Tag: Accessibility
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Blind Dating Primer
I’ve decided to write up a bit of a structured list of information and tips for dating someone who is blind. These are my own ideas and mostly center around my own experiences, but can be useful and tweaked depending on the personal tastes of interaction with other partners. Tech Questions How am I writing…
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Big Updates to Oh Craps!
More fun updates to my Oh Craps game! I had a bunch of ideas and worked them all into my code, play tested them all, and just pushed them out to the Master branch up on git. I follow a lot of different Craps content creators on YouTube, and when I come across a strategy,…
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Oh Craps! – My Love of Dice
I absolutely love the game of Craps. The play built entirely around chance, each roll an independent event that doesn’t affect future outcomes and is not built on by previous rolls. Whenever I’m at a casino, I always seek out the tables by the sound of the chips being stacked and fiddled with, the call…
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Zumanity – Another Vegas Win
Building off of my momentum with MGM providing audio description devices in T-Mobile Arena, I decided to take it a step further. Before losing my vision, Cirque du Soleil was one of my major interests. My parents brought me to my first show with Nouvelle Experience back in the early 90s. Since then, I’ve seen…
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Fun. Home
The Curran Theatre here in San Francisco had been shut down for renovations for quite some time, and we learned that Allison Bechtel’s Fun Home musical was going to be the first performance to grace their stage upon reopening. Amy really wanted me to get tickets, so I checked with their Front Office about getting…
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Returning to Vegas – A Win for Advocacy
Continuing from my Las Vegas Debacle post, this was a major win all around for accessibility. After going through that entire ordeal, we came home quite angry. I was not satisfied with how we were treated and the overall outcome of the experience. I decided to push, and push hard on the Knights and the…
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The Las Vegas T-Mobile Arena Debacle
In November of 2017, Amy and I wanted to do something fun for our birthdays. Las Vegas had been a fun option, and now that they had a new hockey team, we decided to check out our first Away game together, the plan being to travel to Vegas and watch our Sharks take on the…
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Dating While Blind
I wasn’t always blind. The story of how I lost my vision is long, convoluted, and unfortunate, but I will save that as a discussion I’ll have in person with a date if they are interested. In a nutshell, I lost it quite suddenly after a long battle with vision problems and complications from eye…