"Casa del Fuggem" Part 2 of The Legacy

[horns666]

Gary..how the fuck are ya bro. Good to see you! That's some good info. Hey, I was thinking of you the other day when I was going through my collection and listened to both my Mortal Sin cds. THAT is one underrated fuggin' classic thrash band!!! Mortal Sin was just as good as Metallica, Testament, Overkill, Exodus and ect IMO!!

[horns666]

Modern Canadian currency has a modified braille type system on the bills.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...actile_feature

I wanna move to Canada if Rap makes a big return..like the days of the Clinton years. How's the metal scene up there. Hmmm I know about Eidolon, Annihilator, 3 inches of blood, Anvil, Martyr, Voivod, Into Eternity..hey, that's as good as anywhere...Oh, Cryptopsy.

Frank Marino..Rush..Triumph.

[Hellbat]

I think you'd like the laidback life here on the west coast Bill. People are pretty chill about casual weed smoking and life in general. The weather is nice and mostly stable all year round, and the people generally don't fuck with you if you don't fuck with them.

The city is starting to get a little more crazy and urban as people get squished closer together though. I still live where I was born and the changes in my city are pretty radical though. It used to be a fishing community but it's morphed into a strip mall suburbia. I often think I'd be happier living somewhere a little less dense than the Vancouver area just because people tend to be nicer when they aren't stacked on top of each other.

But I'm sure this place would seem like open country compared to an old US city like Cleveland. And probably (for lack of a better word) less "dangerous".

Anyway, I just had a welcome home bowl, so I will stop rambling now.

[Ben...]

Into Eternity's from a very close by city from where I live. The metal scene in my city is OKAY. There's so many of those dumb "core" bands that I never see anything good.

I dry shave but I use an electric razor that's as sharp as a hunk of butter. Gets the job done though and fast too.

My little puppy dog's gonna have to get fixed soon. We got her two weeks ago. She's so nice compared to my last dog (Who got hit by a car). She's a yellow lab named Sheba. Those little teeth are nasty! She doesn't bite to much but when she does it hurts like nothing else. You can tell her mouth's bugging her.

Saskatoon's a nice place. It's not at all dense like most Canadian cities. Really nice people and you would appreciate the good record store (The non-chain one). They sell all kinds of metal and I'm pretty sure they deal drugs for those who want that. I just go there to browse their metal section. Unlike most stores it actually has good metal and not that trend crap.

[horns666]

That sounds nice Hey hows the healthcare? I'm thinking it MUST be better than spending $800 a month for a family of three. They raise my rates big time every year. 10 years ago I never even paid a co-pay or a med bill..nuthing. They don't care about retired cops..that's for sure. I fugure I could sell this big house get a small one up there and get the fuck away from here all together. I still have my mom and dad here tho..If it wasn't for that, I would seriously consider it. It's not like anyone is looking out for me anymore. Nope, they made that clear years ago. Why be loyal to a place that pisses on you everywhere you fuggin' turn.

Healthcare premiums and drug costs is what's really kicking my ass. Besides I pay more than 3K a year in property taxes and the public schools couldn't possibly suck anymore ass!

This is 100% truth.

[Ben...]

Health care's good here. You may have to wait for surgery but everything's free. You have to pay for prescriptions but if you have a job here it usually comes with insurance to pay for it. I get free dental, glasses related stuff, and anything else I need from the health plan from my parents' jobs. I'm also fairly sure my parents don't pay 800 a month for anything health care related. Just taxes.

[Jack The Riffer]

What kind of subscriptions??? Hustler? Penthouse? Guitar World?

[Ben...]

What kind of subscriptions??? Hustler? Penthouse? Guitar World?

Prescriptions. I'll fix that.

[horns666]

Ben..I saw Into Eternity three times. I really like them alot. Stu is an awesome singer IMO!! Hey good luck with the puppy. Yes those puppy needle teeth hurt like hell. Just keep saying "Ouch" and she'll pick up on how hard to bits or just try to avoid hand playing all together. That's your best bet. Get some rawhide stuff to chew on and some rubber toys to fuck with. Stay away from those squeaking ones..they could choke on the squeaker. Yeah, we found a great place for spaying/nuetering, but that's all they do. It only cost me $55 for everything and she's doing great! My vet is fairly reasonable and she wanted over $100 to do it.

I hate "core" bands too, but they are the lesser evil to what I had to always deal with in my city..

[horns666]

Health care's good here. You may have to wait for surgery but everything's free. You have to pay for prescriptions but if you have a job here it usually comes with insurance to pay for it. I get free dental, glasses related stuff, and anything else I need from the health plan from my parents' jobs. I'm also fairly sure my parents don't pay 800 a month for anything health care related. Just taxes.

Ahhh gotcha. Well paying 800 bucks a month and raising taxes has me pretty bitter. I'm going to submit a complaint. I can't see how they can raise my property taxes if my property value decreased. Besides they passed every single tax levy ever imposed in Cleveland. Most people "rent" and not own in this city, and they're really fuggin' stupid. It's really going from bad to worse here. The same tax levys always gets rejected in the burbs..because people are smarter in the 'burbs..truth be told.

[Ben...]

Right before I got into Into Eternity they had a concert here and it was 5 bucks a ticket.

I do the "ouch" thing actually. It does work. She seems to like me better than my parents but that's because I've been home with her so much because of finals. We've got so many toys for her. I want to get rawhides but my mom doesn't because she think's they'll make the puppy sick. We used to always get them for my old dogs and they never got sick. My puppy's just terrified of going for walks. She's the shyest dog I've ever seen. I can get her to go for a bit but there's a lot of dogs in the area and they scare her. She'll get over it soon I'm sure. She's gonna be huge compared to my old dogs which the bigger of the two was 40 pounds. Sheba's gonna be 80+. Fun stuff.

[RacerX]

Why is there braille on drive-up teller machines?

May 20, 1994
Dear Cecil:
A question gnaws at me. We've all used those drive-up teller machines at banks. Why are the buttons identified with braille?
— Vox Populi, Baltimore
Cecil replies:
Congratulations, Vox, you are the one millionth person to ask this question! Please send us your address so we can burn down your house.
Hey, just kidding! Although if you ask ever why we park on the driveway and drive on the parkway, you won't get lucky twice.
Anyway, you asked a question, and by God you are going to get an answer. Drive-up ATM buttons are marked with braille because federal regulations require it. To be specific, section 4.34.4 of the ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities (Appendix to Part 1191, 36 CFR Chapter XI, issued pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) says, "Instructions and all information for use [of an automated teller machine] shall be made accessible to and independently usable by persons with vision impairments." Drive-up ATMs, unlike the walk-up variety, don't need to be wheelchair accessible, but the rules make no exception regarding accessibility by the blind.
You're now thinking: boy, those federal bureaucrats sure are stupid. Don't they realize a blind person isn't going to be able to drive to a drive-up ATM? Cecil reserves judgment on the stupidity question, but even if the feds weren't smart enough to notice this little problem on their own, there were plenty of poeple who pointed it out for them before the rule was finalized. The American Bankers Association, for one, asked that drive-up machines be exempt from the visually-impaired requirement, arguing that a blind person using a drive-up ATM would have to be a passenger and that the driver of the vehicle could help with the transaction.
No dice, said the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, reasoning that driver assistance "would not allow the [blind] individual to use the ATM independently." This may sound like one of those absurd points of principle, but ATM manufacturers say a fair number of blind people do take cabs to drive-up ATMs, and nobody wants to ask a total stranger to help with a financial transaction.
Your question does point to a more serious problem, which other readers have also raised: how the hell is a blind person supposed to use any kind of ATM? Whether the keypad numbers are identified with braille or not, there isn't any braille translation of the on-screen instructions, without which the machine is useless. Maybe, you're thinking, the problem isn't the brainless bureaucrats, it's the brainless (or cynical) bankers and ATM builders, who figure a pretense of accessibility will get them off the hook.
But that isn't it either. At the time the accessibility rules were written, and to a great extent still today, there was no agreement on the best way to make ATMs accessible to the blind. More than 50 ideas have been proposed, including a "talking machine," detailed braille instructions, an automated "bank-by-phone" setup with a telephone handset and a keypad, and so on. (Sample problem: if you use a "voice guided" ATM, how do you keep others from overhearing?) Another difficulty was retrofitting the thousands of machines already installed.
The bankers and ATM builders argued that the best thing to do was leave the federal rules vague until the industry figured out a practical approach. The not-entirely-satisfactory solution in the interim has been to (1) mark ATM keypads, input and output slots, etc., with braille, and (2) send braille ATM instruction brochures or audio cassettes to blind bank patrons requesting them. The theory is that while ATM operation varies from machine to machine, people conduct most of their transactions at just a few locations, the operating sequences for which they can memorize. The drawback of this approach is that you have to know that the special instructions are available and you can only use the machines you have instructions for.
Happily, the banks and ATM builders have been reasonably diligent in trying to come up with more accessible equipment, some of which is starting to show up in the marketplace now. About time, say some advocacy groups. "We don't want to see information technology [e.g., ATMs] become the new curb," says Elga Joffee of the American Foundation for the Blind. "There's certainly no reason to squelch evolving technology. I just wish they'd hurry up and evolve it."

[Endrik]

She's the shyest dog I've ever seen. I can get her to go for a bit but there's a lot of dogs in the area and they scare her. She'll get over it soon I'm sure. She's gonna be huge compared to my old dogs which the bigger of the two was 40 pounds. Sheba's gonna be 80+. Fun stuff.

I have a Tibetan Mastiff, he is only 10 months old but people are scared of him because he is huge. They grow until they are 2 years old or more. My dog is way bigger than the average grown up. Way over 30 inches at the withers. Ridiculously huge head. Very pretty face and hair, the best looking dog in town. Massive body, huge legs like a wild animal. The voice of a lion, VERY loud, and octaves lower than the rest of the dogs voice. He is the tiger type. Very fast for his size and amazing jumping power. Very strong.

While everyone shits their pants when they see him... but they don't know that he is actually a pretty big chicken shit right now. He can act tough when he is on his territory but outside... another story. The other dogs can scare him, but he still sticks his nose everywhere. Even when some other dog wants to attack him, he still wants to sniff and then run away. I hope it's an age thing because those dogs kill wolves and pumas in the mountains. I don't want him to be violent at all but not chicken shit either.
But he is very smart, very psychological, very selfish, very picky, knows how to get what he wants, huge ego but also a great friend and a guard. When it gets dark his guarding instincts automatically go stronger.
He is one special character, I have never seen any dog act so much like an human as he does, it's friggin funny.

[Sinistas]

My band shares a practice space with Into Eternity's drummer, Steve. Small world.

[bibz]

I'm pretty sure our money is different bright colours so blind people can tell whats what G

$800/mth for healthcare is fuckin' brutal! Full coverage for me was like $130, I don't have it anymore though, but its something I'll look into in the future. You know, the day after I need it and shit!