If you stole a car, do you think it’s a good idea to ask for emergency gas vouchers from the police station? Do you really, Dalton Beyer? Well, you may be rethinking that, now that you’ve been arrested.
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The Long And Winding Road To Our Current Election
I guess all this election talk got Ann all curious about the state of government up here in the great white north. It didn’t take long before she got, as she put it, more than she wanted to know. Hahhaa. She found a pretty cool article, so I thought I’d link to it.Here’s the article …
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Invisible Captcha: Cool Or What?
So many times I hear about new captchas, and I cringe. We’ll be soooo screwed. Well, thanks to a conversation on Twitter, I heard about a pretty neat idea.the invisible captcha! Here’s how it works. People who are running their blog updates through Feedblitz and pay a wee bit of change can install this invisible …
Pumped About This Idea
Back a while ago, I talked about the full-service gas station becoming a disappearing phenomenon. Well, could this be a solution? Someone has come up with a system where you push a button, which rings a buzzer and then people come out and pump your gas. I have two questions. It wasn’t clear if you …
My Interview On Accessibility Matters
Remember back when I said I would be on the radio? Well, I finally edited it down from the full hour to the relevant sections, and here’s the result. I left in the monolog by Susan Wheeler because I start joking about it when I start talking, so I felt it had to stay. Plus, …
A Song For Michael Sona
Oh me oh my we’re goofs. You’ll know why very shortly. Steve and I were just sort of standing around talking, when suddenly one of us started singing “My Sharona.” Then the other said “Hey! There’s a parody of that song in there, only all about Michael Sona.” You know who Michael Sona is, right? …
This Is For The Birds, And It’s From Them Too!
I’m gonna cry. Seriously. Gonna lay down my head and cry. We try to write intelligent things on Twitter and on the blog, and between us, Steve and I have 250 followers or so. But a bunch of birds pecking on a bacon fat-covered keyboard get 2654 followers. Whyyyyy? I’m telling you, it’s like the …
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Voting At Returning Offices: You Only Have Until Tomorrow
A while ago, when I found out I could vote at the returning office, I thought you could vote every day right up to May 2. I have since discovered I was wrong. I got this feeling in my gut that I should check and make sure I could vote any day, so called Elections …
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Who Knew Computers Sang That Long Ago?
Neato! Apparently this was the first computer ever to sing. And it even had speech in it. in 1961. Pretty cool. I wonder how much work that poor soul had to do to make a 1961 computer sing.
Land This Plane In Libya Or I’ll Give You A Manicure!
Steve and I have often joked that it’s ridiculous to ban nail clippers on planes. I mean, come on, what are you going to do with a set of nail clippers? Seriously. Well, someone actually tried to use them as a weapon. They didn’t succeed, but they tried. He wanted the plane to land in …
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