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The Simpsons: Season 20, Eposide 17. Aired on April 19, 2009. Titled: The Good, the Sad and the Drugly.
Runtime: 22 seconds.
Nelson Muntz does his ASL fingerspelling: "Haw Haw!".
Anyone noticed the yellow-skined human genes in Simpsons only have four fingers?
I have been kicking out high myself playing LittleBigPlanet (short word for LBP) Sony PlayStation 3 video game system. LBP is a puzzle platformer (aka Mario & Sonic for basic jump 'n run) and user generated content video game.
The game includes online and offline story mode (single player or cooperative players), share community levels to play the creator's game levels in the game network across the globe.
My friend, Sam C. discovered the community level includes the sign post of American Sign Language fingerspelling of alphabet, A to I. This level is published by lennylightspeed, PSN (PlayStation Network) username.
We are delighted that the gamer spent a ton of their time on this community level dedicate to the Deaf community. Click to view the three-minute level in the video below.
Deaf Professional Happy Hour, acronym for DPHH, their official website launched nationally today (as of Wednesday, July 9th, 2008). The site is sponsored by Viable, INC. This site provides the list of upcoming DPHH schedule events in selected hosted cities, if you're happen to be in luck to live nearby. After DPHH social event is over, the picture album arrives DPHH.com to fill up the spotlight of memories and of course, our Deaf nation is reading this.
I hail from Pittsburgh and was second generation of DPHH Pittsburgh committee back in 2004-2005. DPHH Pittsburgh been through three generations of committees in decade of 2000s. Pittsburgh also have deaf social club, Pittsburgh Association of the Deaf, which is somewhat similar to DPHH, debated each of their advantages and disadvantages about two organizations for Deaf socials in same city.
DPHH Pittsburgh is currently alive and kickin' in 2008, and it is hard to believe for everyone to know if website has lived up, hardly to seen in *cough* MySpace site *cough* (should I say unprofessional site?), and make announcements through Yahoo Groups - Pittsburgh Deaf Events for notification about DPHH future events in Pittsburgh.
Since DPHH.com of 2008 just launched today with limited cities, let's see if DPHH Pittsburgh could join the network list, and I think it will be great opportunity to share our hosted city in DPHH.com official site.
I have few couple question in my mind about DPHH.com and its future: How long are Viable sponsoring this? Who and what will be responsible carrying the official website of DPHH.com legacy? Will DPHH.com continue to strength and organize? Only the time will tell.
Today is Sunday night, I am far from tired, am waiting for me to go bed to prepared for the new day of the week. However, I killed my spare time curiously checking out where deaf websites running under the hosting server:
Finally about time, it's wrap - about time for me to go bed to have a pleasant sleep. Oh, I forgot one more thing before I sign off - you're wonder what hosting service I am using for my domain name? You have to check out in Mark Monitor yourself.
I AM DEAF. I NEED TO HAVE FOR RIDES.
My deaf friend wrote his simple and short sentences in the paper to show the staff at guest service near main entrance in Busch Gardens Europe (in Williamsburg, VA), one of most beautiful theme park in the world.
He is going to try to convict the guest service to allow us to cut the queue line times, go through exit door from train station to take a ride on roller coaster in no time. Think of handicap as deaf. The guest service said OK, gave the special permission of note to him. Whoo, it worked! We made cut the queue line on seven different rides in less than two hours.
I asked my friend if he have done with this in different amusement park. That is what he has been done before: Cedar Point - NO. Kennywood - NO. Hershey Park - YES. Hmm, I will take a note myself that I can be deaf and dumb when I go gu>est service in Hershey Park sometime in future.
Also my friend asked the guest service to request the ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter for show times, and the staff said "Did you call to make an appointment?" He said no. Also we learned that we need make a request for appointment to call 48 hours before (?) for no cost. Yes, you heard it - it's free!
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The verdict is in: Dr. Jane Fernandes will be 9th president of Gallaudet University.
Now the ugly news: Gallaudet deaf students weren't pleased with this result, and they roared to bring the Better President Now, or BPN. They complained the Board of Trustees didn't involve into campus community or lack of racial diversity.
Speaking of link dump: Ridor is extremely actively involved his blog story, and Elisa has an excellent reporting her blog story including the pictures and movie clips. Grant Laird, Jr. dump the dozens of links in his blog entry. The site is overcrowded with responders, and Washington Post wrote their article.
Is this kind of protest that is similar copycat to rich deaf history, DPN - Deaf President Now in 1988? If the deaf continue protest, will this become national news in next few days? Don't think so.
If you happen to have a complaint against your interpreter in Pennsylvania, take the instructions online and send with this through snail mail.
What about me? I never have been done this before.
Until RIT alma mater Tayler developed his project, Fomdi. Fomdi asks for zip code/city, distance and date for captioned movies in theaters. This is wonderful opportunity for everyone can have quicker way to get the result. I like the idea -- a lot.
I always knew captioned movie tend to come out on Tuesdays and Wednesdays few times each month in Pittsburgh Loews Waterfront, ten miles away from my home. I asked Fomdi for 15146, 40-mi and the day (3/21). Fomdi searched and says there are none. InSight listed the opening movie, "Nanny McPhee" on 3/21. Is Fomdi having a technical difficulties?
I contacted Tayler about this situation, and he pointed that Loews theater just merged with AMC, and experiencing transitional issues, and will be appearing at Movietickets.com, and it will be found by Fomdi. Hmm, Fomdi is gonna wait, so do I.
I sent my feedback suggestion to Tayler to improve Fomdi - such as Fomdi's blog (log version number (what-it-is), announcements, etc), syndication feeds and date ranges. I am hoping Fomdi to have better upgrades and become robot's best friend!
I am excited to see more Deaf web developers bringing the dynamic sites on deaf related web sites unlike any other.
Via Bionic Ear Blog:
Deaf Bloggers been using the Internet to keep track of developments in the case and dispel stereotypes about deaf people...
Argus Leader of Sioux Falls reporter, Dan Haugen mentioned in his article about deaf bloggers tracking the topic of VanderGiesen murder, its spreading and growing group of deaf bloggers.
It's a fact that there are number of few deaf bloggers found in Google Blog Search about VanderGiesen.
Kokonut Pundits also blogged the previous murders involving people who are deaf. I also blogged a little information about deaf family tragedy near Pittsburgh area an year ago.
Also the silly quote from Bionic Ear Blog said from deaf bloggers: "people believe that deaf people don't have the capability to kill someone." Deaf can have an ability to murder, even blind, mental retarded or handicapped person. Have you ever watched Stephen King's Misery movie, the author man who had became handicapped - unable to walk and he had an ability to kill his insane fan woman.
