Tagged With: deafness
Less Frustration, Please?
Could I please have a little less frustration on this trip? This morning I got to the Tropicana with no problems by taking a bus, but then when I went to the box office with my confirmation email there was a sign saying the Titanic exhibit was closed until further notice. The woman behind the … Continue reading
PPP Channel
YouTube now has a special channel for PayPerPost. It primarily includes their reality show RockStartup, which is basically pretty self-referential from what I can tell…about how PPP is getting started as a fairly new company. I quickly noticed a video about the HP camera giveaway, which I’ve displayed below. It’s one of the most accessible … Continue reading
Protected: Client Peeve
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RIP Gil Eastman
I was so sorry to learn via Ridor that Gil Eastman has died. For those of you not familiar with him, Gil was an amazing voice in the Deaf community. Watching him sign was like listening to James Earl Jones speak…rich, powerful, and intense. He contributed so much to the Deaf arts community and the … Continue reading
Hearing vs. hearing
This post is the result of seeing the capitalized word “Hearing” used to mean a hearing person who is pro-Deaf people. I have seen it before, I believe in deaf, it bothered me then and it’s time to think about why. It strikes me as wrong for two reasons. First, it’s mis-capitalized. A Deaf person … Continue reading
Rear Window
We went to see “Pirates of the Caribbean 2″ last night, and I noticed it had Rear Window captioning available so I asked for the reflector. I’ve heard bad things about Rear Window from deaf friends and clients, and I wanted to try it for myself. For one thing, I was surprised by how big … Continue reading
Hearing Test
I had my hearing tested today. I have flaccid eardrums; the audiologist recommended seeing a physician to make sure nothing is wrong (she implied that sometimes there’s a cause, and sometimes people just are that way). Flaccid eardrums mean that it’s harder for sound to make my eardrums vibrate – the eardrum moves with the … Continue reading
Pride Saturday
I hadn’t been to any Pride events since 2000, but yesterday I went! I had been asked to interpret for the DC Dyke March, and I was happy to do so. (They weren’t paying me anything, so I asked for one of the “MARSHAL” t-shirts other volunteers were given.) I had thought the interpreting would … Continue reading
Quicklinks for 2006-05-27
I took the Lloyd’s test again and did much better, but when I did the Audacity tones again with headphones I couldn’t hear the tones – and yet I could hear them without headphones. So who knows if it’s the computer, or my hearing, or what. All I know is that last night, :A: could … Continue reading
Hearing Loss
Well, this is interesting. I have a mild hearing loss at high frequencies, apparently. This was prompted by an NPR story about the “Mosquito” teen repeller, which plays a 17kHz tone to drive away unruly teens hanging around stores and other establishments. I had been able to hear the sample tone played on the radio, … Continue reading