I saw something really really stupid that I just can’t make sense of, so I had to write it down. Picture this. It’s January in KW. Not only is it January, but it’s this past January, you know the one where if it wasn’t snowing its face off, it was impossibly cold. Someone walks into …
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Carin.Stubborn@Homemadebraille.com
For one reason or another, I’ve been strolling down memory lane through the blog a lot. Sometimes it’s because of the drugs our related posts plugin is on, and sometimes it’s just because. At any rate, I came upon this post where I described trying to make Braille alphabet cards myself. It’s funny how your …
Thank Goodness We Don’t Go To Thunder Bay
Steve was helping me out finding links for my WaddleLoo post and came upon the story of Dom’s kindred spirit. “Why do you say that?” I hear you asking. “Was he a golden retriever? Maybe he was a guide dog.” Nope. He loved chasing geese a wee bit too much, and chased one out onto …
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Help Save Braille Doodle
When I was at the CSUN assistive technology conference last year, I was walking around the exhibit hall checking out whatever I could check out. There’s never enough time to see everything, and I always stumble onto things I had no idea were even there. One of those things was the Braille Doodle. It’s a …
We Are Gathered Here Today To Unite These Two People In Holy Mackinaw!
I know Joe Bowen doesn’t call Spitfires games, but come on! It was right there! It’s part of the reason I’ve wanted to write about this. I heard about this in January and thought it was cute, but because life is what it is, here we are talking about it in April. I still think …
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🎶 Honk Honk Honk Honk WaddleLoo: Know Where The Geese Are and Have a Clue. 🎶
Man, I knew the geese were vicious as heck. I had heard lots of stories about geese attacking folks for their croissants near the University of Waterloo campus, and children getting chased by geese outside the Catalyst building where I work, among other stories. I know in the case of the children, their parents started …
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I’ve Got Emotions Improperly, and Where’s Arizona?
Hi there. It’s me, the weirdo who keeps disappearing. I have all sorts of ideas, but either my brain goes zap or time disappears. So I figured I’d start with something silly. When Steve posted about the weird freedom.gov website, he mentioned the song “Ocean Front Property”. This made me think of some confused small …
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Christmas Is Right Around the Corner! Roar!
I know. I stole the title from something that was said at an Arrogant Worms concert, but I’ve thought it ever since. If you’re sick of the usual Christmas songs, here’s one for you. It’s been stuck in my head since I heard it. When I heard this one for the first time, I couldn’t …
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Tom Lehrer Rests Eternal-L-Y
Well, darn it all. I just got the news that Tom Lehrer passed away. He was 97, so he had a pretty long life, but it’s still sad. That’s probably the song that everyone knows him the most for, but the first one that I knew to be his was called “Poisoning Pigeons in the …
Now Boarding Flight Out Of My Mind!
Someone at Heathrow Airport has spent a little too much time at Heathrow Airport. They have stopped noticing the ambient noise that is caused by people doing what you do at an airport. You know, hearing announcements, picking up your luggage, going through security, walking from A to B. So they thought “You know what …