I don’t know if there’s a longer version of this song, this is the only one I can find, but it crawls into my head, heh, and won’t leave whenever I hear about the cicada double brood event happening in the US this summer. I guess two different cycles of cicadas are converging, and a …
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I’m Here From The Stats Can, There’s Nothing To Fear?
Hi! It’s me, ya know, the completely absentee blogger? I don’t think I’ve written anything since…January? Gees! I have a metric boatload of things I want to say, but this one feels kind of timely and important. The other day, I was working away and my phone rang. I didn’t recognize the number but for …
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Almost Renewing Online With ServiceOntario Is An Almost Great Experience
I had to renew my health card and Ontario Photo Card this week. Since you can renew a lot of these things online now if you don’t need a new photo (thanks, Covid), I thought I’d give it a try. I had a picture taken last time I was in and I haven’t moved or …
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Menus4All, A Potential Solution To the Blind Guy With A Print Menu In A Restaurant Problem
A bit late to the party on this one, but better late than never. One of the worst parts of going to a restaurant as a blind person is the menu, for obvious reasons. In my experience the staff are generally pretty cool about going through things with you, but why should they have to? …
If you Pay For YouTube Through Apple, You’re Getting Ripped Off
Maybe everybody knows this but me, but if you’re thinking about subscribing to YouTube Premium, do it directly through YouTube and not through the app on your iPhone if you can. I’ve been considering signing up for a while. Google doesn’t exactly need my money, but I like to support things I find a lot …
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Can You See Me, A Positioning Tool For Blind People Who Can’t Leave Their Meeting Video Off
If you’re like me, you rarely have to attend an online meeting. But if you’re like Carin and get called into 137 of them a day, then Can You See Me sounds like a nice alternative to leaving your video off for fear of being embarrassed because you have no idea what it’s shooting. Can …
A List of Low Bandwidth, Easy To Read News Resources
Since a lot of news websites are cluttered as hell, it can be hard to find and consume what you’re looking for. this is true if you’re blind like me and want to beat the shit out of the next video/ad/countdown timer that won’t stop interrupting the screen reader or bouncing it all over the …
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I May Have Dodged A Snow-Covered Bullet!
Everybody, sing along! Having gridlock Christmas was almost my experience. The plan was to head out today and head for Mom and Dad’s place, about 300 miles away. But because the roads still sound like they suuuuuuuck, we decided to head out tomorrow. This decision was made with no help from the folks at 570 …
Operation Shake The Baby
My sister went on a Black Friday shopping trip to the States this weekend. I don’t know why people do that, but some combination of her, my aunt and my mom have been doing it for at least a decade now and no one’s been killed, so whatever. I was talking to her for a …
Santa’s Coming And He’s Gonna, Fix Your Mask
Allow me to give everybody a chance to laugh at me. Here we go. So, remember when I said I needed someone to come over and adjust things on the machine? Well, it appears that more than the machine needed adjusting. For the last week, I’ve been wearing my mask wrong. I don’t know how …
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