As I've said a thousand times before, along with
repeatedly scribblin' I-T here; where does A-L-L the FREAKIN' TIME GO! Does
anybody really know what time it is, or care?
As Bully for Mwah, some would say, as I've lamented before 'bout being on a
virtual treadmill the past several months now; CRIKEYS! And simply need a
vacation from my vacation; Hooah!
Ah, the life of a
visually impaired 'Vurd Botcherer, or as Ralph Sheheen labeled us:
"Keyboard Warriors," thanks Ralph, as DON'T let the Barn Door Hitz
Yuhs U-know Where; Hooah!
And thus life's just continued getting
stranger 'N stranger as the never ceasing shrinking of the world in favour of
minute Digitalization leaves Mwah stymied at best!
As this never ending assault most recently
reared its ugly head 'Wayback on May 1st, when I was rudely introduced to my
local grocery store's "New & Improved;" NOT! Yep, Yuhs guessed
I-T! Smaller and HARDER to use card reader at QFC - which is owned by some Midwest
company named Kroger, the nation's largest grocery chain; URGH!
As the A-L-L knowing Debit Card-reader machine's
size shrunk and its touch screen button locations moved to somewheres' in 'Duh middle
portion of the screen.
Therefore, I can NO longer "Cheat"
by knowing they're located invisibly on lower & upper Right Hand corners of
screen, which gave me NON-Tactile (finger touching) location finding ability,
and instead, now must depend upon the
Checkers to finish my transaction by pressing the No (Cash back) and yes,
complete transaction buttons for Mwah, which is a total load of Manure!
Even worse yet, is the fact that the new
shrunken, shrouded keypad, for our "Protection" audibly clicks loudly
when touching each keypad number for my Pin number, along with corresponding
Enter button, yet alas, doesn't have a tactile,
touchable & audible Yes/No button located next to it!
As this is just one of the myriad of daily
Problemas blind and visually impaired people are forced to endure in a never
ending shrinking A-L-L Digital world! As I won't even begin about the aging
Baby Boomer generation and its faltering eyesight...
Thus as Y'all may be painfully aware of? I
recently had Ye 'Ol Cathode Ray tube TV give up thee Ghost and have been without said device for a
somewhat longish six weeks, hence not having watched; Err listened to any
Formula 1 races on Zed Telie, - beginning with the Spanish GP, which really
hasn't been that mucho a let-down since it's been a virtual repeat of "The
Lewis & Nico Show!" As Ho-Hum, another race, another "Silver
Arrows" (Mercedes) victory - mostly by thy young "Louise
'JAGUAR" Hamilton.
Yet feeling somewhat adrift in this F1 void,
I decided to try checking out what I listen to Leigh "Crikeys
Mates"" Diffey exclaim at us each 'N every race weekend when proclaiming
Y'all can watch F1 (and IndyCar) live via Zed Internetz.
Without going down another "Rabbit
Hole," as Speed Freaks Statmann Caruthers coos weekly, I like Leigh Diffey
while missing Bob Varsha as lead announcer, yet I feel like it's a 'Wee bit 'O
Deceptive Advertising Diffey's telling us. Since in order to access said live
television coverage via NBC Sports
website; which just so happens to be owned by those money grubbing comca$t folks!
You need to have a corresponding TV Provider's internet/email account; SHEISA!
As I knew something was up when it asked me
for my (email) user name & password, which although I do have a current comca$t TB
Basic Cable subscription, I detest comca$t and
their monopolistic practices and hence do not wish to give them A-L-L of my
business! Nor constantly badger them for access to the TV channels I desire,
nee MAV TV and Fox Sports-2, neither of which I can watch currently on my
overpriced cable television service!
Since I'd dearly LUV' to be able to listen to Ye
'Ol Windbag, nee Dave Despain on his new show on MAV TV, yet comca$t doesn't
give a SHIT about what its customers want!
Therefore, NO live TV access on
"Peacock-lite's" webpage for Mwah, which I was quite happy to
discover before getting up at 4 FRIGGIN' 30AM Pacific to run into this Killjoy Buzz-saw
when attempting to watch; Err listen to the Austrian GP Pre-amble.
As I reluctantly understand the push to all
things hand held and can only surmise that the television networks are getting
a higher advertising rate for funneling the Masses this direction; but! I do
NOT wanna go this route and instead simply be able to access the race broadcast
via the simple touch of a button.
Especially if you're blind or visually
impaired and CANNOT S-E-E the Purdy' colour tile icons on a touch screen!
As say what I will 'bout IndyCar's IMS Radio
Network Broadcast's, which certainly AIN'T perfect yet! As I'm still awaiting a
Screen reader friendly working "Play" button in order to listen to
said races.
But at least I can access IndyCar which is
far more than I can say for F1 as Oh NO! We DON'T wanna give away one single
cake crumbles, as most of the "Free World" Across thee Pond has to
submit to the Pay TV Wall in order to view Formula 1 while Uncle Bernaughty
piously Moans over the sport being CRAP and TV viewing numbers down; Yuhs
Think? Earth to Bernie; Oh Never Mind!
Alas, in this never ending rant, I guess the point
of it all was that media needs to continuously apply the KISS method to
television access, which is Keep It Simple Stupid! Although not so much as
Eddie & Scott do relentlessly during ABC's miniscule portion of the
INSANELY Short IndyCar season - by telling us in school children tone: This is
a Steering Wheel, you turn it left to make a circle...
OOPS! Gotta be careful here, don't wanna get
the Hook from Mark "I've Got a Plan!" Miles for being Ahem, critical;
ZOINKS! Lookie Thar Mark, I kept I-T all Rainbows & Bunnies for Yuhs. Since
after all, we've got another 43-days of Indy Cars before they go quiet for
another STUPENDOUSLY L-O-N-G 7-months, right?
While I've
refrained from publishing my original thoughts on what I think about Mr. Miles
Post-Fontana, as suffice it to say, the late esteemed 'Awntie Harriet would
have called him a Fat Head! As how dare we critique the lack 'O positive
leadership from Starship HC? I mean all they gotta do is follow the Boston
Consulting Company's lead, right? As I don't think he really told us much in
his National Teleconference...
