Someone asked a good question on my cellphone-using bus driver post that I thought needed to be answered up here. They wondered why I didn’t pull the bell myself. This is because when you’re blind, sometimes it’s hard to judge the distance and time and know if you’re really at the bus stop you think …
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Don’t You Have Something To Write?
Uh, I’m scared. I received the following in my email, and it sounds so much like me that either someone was watching me throughout university, or I wrote it between email checks! *How to write a paper in college/university:* 1. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well lit place in front of your …
Time For A Newsflash! We’re Not That Dumb!
I was reading the CNIB Insight newsletter that I somehow got subscribed to. I won’t unsubscribe because that newsletter told me about the talks phone deal that got me to get a new cell phone. But today’s newsletter was full of gems. It’s Christmas, so CNIB was in full begging mode, so much so that …
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More About Patty Cooper
I just got an email from Patty Cooper. I guess she read my post about her situation with Earl the horse. She says that she didn’t ask the landlords to pay for hay or the stall and that the horse can be housebroken. I tried to email her back and tell her that if that’s …
A Crappy Invention
Wow. Here’s a new one. I just got emailed a link to the weirdest USB thingamabob I’ve ever heard of. And, you can’t just buy this little gizmo, you have to build it yourself! So what are you building? That would be, drum-roll please, a USB tird! Tird? Yup, tird. Apparently if you connect enough …
If You’re Reading This, My Net’s Up!
There were a few things floating around in my head, and I thought maybe I should write them down before a monster starts to develop, so off we go. I finally figured out what that singing alphabet commercial was all about. It wasn’t an attempt at improving literacy. Why would I think such a thing? …
The Service Dog Debate Rages ON
I saw this in the comments under my post about the no longer guide dogs still guiding, and felt it needed answering up here, because it makes some good points, and I think they need to be heard. I’m going to throw my comments within her comment. Hi Carin In response to the issues about …
More About Pizza Beer
Yesterday I got the chance to talk a little with Tom Seefurth, who you’ll probably know better as the Pizza Beer guy. He seems really nice, and from the tone of his emails, it looks like there’s nobody more surprised about how much attention this stuff is getting than him. He mentioned a boatload of …
More Musical Weirdness
You never know where something will lead. Steve talked about a funny article about the five shittiest musical instruments. This got Ann Adams digging to find some other weird and wacky instruments, and she found some. She tried to leave a comment, but HaloScan was crapping on itself, so she sent the links to me. …
DO NOT YELL AT BLIND PEOPLE and Other Common Sense Tips
I know I’ve said this stuff before, but somebody sent me a funny version of it, with some new and interesting twists on it, so I figured it should go up. I figure you can never repeat this stuff enough. Ten tips for interacting with people who are blind By: Shelley JohnsShreveport Times, Louisiana, April …
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