Archive: July 2007

Congratulations

Posted by Katja on 29 July 2007 | Permalink
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Retired Waif has had a beautiful baby human.

Camping Pictures

Posted by Katja on 24 July 2007 | Permalink
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I added pictures to the camping posts.

Not disabled?

Posted by Katja on 22 July 2007 | Permalink
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In a general interest forum recently, a person posted his dissatisfaction with a customer service experience. He believed that the customer service agent had made a particular decision because he (the poster) was deaf. His post was moved into the disability sub-forum. He was offended:

While I (respectfully) understand why you had to move my thread, [...]

NextSat, The End

Posted by Katja on 21 July 2007 | Permalink
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Friday I had the privilege of being on console when we shut down NextSat. Adios, freefall in peace!

Camping Trip, Part 2

Posted by Katja on 17 July 2007 | Permalink
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The next day we decided to stay a little closer to home. Bellaire Lake didn’t look too far away on the map, so we set off. In fact, it was up the mountain and down the mountain and up the mountain again, on a hard packed (watered) dirt road. We found Bellaire Lake easily enough, [...]

A Grab Bag of Links

Posted by Katja on 15 July 2007 | Permalink
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While I was gone, a number of emails arrived asking me for links, and I’m happy to oblige:

disapedia.com is a new-ish wiki for the disability community. Unlike most blogs, a wiki is a collaborative website that relies on multiple contributors.
Matt Schneider’s blog is full of information on adaptive equipment for quads, inter alia.
Hesperion are promoting [...]

Going to the Theater

Posted by Katja on 14 July 2007 | Permalink
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Sometimes I feel like Christiane is my long-lost twin.
Here’s a translation of her post about calling the theater:

A call to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.
Me: “Hello. Can you tell me if the Nachtasyl (the pub in the theater) is accessible?”
Silence at the other end.
Me: “I’d like to know if I can get into the Nachtasyl [...]

Camping Trip, Part 1

Posted by Katja on 14 July 2007 | Permalink
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First, I have to confess that it wasn’t really camping - friends lent us their little (no plumbing, no water) cabin on the Cache la Poudre river. The cabin, along with four others, is on National Forest Service land in the Roosevelt National Forest.
Second, I have to confess that I forgot to take a camera. [...]

Off-Road Wheelchair

Posted by Katja on 7 July 2007 | Permalink
Filed under travel, wheelchair use | 8 comments so far

We’re going camping next week and decided to do something about creating an off-road wheelchair. Here’s the result:

This is my backup chair, a Quickie GPV. I replaced the existing 37-540 tires with Kenda 2″ knobbies (50-540). I figured out that it would be ok to mount them on the existing wheels by reading Sheldon Brown’s [...]

Site Redesign

Posted by Katja on 5 July 2007 | Permalink
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I realized a couple months ago that I was consistently increasing the font size on my own site, and that I couldn’t read the light grey text in the sidebars comfortably, so I’ve done a little re-work. The WordPress template is Vertigo Blue Theme by Brian Gardner. I’ve also made category archives available, and have [...]