Archive: July 2005
From helpfulness to accident insurance
Christiane Link writes with a wry and informed voice about the barriers she encounters daily. She has given me permission to translate some of her posts into English, so check out From helpfulness to accident insurance:
I went to my branch to cash a check. As I finished, I noticed that there was a crutch on [...]
ADA – 15th Anniversary
Excellent post from tikva in No Pity:
“I am with you. I love you. Lead on.”
A Break in the Weather
After a week of temperatures hovering right around 100 degrees F, it’s dropped to 70 and is raining. What a relief.
(Full Post)Disaster or Opportunity?
My hard drive at work died while I was on travel, and the backups I’ve been doing so meticulously don’t seem to exist any more.
Losing your hard drive is either a disaster or an opportunity. On the one hand, it’s a pain to reassemble all the tools I need (all right, want). Need to edit [...]
High altitude jam
We have a bumper crop of black currants. Anybody got good advice on what aspect of jam making (with commercial liquid pectin) needs to be modified for altitude? We’re at 1517 meters/4979 feet.
(Full Post)Little wheelchair guy abuse
This week’s meetings were in a building that our customer had recently renovated (new cubes, new carpeting, new furniture). They had also put up the new, company approved restroom signs:
Unfortunately, they neglected to actually renovate the restroom. I wanted to sneak back in the middle of the night and duct tape out the little wheelchair [...]
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