Oh dear. Oh my. I spent 25 minutes of my Canada Day listening to *this!* And those minutes are sooo not comin’ back. Apparently, these are actual samples of actual…music? Yeah, ok…sent in to record labels by actual people who thought they had an actual chance. Actually no. When the first one starts, I thought …
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Not A Good Brand Of Parenting
Wow. Another parent of the year. I don’t have a lot to say, because there isn’t anything I could add, except, oh yeah, this one’s in Florida, too. This one, Kayla R. Oxenham, decided she had to brand her kids to mark them as her own. Yup, that’s what they say she said. She heated …
Technology Hitchin’ A Ride
I saw something about this while looking at Twitter. The first time I saw it, it just sort of made me raise my eyebrows. Then I saw it again, and I gave it some more thought. So here’s the story, as much as I understand it. Some researchers in Toronto have built a hitchhiking robot. …
I Think He Had More Than A Snoring Problem
I read about this story not too long after I was out of the hospital. In true me fashion, I let out a scream when it got crazy…and then thought, in light of current circumstances, maybe that was dumb. Poor Steve, the scream must have been pretty painful-sounding, because he came in a hurry, thinking …
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Train In Vein
After my hospital adventures, I had a point driven home to me. My veins suuuuck! Holy crap do they suuuck! For years I had to have blood work every 3 months. I didn’t really mind, they’d poke me, take what they needed, it was all over in a second. I’d just go in there, offer …
Elections Ontario: We Make Voting Easy…Except We Don’t.
I was going to write about this anyway, but then I got a request for it. Awesome! People like reading about our wacky adventures. I feel bad that this is only going up the night before the actual election day, so can’t help anyone else who might want to use assistive voting, but oh well. …
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A Non-Inspirational Inspirational TED Talk
I saw this tweeted as I was coming home on the bus the other day…who knows why I was looking at Twitter while riding the bus, but there I was. I watched it, and thought “hey, this is totally what we’ve been saying in different forms in the blind guy user’s manual over the years.” …
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The Attitude
Here is another dive into the backlog that is stuff we have to post about. Gill sent this to us, but I felt I couldn’t put it up until I wrote my epic about my gallbladder adventures. Since I barely squeaked that up in time to start another work week, Gill’s post took a back …
Tansy is now 3.
Yeah, I should be in bed…gotta be at work in the morning. But I have to say quickly that Tansy turned 3 on Saturday. The pooch is growing up. She’s been through a lot, including 8 days without me…which she took like a champ. Since I should be crashing, I guess I’ll just quickly say …
My Gall Darn Gallbladder!
You know how the song goes? “What day is it, and in what month? This clock never seemed so alive.” That’s kind of how I feel about May. I would really like some of it back if I could so I could not spend it in hospital. Yes, hospital. Steve mentioned he was running to …