Sep 17, 2026 · 46 min · 13 segments
Hello again, I hope you are having a good week so far. On this episode, I sat down with Mellissa Green, a digital accessibility advocate and host of the podcast Uniquely Abled: Disrupting Disability…
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So one of the things I've been curious about since, um, we connected about you coming on my podcast is the name of your, your website, the blue green galaxy.
I'm curious where that comes from and how that ended up being the name of your website.
It used to be a blue-green universe, and I changed it to a blue-green galaxy.
I'm just curious, is there a story behind the name? I mean, I'm often asked where the blind blogger comes from, so I'm curious where the blue-green galaxy comes from.
And I write intergalactic culinary thrillers and other science fiction stuff.
okay well that's that's that's a good reason you like blue green um and i guess galaxy is to represent um the universal nature of your work maybe
okay all right um and uh so the blue blue green galaxy i was i was thinking it might have something to do with the with the retinopathy that caused your vision loss that maybe blue and green were or possibly the way you saw things or the way you think of things because of that?
okay so blue green y'all is just because it's cool colors and she likes them and i can think of i can think of worse reasons for what i can think of i can think of less interesting reasons for the name of a website so i like it you know i mean the accessibility advantage came from claude i we asked it we we told it everything max believes and asked it for some names and that was one of them it came back with so
yeah i use chat gbt and it it i it has some really interesting ideas for like i've used it for podcast episode titles I went back and I said, okay, create a list of podcast episode titles as if you were Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, Louis Brown, I just had a list.
And it came back with a bunch of stuff and I'm like, whoa! Because I could actually see them actually creating, you know, if they were still around, creating something like that.
So because I, I realized that if we do searches like that, you just never know what's going to come back from them, or how many is going to come back from them, you know, it's
So one of the things I've been curious about since, um, we connected about you coming on my podcast is the name of your, your website, the blue green galaxy.
I'm curious where that comes from and how that ended up being the name of your website.
It used to be a blue-green universe, and I changed it to a blue-green galaxy.
I'm just curious, is there a story behind the name? I mean, I'm often asked where the blind blogger comes from, so I'm curious where the blue-green galaxy comes from.
And I write intergalactic culinary thrillers and other science fiction stuff.
okay well that's that's that's a good reason you like blue green um and i guess galaxy is to represent um the universal nature of your work maybe
okay all right um and uh so the blue blue green galaxy i was i was thinking it might have something to do with the with the retinopathy that caused your vision loss that maybe blue and green were or possibly the way you saw things or the way you think of things because of that?
okay so blue green y'all is just because it's cool colors and she likes them and i can think of i can think of worse reasons for what i can think of i can think of less interesting reasons for the name of a website so i like it you know i mean the accessibility advantage came from claude i we asked it we we told it everything max believes and asked it for some names and that was one of them it came back with so
yeah i use chat gbt and it it i it has some really interesting ideas for like i've used it for podcast episode titles I went back and I said, okay, create a list of podcast episode titles as if you were Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, Louis Brown, I just had a list.
And it came back with a bunch of stuff and I'm like, whoa! Because I could actually see them actually creating, you know, if they were still around, creating something like that.
So because I, I realized that if we do searches like that, you just never know what's going to come back from them, or how many is going to come back from them, you know, it's
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