worldwide, Google appears to have just broken into the top 20 based on data from a recent article, but I don’t know how far in. (It’s harder to get a good up-to-date list of top companies by market cap worldwide. If someone knows a good site to do this, let me know.)
Version #3: This report supersedes any earlier reports of this event.
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
A moderate earthquake occurred at 8:04:54 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, October 30, 2007.
The magnitude 5.6 event occurred 8 km (5 miles) NNE of Alum Rock, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 9 km ( 6 miles).
Magnitude: 5.6 - regional moment magnitude (Mw)
Time: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 8:04:54 PM (PDT)
Distance from: Alum Rock, CA - 8 km (5 miles) NNE (31 degrees)
Milpitas, CA - 11 km (7 miles) E (91 degrees)
San Jose City Hall, CA - 15 km (9 miles) NE (45 degrees)
Sunol-Midtown, CA - 17 km (10 miles) NE (45 degrees)
Coordinates: 37 deg. 25.9 min. N (37.432N), 121 deg. 46.5 min. W (121.776W)
Depth: 9.2 km (5.7 miles)
Location Quality: Excellent
I’m gonna play for a team called the Gold Rush. The tournament is this weekend, starting with 4v4 on Friday and 8v8 on Saturday. Hope we all play well. I’m gonna be like Deion Branch. We’re same height, run sharp patterns, swifty and have good hands.
And Bobby Knight said this, “The key is not the “will to win” . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”
Which is why I'm gonna do drills and run 3 miles everyday till to the tournament, so I'll have enough gas in my tanks to wave my hand at opponents in the 4th quarter, championship game.
Wow, the list is good. 56 of them but I’m picking some for here.
1. Use lists.
2. Be topical… write posts that need to be read right now.
3. Learn enough to become the expert in your field.
5. Be timeless… write posts that will be readable in a year. 6. Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic. 7. Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you. 9. Write short, pithy posts.
19. Do email interviews with the well-known.
24. Post your photos on flickr.
28. Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.
37. Keep tweaking your template to make it include every conceivable bell or whistle.
38. Write about blogging. 39. Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
40. Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction. 45. Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger.
46. Edit yourself. Ruthlessly. 48. Be patient.
49. Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful.
51. Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive. 56. Write stuff that people want to read and share.
If you have a phone with camera, you don’t need to read this any further. This is more for users with blackberries (because I own a Blackberry Curve).
Facebook has a rule that you cannot upload mobile pics by emails, only from your phone but alas, blackberries can send emails. So, if you have been trying to send pics from your blackberry, Facebook will send you a confirmation code each time. Which eventually becomes annoying.
To prevent from getting confirmation codes over and over, you need to use MMS feature on your blackberry and send pics through that. Voila! no more confirmation codes! this is because the address comes in the form of phone number, not email address, which Facebook obviously likes better. Happy uploading. :-)
Although HR departments should be aware of questions that are illegal to ask prospective employees, some hiring managers aren’t so savvy. Many illegal questions are easy for just about anyone with elementary social graces to avoid, but others might surprise you. In general, you should not ask interviewees about their age, race, national origin, marital or parental status, or disabilities.
Not exactly sure what happened but it appears that the bug has been lifted off. I’m back into blogging again and I hope it will be one long streak before I break it off again later. My goal is simple: make information a bit more useful, especially on Deaf topics and I’m also trying to write more reviews.
Rarely is a person completely deaf, and a hearing loss could fall anywhere along the continuum from totally deaf to hearing. The amount of usable (or residual) hearing varies greatly from person to person. Depending upon the type of loss, the person may or may not benefit from the amplification that a hearing aid provides. Hearing aids only amplify sound, they do not make sound clearer. The severity of a person’s hearing loss could be different at various frequencies. Therefore, ability to hear different voices will vary depending on a number of factors, including the pitch of the voice. Also, it is important to note that a person’s ability to hear a voice is different than the ability to discriminate between sounds and to understand speech.
The life activity most affected by hearing loss is communication. Colleagues and friends must be versatile in finding an effective communication method. Pen and paper are handy communication devices in some situations.
Though not effective for all people who are hearing impaired, knowing some sign language and fingerspelling is helpful. Learn some elementary or survival signs from colleagues, coworkers, or managers who are deaf or hard of hearing.
People who are deaf or hard of hearing, like people who are hearing, have different education levels. Knowledge of English grammar, syntax, and spelling varies from individual to individual. A person who uses American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary language of communication may or may not be proficient in using standard English. For the most part, English is an oral/aural language designed to be spoken and heard. Therefore, it is quite challenging to learn and understand English when you can not hear, especially when it varies so greatly from the structure and syntax of ASL. The person who is not proficient in English is not stupid or illiterate; he or she just uses a different language to communicate.
Not all hearing impaired people are good lip readers and lip reading skill has no correlation to a person¹s intelligence. Even good lip readers may miss many words. Keep in mind that only 25-30% of spoken English can be lip read. Not all deaf people know how to speak sign language, or choose to use sign language interpreters. Some prefer to communicate through lip reading and some prefer sign language.
The need for an interpreter depends on the situation and the people involved. Interpreters can be described as a communication link. A telephone, for example, is a communication link; it does not add information or alter the content of the message.
Deafness does not, in itself, affect intelligence.
I see the dancer spin clock-wise so I guess I’m right brain.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
Bill Clinton is one of my favorite presidents next to Abraham Lincoln who was the greatest president ever and Jack F. Kennedy, the charmistic president.
