White Cats and Deafness (2 clicks)
December 29 2007
I learned something new today - which is always a cool prospect. Did you know that it’s not at all uncommon for white cats to be deaf? My mom had a large (very, very) sweetheart of a cat, Chin Chin, who happened to be deaf. I read recently that very many white cats are. Especially those who also have blue eyes. Chin Chin’s were green, however. There is an established link between the white coat color, blue eyes and deafness. Congenial deafness is extremely rare in non-white cats. A few st

Conchita on the Tabernacles (17 clicks)
December 29 2007
Oh my God, my God! What would become of the world if there were no tabernacles? They are the lighting conductors, the light, the warmth, the life... the whiteness, the purity that covers the filthy mud of the Earth... Jesus is there, and almost every time I draw near Him He asks me for purity, purity, crucified and clean souls to console Him... The Lord is thirsty for purity and for the Cross, and yet the world is deaf, wallowing in its dirt and sleeping on its material comforts. A terrible awak

Pick Up Finale (11 clicks)
December 29 2007
My Dad was born in Doornfontein My Mom’s from Krugersdorp I’m a wanderer I float across this sorrowful world Looking for the truth Looking for nipples to rest my tongue on You look like the kind of cherry I can talk to May I buy you another double? I’m a gypsy, I’ve got a caravan outside Would you like to go for a drive-by? I saw you from across the bar There was something special You’re not like all the rest here. I’ve been divorced, I’ve been born-again What are you doing tomor

Saturday, December 29, 2007 (1 click)
December 29 2007
Doodling is the New Sex The SoundsWrongButIsn't title is courtesy of Angelin. Whose area of expertise include: A) Making things that sound wrong seem right; B) Making things that sound wright seem rong. ANYWHOO! If you're sitting there for the past several days pondering about the reason behind my lack of updates despite having no productive daily routine besides Eat-Sleep-Watch House MD-Shit-Eat Some More. Or if you have me on MSN, you're wondering why the fuck have I been so uncharact

Everything should end now. (2 clicks)
December 29 2007
Wanted to lunch at BK with Ningy but it was kind of. . . okay, forget it. Lunched at KFC after that. =D Exchanged presents with her and her card is full of rubbish. ( I don't want one, even if it's FOC. =D ) Thanks for the notebook though. Haha. Went to the library after that to do our homework. (We're hardworking. ;P) Saw CHERYL and her friend there. LOL. That's amazing. We manage to see her everytime we go out. The first was at Borders. Aha. So, Kelvin said that he saw me at the library but I

the thin ends of wedges: on students 2.0 and beyond (14 clicks)
December 29 2007
Let's just go ahead and propose this as one of the newer laws of nature: Anything I think or write about anything having anything to do with Clay Burell's thinking and writing has a tendency to EXPAND. By that I mean: I end up thinking bigger. . . and usually shamelessly digress in writing about it, following a tangent to an unexpected end. Which amounts to the same thing, I guess. Give him an inch and he'll make a milestone. In his excellent post reflecting on the Students 2.0 experience, so

Soldier reaches out to deaf parents (31 clicks)
December 29 2007
By Sgt. Natalie Rostek, 3rd HBCT Public Affairs Blackanthem Military News Pfc. Patti Angel, Grand Junction, Colo., a food service specialist from Company F, 203rd Brigade Support Battalion, checks her e-mail at the Morale, Welfare and Recreation tent at Combat Outpost Cleary. COMBAT OUTPOST CLEARY, Iraq – Pfc. Patti Angel faces communication barriers no amount of waiting in line or talking into a phone from Iraq can help. Her parents are deaf. Keeping in touch back home is already to

Hearing People Demand The Right To Self Designed Babies (11 clicks)
December 29 2007
Screaming-Kate Simpleton, Health Editor Hearing  parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a hearing child over one that has all its senses intact, according to the chief executive of the Royal National Institute for Hearing People (RNIP). Hickory Dickory Dock, a former Liberal Democrat MP, says that although the vast majority of hearing parents would want a child who is healthy, a small minority of couples would prefer to create a child who is effectively disabled, t

Saturday Sermon: The Mission Continues (20 clicks)
December 29 2007
1 Thessalonians 1:4-10 The message of Christianity, that Jesus Christ is God and that we are a redeemed people, a changed people, mere sojourners in this life, serving our Lord and looking toward and waiting for our heavenly destiny, these things seem to be out of fashion in the church today. It would seem as if it is all about right now, a better life, a better situation, and the kingdom of heaven come to earth, but without any suffering, without any changed life, without any real credible wit

Music Review: The 11th Hour Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (16 clicks)
December 29 2007
Narrated by Leondardo DiCaprio, The 11th Hour, somewhat of a follow-up documentary to the successful and award-winning An Inconvenient Truth, took in a modest amount at the box office while making a limited appearance in theatres over the summer. Taking its title from the phrase used to refer to the last moment when change is possible, the film features numerous interviews with various scientists and leaders duscussing the issues currently facing the planet. The heavy subject matter may seem a

2008 New Years Honours (13 clicks)
December 29 2007
The 2008 New Year's Honours List has been published. The relevant Orders of the British Empire in relation to Services with Deaf People are: Order of the British Empire Members of the Order of the British Empire Mrs Dorothy Ann Rebecca HEGARTY For services to Deaf People in Northern Ireland. (Dungiven, Londonderry) [Hands That Talk] Thomas Joseph KEOGAN Consultant for Deaf Services, Darlington Borough Council. For services to Deaf People. (Coatham Mundeville, Durham) Ms Rose-Ann O'M

Jesus - God Is With Us (14 clicks)
December 29 2007
It has been a very busy day! I was up and out so early this morning (after making banana pancakes for the family!) that I didn't get the chance to write a blog post. However, I got an email alert from my blogging friend Charlie at AnotherThink. His recent essay entitled Emmanuel in Iowa is a great read! Charlie happens to be one of my very first "blogging" friends. I discovered his blog way back in 2005 when I attended the first GodBlog Conference at Biola University. He has written many excel

Positive Affirmation #4509 (16 clicks)
December 29 2007
Positive Affirmation #4509 Positive Affirmation #4509 Is: “"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." Mark Twain” Current affirmation categories: kindness Get positive affirmation #4509 on MP3 at bmindful - the positive affirmation community! Click here to sign up for your FREE bmindful accout now!!

Tell Shout! Factory to Release all episodes of C.O.P.S., the late 80s’ cartoon show, on DVD — SIGN IT! (0 clicks)
December 29 2007
Before I’ll go on with the blog updates, I want to tell everyone that I’m having a petition drive to release all episodes of C.O.P.S. on DVD. And I don’t mean the live action version of COPS, but the animated cartoon show that featured Bulletproof, LongArm Mainframe, Big Boss, Dr. BadVibes, Berserko, Mace, Nightshade, and many others. To those of you who don’t remember the show, let me refresh. C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) is a late 80s’ animated series that aired bet

Tanzing the cha cha (7 clicks)
December 29 2007
Matthias Tanzmann- Rugby (No Tom Edit), Moonharbour 2007 In my other life as a fashion student, I was in this class that was directed much like project runway, only much more coldly realistic even though it was only in the simulated real world known as college. There was this guy in my class that had a thing for using the term "cha cha" to describe a garment that would allow that perfect bit of flatering movement to occur when the woman wearing it would move. Over time it became a distinct and

(29 clicks)
December 29 2007
phone and tv for deaf ad blind 5 days 10 hours ago

Brave New World: Deaf Designer Babies (9 clicks)
December 29 2007
Just thought I'd bring to your attention this story about a group of activists in the UK who want the right to create deaf babies. The current reproduction law under review in Britain would make it illegal to deliberately create a disabled baby. Some activists want to be able to create deaf babies because they believe there is a deaf culture, and that parents should be able to choose to have only deaf babies so that their kids can "fit in" with their lifestyle. Can you imagine that: the "right

There Will Be Blood - Missing Links (32 clicks)
December 29 2007
Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood Jason Robards as Earl Partridge in Magnolia, with Phillip Seymour Hoffman Robards with David Warner (left) in The Ballad of Cable Hogue The five films Paul Thomas Anderson has made to date fall neatly into two categories. On the one hand, there are the Altmanesque ensemble films – Boogie Nights and Magnolia; on the other, the "lonely man" films built around the performance of a single actor – Hard Eight (aka Sidney), Punch Drunk Lo

Democrats defeat themselves again (15 clicks)
December 29 2007
The Democrats in Congressional leadership are idiots. Today, Bully Boy gave his radio address and they're probably still scrambling to figure out what's what. The New York Times offers Steven Lee Myers and David M. Herszenhorn's "In Surprise Step, Bush Vows Veto of Military Bill" on the front page: For months, President Bush harangued Democrats in Congress for not moving quickly enough to support the troops and for bogging down military bills with unrelated issues. And then Friday, with no wa

Ape See, Ape Do (8 clicks)
December 29 2007
Apes can wield tools, learn sign language, and get hooked on TV. New research credits them with yet another ability once thought to be exclusively human: duplicating the facial expressions of others. The work suggests that this capability, which might help individuals synchronize their emotions, precedes the origin of our species.

Conchita on the Tabernacles (17 clicks)
December 29 2007
Oh my God, my God! What would become of the world if there were no tabernacles? They are the lighting conductors, the light, the warmth, the life... the whiteness, the purity that covers the filthy mud of the Earth... Jesus is there, and almost every time I draw near Him He asks me for purity, purity, crucified and clean souls to console Him... The Lord is thirsty for purity and for the Cross, and yet the world is deaf, wallowing in its dirt and sleeping on its material comforts. A terrible awak

Everything should end now. (2 clicks)
December 29 2007
Wanted to lunch at BK with Ningy but it was kind of. . . okay, forget it. Lunched at KFC after that. =D Exchanged presents with her and her card is full of rubbish. ( I don't want one, even if it's FOC. =D ) Thanks for the notebook though. Haha. Went to the library after that to do our homework. (We're hardworking. ;P) Saw CHERYL and her friend there. LOL. That's amazing. We manage to see her everytime we go out. The first was at Borders. Aha. So, Kelvin said that he saw me at the library but I

Pick Up Finale (11 clicks)
December 29 2007
My Dad was born in Doornfontein My Mom’s from Krugersdorp I’m a wanderer I float across this sorrowful world Looking for the truth Looking for nipples to rest my tongue on You look like the kind of cherry I can talk to May I buy you another double? I’m a gypsy, I’ve got a caravan outside Would you like to go for a drive-by? I saw you from across the bar There was something special You’re not like all the rest here. I’ve been divorced, I’ve been born-again What are you doing tomor

Saturday, December 29, 2007 (1 click)
December 29 2007
Doodling is the New Sex The SoundsWrongButIsn't title is courtesy of Angelin. Whose area of expertise include: A) Making things that sound wrong seem right; B) Making things that sound wright seem rong. ANYWHOO! If you're sitting there for the past several days pondering about the reason behind my lack of updates despite having no productive daily routine besides Eat-Sleep-Watch House MD-Shit-Eat Some More. Or if you have me on MSN, you're wondering why the fuck have I been so uncharact

the thin ends of wedges: on students 2.0 and beyond (14 clicks)
December 29 2007
Let's just go ahead and propose this as one of the newer laws of nature: Anything I think or write about anything having anything to do with Clay Burell's thinking and writing has a tendency to EXPAND. By that I mean: I end up thinking bigger. . . and usually shamelessly digress in writing about it, following a tangent to an unexpected end. Which amounts to the same thing, I guess. Give him an inch and he'll make a milestone. In his excellent post reflecting on the Students 2.0 experience, so

Soldier reaches out to deaf parents (31 clicks)
December 29 2007
By Sgt. Natalie Rostek, 3rd HBCT Public Affairs Blackanthem Military News Pfc. Patti Angel, Grand Junction, Colo., a food service specialist from Company F, 203rd Brigade Support Battalion, checks her e-mail at the Morale, Welfare and Recreation tent at Combat Outpost Cleary. COMBAT OUTPOST CLEARY, Iraq – Pfc. Patti Angel faces communication barriers no amount of waiting in line or talking into a phone from Iraq can help. Her parents are deaf. Keeping in touch back home is already to

Hearing People Demand The Right To Self Designed Babies (11 clicks)
December 29 2007
Screaming-Kate Simpleton, Health Editor Hearing  parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a hearing child over one that has all its senses intact, according to the chief executive of the Royal National Institute for Hearing People (RNIP). Hickory Dickory Dock, a former Liberal Democrat MP, says that although the vast majority of hearing parents would want a child who is healthy, a small minority of couples would prefer to create a child who is effectively disabled, t

Saturday Sermon: The Mission Continues (20 clicks)
December 29 2007
1 Thessalonians 1:4-10 The message of Christianity, that Jesus Christ is God and that we are a redeemed people, a changed people, mere sojourners in this life, serving our Lord and looking toward and waiting for our heavenly destiny, these things seem to be out of fashion in the church today. It would seem as if it is all about right now, a better life, a better situation, and the kingdom of heaven come to earth, but without any suffering, without any changed life, without any real credible wit

2008 New Years Honours (13 clicks)
December 29 2007
The 2008 New Year's Honours List has been published. The relevant Orders of the British Empire in relation to Services with Deaf People are: Order of the British Empire Members of the Order of the British Empire Mrs Dorothy Ann Rebecca HEGARTY For services to Deaf People in Northern Ireland. (Dungiven, Londonderry) [Hands That Talk] Thomas Joseph KEOGAN Consultant for Deaf Services, Darlington Borough Council. For services to Deaf People. (Coatham Mundeville, Durham) Ms Rose-Ann O'M

Music Review: The 11th Hour Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (16 clicks)
December 29 2007
Narrated by Leondardo DiCaprio, The 11th Hour, somewhat of a follow-up documentary to the successful and award-winning An Inconvenient Truth, took in a modest amount at the box office while making a limited appearance in theatres over the summer. Taking its title from the phrase used to refer to the last moment when change is possible, the film features numerous interviews with various scientists and leaders duscussing the issues currently facing the planet. The heavy subject matter may seem a

Jesus - God Is With Us (14 clicks)
December 29 2007
It has been a very busy day! I was up and out so early this morning (after making banana pancakes for the family!) that I didn't get the chance to write a blog post. However, I got an email alert from my blogging friend Charlie at AnotherThink. His recent essay entitled Emmanuel in Iowa is a great read! Charlie happens to be one of my very first "blogging" friends. I discovered his blog way back in 2005 when I attended the first GodBlog Conference at Biola University. He has written many excel

Positive Affirmation #4509 (16 clicks)
December 29 2007
Positive Affirmation #4509 Positive Affirmation #4509 Is: “"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." Mark Twain” Current affirmation categories: kindness Get positive affirmation #4509 on MP3 at bmindful - the positive affirmation community! Click here to sign up for your FREE bmindful accout now!!

Brave New World: Deaf Designer Babies (9 clicks)
December 29 2007
Just thought I'd bring to your attention this story about a group of activists in the UK who want the right to create deaf babies. The current reproduction law under review in Britain would make it illegal to deliberately create a disabled baby. Some activists want to be able to create deaf babies because they believe there is a deaf culture, and that parents should be able to choose to have only deaf babies so that their kids can "fit in" with their lifestyle. Can you imagine that: the "right

(29 clicks)
December 29 2007
phone and tv for deaf ad blind 5 days 10 hours ago

Tell Shout! Factory to Release all episodes of C.O.P.S., the late 80s’ cartoon show, on DVD — SIGN IT! (0 clicks)
December 29 2007
Before I’ll go on with the blog updates, I want to tell everyone that I’m having a petition drive to release all episodes of C.O.P.S. on DVD. And I don’t mean the live action version of COPS, but the animated cartoon show that featured Bulletproof, LongArm Mainframe, Big Boss, Dr. BadVibes, Berserko, Mace, Nightshade, and many others. To those of you who don’t remember the show, let me refresh. C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) is a late 80s’ animated series that aired bet