Update: Licenses renewed. Link goes to a summary of renewal results for all stations currently classified as must carry services. Original post: As happens often these days, here I am putting this up just before the deadline. AMI’s broadcast licenses are up for renewal next August, and part of the process of making sure AMI …
Author Archives: Carin Headrick
Do You Have My Steak Today?
You know what’s sad? News has gotten so weird that this story of a customer pulling a gun on a McDonald’s employee because they wouldn’t serve him a steak bagel at 3 in the morning probably wouldn’t have caught my eye. As scary as I’m sure it was for the girl working that night, nothing …
Service Dog Etiquette Explained In A Simple Analogy
Here comes another quick post. I saw this link going around Facebook, and after I finished laughing at it, I meant to post it here, but I didn’t. Someone who has a service dog for an invisible disability wrote this post trying to make it clear what would be acceptable and unacceptable behaviour towards service …
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And Trix Adds Another Data Point
You know what’s funny? For years, I commented on Trixie’s grey hair and worried about her being stressed. People laughed and said stress and grey hair in dogs aren’t related. They may have been wrong. It appears that dogs who show anxiety around strange people and situations or have a fear of loud noises, among …
My Dog Shouldn’t Be The Only One Watching For Traffic!
I know this happened a month ago, but it is always relevant. An acquaintance of mine wrote a post about the consequences of careless drivers to service animals, and I wish I could make this mandatory reading material for people who drive vehicles. People never take into account that just because they didn’t actually hit …
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Guide Dog Questions Answered In Video Form
This video pretty much sums up so many things I have said over the years about having a guide dog. The one question she didn’t answer, which I get a lot is “how do you pick up after the dog?” Totally legitimate question which I swear I answered here somewhere, but I can’t find it. …
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Closed. Not Interested, Blindy.
I don’t use my CNIB card for much, but it has come in handy for Via Rail. Apparently, they use it as proof that your guide dog is a guide dog, which is slightly twisted logic but that’s been the established piece of ID they default to. If you don’t put a piece of ID …
She Took Your Money, But Hopefully Not Your Independence
This story of someone befriending and then ripping off a blind lady is another example of something I could see very easily happening to me if I just did one thing wrong. It also illustrates why, when someone offers to “help me” by taking my stuff, I’m not exactly willing to hand it over. I …
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America’s Got Surprises
Donna sent me a video and it made me chuckle. Ray Jessel sounds like he’d be a lot of fun. He kind of reminds me of the old man in the video in this post, although not exactly. I think it’s more funny than it should be, just because there’s an 84-year-old doing it. Anyway, …
This Band Is Pretty Good! I Wonder If They’re Turing!
I can’t remember if I’ve posted this before, and if I have, which is super possible since there’s so much stuff on here, oops. A long time ago when computers were huge and vacuum-tube-powered, Alan Turing, you know, *the* Alan Turing, figured out how to make them sing. The recording of it was put away, …
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