I learned something that apparently has been a thing for at least four years. If you get those spam texts, you can report them to your service provider by forwarding the spam messages to 7726, which spells “spam”. Depending on your provider, what happens after that may vary, but pretty much any North American provider …
Author Archives: Carin Headrick
We Won’t Be Counted Among The Jailed Population! Woo!
Well, it’s time to do the census again, and we did it last weekend. We probably would have done it relatively quickly, but my friend told me it was due on May 11, so we hurried up and got it done. We were surprised that they would send out the census and demand it be …
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A Little Bit Of Vaccine History
As we moved closer to being able to get COVID vaccines, I wondered how things went when the Polio vaccine rolled out. Were people scared of it? Did people think it got developed too quickly? Were there all these conspiracy theories? Then I saw this story about what happened when the Polio vaccine arrived, and …
Cool App, Boring Name
The other night, I saw something on the news about an app that people can use to identify ticks, called eTick. If you or your pet end up with a tick stuck to you, once you get it removed, you can take a picture of it, submit it to this app and someone can tell …
I Totally Agree With This Guy
I’m a member at the Funny Music Project, and every month I get a newsletter full of album and video goodness. This gem was among all the new awesome (uh-oh, should I say awesome anymore?). I wished it had been around when I wrote about yeet because it could have fit perfectly. I think the …
I’m Still Alive!
So it’s been two weeks since I got my first COVID vaccine, and so far, so good. The worst thing I can say about it is my arm was super tender for one night and I kept waking myself up by bumping it when I moved in my sleep. I didn’t have to take a …
I Got My First COVID Shot!
“I need vaccination, vaccination, vaccination…” and I got it! My first shot anyway. Yup, this afternoon, I got my first COVID vaccine. You might be wondering why the heck I was able to get a vaccine right now. You didn’t think I was quite that old yet. Well I’m not, but I have medical conditions …
Bye Bye, Farewell, You’re Leavin’.
More and more often, I’m seeing these screen-reader accessibility overlays. They promise better accessibility for screen-reader users. At best, they do nothing. At worst, they make things worse. I saw one at Mastermind Toys that was making it virtually impossible to shop there. If they didn’t have a chat function, the Seppa-Tebby-Tebby nephew wouldn’t have …
Expired Service Ontario ID Isn’t Totally Busted Right Now
I did something that goes against everything that is me. I let my health card expire. To be fair, I never got a renewal letter telling me to get in there, and I didn’t relish dealing with the whole getting a new photo bit. Plus I had read that because pandemic, expired health cards were …
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Is It Really?
Mom told me about a video that she found ominous. It was called “The Great Realization”. Am I wrong in thinking of it as honest and maybe a little too optimistic? I hope that, once we get something resembling normal back, that we don’t just go back to the way we used to be. I …