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Goodnight, Blog.

It's been seven years since I first rolled my own blog with some hacky PHP; since then, this blog has gone through countless changes in look, name, location, platform, focus, and frequency, with the last two becoming increasingly scattered. So I've decided to finally put the old girl out of her misery and close the [...]


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5 July 2009 @ 7am

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“Angel Hands” Lift System

The St. Pete Times has a great article this morning about a prototype lift system called "Angel Hands" created by a local inventor in partnership with Custom Mobility (who have been providing my wheelchair for 25 yeas now). I'm not sure how this system would work for me - it's hard to make out the [...]


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29 May 2009 @ 6pm

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an update

what's been going on, we haven't heard from you, what are you doing, where are you going? i haven't answered these questions because they seem to call for big answers answers that fit together answers that make sense and i don't have many of those. but i do: have friends who love me who don't [...]


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6 April 2009 @ 1pm

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White House response to my questions on disability

Two weeks ago, President Obama hosted an online town hall dubbed Open for Questions, where questions were asked and voted on by the public. I posted a question via YouTube about the economics of disability. In brief, I asked about how the administration is planning on addressing the needs of people with disabilities who are [...]


The Economics of Disability: My Question for President Obama

As many of you know. President Obama will be answering questions about the economy submitted at WhiteHouse.gov during a town hall event Thursday. Here is the video I recorded (transcript after the jump). Please take a moment and go to the website to vote for it (search for "Community Choice Act").


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