Archive: December 2005
Aunt Aggie Ruins Christmas
From Crip Chronicles, Aunt Aggie Ruins Christmas, or Dies in the Attempt:
After it took nearly ten minutes for Aggie to walk — with human and cane assistance — from the living room to the driveway of a fairly small house, I said to Joan, “for $150 she could get a good transport wheelchair that would [...]
Closer to heaven
I was privileged to be able to spend yesterday in the Sierra Nevadas (roughly here), on a sunny, balmy 70 degree day, with four dogs, five horses, my sister and her husband and very dear friends.
Discrimination Down Under
Those antipodean airlines! They just keep coming up with more ways to discriminate:
Qantas to restrict disabled flyers
The Mythical Wheelchair Passenger
I wish I had the statistics to refute this sort of thing:
By the way, my own local bus route (London route 101 for those knowledgeable) was one of the first adapted, new buses and alterations at all the bus stops, all ceremonially opened by the mayor of the time. In the 10 years since this [...]
Evidence of Christmas decorating
20051220-stockings
Originally uploaded by Katja Stokley.
First try at blogging a flickr photo.
Christmasy
Very Christmasy around here. Youngest Son went out with his father yesterday to bag a tree; they found a very nice one. It’s half decorated. We’ve been a little confused about stockings; we used to have two fireplaces, but one is now gone and the other has no mantel. I discovered brick clips at Ace [...]
Laptop Happiness
The F5 key on my laptop has been wiggly for months, and last week it gave up the ghost and fell off. So I did what I had been putting off - I called IBM Customer Service.
Imagine my amazement - during the dizzying space of 12 minutes, my call was answered, my vital statistics were [...]
Christmas meme
From Jenn X:
1.What is your favorite Christmas carol/song?
Today, it’s Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, as sung by the divine Chanticleer.
2.White lights or multicolored?
Neither. Candles (hush, I’ve never burned anything down).
3. Do you have a cut tree, live tree or an artificial tree?
Cut, but not yet. It can’t go up before the fourth Sunday in Advent. [...]
Nostalgia
I’m on a little trip back to 1964.
I was flipping through a catalog, and saw this blast from the past - we had that deck when I was little. So I ordered one and have been playing with it. Youngest Son was helping me build something and allowed as to how my childhood must have [...]
Reducing
After successfully losing 40 pounds, I went to the doctor last week and discovered that 10 pounds (I’m lying, it’s 11 pounds) have crept back on. So it’s back on the wagon.
Last time I used a Palm app called DietLog to track my eating, which has since morphed into BalanceLog. I bought the new version [...]
The Archbishop of York, at least trilingual
Via the Ouch! Weblog:
Dr Sentamu turns his enthronement into a party
When it came to the Peace - which the Archbishop signed for the deaf, as he did all his key pronouncements - that, too, was made joyful by the Luo Dancers and Singers, Mothers’ Union members from Stratford. Dressed in white silk with blue sashes, [...]
Upcoming Concert
On Saturday, December 17, at 7:30 p.m. The Cantabile Singers, under the direction of Robert F. Farr, will present Cantabile: A Holiday Tradition. The program will include music by Philips, Handl, Bruckner and Part as well as arrangements of favorite carols and John Rutter’s “Dancing Day” for women’s voices with harpist Lynn Abbey Lee. The [...]
Which Christmas Carol are you?
You are ‘Adam Lay Y Bounden‘! Ah, you appear to be something of a Christmas snob. Whether you are a musician who has sung one carol service too many, or merely someone with very highbrow views on music and culture, you shudder at the thought of piped music in lifts, wince at endless repetitions of [...]
Water Treatment
Today we went to the open house held at Longmont’s new water treatment plant and had a little tour. It was a geeky little group - me, my husband the mechanical engineer with his long career in risk analysis for nuclear power plants, and an electrical engineer turned software engineer. The plant is very neat. [...]
CAPTCHA is bad for accessibility
With the exponential rise in Blogger comment spam, a lot of folks have turned on comment verification, even though they know it makes it difficult for blind/low vision/dyslexic folks to post comments.
Roger Johansson provides an entry about the W3C’s analysis of the problems with CAPTCHA. Unfortunately the solutions are enterprise-oriented (individual bloggers, especially those using [...]
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