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I felt like I am in jail in LBJ building...

I am surfing the system.out.Blog website, and I read his article about ten layers and some of their attributes. I began though, why not I do mine? It would be fun to getting little know about my layers and attributes.

LAYER ONE:
-- Name: David
-- Birth date: October 12
-- Birthplace: Pittsburgh, PA
-- Current Location: Monroeville, PA
-- Eye Color: Hazel
-- Hair Color: Light Brown
-- Height: 6'4
-- Righty or Lefty: Righty
-- Zodiac Sign: Libra

Found in Alive and Bloggin'.

Happy Deathday!
Your name:	daveynin
You will die on:	Tuesday, March 11, 2031
You will die of:	Stroke
Username:
Created by Quill

Interesting, I will or will not dead at age 58. Ahh.

Name Statistics says:
David is the #6 most common male name.   2.363% of men in the US are named David.   Around 2894675 US men are named David!
And.. David is the #1269 most common female name.   0.006% of females in the US are named David.   Around 7650 US females are named David!

Is David a female?   Ahh.   Also, I learned Davey is the name of pet.

Interesting, I have been into twenty-one states all of my life. The map below from World66, I visted and produced a map of the US with those states in red shown below.

The barcode value for a 26 year old male, that lives in United States, is 76 inches height and weights $9.43. Barcode Yourself!

Via Weez Blog.

Meg asked me her questions about the experiences being a deaf blogger and Information Technology work environment, and I am happy to write my personal comments on her site, and I thought myself I could copy & paste my comments here:

Meg is very interested to finding deaf bloggers out there somewhere, and it would be very interesting to meeting new people of deaf bloggers. I second Justin a support for encouraging deaf to sign up in Meg!

My old classmate from WPSD pointed in WPSD yearbook:

My senior picture was taken in 1996 yearbook. Enough with Luigi.

Today is the new day of the month, October. It is one of my most favorite month. I have to remind you, it is not about Halloween.

Why?

Because of my birthday. 12th day of the month.

Also, 12 is my favorite number; wore this uniform number for my old high school sports -- soccer, basketball and track.

Good mood into Mild weather.

World Series.

Fall is also my favorite season.

Top of best games contenders tend to come out in fall season.

Also, keep an eye on October 4th; I will make a big announcement. (I'm sure some of you know what I actually doing on Monday.)

200 things - things i've done are in BOLD Via: Mandarin Design > Grillboy

01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins - in the Bahamas
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watched the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights

I killed my own time putting my 26 links of personality online life, via mamamusings.

A is for Apple
B is for Bloglines
C is for CNN
D is for daveynin's thing
E is for ESPN
F is for Flickr
G is for Google
H is for Happy Hour in Pittsburgh, Deaf Professonial
I is for IGN
J is for Joystiq
K is for Katamari Damacy
L is for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
M is for Mellon Bank
N is for Nintendo
O is for OS X
P is for PHP
Q is for Qix
R is for RIT
S is for Simpsons
T is for T-Mobile Sidekick II
U is for Universal Studios
V is for Visiontracker for Mac OS X
W is for WPSD Alumni Association
X is for X-Files
Y is for Yahoo!
Z is for Zelda

The "L" letter is tough and final thoughts for me. I haven't watch that movie yet!

The 2004 year is approaching to be over soon; and I looked back one of my fresh memories of my life: yearly of the images from my digital camera. Speaking of camera, I have bought Canon PowerShot S330 in July 2002 and have been using this for almost three years, and it never looked better, and is still in good shape. I saved least five thousand pictures; formatted by 1600x1200 or 2.0 megapixels. All of the images stored in my six 650 MB CDs. Great moments of the images I looked back, and I have an idea: why don't I select the top 25 favorite pictures each year by using my PowerShot S330. There are total of 75 pictures stored in Flickr online photo management, and all of them are priceless for you to enjoy your time to view the slideshows:

Pictures of 2002

Pictures of 2003

Pictures of 2004

Instructions note: Click the mouse cursor over the picture slideshow to view the full information include the caption. Click that picture again to bring back the full screen. Move the cursor below inside the slideshow to navigate the thumbnails.

What I spend my weekdays in my life:

Mrs. Interview (6:15:28 PM): David? Hi, this is Stacey. I am a hearing student at Okaloosa-Walton College in Florida, now in my second semester of ASL. First, please let me say how much I enjoyed your website. I will admit that for many years I was unaware about Deaf culture until taking this class. I would like to have an interview with you.
daveynin (6:15:36 PM): yeah, i am here.
daveynin (6:16:03 PM): yes, sure go ahead.
Mrs. Interview (6:16:10 PM): First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I basically would like to ask you about your life- your family, your school life, and your social life to try and understand Deaf culture a little better. Please forgive me, I know I still have a lot to learn about Deaf culture and ASL, and will try not to get too personal or step out of line, but if I do, please tell me! In return, please feel free to ask me anything about myself!
daveynin (6:17:08 PM): okay. sure.
daveynin (6:17:23 PM): what do u want to ask me to get started for the first question?
Mrs. Interview (6:17:41 PM): I have read your bio on your website, and understand you were diagnosed at 5 months old. Can you tell me how you became deaf?
daveynin (6:18:25 PM): normally, my parents didn't know that i am deaf when I was 5 months old. they believed that i am born-deaf. Since I am born, they did not take a tests on audiology on my ear -- the doctors were saying that I am perfect normal baby until my parents suspected that I didn't wake up from sleeping -- during loud noise at our house.
daveynin (6:19:49 PM): that is how they found me as deaf.
Mrs. Interview (6:19:58 PM): Oh I see. Do you have any other family members that are deaf?
daveynin (6:20:41 PM): no, I'm the only first deaf in family generations.
Mrs. Interview (6:21:03 PM): Do you have any brothers or sisters?
daveynin (6:22:01 PM): yes, I have two oldest brothers. No sister. After my dad remarried, we had four oldest step-brothers. No step-sister again! That brings the total of six brothers.
Mrs. Interview (6:22:17 PM): wow!! that must be fun!
Mrs. Interview (6:23:04 PM): Was it difficult for your oldest brothers to communicate with you?
daveynin (6:24:30 PM): yes. my brothers are seven and five years old away from my age. Since childhood, we hardly talk each other. My second brother mostly gesture with ASL mixed with "home sign language", u call "HSL"
Mrs. Interview (6:25:17 PM): I see, yes I have heard of HSL. At what age did you learn ASL?
daveynin (6:26:12 PM): lol I can't remember. let me ask my dad.
Mrs. Interview (6:26:18 PM): lol
daveynin (6:27:41 PM): My dad can't remember too. he guessed least 2 years old of age
Mrs. Interview (6:28:57 PM): wow, thats great! I also see from your bio that you were in mainstream school from K-6 and the at a school for the Deaf from 7-12 grades. How were those experiences for you?
daveynin (6:31:06 PM): It was pretty ugly. My parents took me to mainstream. I wasn't happy that time since I am profoundly deaf, and difficult for me to become hard-of-hearing, which I unable to speak with my voices. I have problems with final year at mainstream through my life -- education and having a hearing friends to socialize. Because we really don't communicate well. We usually write down the paper what they're saying.
Mrs. Interview (6:32:18 PM): Did you like the school for the Deaf better then?
daveynin (6:33:23 PM): after I begged my dad to go school f/t Deaf since I first heard that, and I transferred to there and I am very happy -- they have deaf friends which I can easily communicate with into deaf culture.
Mrs. Interview (6:35:04 PM): :-) Good to know that! What about college? I see that you went to a Community College. Did you use interpreters there?
daveynin (6:36:30 PM): yes. I went there for 3 years at commuity college. My dad want me to go there since they can't afford me to go A plus universities such as Gallaudet University and National Technical Institue f/t Deaf.
daveynin (6:37:15 PM): I passed them to earn associate degree in three years. Yet again, I am still not happy attending community college due to lack of deaf students there.
Mrs. Interview (6:38:18 PM): 3 years! thats great! I am still working on mine! I can understand why you wouldn't be happy there.
daveynin (6:38:30 PM): yeah.
Mrs. Interview (6:39:18 PM): Did you finish at Rochester?
daveynin (6:40:22 PM): Yes, I transferred to RIT for final four years of college.
daveynin (6:40:50 PM): there are large number of deaf students at NTID/RIT, which I am very happy with that my life at RIT.
Mrs. Interview (6:41:09 PM): that's great!
daveynin (6:41:30 PM): I graduated there in Feburary 2004 as official date. Earned Bachelor's Degree of Science in Information Technology.
Mrs. Interview (6:41:56 PM): Wonderful! And now you are working?
daveynin (6:43:40 PM): After February 2004, I am unemployed. I also have freelance web work -- worked with two projects and earn little money for that. I am still looking the full-time career job until October 2004 I finally got full-time, permanent and career job. I am very happy with it ever since.
Mrs. Interview (6:44:19 PM): very good! I was very impressed with your website. Did you do that yourself?
daveynin (6:46:04 PM): yep, all of them are hard-coded HTML I made myself. that is why my major is web developer in Information TEchnology. I do design website, coding the web application.
Mrs. Interview (6:47:38 PM): wonderful! I am not so good on the computer myself. AIM, e-mail and surfing the internet is about the best I can do!
daveynin (6:48:01 PM): yeah, I understand. I do the same thing in my daily basis
Mrs. Interview (6:49:17 PM): It seems from your website that you have many friends and a good social life, that the Deaf community seems to be a big part of that.
daveynin (6:51:01 PM): yes. there are lot of deaf clubs, deaf events around Pittsburgh in my hometown. I am committee for DPHH in Pittsburgh. DPHH stands for Deaf Professonial Happy Hour. This event takes once a month in selected favorite locations around inside and outside Pittsburgh area.
daveynin (6:51:14 PM): You can find the website for that, http://www.dphhpgh.com. I designed this webpage.
Mrs. Interview (6:52:31 PM): thank you for the website, I will surely look at it! I saw the pictures from some of these happy hours! looks like a lot of fun! Also, I have to go.
daveynin (7:16:48 PM): bye, Stacey.
Mrs. Interview (7:16:53 PM): bye, David

Hmm, intersting. Who's next?

My friend sent me the link and asked me if I could try to make me look like myself:

I saw the cool and fun stuff in Flickr: whatsinyourbag tag, so I decided to spread three different things to post there: Nintendo Gameboy & DS Series, camera portable carrying bag and Powerbook portable carrying bag. It took me almost a hour to do all three.

Via cLickadelicious in Ke5ter, I came across the interesting site have the list of the World's Healthiest Foods. You will find the every list of healthy food contains the background, history, 'Food Rating System Chart' such as nutrients. Also, here is fun me-me lists what foods I do like to eat in bold:

Here you go. Why don't the food include the bugs? These have lot of nutrients. Remember, I don't eat bugs.

I read the last year's Gizmodo entry what they have in their portable bag. I thought it would be cool if I take my gadgets for traveing:

• Nintendo DS bag with adapter and 4 DS games
• Sony PSP w/ adapter, 2 games and one UMD movie
• my more than 3 year old Canon PowerShot S330 with accessories: big and small carrying cases, waterproof case, battery back-up, battery charger, three CompactFlash memory cards: 4MB, 32MB and 128MB
• badass Apple 15' Powerbook G4 1.5 ghz, iSight and adapter fit into carrying case
• T-Mobile Sidekick 2 for my personal use
• top performance pager (not rather to tell the name of the device) for my work use

I have been tagged by Nathan..

TEN YEARS AGO I..
I was junior year at Western Pennsylvania School f/t Deaf (WPSD). I played in WPSD soccer as HB position. My body height has stopped growing, reached the final: 6 foot and 4 inches. I can't imagine that I don't have computer or heard a little about internet that I am heavily interested into this and I saw web browser for first time at WPSD in computer room.

During first weekend of October, my dad and I went National Technical Institute f/t Deaf (NTID) Open House, I was very anixious to meet new people and I always say my dad that I always want to go there because they had better computer technical major than Gallaudet University.

I bought played Super Mario World 2: Yoshi Island, during tenth anniversary of Mario debuted in action/adventure game.

FIVE YEARS AGO I..
was in second year student at Rochester Institute of Technology, pursing bachelor of science degree for Information Technology.

ONE YEAR AGO I..
got my first true professional career permanent job at Mellon Bank as Network Perimeter Defense in Corporate Information Security.

YESTERDAY (AS OF SUNDAY) I..
played 9-hole golf alone in Monroeville, PA. Had three pars out of 18 holes, one of my best after first five games. When I swing my 3-wood club for in first hole, and I got my club ripped off from hitting the golf ball and both flew in low-air. I was disappointed about this, and after this 230-yard same hole, I made par-4!

Until Last night, I went Moy Cove in Monroeville to play poker league for free. I placed tenth place out of 40 people. There are eight deaf people played in the league.

• Stay on my weight
• Eat healthy foods often
• New 2006 car
• New Relationship
• Own Nintendo 5th generation system
• Increase salary following moving into high level of job field

I survived my memories throughout the year 2006 with my digital camera around my hometown or Steelers Country, wandering around events in Pittsburgh, drove to Outer Banks and flew to Arizona for vacation. I captured around 1,000 pictures, narrow those into twenty-five pictures as I select the personally best, posted in my Flickr along with its photos set.

Traditionally, I have been through on this in my last four years: 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Just type in your date of birth and find out some useless facts about your birthday.

My result: I was born on Wednesday, under the astrological sign, Libra. My Life path number is 1. My age is the equivalent of a dog that is 4.2 years old. As of 9:51:46 PM EST, I am 924,472,306 seconds old, nearly to one billionth seconds old. I share a birthday date with Hugh Jackman and Marion Jones.

Great, where's the site that tell me interesting facts about my social security number?

Via digg.

Photo by MonkeyLeo13

The image you're seeing above is about my primary communication: American Sign Language. What am I saying in freeze-frame picture? Trying to blow kiss? Understanding of common sign language in Deaf culture, They thought I sign like Hitler.

Yes, I did sign Hitler in the picture - as unexpectedly. Those are my highlight times, few of my friends have read my blogs and talked in person about parody movie scene I made, Hitler Ultimate Downfall: Sign Language.

Inspired by Flickr Group Pool: My Day, Yesterday, I created the day-long video of my routine single day on October 31, 2008 - Halloween Day holiday. Excluding the day before the video recorded, I was extremely busy around with my time and do not have enough time to edit the video a day after. Finally, I posted this on site a week later.

I posted the 3-minute video into my Facebook for friends-only to view the video. Lastly, I uploaded the same video into YouTube for public viewing.

I went back to re-edit the video, cut down to 90 seconds (that's 1 minute, 30 sec) per Flickr length-time video policy, for your pleasure quality viewing.