In One Ear, Inc.

Scanner Static of a Newsroom.

I am a Web Developer who happens to work in a very loud tv news room. This is the random rambalings that caught my ear on the Police Scanners.

Dispatcher: About an unknown problem.. Caller advised female wearing only jeans was rolling around on a grassy area.. Caller did not stop. ~ Apr 08

Dispatcher: a Boyfriend took her baby and is running down the street I have no further information at this time... ~ Feb 08

Dispatcher: a male subject carrying a rifle and riding a 4 wheeler. The caller advised that he just shot her dog and rode off. ~ Dec 07

Dispatcher: Caller advised someone wearing camouflage carrying a shotgun just ran through there yard ~ Nov 07

Dispatcher: The call involved a subject beating the car with a shovel. ~ Oct 07

officer: now the guy from action 10 decided he does not want to become a hood ornament.
other officer: yeah but we don't want to get in his way of taking pictures though. ~ Oct 07

Dispatcher: she says there are 2 white males standing in the parking lot with guns in the air and a third white male is swinging a chainsaw at them ~ Aug 07

Dispatcher: We have several reports at this time of a group of teens jumping on a trampoline naked in the back yard....
~ Jul 07

Twitter

05-08 8:27 PM

umm fresh shrimp straight from the bay for dinner

05-08 8:19 AM

Off to work I go

05-07 8:31 PM

?yeah you lost me at #

05-05 7:59 PM

adding my signature to my photos so hopefully realest ate agents will stop stealing them

05-02 11:48 PM

having crazey web traffic spikes... our website was hit with over 6000 people at once... need faster servers

05-02 10:18 PM

md5 checksums and API sig hell

05-01 11:22 PM

color correcting old photos

04-30 11:14 PM

Wishing Adobe would port Photoshop and Lightroom to linux...

04-30 8:50 PM

unmotivated and feeling a bit blahh

04-29 8:27 PM

trying to remember what i was trying to remember

idle opinion

Definition: idle opinion - consists of views that people don't hold strongly, or indeed that they may not hold the view at all.

Fremont Troll - Seattle

Thursday May 01 2008

The Troll, also known as the Fremont Troll or the Troll Under the Bridge, is a piece of whimsical public art in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington in the United States.

The idea of a troll living under a bridge is derived from the Scandinavian folk tale "Three Billy Goats Gruff."

The Troll is a mixed-media megalithic statue, located on N. 36th Street at Troll Avenue N., under the north end of the Aurora… more »

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ExpressionEngine Image Sizer 2.0

Monday April 28 2008 This ExpressionEngine plug in will resize any JPG GIF or PNG image to the desired size specified in your EE tag and cache the resized image to the cache folder. If you update the original image a new resized version will be created. more »

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Mount Rainier

Monday April 28 2008

Shelby and I went out to Washington State last week on vacation. One of the things i really wanted to do was go back to Mt Rainer. Along time ago i actually had the priveladge to clime Mt Rainer.

This time there was over 20 feet of snow on the ground in the lower elevations of the mountain. Mount Rainier is an active Cascade volcano encased in 35 square miles of snow and glacial ice. Mt Rainer is 14,410 Feet and is the third tallest mountain in the Continental US more »

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Sometimes its nice

Saturday April 12 2008 Sometimes its nice to be recognized for your work. This year the website i build on a daily basis has won 2 awards. The Alabama Broadcasters Association "abby" for best website in Alabama and a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award "best website" which includes Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi.

However i cant take full credit for it.. while i do all the backed development of the site. the rest of the crew has really gone out of there way with posting all the content they can find and enhancing every bit of content they post. cheers... more »

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