Category: blindness
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I would absolutely love a self-driving car. It won’t happen in my lifetime.
As a blind guy, and sometimes the only blind guy in the room, I get it a lot. “I bet you’re looking forward to the self-driving car.” And I mean I get it. I really, really get it. But my answer is always “yes, but no”. In theory, absolutely yes. … Read the rest
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The road to hell is paved with helpful people.
We’ve all seen it, whether we’re blind or otherwise disabled or not. We’re in the middle of something, and all of a sudden we’ve got an extra pair of hands–or sometimes two–we weren’t planning on. Some well-meaning soul has decided we could use that extra pair of hands, for reasons … Read the rest
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Leave it to Cracked to be mostly accurate about the blind.
I should seriously devote more time to reading sites like Cracked. Not just because, hell, some of what they toss up there is freaking hilarious. But because in a lot of cases, some of what they toss up there is freaking accurate. Take an article they wrote on how … Read the rest
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Putting priority back in priority seating.
I haven’t the slightest idea if this is a thing unique to Ottawa or what, but I’ve noticed no matter what the actual intent of priority seating was supposed to be, it almost always defaults to whoever someone else thinks needs it. A run I took a few days ago … Read the rest
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Week made. And I had very little to do with it.
And sometimes, things just happen that make you take a step back and appreciate the fact that not everyone you pass is a walking advertisement for Toolsville. Take this past Tuesday morning. I’d left here to head off to class (that gets its own entry later), and was about 3/4 … Read the rest
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On OC Transpo’s public disservice announcements.
I’ve mentioned the automated bus stop announcements they’re now using up here for OC Transpo. They were a long time coming, and it’s actually nice to see they work really quite well–so long as the system’s been appropriately kicked into gear, but I expect that these days. On recent … Read the rest
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Death of a 5-year weekend. Or, an epic crash course in college mobility.
I haven’t had a job or anything like it since the recession sent mine overseas. That was in 2008. Since then, I’ve been telling folks I’ve been on one continuous long weekend. Oh, sure, I’ve had the occasional interview that may or may not have resulted in a “don’t call … Read the rest
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Guest Submission: New Worlds Ateraan attends the ACB convention
Have you ever read a book and wondered what it would be like to play one of the characters? This year at the ACB convention you can learn about the text only online role playing game known as New Worlds Ateraan. This high adventure, fantasy role playing game is … Read the rest
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Mobility musings. Because half past late.
If you’ve read the “about me” style pages linked on the left side of this thing, you’ll probably be made vaguely aware that I have this problem (*) wherein vision just doesn’t happen. The same can be said for a few of the folks what read the thing. So it’s … Read the rest
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Things to note when taxiing a blind dude, in list format.
I do a fair bit of cabbing from here to there, as does any person who doesn’t quite know how to shuffle the bus system from A to Z. Since I’m hardly the first to do it, and hardly the first blind fool at that, I thought it might be … Read the rest