Does amazon have these-- it would be a handy way to get water if the plumbing stopped working. https://twitter.com/AcqAlchemist/status/1250018726063325184
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No. The WFH & homeschooling & background chaos madness makes it feel like if you have to be making up all the time & you end up working 7 days a week. If that is sustainable or even adds up to the same as work-from-office is yet to be seen. https://x.com/shunley42/status/1250014208550412288
grocery hacking tip: You can get a weird box of groceries from Amazon Pantry for $35, delivered in about 3-4 weeks, w/o having to order excessive quantities of each item & prices are roughly grocery store prices. Why does Pantry have such a weird inventory? Who knows?
Why does Amazon have like 4 different ways to buy food and one user interface that mixes them all up? Who knows?
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This week we will simulation/pretend to be on
John Conway died. No wait, it is a hoax. No wait he's dead. No wait, he's alive.
Like they say, life finds a way. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1249145996157878272/photo/1
No one can find enough food at the grocery store so as you'd expect, farmers are destroying millions of pounds of food.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
IDEA: instacart but it is a service where gig workers can spend all day trying to get a slot with instacart or a slot with Whole Foods delivery on your behalf.
So instacart, except for instacart.
I mean it sounds plausible-- cough in a crowd of Germans and they'll scatter. https://x.com/Ash_Stewart_/status/1248848057841651712
Modems will no longer handshake until the pandemic passes.
Mortgage forbearance is also such BS. Skip 3 payments so that you can pay FOUR in four months. Because when you are unemployed for 3 months the new employer will pay you for the gap? Nope!
I'm glad I don't need it.
This "IRS has extended filing deadline" is such BS. I had to file 2019 early because if I didn't I'd lose $1000 because of changes in status since 2018.
My unpopular opinion. The privacy wars have already been lost, were lost before computers were invented & civil rights are enforced by laws, not by laws that disable the machines we fear.
In short, let the CDC track our phones & message those who might be sick.
This will be my dinner tonight https://x.com/SeoulFoodDC/status/1247574130481864704
DoubleTree released the check-in cookie recipe so you can pretend you are at DoubleTree.
Good timing as I was supposed to be on a grand HH points spring break vacay right now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/04/09/first-time-ever-doubletree-has-released-its-iconic-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe/?itid=hp_hp-top-table-low_doublecookie-955am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
The administration didn't close anything, they can't reopen anything. The governors closed the country, the governors will reopen it.
Except Mississippi, they'll all be dead (okay, somewhere between 1/2% and 10% of them)
Plague, trees falling on my car, laptop has a stick of bad memory & keep blue screening. Normally I'd say, gee I should have stayed at home, but I did! like for a month!
Remember ebay sniping? (bidding to buy in last minute?)
Now if you want an Amazon Fresh slot you need an app to snipe it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/08/how-to-get-a-amazon-fresh-whole-foods-delivery-timeslot.html
So in covid, Brooklyn was again the trendsetter, and again, was mostly just ripping off the latest fashions from Italy.
Maple water? A+, Brooklyn bar menus A+. Covid, uhhhh, can't we copy some other city?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/new-york-coronavirus-cases-europe-genomes.html
Brooklyn Bar Menus: https://www.brooklynbarmenus.com/
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Japanese researchers studying microdroplets- they have a long hang time in the air, especially in places without ventilation.
My take away--I really don't want to take the elevator anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBvFkQizTT4
The organization hears you loud and clear. You will be speaking to a proxy who will speak to a proxy who will speak to a proxy for a user who isn't actually a user. You will not be able to share anything with them either because they're on a different network. https://x.com/shunley42/status/1248240280400248834
IDEA: make sourdough by spritzing sandwich bread with vinegar.
(really? this is the content y'all want? Cause a lot of you can't stop talking about sour dough)
If only I had 4 or 5 free hours to run this much around the condo.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/12/coronavirus-chinese-man-under-lockdown-runs-31-miles-in-his-living-room
In econ the made sure we understood static analysis (A moves to B, end of story) and dynamic analysis (A moves to B and now everything has changed and it keeps moving).
This chart is a static analysis- 60K people die, end of story. Where is the 2nd wave, 3rd wave,
In static analysis the curve goes flat because reality turns off and nothing ever changes again. In the real world, people go back to the offices, malls, and airports and the infect-o-rama starts again.
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You can only pick 3
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No prize, but now you have a trinary number system.
VPN doesn't work again. Filing report here because ticket website is behind VPN and when VPN isn't working, help desk usually doesn't pick up & then answering machine hangs up.
Spring Break Plans
Taiwan's government was responding to the covid epidemic as soon as they picked up reports from social media, long before the Chinese government had noticed anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAaDC0lv13s
I experimented with antimalarials (over-the-counter tonic water) before it was cool with rwnj's & made it uncool
- You get zinc overdose symptoms FAST
- You get field of vision defects
I do not recommend it as a prophylactic unless you are in a literal jungle.
I was taking 50mg zinc + tonic water for nearly a week to get symptoms. The medical research was examining how they create synergy. So zinc + quinine is like taking two or 3 zinc pills, or if you're not taking zinc, creating a multiplier for your dietary zinc. OD city.
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CDC advises using coffee filters for masks, I'm ready. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1247292392505511942/photo/1
Kind of like a cat's stages of grief except in the end they say "meat's meat" and eat you. https://twitter.com/decarboxy/status/1247226292816281602
I was not expecting Sweden to do worse than the US at this. https://x.com/HelioEngineer/status/1247218255867064320
I got a computer & a book on how to write BASIC when I was 7. It set my whole life on a new trajectory. All those kids that need a $100 laptop & wifi? They're not just abroad, they're in the US. https://x.com/DanaGoldstein/status/1247128398025162753
You hear that screaming? It is the sound of the metal in the VPN servers expanding at the sudden surge of electrons heat it up. The second wave of screaming is the users.
What are the odds that everyone started watching tiger reality TV and the tigers in Bronx get covid? Is someone dreaming our reality?
me: Alexa, am I still alive?
alexa: Here is something I found online, "I truly believe Elvis is still alive and in a witness protection program"
me: Man, this is a really good witness protection program
how to make a mask, first buy a sewing machine, glue gun, cloth scissors. Track down art supply store that isn't a front for right-wing orgs. Next invest 20 hours of time you were going to spend sleeping learning to sew. Discard first 18 masks because they are amateurish messes
So the sudden burst of people shaving their heads in quarantine serves a purpose. (Although if a virus a land on your head, why not anywhere?) https://x.com/DrChristineMann/status/1246262184310706180
How to do climbing while in quarantine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yxK24PJcsE
Is the a COBOL programmer on this plane? The unemployment system of New Jersey had a heart attack. https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1246561408940204040