Yay! Finally got to meet @MayAnderson2022 and assuming our food arrives, the whole crew I'm with will enjoy dinner with her this evening. I'm sacrificing going to the #NFB23 tallent show for this opportunity.

Interesting Wired piece:
Let People Collect Sperm From the Dead:
It may now be easier to get pregnant using the sperm of a deceased loved one. The practice is controversial—but it’s not inherently wrong.
https://www.wired.com/story/sperm-death-sex-bioethics-conception

Spent some quality time with a quality product, the Activator from HelpTech. This is a 40 cell display with a Perkins-style Braille input keyboard. But, like many laptop/tablet hybrids, the Braille keyboard flips up and over, and you have a full qwerty keyboard. It offers Bluetooth to connect to your iPhone, but also a proprietary dock with a lightning cable that connects directly with your iPhone. This can charge the iPhone and also offers some tightly integrated features. For example, on the Main Menu, there’s an iOS Apps option which gives you a menu of your favourite apps which you can get to using first-letter navigation.
It has the wonderful HelpTech feature where the display knows what cell your fingers are on. If you enable this feature, when you reach the end of the line, the display knows that you have, and scrolls to the next line by itself. No clicky key to advance the display, although of course you can do it manually if you want to.
Plenty more and I’m sure people will be interested in the forthcoming in-depth discussion on Living Blindfully. #NFB23

A NEW PRIEST AT HIS FIRST MASS WAS SO NERVOUS HE COULD
HARDLY SPEAK.AFTER MASS HE ASKED THE MONSIGNOR HOW HE
HAD DONE.THE MONSIGNOR REPLIED, "WHEN I AM WORRIED
ABOUT GETTING NERVOUS ON THE PULPIT, I PUT A GLASS OF
VODKA NEXT TO THE WATER GLASS.IF I START TO GET NERVOUS
I TAKE A SIP".SO THE NEXT SUNDAY, HE TOOK THE MONSIGNOR'S
ADVICE.AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SERMON HE GOT NERVOUS AND
TOOK A DRINK.HE PROCEEDED TO TALK UP A STORM.UPON RETURN
TO HIS OFFICE AFTER MASS,HE FOUND THE FOLLOWING NOTE ON
HIS DOOR:
1.SIP THE VODKA, DON'T GULP IT.
2.THERE ARE 10 COMMANDMENTS,NOT 12.
3.THERE ARE 12 DISCIPLES,NOT 10.
4.JESUS WAS CONSECRATED,NOT CONSTIPATED.
5.JACOB WAGERED HIS DONKEY,HE DID NOT BET HIS ASS.
6.WE DO NOT REFER TO JESUS CHRIST AS THE LATE J.C.
7.THE FATHER,SON,AND HOLY GHOST ARE NOT REFERRED TO AS
DADDY,JUNIOR,AND SPOOK.
8.DAVID SLEW GOLIATH,HE DID NOT KICK THE SHIT OUT OF HIM.
9.WHEN DAVID WAS HIT BY A ROCK AND FELL OFF HIS D0NKEY,
DON'T SAY HE WAS STONED OFF HIS ASS.
10.WE DO NOT REFER TO THE CROSS AS THE "BIG T".
11.WHEN JESUS BROKE THE BREAD AT THE LAST SUPPER HE
SAID,"TAKE THIS AND EAT IT,FOR IT IS MY BODY",HE DID
NOT SAY,"EAT ME."
12.THE VIRGIN MARY IS NOT REFERRED TO AS THE,"MARY WITH
THE CHERRY."
13.THE RECOMMENDED GRACE BEFORE A MEAL IS NOT;"RUB-A-
DUB-DUB,THANKS FOR THE GRUB,YEAH GOD."
14.NEXT SUNDAY THERE WILL BE A TAFFY PULLING CONTEST
AT ST.PETER'S, NOT A PETER PULLING CONTEST AT
ST.TAFFY'S.

First was Titanic. Next was Titan. So I guess if the pattern follows, don’t get on any vessels named Tit.

Expand your Apple Health data with these smart blood pressure monitors https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/23/apple-health-blood-pressure-monitor/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon