Category: Thought

Random thoughts occurring to a random bloke…

Ablecentric Thinking

Last week I’d been asked to evaluate modern implementations of accessibility. I wasn’t too sure exactly how to approach the topic. So I spent some time actually thinking about things first. Originally I was intent on declaring my concerns regarding “accessibility” were one of two things. Either they are accessible or inaccessible. Simple, right? I like simple.

But then I thought, I can, quite easily, get into any of the grocery stores, say, in my neighborhood. But I can’t reach, let alone confidently handle, anything, that has substantial weight or mass, on a shelf over 5 feet in height. So without varying degrees of help I’m unable to adequately make an independent trip out to the grocery store a worthwhile endeavor. And somehow that’s not a desired way to live a life and it’s, at least, a problem?

Which had me thinking about things in a drastically different light…

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See What I’m Saying?

Feeling a perverse urge to do something I don’t normally do, by “normally do” I of course meant “never do.” So last evening I listened to the radio. 

And by me turning my clock radio on, with an actual intent to listen to it, may not seem as strange as it necessarily was. But, understand, I haven’t listened to the radio (minus the bits of 680News I hear while in the van) in maybe 5 years? And it was, probably, another 5 before that? I’m not a fan of radio. For no other reason than I never have been. I’ve no idea why. Just the way it is.

Anyway not my point. A Toronto newspaper, which I’ve always known as kind of a joke, ran a commercial while I was listening…

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The Evils Of Transgenics

Yesterday I mentioned The Angry Hippie‘s most recent podcast, Episode 30, where he partook in a conversation with Science Dude about transgenics. I eluded to the podcast inciting some questions, most of which are irrelevant now, after listening to it once again.

And like The Angry Hippie, I, too was under the impression transgenics or GMOs were a counter productive measure for making a buck at the expense of nature. And we, as humans, were merely trying to “force evolution.” Turns out my uninformed fear of something I so obviously didn’t understand was, at least, primarily unfounded.

Through example citation, Science Dude, makes mention of a bunch instances where transgenic technology could, either, benefit or “deter” life on this planet…

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