Archive: February 2006
Dear Duesseldorf Airport
Duesseldorf Airport apparently doesn’t get it. Read Christiane’s In Pantoffeln zum Gepäckband (in German). A translation is below.
Dear organizational geniuses of Duesseldorf airport:
Imagine an airport where passengers are required give up their shoes at check in, and wear slippers to their gates. Additionally imagine, that the slippers are one size fits all, everyone must shuffle [...]
Hair pics
Here they are:
Hair
Three years ago, my hair was below the shoulders.
Two years ago, after I lost 40 pounds, I got it cut in a chin length bob.
Last month I got it cut in a kind of bushy mid-short cut that I couldn’t really get used to.
So tonight, I went and got it cut very, very, very short. [...]
Dillard’s alternative
This town has got to get another department store.
Once again, I went to Dillard’s, to pick up some tights. Once again, my blood pressure started going up at the sight of the insulting feel-good signs outside the double glass doors:
DILLARD’S CARES ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE
If you have any difficulty in our store because of a [...]
Blog links?
Have the blog links in the sidebar (under my del.icio.us) outlived their usefulness? I originally put links there so that I would have a handy list of the blogs I like to read. Now I use an RSS reader. Would anybody care if I removed them?
Still trying to grok del.icio.us
I’ve managed to figure out that I can subscribe to my del.icio.us bookmarks as an RSS feed. What I can’t figure out is whether I can use this to do my daily blog reading. Let’s say I’ve got a bunch of bookmarks tagged “blog”. What I want is not the list of blog links in [...]
Getting old’s a bitch
My 95 year old cognitively intact mother in law has started down the slippery slope. Three hip fractures in the last year and a half. Moved out of her house into assisted living across the country. Two days ago she fell trying to open the heavy fire door in her facility’s laundry room, and broke [...]
Stop! Don’t eat that!
I have seriously got to get a handle on this compulsion I seem to have to put everything edible I see into my mouth. I even think the right thing first - do I need this? Am I hungry right now? Will I enjoy this? Is it worth it? And the answer is no, and [...]
Shut out at the gym?
Via Ruth, Disabled, and Shut Out at the Gym:
Health clubs are among the last public places in the United States to become broadly accessible to the physically disabled, say advocates for people who are blind, deaf or in wheelchairs. Some clubs lack the ramps and wide doors that they are required to provide — like [...]
Stöckchen/Meme
Christiane hat mir ein Stöckchen zugeworfen:
Vier Jobs in meinem Leben:
Kassiererin
Privatlehrerin
Büroleiterin
Programmiererin
Vier Filme, die ich immer wieder sehen kann:
Go Now
Der Name der Rose
Viel Lärm um nichts
Philadelphia Story
Vier Orte, an denen ich gelebt habe:
San Francisco, CA
Lagos, Nigeria
Seoul, Korea
Williamsburg, VA
Vier TV-Serien, die ich sehr gern sehe:
West Wing
Buffy - Im Bann der Dämonen
Firefly
Lost
Vier Orte, an denen ich Urlaub [...]
Misc
Disability Bitch is back, with some schoolin’ for cutesy crips:
Have you seen girls staggering home drunk on a winter night, skirt too short, fishnets torn, mascara smudged, plastic bag wrapped around their ears to keep the rain off? Well, that’s what your mobility aid Christmas décor looks like after a few hours on the town.
My [...]
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