7/29/2013 TCSO Dispatch
Another Hayward City Hall fountain
July 20, 2013
Fans of Stargate Atlantis will find the design of this fountain a bit ominous! “Hallowed be the Or’i”
Dispatching at warp speed
June 25, 2013
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Dispatching at warp speed. “Sub-space channels open, Captain!”
I think I’m a bit insulted!
June 22, 2013
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So the previous post has a video, in which I talk about having the perfect face and appearance for radio. Watching it from my website, I noticed the ad that was embedded. This of course reflects the Internet’s current scheme of targeting ads to users based on either some clever algorithm and slick NSA style tracking software, or a coven of crones stirring a caldron of vile liquid (I’m not sure which!). I wonder if this particular ad is age-based, and if so, just how much data-mining are they doing??
Oh, Internet, how poorly you understand me!
Video killed the radio star, take 2
June 22, 2013
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Video killed the radio star
June 22, 2013
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A long time ago, in a universe far, far away…
June 7, 2013
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From my junior year at Mt. Whitney High School, 1974-1975. I remember that kid, but it’s hard to recognize him.
Gerald Ford is President, Harvey Milk has yet to win elected office, the fall of Saigon is imminent. Visalia’s population is 65,000. Apple Computer is a year away. 99.9% of phones have a cord.
He is 17, in serious denial, and is trying to find girls alluring. It’s not working.
Quick! I need a time machine! I need to talk to this kid!
A Tale of Two Cities
June 5, 2013
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
What a difference a day makes! On Monday, June 3, 2013, the City of Visalia‘s City Council issued it’s second LGBT Pride Month Proclamation. On Tuesday, June 4th, the City of Porterville issued it’s first. The two events could not have been more different.
Both cities provide online applications for proclamations, with instructions on how to turn them into the city. Such requests are routinely handled by cities across the country, and are ways for cities to recognize citizens and groups. Here’s Porterville’s “Request a Proclamation” page.
Visalia’s proclamation resulted in applause and friendly chatter in a standing room only crowd that overflowed into the hallway. This year’s proclamation went mostly unnoticed by the greater community in Visalia. Last year it provoked some media coverage and talk-radio interviews with the Mayor of Visalia, Amy Shuklian. Porterville’s proclamation, in a meeting room at least twice the size of Visalia’s, also with standing room only and overflow into the hall, resulted in boos, catcalls, the arrest of a anti-gay protestor, and at least two calls for the death penalty for homosexuals.
History repeats: Conservative California community to again proclaim June LGBT Pride Month
May 29, 2013
I’ll be accepting the second LGBT Pride Month Proclamation on behalf of the LGBT community here in Visalia.
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Oh, I didn’t just say that…
August 7, 2013
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Other dispatchers will understand the sometimes dark humor we express in our jobs, and how something that to an outside observer (or the brass) will seem completely humorless, but will have us guffawing and giggling for hours afterwards. Something like that happened to me yesterday, and it involved a crashed aircraft and it’s pilot stuck on a rockface above a lake.
I really meant it to be reassuring, but it sure didn’t come out that way!
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