The People's Court Pick-of-the-Litter Puppy Case
See: The People's
Court Puppy Case. I'm Still With Grotius; located at: http://engineeringandcommerce.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-peoples-court-puppy-case-im-still.html
AVT
Friday, October 25, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
A-Rod Beaned in Beantown!
August 19th, 2013
A-Rod was apparently beaned by a pitch in Beantown
yesterday. No doubt, he had it coming to
him.
To his credit though, he later hit a home-run to help spur
the Yankees to victory over the Red Sox in the game at Fenway.
AVT
Alex rodriguez get hit by pitch by ryan dempster - red sox
vs Yankees
A-Rod hit by pitch against Red Sox
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Powerball in California!
August 7th, 2013
Tonight’s Powerball lottery jackpot is $420,000,000+. (US$)
Bought my P-ball ticket(s) !!! Hope I win ‘cause I already floated some
personal checks on it all!
:)
AVT
Check it out! They ‘all pretty cool:
California
Lottery Powerball TV Commercial – Snowfall
Nevadans flocking to California
for 3rd highest Powerball jackpot
California Dreaming Song
Contest Winners - California
Lottery
Scala & Kolacny Brothers: California Dreamin'
The Original (in HD):
The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin' [HD 1080p]
Powerball in Cali:
Man Saves Dog First, While Boat Sinks. Then Saves Wife.
August 6th, 2013
I heard a story on the radio news today of a couple who
were sailing and ran aground upon a reef.
As the boat was sinking, the man chose to first save the family
dog. After doing so, he then saved his
wife. Radio folks then gave odds on how
long before the wife would probably file for divorce.
AVT
Man saves dog from drowning first, returns for wife second
Man saves dog first, then wife from capsized yacht
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Kudos to “Switched At Birth” and the ABC Family Network.
March 4th, 2013
Tonight for the first time I watched an episode of the
television show “Switched at Birth,” which airs on the ABC Family network. This
evening’s episode of the show had all its dialogue ‘spoken’ in American Sign
Language only – and, of course, the dialogue was also echoed in captions on the
screen for those of us who can’t read sign language. The show enticed me enough to forgo much of
my unrelated reading long enough to pay attention to what was happening in the plot. And, as it turned out, it was an interesting
and entertaining show.
In what was apparently the first of a two-part episode, the
main characters of the show decide to peacefully take-over their deaf-only
school in an effort to “keep the school deaf” – reminiscent of the Gallaudet
University student take-over/protest of a quarter century ago. Mind you, I haven’t seen the show before but
the school administration must be considering admitting non-deaf students as
well, or to discontinue operating as a school …or something like that. Anyway, the students decide to hunker-down
and maintain their take-over of the school building knowing that the police
will be arriving and consequences for their actions will be likely to follow – of
which one has to tune-in to part two of the show next week to find out, I
presume.
Initially, with the show being ‘spoken’ all in sign-language
made me realize what it must be like for deaf people to watch television – with essentially
no sound and only captions on the lower portion of the television screen to bring
forth the dialogue and the show’s plot. While
I may have pondered what it would be like to be deaf, and I have often watched
television with only captions and no sound, if not for this show, I don’t think
I would have ever stopped for the better part of an hour to realize what it
would be like to view television and never be physically able to hear what was
happening (regardless of the TV’s volume setting). As we know, with no dialogue, the television shows
and stories are nothing but alot of busy images, at least typically. Another thing I realized from the show this
evening is how difficult it would be to read and watch television at the same
time if one were deaf.
But the show’s references to the Gallaudet University’s student
take-over/shut-down made me stop and remember a couple of other things that were
on my mind during the time of that protest of the mid-late 1980s – when I also
lived and went to school in the D.C. area.
The reference on the show reminded me of the question in my mind at that
time was whether the on-going happenings at the nearby university were the
Gallaudet student’s display of their respectable resolve or merely a display of
the student’s discriminatory intent to essentially shut down the school because
the newly appointed university president was not deaf – albeit maybe a
discriminatory intent for the university’s board not to name a deaf president. Though, not being deaf and as the university
was/is intended for those that are deaf and yet the university had never had a
deaf president, maybe I was not one to judge.
But as I recall it was an interesting circumstance of events. (The other memory the show evoked will be a blog
entry of its own in the next few days so as to not detract from this blog, to
which I will post a link here.)
But, anyway, getting back to tonight’s “Switched at Birth,”
the show was enlightening, thought-provoking, and entertaining. I am interested to know how the episode ends
next week. Kudos to the show, its cast,
and to ABC Family network as well for this enticing display of such a unique
perspective to the viewing public.
AVT
See:
ABC Family “Switched at Birth”
Deaf President Now
ABC Family’s ‘Switched at Birth’ ASL Episode Recalls
Gallaudet Protest
If My Hands Could Speak…
...they would say something profound.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Most Absurdly Tattooed NBA Player
February 10th, 2013
Having watched the L.A. Clippers play the N.Y. Knicks as
well as the L.A. Lakers play the Miami Heat today, I also saw the many
commercials for the upcoming NBA All-Star game.
During those commercials, there was mention of the many categories under
which fans could vote for their favorite NBA players. In my opinion, I think they should add
another category. That category would be
“The Most Absurdly Tattooed Player in the League.”
AVT
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