Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Couldn’t report the missing items through the website or through the app, had to call customer service. Best they could do was refund the items so I could place a new order.
Of course some of them are out of stock now, so I placed the new order for shipping.
Sure hope I don’t actually *need* that pulse oximeter in the next week.
It finally happened: The kid refused to get up so long that we handed the laptop to him in bed & told him to log into school.
He’s getting up now…
Downside to contactless drive-up order pickups: You don’t get a chance to check the bags to make sure everything is actually in the order.
California finally has an app that links the Apple/Google contact tracing API with the state public health system
This is the one that exchanges rotating random numbers between phones over bluetooth, building a pseudonymous list of other people’s phones you’ve been near. You can use the app to report a positive covid result linked to your numbers, or check for exposures against its local list of contact events.
https://www.google.com/covid19/exposurenotifications/
I remember listening to a podcast on the design way back in…May? It’s an interesting approach to balancing a legit use of tracking vs. limiting chances for abuse of the data by limiting how much is actually collected.
It’s woefully incomplete, of course, but then it’s not like interviews would be complete either, even if we had enough trained people to run them for every single patient.
Kid rage-quit Flight Simulator last night & uninstalled it. I reminded him before he did that it was a huge download and would take a long time to reinstall if he changed his mind. “I’m *not* going to change my mind!”
Guess what?
He changed his mind.
It’s a long download…
Among Us, food
A movie critic looks at the titles of 26 new holiday TV movies and makes up silly plot summaries to fit.
covid, competing headlines
Whoa… It turns out the #Arecibo observatory’s collapse was caught on two video cameras, one at the control center and one on a drone that was being used to inspect it.
https://www.theverge.com/22150330/arecibo-observatory-collapse-drone-footage-video
Kid wants to learn animation. He’s used Wick, but it can’t do everything he wants to do, and he’s used up a trial of Adobe Animate.
I don’t want to support Adobe’s Creative Cloud keep-paying-every-month-forever subscription model.
Question for the fediverse: What animation drawing programs have you used? Which ones have you found to be easy to learn, capable, reasonably priced, etc?
We’ve looked at some of the other programs here, but I’m hoping for more context:
https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-flash/
I’m shocked, shocked to find that a student at the kid’s elementary school has tested positive for covid-19 during the week after (checks notes) a holiday that traditionally involves large gatherings over an extended period of time with lots of talking and eating.
OK, not that shocked. Especially with cases *already surging* in the LA area before Thanksgiving.
I wonder if they’re still planning on opening up the TK-2 grades to hybrid on-campus learning.
Fog rolled in during the washing machine cycle, and rolled back out during the dryer cycle. If I hadn’t done laundry in that narrow window, I probably wouldn’t have noticed it at all.
This is cool: recycling discarded PPE into plastic bricks for construction.
“First, the PPE material from body coverings, masks and head caps is isolated for three days. Then Desai’s team of 20 employees sanitizes the fabric and uses a machine to shred it before sanitizing it again. Next it is mixed with 47 percent paper sludge and a binding agent and pressed by hand into various molds. Each brick weighs around 3 pounds and costs about 4 cents.”
The pandemic is generating tons of discarded PPE. This entrepreneur is turning them into bricks.
“This emulator sure is crashing a lot.”
“So did the Commodore”
I always assumed the Tandy company that sold leather and the Tandy company that sold computers were different companies.
Turns out nope, they were the same. Tandy Leather bought Radio Shack in the 1960s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Corporation
This is especially weird to find out today, because today I also found out (through randomly seeing a mention on Twitter) that the Michelin Guide to restaurants and Michelin tire company are the same Michelin, not two different Michelins as I’d always assumed
https://guide.michelin.com/en/restaurants
it fucks me up that when i first heard of michelin star restaurants i was like “the tire company??” and then i was like no that’s dumb it has to be a different michelin and then it’s just the fucking tire company recommending places to eat
— 🎄🦌 rhena-deer 🦌🎄 (@topntran) November 24, 2020
Playing Minecraft with the kid:
Wife: “What are you playing on?”
Kid: “Windows 10.”
Me: “What *world*?”
Kid: “I don’t know.”
Wife: “Does that mean you don’t know, or does that mean IDK?” (He has a realm called IDK, because he didn’t know what to call it.)
Kid: “No, IDK hasn’t been renewed.”
Wife: *sigh* “Who’s on first…?”
kid asked us to buy an external floppy drive so he can see what’s actually on the handful of floppy disks we still have 🙄
not that we’d have any use for it afterward
