I just finished watching the anime "Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood", the second more faithful adaptation of the original manga by Hiromu Arakawa. WAY better than what I remember of the first anime(*), there is basically no filler and it's well written, exciting, and emotionally affecting from start to finish. The last ten or so episodes cover a ( Read more... )

Wow, I feel amazingly terrible. But also bored. If nothing else this post exists to remind me not to get into conversations with people on the internet, for I am not awake enough to be coherent ( Read more... )

Here is a summary of my experiences using a mobility scooter for the first time at Worldcon. The beginning is mostly taken from the posts I made at the time but then I go into some further thoughts. I was inspired to try one by a post like this from someone else on I think disabled_fandom so I thought I'd return the favour ( Read more... )

Having explored east of the Hyatt on our arrival, I got around to checking the western direction this afternoon, and stumbled upon a convenience store and outlet mall REALLY close by, the latter of which has a food court (which apparently closes at 6).

Got my mobility scooter this morning. The woman from the Melbourne mobility centre was ( Read more... )

I've watched the first seven episodes of this show on the plane and while sitting around getting over my jetlag. I don't know how much I'll like it when I'm actually awake (for me) but so far I'm enjoying it well enough ( Read more... )

Just saw the new BBC "Sherlock". Overall I liked it but I wasn't entirely sold on what little we saw of any female characters and the portrayal of disability was rather worse than I was expecting. (and my expectations were low ( Read more... )

I always try and add alt tags, descriptions, and (when relevant) transcripts to my images. But I thought it was worth checking to see if anyone who uses these things (because of visual impairments, text-only browsing, speaking English as a second language etc) has any preferences for me doing them differently (and thus I ask here, where I post my ( Read more... )

:) (The icon, for those who can't view it, is a rope ladder hanging down into a disabled parking space. Of course those who need disabled parking spaces are likely to not be big on rope ladders, but I like the image anyway ( Read more... )

So I have a presentation all written to do a panel at Swancon about Disability in sf, and I'm happy enough presenting it by myself. But thinking about it I am not sure I'm up to handling all the questions I'm likely to get. Does anyone want to offer to help out moderating and answering questions during and after? You could also pipe in with extra ( Read more... )

Draft program presentationNote that there's notes available from the "Actions" menu ( Read more... )