I’m ready for the debate.
NBC’s Saturday Night Live Various Artists Arista Records/USA (1976)
The opening to Chiller Theater scared me when I was a kid. I couldn’t watch it.
Still scares me now but I’m a grown-ass adult so I made myself sit all the way through.
Republican blogs are pushng the meme that Uncle Joe has dementia. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at that, because the Republicans are also criticizing the Bidens for nepotism. I expect they’ll next criticize Biden for having a bad combover and orange spray-tan.
I’ve seen the videos that purport to show Biden’s senility and I just don’t see it. In one he wanders off-camera during a Facebook Live chat. In another, he stumbles over when he would take office as President. In neither case does this seem like anything other than a gaffe.
Sure, I’ll watch the debate closely tonight to see if Biden seems to have all his faculties. But even if Biden is so deep in dementia that he doesn’t know his own name, I’d still vote for him over Trump.
He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them
Sunday, March 15, 2020
On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death was announced, Matt and Noah Colvin started a three-day, 1,300-mile journey from their homes in Chattanooga, Tenn., filling up a U-Haul truck with hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes. Then Amazon cracked down on price gouging. “It’s been a huge amount of whiplash,” [Matt Colvin] said. “From being in a situation where what I’ve got coming and going could potentially put my family in a really good place financially to ‘What the heck am I going to do with all of this?
The “tragedy of the commons” is junk science developed by a racist who espoused eugenics and white supremacy.
We’ve stocked up on about two weeks of emergency supplies, like you’re supposed to. It wasn’t a stretch – we buy in bulk anyway.
All but coffee. We only have a few days of coffee because it’s really best if you brew it soon after it’s roasted and grind it just before you make it, with a burr grinder rather than a blade grinder, and I guess I’m a hipster now where’s my moustache wax?
I have two important videoconferences scheduled for Monday, and I spent much of the day getting the office in shape to be seen – or, rather, the part of my office visible from the Mac camera,
I used the Photo Booth app to photograph the office from the perspective of the Mac camera, and I picked up clutter to make everything nicer. But only within the cone of space visible to the camera.
There are five steps from my office to the yard and I went up and down them a million times, carrying out junk. My Apple Watch Activities app is giving me high fives.
I’ve been working on an article assignment that has me thinking about how work has changed from the beginning of my career to now. This is one of the ways. In the first half of my career, if I had an important meeting, I put on a suit and tie, made sure my shoes were polished, showed up a few minutes early, etc. Now, this.
Cory Doctorow: The CIA’s information security is really terrible
“Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself.”
Meghan and Harry Overplayed Their Hand
The 1918 flu pandemic in San Diego: 366 deaths, sheep dip and mandatory masks
0.5% of San Diego’s population was killed in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic; the equivalent of more than 6,000 today.
From the San Diego Evening Tribune Archives: How San Diego officials reacted to the 1918 flu
The ballet dancer who led a prisoner uprising at Auschwitz
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Franceska Mann, a 26-year-old Jewish ballet dancer from Poland, arrived in Auschwitz in 1943, part of a transport of 1,800 so-called VIP prisoners from Bergen-Belsen. The prisoners “had been lured into thinking they were en route to freedom as part of an exchange for German POWs ostensibly organized by the Allies. The Germans promised that Auschwitz was merely a stop on the way to Switzerland, but the women among the group soon found themselves being led to the gas chambers,” according to a 2019 report in Haaretz.
“It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet….”
Funny Twitter thread.
Covid-19 needs a new name. Branding matters, people!
I’m getting email from every company I’ve ever given my address to, earnestly telling me how much they care about me and don’t want me to get Covid.
If they really cared about me, they’d send soup.
Apple TV+ 'Foundation' series production halts over coronavirus fears
Saturday, March 14, 2020
appleinsider.com/articles/… What this tells me is the long-rumored series based on Asimov’s Foundation novels is in production — and therefore will happen. Looking forward to it! I expect the series will take great liberties with the novels. And that’s OK.