Cool and sunny. I hope.
Yesterday was another gorgeous day. Sunny, cool (don’t think it got about 70 in the shade) with a nice breeze. Perfect weather to wash the cars. And the bins full of spoiled food. And for working outside.
Spoke to my neighbor whose son is on the HPD. He says they’re mostly letting the smaller stuff go. I assumed that, but now it’s confirmed. They are one of the smaller forces, per capita, and they can’t really afford to have guys out. They are wearing masks now and gloves. His son strips off in the garage before entering the house. Son’s wife is a medical pro at a woman’s hospital in town so she leaves her stuff in the garage too. Welcome to life with covid, hafta have a decon chamber at home if you’re in the wrong job.
More of the same stuff to do today as yesterday. I’d like to get through another pallet of stuff, and maybe condense some of the remaining, as well as get some planting done. It was on my list for yesterday but I never got to it. My options are limited for root veg, so I’ll probably go with peas and squashes after all.
Garage shelves need cleaning and sterilizing too. Then I need to decide what goes into the garage for now. I’ll be looking for ways to expand the food storage in the garage and looking to see if I can get an A/C unit poked through one of the walls. Need to call the generator guy too.
Jeez, I better get something done.
Dinner was leftovers. Food is a weapon.
Stay in, stay safe.
nick
All this talk about VTC systems, and nobody mentions Skype?
A lot of school systems have sold out to Google.
We have Teams (probably based on Skype) at work, and it is okay for small groups. The company had to use Webex for the “all hands” online meeting yesterday, however.
Work tried to be hip and use Slack, but the terms of service means that company owns the data. HR couldn’t request incriminating employee exchanges more than a week old.
Skype is being replace with Teams, isn’t it?
I chuckled when I first started hearing this. All these states said you could be arrested for violating shelter-in-place/stay-at-home orders, but then also announced they were letting minor non-violent offenders out early. So, I can be arrested, but I’ll be released later that day? Quite a deterrent.
My nephew was in a juvenile deterrence program for getting busted for being an idiot and possessing a small amount of weed. He missed most of his pee tests and counseling sessions and never did his community service hours. He just got a letter saying he’s good to go. They consider the program complete and the records will be sealed since he was a juvenile at the time. He’s getting a big laugh out of thumbing his nose at the program but still reaping the benefits. They just don’t have time or resources to deal with silly crap like that right now so they’re giving everyone a free pass.
Little articles are popping up positing that the SARS-CoV-2 (maybe call it Covfefe-2) escaped from the Wuhan lab. Billy Gates must be peeing himself as his NWO starts to crumble.
What if Stephen Wolfram really figured out science? Does this mean we will finally get an answer to the dark matter issue?
According to Schroedinger, dark matter is the stuff inside your refrigerator before you open the door…
Yes, but how did so much of it get spread all over the universe?
Have you seen how fat the US has become? That is a lot of refrigerator doors opening.
Looks like the $350B small business loan program has exhausted its funds in less than 2 weeks.
Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money….
n
This is fallacious.
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22 Million Jobless Claims In 1 Month: Last 4 Weeks Erase All Jobs Created Since The Great Recession
Put another way… we have lost 710 jobs for every confirmed US death from COVID-19 (30,985).
”
–those things are not equivalent. The dead will remain dead FOREVER. Some percentage, hopefully large, of the jobs will return. Those that don’t return will be replaced by new jobs.
n
Nope, nope, nope. These people will be voting in November in California, New York and possibly Florida. At least the democratic dead.
@ray, there is a scifi story that features zombies but not in the traditional sense. They figured out how to bring the dead back to life, but they slowly deteriorate over time.
The main use for dead people? Their debts don’t get discharged with death, so they bring you back to keep working off your credit cards… eventually they deteriorate to the point where they are simply picking thru landfills looking for recyclables.
I don’t recall them having any rights or voting- that is reserved for present day democrats….
n
@Ray Thompson, you left out two significant states; Illinois and WA.
FYI, WA State has been 100% vote-by-mail for many years, and the demoncrats have just about figured out have to totally control elections.
People do not remember the greatest demoncrat machine that ever was or ever will be, the late great Mayor Richard J. Daly of Chicago (1955-1976). His son, Richard M. Daly served as Mayor from 1989 to 2011. The Dalys controlled Chicago, the Mob (to a small extent), Cook County, and the whole state of Illinois with great influence in DC too. If it weren’t for the late great Senator Everett M. Dirkson working very hard to keep the Dalys in check their influence would have been even greater and more destructive.
Now don’t get me wrong or misinterpret me, as pervasive as the Dalys and the Mob (old school) were they had a live and let live cooperative attitude. They both could be worked with. With them, it was all “business” and “territory” (knowing your place).
Do you see a current parallel?
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s and knew Senator Dirksen, the Dalys, and the Mob. Not just knew of but had actually had a handshaking, they know me, relationship; mostly due to my very connected Godfather.
Dad is done rambling for today, maybe.
I grew up in the Chicago area in the late 70s and 80s. It was the end of the Daly era and a free for all of official corruption and machine politics. EVERYONE took part to some degree.
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So I’m supposed to be guilted into giving up the masks I bought to keep my own family safe?
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/04/15/20/27236534-8223033-image-a-11_1586978584913.jpg
stupid cow is wearing a mask that is twice as nice as mine, UPSIDE DOWN, without the straps fitted or the nose wire molded to her face. That’s a $4 mask -pre-covid- wasted.
Yeah, F that.
n
Arlo and Janis: social distancing the pizza guy
https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2020/04/16
And going the extra mile.
Arlo’s been getting weirder by the day. Two days ago it was the Lone Ranger mask in bed.
I grew up in the Chicago area in the late 70s and 80s. It was the end of the Daly era and a free for all of official corruption and machine politics. EVERYONE took part to some degree.
My good friend grew up in Chicago, he is 63. On the day he turned 18, the block warden came to see him. He promised him that as long as he voted and voted the right way (yes, they knew who you voted for), he would have a job. He moved to Houston as soon as he graduated High School in a couple of months.
Garage shelves need cleaning and sterilizing too. Then I need to decide what goes into the garage for now. I’ll be looking for ways to expand the food storage in the garage and looking to see if I can get an A/C unit poked through one of the walls. Need to call the generator guy too.
Does your circuit break panel main breaker have enough capacity for another a/c unit ? 100 amps is tight. 150 amps is good and 200 amps is awesome. We had 150 amps in the old house for sale and 200 amps in the new used house. A 16 SEER 3 ton unit pulls 13 amps. Plus 18 amps to start.
If, your house is new enough to have a main circuit breaker. That is a consideration also.
Now don’t get me wrong or misinterpret me, as pervasive as the Dalys and the Mob (old school) were they had a live and let live cooperative attitude. They both could be worked with. With them, it was all “business” and “territory” (knowing your place).
So the private plane owners at Meigs didn’t know their place? What was the obsession of Mayor Daley with the runway?
That island was an eyesore when we visited Chicago last year. Do people actually attend concerts out there now?
On a completely different topic: Stephen Wolfram thinks he may have found the theory that unifies physics: it’s basically automata theory, and the universe is (according to his theory) basically a big computer. The link leads to his layman’s summary of the work. Mind-bending and fascinating – even if this isn’t how things work, it lends a completely new perspective.
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/
Once you are a programmer, everything looks like a computer program.
FYI, WA State has been 100% vote-by-mail for many years, and the demoncrats have just about figured out have to totally control elections.
2012. The election wasn’t close that year thanks to Costco money getting gay marriage and weed legalization on the ballot, but Perkins Coie in Portland had the paralegals burning the midnight oil for two months in September and October. Election day had one mail truck “accident” in SW WA State shortly after the election — just a test.
Yes, but how did so much of it get spread all over the universe?
Have you seen how fat the US has become? That is a lot of refrigerator doors opening.
Hey, I resemble that !
Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money….
The USA ran out of money a long time ago. Now we are just torturing electrons in a spreadsheet at the Federal Reserve.
One of these days, the torturing will hit a wall. Or not, I have trouble figuring all this financial big number crap out.
Looks like the $350B small business loan program has exhausted its funds in less than 2 weeks.
I got mine funded Tuesday. My dry cleaner friend cannot even get Chase to call him back. And their website app keeps on crashing. So he laid off his five lady helpers for duration since nobody is getting their work clothes cleaned now. Except me.
This is fallacious.
”
22 Million Jobless Claims In 1 Month: Last 4 Weeks Erase All Jobs Created Since The Great Recession
Put another way… we have lost 710 jobs for every confirmed US death from COVID-19 (30,985).
”
–those things are not equivalent. The dead will remain dead FOREVER. Some percentage, hopefully large, of the jobs will return. Those that don’t return will be replaced by new jobs.
The only number that I trust in this entire stinking mess in the number of people showing up for unemployment. The number of dead for the corona virus is being faked, the person was 85 and had four illnesses and was pushed over the edge by SARS-2. When we get past this nightmare, if we ever do, we may find out that the number of deaths in the USA is statistically the same as every other year.
And half of those jobs lost may not come back for a decade. My friend the dry cleaner will not hire all five ladies back immediately. He is 72, his wife is 70 and they are thinking about closing the entire mess down. Even if he did buy a new $100K steam press last year.
Questionable Content: why is the robot lady afraid of a dog ?
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4244
And Brun, the bartender, knows how to run things. And petting dogs is important for your peace of mind.
Little articles are popping up positing that the SARS-CoV-2 (maybe call it Covfefe-2) escaped from the Wuhan lab. Billy Gates must be peeing himself as his NWO starts to crumble.
Why were we, the USA, funding the Wuhan lab ? “REVEALED: U.S. government gave $3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8211291/U-S-government-gave-3-7million-grant-Wuhan-lab-experimented-coronavirus-source-bats.html
BTW, I am gradually losing respect for Bill Gates.
So I’m supposed to be guilted into giving up the masks I bought to keep my own family safe?
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/04/15/20/27236534-8223033-image-a-11_1586978584913.jpg
stupid cow is wearing a mask that is twice as nice as mine, UPSIDE DOWN, without the straps fitted or the nose wire molded to her face. That’s a $4 mask -pre-covid- wasted.
Nope. They are your property.
That said, if a Harris County truck shows up and steals them, good luck getting any money out of them.
BTW, my wife does not like the Curad Antiviral mask that I have been making her wear. The vinegar in the mask overwhelms her. I told her to use the 3M 8210 Plus mask instead which does not have vinegar.
https://www.shoplet.com/Curad-Antiviral-Medical-Face-Mask/MIICUR384S/spdv
Wait until the bread lines start in 2021. That is when the guilting will get serious. We may have to bury our LTS food when the TPTB start going door to door and seizing food.
Once you are a programmer, everything looks like a computer program.
I read a chunk of the book 18 years ago and still have it around somewhere. It struck me as fractals redux, but what do I know.
I picked up some interesting ideas for a better pseudo random number generator. As I’ve written before, it is hard to do worse than Gates’ (according to legend) srand()/rand() which remain untouched in Visual Studio the last time I checked.
Mac OS X provides arc4random by default, and you can usually find those calls in most Linux distributions. Even srand()/rand() are better implementations away from Microsoft.
BTW, I am gradually losing respect for Bill Gates.
I don’t get Gates unless my wife is right that he is dying. Gates mother died in her early 60s; something in the genetics of the long-time families up there. My in-laws from Centralia, WA have the same longevity (or lack thereof) issues from a variety of causes.
If he had played it cool, within 10 years, I believe Gates would have succeeded Warren Buffett as the media’s go to person for quotes about the market and, as figurehead co-Chairman at BRK, annual dispenser of the Simple Homespun Wisdom As Ghost Written By Carol Loomis At Fortune (TM) in the Berkshire shareholder letter every February — a pretty good retirement gig for a large ego.
Well, until Carol Loomis passes. She’s roughly Buffett’s age IIRC. Maybe Gates knows something there.
Also, another reminder, take the Daily Mail with a grain of salt. They paid Trump $3 million a few years ago and have an axe to grind with the President. Plus, it is a Brit tabloid — not exactly a hot bed for journalistic integrity.
Can’t find the link, but maybe Gates is trying to distract from the news he was on Epstein’s Lolita Express, long after Epstein did his first stint for molestation.
n
WRT the US funding the china lab, should be a link here in one of my early posts about it. There was a link to the pdf of the report on the lab, as CDC helped set it up. IIRC, they were concerned that if the CCP was going to play in that sandbox, then they needed to be trained to do so safely.
Guess the training didn’t stick.
n
Wait until the
breadsoy ration lines start in 2021.FIFY
All Hail The New PRC’s coming in 2021!
Can’t find the link, but maybe Gates is trying to distract from the news he was on Epstein’s Lolita Express, long after Epstein did his first stint for molestation.
WaggEd on the march!
Gates is infamous for his “Think Weeks” which, according to legend, involves him disappearing to an unspecified location in the Northwest known only to BillG and the person who drops off his meals at the door twice a day.
Maybe something else is going on in that cabin. Still, little girls? Gates strikes me more as a stripper fan. Various company histories place the original Microsoft offices in Albuquerque next to a strip club.
If the Lolita Express adventures are true, that would be a bigger popping of reality distortion than the revelation about Bezos being different than The Legend Of Jeff, Family Man, Drives A Honda, Wears The Same Shirt Every Day (TM).
RIP. Brian Dennehy had many landmark roles, but he’ll be immortal thanks to “Tommy Boy”.
“I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull’s ass but I’d rather take the butcher’s word for it.”
https://theweek.com/speedreads/909259/brian-dennehy-awardwinning-first-blood-tommy-boy-actor-dies-81
RIP. Brian Dennehy had many landmark roles, but he’ll be immortal thanks to “Tommy Boy”.
“I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull’s ass but I’d rather take the butcher’s word for it.”
https://theweek.com/speedreads/909259/brian-dennehy-awardwinning-first-blood-tommy-boy-actor-dies-81
He was great on “The Blacklist”. Which, I am bingeing on Netflix right now.
“Airline conducts COVID-19 blood tests on passengers”
https://theweek.com/speedreads/909119/airline-conducts-covid19-blood-tests-passengers
“One airline is now administering blood tests to passengers before they board flights amid the coronavirus pandemic, it announced on Wednesday.”
Hey, my cousin got this right in her “Feed” book which is set 20 years after a never-ending pandemic starts. Eventually, you will have to pass a blood test to enter a building, start a car, or do anything of a public nature.
https://www.amazon.com/Feed-Newsflesh-Book-Mira-Grant/dp/0316081051/?tag=ttgnet-20
Hat tip to:
http://drudgereport.com/
“One airline is now administering blood tests to passengers before they board flights amid the coronavirus pandemic, it announced on Wednesday.”
Stanford and other groups are working on saliva tests.
The Vampires did this in Blade II.
Great actor. Really made “Cocoon” work.
See also “Gattaca” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca movie (also https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ ).
A DNA blood test to enter areas….
“Report: China Quietly Keeping Residences Quarantined Despite ‘Reopening’ Wuhan”
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/04/15/report-china-quietly-keeping-residences-quarantined-despite-reopening-wuhan/
“A report at the Epoch Times on Tuesday said that despite the much-ballyhooed grand reopening of Wuhan, the city at the heart of the coronavirus pandemic, and the confident proclamations of Chinese officials that the virus has been all but exterminated, quarantines are being quietly reimposed on residential compounds as new infections spread.”
First comment, “I’ll wager they’ve lost more than a million people! 3300 my a s s .”.
I wonder how many of the people in Wuhan died of starvation while nailed into their homes.
He was great on “The Blacklist”. Which, I am bingeing on Netflix right now.
I was disappointed that Elizabeth Dennehy was not sitting in the Admiral’s chair on “Picard”. The producers promised that they had done something cool with Ann Magnuson, but that was probably left on the cutting room floor.
I got the impression that “Picard” was heavily edited after “Star Wars” fans reacted negatively to the last movie.
Gotta wonder who did this kind of story and then hid behind the Tyler Durden byline. Why?
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/conflict-interest-facebook-fact-checker-worked-wuhan-biolab-ruled-out-virus-leak-while
https://www.facebook.com/DryBarComedy/videos/637172313528718/
“Jeff Allen talking to his 26 year old son who is living in his basement.”
“Your mother and I want grandchildren. We have earned
grandchildren. And we worship a God of miracles.
We believe out of 3 billion women on this planet
God has chosen one of those women for you to breed with.
We just don’t think she’s going to fall through our vent
and land in your lap down here in your basement.”
I want to email this to my son. Seems like a bad idea.
Gotta wonder who did this kind of story and then hid behind the Tyler Durden byline. Why?
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/conflict-interest-facebook-fact-checker-worked-wuhan-biolab-ruled-out-virus-leak-while
Cause Zero Hedge does not allow “Anonymous” ?
And it could be another Wuhan bioweapons lab worker.
Why does tRump let this Dr. Fauci guy ramble on and on about restoring the economy? He just blabs and blabs and it sounds like psychobabble.
Also, *fuck* the new normal. He thinks we’ll never have packed stadiums, concerts, etc. I guess theaters will tear out 50 of their seats and start charging $50 a ticket. How will Vegas pay for it’s new “Darth Vader” stadium? Just dump it on the citizens?
I guess we will all wear Tyvek bubble suits from now on. Can the Real Tony Stark ™ make those, too.
What he said, but stronger and less polite.
Only a fool is ruled by his fears.
It takes a special kind of stupid to be ruled by another’s fears.
I guess we will all wear Tyvek bubble suits from now on. Can the Real Tony Stark ™ make those, too.
The Real Life Tony Stark (TM) will be lucky if he doesn’t get fitted for an orange suit in the next couple of years.
I’m guessing Elon is about 42L. He’s around my height/weight.
Also, *fuck* the new normal. He thinks we’ll never have packed stadiums, concerts, etc. I guess theaters will tear out 50 of their seats and start charging $50 a ticket. How will Vegas pay for it’s new “Darth Vader” stadium? Just dump it on the citizens?
If Gruden starts winning, the Chuckie dolls will fly off the shelves.
The Davis family used San Marcos as a bargaining chip in that stadium negotiation process with Las Vegas. All the new development you see at the freeway exits along I35 started about five years ago on the chance that Las Vegas would give up and let San Antonio have the Raiders, playing temporarily in the Alamo Dome before a new stadium got built on the present Texas State stadium site..
Even though the Raiders deal fell through, the NFL still wants the San Antonio-Austin market.
“In Texas a Battle Brews Over Voting by Mail Amid Coronavirus”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-texas-a-battle-brews-over-voting-by-mail-amid-coronavirus-11587037108
(if you got to WSJ using the http://drudgereport.com/ then you will get the complete article)
“Democrats are suing to expand absentee voting in the nation’s second-largest state because of the pandemic”
“Texans may vote by mail if they are over 65, out of town for the weeks an election runs, sick or disabled. That is defined as having “a sickness or physical condition” that prevents them from appearing at a polling place without the likelihood of “injuring the voter’s health.””
“The Democrats’ state-level suit seeks a ruling that the law already allows anyone afraid of illness to vote absentee, while a federal suit argues limiting ballot access by age is discriminatory.”
Looks like we are going to get voting by mail in Texas.
Hat tip to:
http://drudgereport.com/
Looks like we are going to get voting by mail in Texas.
Newsom’s money people.
Isn’t two weeks of early voting sufficient “social distancing”. Our polling place is a ghost town for most of those two weeks.
They may not get the general election, but the July primary runoff is in the crosshairs.
I feel like I want to say something here, but nothing actually comes to mind.
Every election is important and has consequences.
This one too.
n
I used to travel a lot, so have voted absentee in CA for many years without trouble. Nowadays, I take our ballots to a special box at the polls instead of mailing them. There is a web site where I can verify that my ballot was received and registered. Each ballot has a serial number. Seems OK to me.
I remember reading about various ways paper ballots were altered a hundred years ago. Voting fraud has been with us since our beginning. Electronic voting makes it much easier. There are ways to make voting secure, but we will never do that. What a country!