Friday, August 19, 2016
Archive Link For The Morning Rush For Saturday August 13, 2016
https://www.mixcloud.com/keith-zimmerman/the-morning-rush-with-zman-from-august-13-2016/
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Silly Questions Blind People Get Asked Ant The Answers We Wish We could Give
Although most blind people I know including me actually give these answers. Found this one on Facebook and I had to share it.
Zman
Silly questions that people who are blind get asked, and the responses we want to use. 1. QUESTION: Have you been blind all your life? ANSWER: Not yet. 2. QUESTION: You blind people have great hearing right? ANSWER: Pardon? 3. QUESTION: Is that a Guide dog? ANSWER: No, it’s a drug detection dog. I’m a narc disguised as a blind person. 4. QUESTION: Is that a Labrador? ANSWER: No, it’s a dachshund. 5. COMMENT: I’d have to kill myself if I went blind. REPLY: Why wait? 6. COMMENT TO GUIDE DOG (working): You’re sooooo beautiful. REPLY FROM HANDLER: Thank you, but I’m spoken for. 7. QUESTION: Those dogs are smart, aren’t they? ANSWER: No, it’s pure luck that we get anywhere. 8. QUESTION (directed to the person standing next to the blind person in a store): Does he need something? REPLY (from blind person): Yep, ‘he … needs to speak with your manager.’
Zman
Silly questions that people who are blind get asked, and the responses we want to use. 1. QUESTION: Have you been blind all your life? ANSWER: Not yet. 2. QUESTION: You blind people have great hearing right? ANSWER: Pardon? 3. QUESTION: Is that a Guide dog? ANSWER: No, it’s a drug detection dog. I’m a narc disguised as a blind person. 4. QUESTION: Is that a Labrador? ANSWER: No, it’s a dachshund. 5. COMMENT: I’d have to kill myself if I went blind. REPLY: Why wait? 6. COMMENT TO GUIDE DOG (working): You’re sooooo beautiful. REPLY FROM HANDLER: Thank you, but I’m spoken for. 7. QUESTION: Those dogs are smart, aren’t they? ANSWER: No, it’s pure luck that we get anywhere. 8. QUESTION (directed to the person standing next to the blind person in a store): Does he need something? REPLY (from blind person): Yep, ‘he … needs to speak with your manager.’
Monday, August 15, 2016
Archive Link For The 80's Flashback for Friday August 12, 2016
Click the play button to listen to the show.
Monday, August 08, 2016
Sunday, August 07, 2016
Archive Link For The Morning Rush for Saturday August 6, 2016
Here is the link to download this weeks show. Note, it was a three hour show this week instead of the usual four hours.
Enjoy
Zman
Enjoy
Zman
Saturday, August 06, 2016
Some Olympic Events You Have Probably Not Heard Of
If the ones in the article are not strange enough, in Tokyo in 2020 they are adding surfing, Skateboarding, and Ballroom Dancing. heck if that is the case they might as well make the Hokey Pokey an Olympic event
Full story here.
Full story here.
Visual Impairments and Internet Use, What A Friend Learned When She Started Transcribing Facebook Memes
Posted by Zman
My friend Steph who writes for The Inqisiter wrote this piece yesterday. Very well written.
From the article
"Partway through July, I started thinking about Facebook memes and how inaccessible they can be to people with visual impairment. I decided that for the rest of the month, I’d transcribe any memes I shared, and see if I could make it a habit. Once I started, I realized just how often social shares are actually pictures of text — which people who are blind or have impairment of vision cannot read.
Maybe you’re wondering how someone with visual impairment is accessing Facebook at all. The answer is that many use screen readers. Others have some visual impairment, but see well enough to read some text.
The problem with a screen reader, of course, is that it doesn’t “see” the text, in the visual sense — it’s a program and it “reads” only what is recognized as text, which means something typed out. If you take a photo of yourself and write “Selfie day!” across it and post it on Facebook, a screen reader won’t see those words as text, but as part of a visual image it should skip. If you want your friends with visual impairment to see those words, you may need to type them out."
Friday, August 05, 2016
Archive Link for Candidradio Live for Tuesday August 2, 2016
A few days late but here is the archive link for this weeks show. Littleflurry was on the show this week too.
enjoy
Zman & Littleflurry
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9MAmgmwTiGtWE1PcHBxTE5kVmM/view?usp=sharing
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Archive Link for Candidradio Live for Tuesday July 26, 2016
Here is the link to download this weeks show
Monday, July 25, 2016
Archive Link for The Morning Rush for Saturday July 23, 2016
A little late but here is the archive link for this weeks show.
Archive Link for The 80's Flashback Summer Songs Addition July 22, 2016
A little late but here is the link to this weeks show.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Archive Link for The Morning Rush for Saturday July 16, 2016
Here is the archive link for The Morning Rush from this morning (note the show ends twenty minutes early due to our power flickering off and on right after my last voice break)
Enjoy
Zman
Enjoy
Zman
Archive for The 80's Flashback for Friday July 15, 2016
Here is the archive for this weeks show. On this weeks show Iplayed all groups from the 80's
Enjoy
Zman
Enjoy
Zman
Friday, July 08, 2016
Sunday, July 03, 2016
Friday, July 01, 2016
Status Updates People Need To Stop Sharing On Facebook.
Posted by Zman
We have all seen them and we have at least one friend who shares them. I'm talking about status updates on Facebook that just make you cringe and wonder what the person was thinking when they shared that status. Here are just a few things that people need to stop sharing on Facebook.
1. Guilt Trip Posts. Any post that says, "since no one reads my posts" or "most of my friends won't share this" or "let's see who really cares about me." etc is a guilt trip post and is a good way to get your post ignored. The reason most of your friends won't share that post is because they don't care to be guilt tripped. Most people I know myself included just skip right over those kinds of posts. so if you're wondering why your friends are not reading your posts it is because you are trying to guilt trip them.
2. The old Facebook is going to charge a fee unless you post this status update. This one has been around so long I am surprised anyone still falls for it but at least once a year some ding dong on my friends list shares this one and yes they get made fun of for falling for it. Hee is the scoop. Facebook has not plans and never has had plans to charge a fee for their service. and even if they did do you really think posting a status update to your wall is going to keep them from doing it? This hoax dates back to the days of Myspace so why people are still falling for it just makes me shake my head.
3. Memes that tell you to pray for people after a tragedy. Instead of folding yyour hands and talking to your imaginary friend here is an idea. Do something to help those affected by whatever happened. donate blood, send food, clothing, etc. You know, actually do something.
4. click like or type Amen posts. Those are just like farming scams the only ones saying Amen are the scammers who put up the page to gather likes and shares so they can sell the page and send you junk posts
5. Memes that say if you click like or share something good will happen. I wonder if people realize that something good would happen weather they share or like the post, Those tend to also be like farming scams as well so they should also be avoided.
6. Status updates complaining about people sending game requests. I know those can be annoying but the person does not send those out. The games themselves do. Your friend who plays the game more than likely has no idea the game sent you a request. You have to go in and block the game.
7. pictures of what you are eating. Remember back before social media when we took a picture of our food and went door to door to show each of our friends and family the picture of what we ate for dinner last night? NO, Me neither because it did not happen so let's not do it on Facebook. Now I'm all for sharing directions on how to cook something and even a picture to go along with it but I really don't need to see a picture of what you are eating.
8. Pictures of you child on the toilet. Now I am all for updates on my friends kids mile stones and many times a picture is nice. but please, no one wants to see a picture of little Betty on the toilet. I don't know in what alternate universe that parent lives in who thinks people want to see that but they don't.
9. Posts that shame people for what they should or should not be wearing at a certain age. How about we stop judging people. If someone is comfortable wearing something then that is their business. If you don't like the fact that kids wear baggy pants then don't look at them. No need to shame people based on what they wear. Also while I'm on the subject. your kids don't care if you think their music sucks. They have their music just like we had ours. They are allowed to like their music without our input. When you complain about someone's music you sound like an old fart. Knock it off.
10. Vaguebooking. If you have something to say just say it. People don't have time to play twenty questions. If you can't tell the whole story then don't say anything abut it. No need for the vague posts.
I'm sure there are more but those are the big ones that annoy most people.
We have all seen them and we have at least one friend who shares them. I'm talking about status updates on Facebook that just make you cringe and wonder what the person was thinking when they shared that status. Here are just a few things that people need to stop sharing on Facebook.
1. Guilt Trip Posts. Any post that says, "since no one reads my posts" or "most of my friends won't share this" or "let's see who really cares about me." etc is a guilt trip post and is a good way to get your post ignored. The reason most of your friends won't share that post is because they don't care to be guilt tripped. Most people I know myself included just skip right over those kinds of posts. so if you're wondering why your friends are not reading your posts it is because you are trying to guilt trip them.
2. The old Facebook is going to charge a fee unless you post this status update. This one has been around so long I am surprised anyone still falls for it but at least once a year some ding dong on my friends list shares this one and yes they get made fun of for falling for it. Hee is the scoop. Facebook has not plans and never has had plans to charge a fee for their service. and even if they did do you really think posting a status update to your wall is going to keep them from doing it? This hoax dates back to the days of Myspace so why people are still falling for it just makes me shake my head.
3. Memes that tell you to pray for people after a tragedy. Instead of folding yyour hands and talking to your imaginary friend here is an idea. Do something to help those affected by whatever happened. donate blood, send food, clothing, etc. You know, actually do something.
4. click like or type Amen posts. Those are just like farming scams the only ones saying Amen are the scammers who put up the page to gather likes and shares so they can sell the page and send you junk posts
5. Memes that say if you click like or share something good will happen. I wonder if people realize that something good would happen weather they share or like the post, Those tend to also be like farming scams as well so they should also be avoided.
6. Status updates complaining about people sending game requests. I know those can be annoying but the person does not send those out. The games themselves do. Your friend who plays the game more than likely has no idea the game sent you a request. You have to go in and block the game.
7. pictures of what you are eating. Remember back before social media when we took a picture of our food and went door to door to show each of our friends and family the picture of what we ate for dinner last night? NO, Me neither because it did not happen so let's not do it on Facebook. Now I'm all for sharing directions on how to cook something and even a picture to go along with it but I really don't need to see a picture of what you are eating.
8. Pictures of you child on the toilet. Now I am all for updates on my friends kids mile stones and many times a picture is nice. but please, no one wants to see a picture of little Betty on the toilet. I don't know in what alternate universe that parent lives in who thinks people want to see that but they don't.
9. Posts that shame people for what they should or should not be wearing at a certain age. How about we stop judging people. If someone is comfortable wearing something then that is their business. If you don't like the fact that kids wear baggy pants then don't look at them. No need to shame people based on what they wear. Also while I'm on the subject. your kids don't care if you think their music sucks. They have their music just like we had ours. They are allowed to like their music without our input. When you complain about someone's music you sound like an old fart. Knock it off.
10. Vaguebooking. If you have something to say just say it. People don't have time to play twenty questions. If you can't tell the whole story then don't say anything abut it. No need for the vague posts.
I'm sure there are more but those are the big ones that annoy most people.
Archive for The 80's Flashback 80's Rock Special for Friday July 1, 2016
Here is the link to this weeks show. This week I played all 80's Rock.
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