NFB’s Database of Usable Consumer Electronics

How cool is this? Yup, there I go again with the how cool is this? But come on, how cool is this? The NFB is compiling a list of blind guy-accessible appliances. Do you know what this means? If you’re shopping for a new washer/dryer/dishwasher/other household gadget, but you don’t want to get stuck with …

Cell Phone Camera Study

Ooo! Another study! I just received this yesterday. I think Steve should participate, because he takes awesome blind guy pictures. If I participate, I can show a good example of a blink failing at snapping a good picture. Just between the two of us, there’d be the two extremes haaha! Here are the details. Hi, …

Cell Phones And Accessibility of Emergency Messages Study

This cell phones and emergency services study will probably be our only post for the day, but hey, it’s something. Here are the study details. Researchers at the Neil Squire Society in cooperation with the Canadian Association of the Deaf, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities …

The Vtech Bullshit Hotline

On all of the Blue Jays radio broadcasts they’ve been plugging this Vtech Bullpen Hotline contest where you can win a VTECH Dect 6.0 Model DS6321-2 dual-handset cordless phone every time the team playing against the Jays goes to their bullpen. Actually they use this stupid wording about “every time the Jays ring up the …

A Simple Thing That Makes Me Happy

I had something happen to me last night that made me realize just how far we’ve come in the technology department. I was going to meet up with my French group for a movie. After the banks were closed, I suddenly realized goddamn it, the theatre doesn’t do debit! So, I thought “No worries, I’ll …

>Alarming Alarm System

>What really happened to this security van in England reminds me of the car alarm sketch by Radio Free Vestibule. I know that’s not the complete sketch, but you get the idea. If it had continued, the car would have turned into a robot intent on demolishing the earth, and just then, before the earth …

Wacky Lackey

Look, James Blair Lackey, if you’re going to send a big ol’ cellphone picture of your nether regions to someone, check the damn number, would ya? If you don’t, and the number’s wrong, you’ve got yourself an offended woman and some obscenity charges. And this is a message to everyone. If you’re going to send …

Thoughts Big And Small

I had a few random thoughts that weren’t Trixie-related. Don’t worry, I can’t foresee this post being nearly as long. In our house, we have a fan standing in the hallway near the entrance of one of the bedrooms. The reason it’s there is that’s the only room where we could put our air conditioner, …

Trixie Gets A Novel

I don’t think Trix has gotten a post all to herself in a while. I think she’s due. I always knew that she responded to different people in different ways, but I’ve noticed something else. Among the people she loves, even they get different kinds of affection. There’s me. I get the dancing around me, …

An Interesting Point About Trekker Points Of Interest

I figured out something with my Trekker that I thought other people might want to know. If you’re in free mode, and you record a point of interest or POI, a. it becomes hard as all hell to find and label, and b. you cannot use that POI as an origin or destination of a …