Writing help documentation is never fun. But clients and users will say they want it. Here’s a trick you can use to make it write itself.
It’s a common practice to use question mark icons next to elements that may need more explaining. Users can hover over or click on the icon to get the…
This place is cool. It’s an art studio shared by all. There are art supplies available to use for free and friendly staff. In the back, there is a pottery oven and clay. I felt comfortable going by myself, but I’d prefer to go with a friend. It’s located in/near the tenderloin so it’s a little hairy walking up the block as it is walking anywhere in the tenderloin. Just say “no” to drugs.
Check foodstamp balance online
https://www.ebt.ca.gov/caebtclient/reciplogin_client.jsp
Clients (customers) can check the account balance on foodstamps and welfare. Guess statistics showed more and more people in poverty used computers.
Youth with a Mission’s Homeless drop-in on Ellis Street is a great resource for the homeless. It’s Christian inspired but hey they got Free coffee and it’s clean. Youth with a Mission has a website where they describe their drop in Ellis Center:
“We open our doors from 9:30-4:30 every weekday, as a drop-in-center where people can read, play games, get something to drink, or just sit and relax. We also offer prayer and a database of resources to aid those who are in difficult circumstances, whether they need housing, clothes, medical attention, food or various other basic necessities. We also distribute socks, basic toiletries and clothes to those in need.”
I like how they put ping pongs for the ping pong tables in a candy vending machine, charging 25 cents per ball, hence keeping ping pongs in stock and self-funding.
I truly believe social services that are “DESIGNED” to fund themselves and be self-caring are “SMART” services that outlast a transitory/shifting populace.
Inside my drawer at the shelter. More than I need and then some. Amazes how little I need, in a way it’s a blessing, but then sometimes I wish for a bookshelf with my books on it.
Inside the (welfare) GA Office at 1235 Mission Street between 9th and 10th streets. No photos are allowed to be taken of the GA Office, but I was able to get this photo of the floor of the GA Office. I think this photo pretty much sums up the GA Office. It’s frustrating, dirty, grinding, and stressful. I’m grateful to have benefits though. It’s easy to criticize the system when I don’t work in it. On the other hand, it’s food for thought and it’s very real.
EBT accepted at Subway restaurants on Market street (only) and EBT accepted at most Walgreens (at least on Market and in the Mission). Interesting, Walgreens has a big red sign on store front that annouces they accept EBT.
Am I the only one who thinks this is “revolutionary?”
Used to be that EBT = Food Stamps = Welfare = Shame? Crimminal? Failure? Lazy? Unamerican?
This is a new generation, where people are more “open book” it’s called postmodern, open ended, insides out generation and beyond.
The other kind of programming
Ever feel like you are just a number, or that you are on and then you are off when trying to get help? It might be because you are in programming. (1 means on and 0 means off in programming languages).
In recovery and the shelter I often hear people talking about being in programs. Programs for substance addiction, trauma, employment transitioning, housing etc. Most of these programs are connected or branches of another.
Today for the first time I heard someone refer to this “experience” of being in program as programming.
I’m not sure what to think of it. It’s usually best NOT think of it. But I couldn’t help but to reflect on it a little bit, because it reminds me of computer programming. And maybe that’s what it all is… a series of instructions.
Sometimes programs are frustrating because they are not working or do not do what they promise they do. Computer Programmers could probably relate to the frustrations of programming. Code rarely does what it’s suppose to do, at least the first time around. To quote my javascript professor,
“If code works right the first time, it’s usually a fluke and a cause for celebration; I dance around the house, patting myself on the back, on the rare occasions when that happens!”
My professor also has good advice on what to do when programming is frustrating:
“Computer programming is mostly comprised of problem solving: taking large complex
problems, breaking them down into the smallest possible pieces, and building programs out of these simple bits. Whenever students ask me how to tackle a problem, I always respond that they should WRITE DOWN the things that they are sure about, even the stupidest-seeming things. Once you have written down things you KNOW must happen or problems you have already solved, it makes it much clearer what remains to be done. In addition, you must start breaking down your problems into the simplest bits that you can think of, until you have the entire problem broken down into single tasks which the computer can perform.”
