Sorry this is going up so late, and sorry for the general neglect of this place over the last little while. Laziness, busyness, illness, hung overness and going out and having funness haven't made for the best of reading lately. Hopefully things can start getting back to normal soon, but to hold you over until that happens, have this.
About a year ago, Carin won a homemade blanket from Ro in a contest. At long last, that blanket and a bonus gift arrived at our door on Friday. So Saturday night, as we promised we would, we hit record and opened it. We also opened some drinks and managed to turn a simple blanket unboxing into a couple hours of fun and stupidity. Don't worry, it's split into 3 parts in order to make things easier for everybody.
I was going to write up detailed show notes with links to all the stuff we talked about, but to be honest, I'm so not feelin' that right now. If you're curious enough about something to want to know more, just ask. There are lots of ways to ask.
Part 1runs about 32 minutes. Topics include but are probably not limited to why we're here, Carin's dog difficulties, how the hell UPS works, why Steve doesn't track packages, the usage of tweeps and words like it including calling a specific person out on the problem she doesn't want to admit she has, why we both almost didn't get on Twitter, why Maggie Laidlaw sucks now and a bit of Guelph city politics, the blog is moving, new slogans and political ads.
Part 2clocks in at 49 minutes. Carin explains the contest and we open the box. Then things go wrong. Actually things kind of go wrong before the box is even open, but that's just because I'm an asshole and enjoy tasteless jokes. There's also some other random talk including religious douchebags on Twitter and things that annoy us about them and religion in general, replacing the C word with a K word, 1000 Ways To die, a horrible injury, the KNFB reader, why technology isn't perfect and an epic fail.
Part 3,AKA the part we didn't think we'd have. the KNFB unbroke within about 3 minutes of us signing off, so we hit record again and did the colour identifying thing. We also talk about why it's kinda dangerous for blind people to wear winter hats, things sighted people do to the blind, blind people who don't represent us well, people who can't text and a couple of huppy stories. We went about 52 minutes here, or about 20 or so minutes longer than perhaps we should have. Ah well, can't win 'em all. Still sorta neat if you've never seen a KNFB reader or a phone that can recognize colours. Besides, a bunch of this was done mainly for a few people so as long as they enjoyed it, I'm ok with that.
Happy downloading.
2 hours ago
17 comments:
Hahahahaha!
It was sooooooooo funney!
Glad you liked it. People seem to enjoy listening to us get drunk and talk about nothing for some reason.
I loved the arg** I can't remember its name, but that little color recognizer.
Oh steve I have a question:
How do you use twitter so fast.
Twitter home page is really slow, an with jaws is even worst.
Carin actually recomended me atwitter home page, but I just can remember it hahaha!
The colour thing is called the KNFB Reader.
And me and Carin both use a little program called Qwitter. If we didn't have that, I'll bet neither of us would be on Twitter at all. You can read all about it at www.qwitter-client.net.
Oh, and if you would rather use a website for Twitter instead of a program, try out www.easychirp.com. It's a simpler version of Twitter meant for blind people. It's pretty good.
Steve please help haha!
I've all ready instaled the quitter soft were.
When I open it it just says:
Welcome to twitter.
An that's all, it imidiatly clowses.
Hahahaha that freaked me out too at first. The thing with Qwitter is that it doesn't have a window like most programs do. You do everything through keystrokes. The read me file that comes with it is really good and will tell you what everything does.
Oh sorry Steve another question:
When do you know qwitter is open?
I know it doesn't have a window but do you have to click the quitter botton every time you wana give a command?
You know, commenting is a beat inpractical my e-mail is:
cmlhe@hotmail.com
Once it says "welcome to Qwitter" once, it's open until you close it. It just runs in the background.
Really, really Steve I'm so ashamed:
Ok hear are all my questions I promise:
1-How can I log in to twitter using qwitter?
2-What are setions for?
3-I don't know if you know but:
How can I change quitter's language?
It suddenly changed.
Steve thankyou very much, twitter's home page was driving me math.
1-How can I log in to twitter using qwitter?
You should get a log in box when you first open it. Put your username and password in there and it should do the rest.
2-What are setions for?
A session is the name for being logged in and being able to do things. Whenever you're reading and writing tweets and whatever, that's all part of your current session.
3-I don't know if you know but:
How can I change quitter's language?
It suddenly changed.
That one I'm not sure about off the top of my head. Like I said, the read me is awesome. It will answer questions you didn't even know you had.
Ok I know I promissed no more q's:
Steve when I try to chose the type osf session you know twitter, been an all that stuuf I can't sellect twitter I just press enter where it says twitter an it returns tu been.
Ok I swear, no more questions haha.
Don't worry about all the questions. It's fine.
After you choose your session type, you have to tab once and then give the session a name. Call it whatever you want. Use your name, use a made up word, it doesn't matter. Only person who sees that is you. Then you have to tab again and press ok.
Yeah I've all ready tryed that.
But where you have to sellect what type of session do you want, well I can't select it.
I can write the session's name just find but I cant select what type of session do I want (twitter, bin, etc.
When I select twitter it automaticly goes to bin.
If this is useful it says:
Global mood on.
You don't have to do anything to select it. All you do is arrow to it and that selects it.
Three more additions to this comment thread of epicness.
1. One thing to be warned about Qwitter currently. Because of what Twitter did yesterday to the way clients get direct messages, and because Qwitter hasn't been able to be updated yet, you can't read DM's through Qwitter. Use Easychirp.com for that piece. You can still send DM's from Qwitter. Also, because this new change has something to do with the sent buffer as well, you need to set the interval at which the DM and sent buffer updates to either 0 or 60 minutes. This is why. Every time it fails to update sent and direct messages, it goes "Try? fail. try? fail. Try? Fail. Try? Fail." Each of those is an API call. If it's doing that every 3 minutes, that will whip through your API calls in no time.
2. I have no idea why, but when the Qwitter client was made, it was told to look for index.html for the readme, not readme.html. So you have to lead the shortcut to the proper file. It's not that hard. Just say browse, look through the qwitter folder and you'll find readme.htm. Assign it and you're done.
3. To change the language in Qwitter, go to control windows shift o and you will be on the language tab. Change it to what you need.
You may want to use Easychirp for right now anyway because Qwitter is in a state of flux. There will be a new version that will handle everything much better. We don't know when that will be though. But crap, Easychirp doesn't have its interface in any other language but English. That may or may not be a problem depending on your comfort level with English. You seem pretty good, but I assume nothing.
Thankyou Carin an Steve.
About the language, inglish is more than fine.
I asked you about the language because my qwitter was in french, I understand it a little but not that much haha.
Thankyou I just turned it back in to inglish.
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