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Best Job in the World

27. February 2009

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I recently applied for the “best job in the world” sponsored by Tourism Queensland. Maybe you’ve heard already- Tourism Queensland is sponsoring a campaign to find one candidate who will live on the Great Barrier reef in a three bedroom house, frolicking about in the waters, cleaning the pool, and then writing about it. Hard [...]

Top 5 Things Google Analytics is Teaching Me about this Blog

23. February 2009

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1. Most of my readers access Hearing Informed through Internet Explorer. I think Internet Explorer has got to be one of the lousiest browsers, but I better make sure my site works with the highly dysfunctional browser because my readers use it. Firefox, my preferred browser, comes in at a close second. I wish more [...]

Psilocybin and Hearing Loss

4. April 2008

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Mind altering substances of many kinds may have something to teach us but they’ve been mostly dismissed, demonized, and cast into broad legal categories that aren’t meaningful. I had a curious experience a number years ago with one of these schedule 1 substances that led to a bit of an epiphany. No, I didn’t discover [...]

Why Buy a New Pair of Hearing Aids?

26. February 2008

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I’ve been wearing Resound Canta 7 hearing aids for three years now and I have nothing but praise to give them. However, I am in the market to check out the latest technology available in digital hearing aids and I’ll be trying out many different brands. Its usually an obsessive and vapid practice to check [...]

HB’s DeLaO brothers dominate 2007 World Deaf Surfing Championships

14. February 2008

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The 2007 biannual World Deaf Surfing Championships went down in Miyazaki of southern Japan. A nearby typhoon generated short-interval, dumping two- to four-footers for the duration of the event, but strong onshore winds and intermittent rains made for some challenging conditions for competitors from all over the world. The next World Deaf Surfing Championships will [...]

Hear Better and Earn More?

15. September 2007

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Trying to make ends meet , you’re a slave to the money then you die. – The Verve This statistic comes from a BIH (Better Hearing Institute) study that suggests that hearing loss, when left untreated, translates into a per household job earnings loss of up to $12,000 a year. The BIH study elucidates the [...]

Talking Hands: New Book

24. August 2007

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Margalit Fox, a New York Times journalist originally trained as a linguist, wrote a new book, Talking Hands. The book details an intriguing community made up of deaf signers in the Middle East and in doing so touches upon a lot of interesting subjects. I will be reading the book and I’ll post an entry [...]

Diamond Encrusted, Solid 24K Gold Hearing Aid only 50 Grand

24. August 2007

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The award of opulence goes to this diamond encrusted, solid 24k gold hearing aid and remote. If you have 50,000 dollars to throw around and the vanity to boot, go ahead and buy this. Be seen with your bling bling hearing aid and bling H20- the trendy new bottle of water seen throughout Hollywood. Only [...]

Losing my Audiologist

15. August 2007

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My outstanding audiologist for 15 years, Gustav F. Haas, Ph.D., left his business rather unceremoniously and left me this sobering communication: The Hearing Center Update, July 2001 “After 19 years at this and the Hopkins Ave. [San Carlos, Ca] location, the Hearing Center will close on approximately August 15th. I would have liked to see [...]

Being Hearing Impaired Saved Me From the Televangelists

14. August 2007

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“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.” – Kurt Vonnegut Luckily for me I can’t hear a damn thing the Evangelicals are gibbering about. In their [...]