About a dozen birds hopping around in the grass near a bike path and on the concrete under an electrical tower. From a distance I thought they were all the same, but iNat suggests that some are pipits and others are warblers.
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Kid: I’m extra hungry today.Me: Maybe because you had Cheez-Its for breakfast.
Kid: I’m extra hungry today.
Me: Maybe because you had Cheez-Its for breakfast.
Covid vaccine (+)
The Pfizer vaccine is being distributed in vials that each contain 5 doses’ worth. Or rather, at *least* 5 doses, to account for spills. Official guidance is now to go ahead and use the 6th (or even 7th!) dose in a vial if there’s enough left.
I’m reminded of the feeling when I got a 25th or 26th photo on a roll of film.
Cash-back offer: “when you make a purchase at 10,000+ merchants…”First thought was that …
Cash-back offer: “when you make a purchase at 10,000+ merchants…”
First thought was that was going to take a while.
This coffee goes to 11!(Cause I poured too much water into the coffee maker)
Who called them PokéStops instead of PokéMonuments?
Who called them PokéStops instead of PokéMonuments?
“My bee needs a shower.”Okaaaaay… 😕
Torn between the fact that the kid is Bartlebying his online class and the fact …
Torn between the fact that the kid is Bartlebying his online class and the fact that he just announced that you can spell CABBAGE using musical notes.
Incredible image of Orion seen between sequoia trees
Incredible image of Orion seen between sequoia trees
The elementary school is pushing back their re-opening plan…
Got a message that the elementary school is pushing back their re-opening plan for TK through 2nd grade until after winter break. This makes me feel a lot better about the supply pickup day that was going to be the same day that lower grades were coming back onto campus.
Server startup in 1737769 ms 😬
Server startup in 1737769 ms 😬
Businesses getting in on the campaign to phase out natural gas in buildings. Just got …
Businesses getting in on the campaign to phase out natural gas in buildings. Just got an email encouraging me to “go green” by going all-electric, from (checks sender)….the electric company. 🤔
So mad at Spectrum right now. You do NOT send someone *door-to-door* to sell people shit with a pandemic spiking so bad that the state is sending out emergency alerts telling people to stay home.
So mad at Spectrum right now. You do NOT send someone *door-to-door* to sell people shit with a pandemic spiking so bad that the state is sending out emergency alerts telling people to stay home.
OMG. I looked up the KFC / DC comics crossovers. I’d forgotten that there were THREE
OMG. I looked up the KFC / DC comics crossovers. I’d forgotten that there were THREE of them. The third one apparently involved Colonel Sanders getting a Green Lantern ring and trying to send chicken sandwiches across the universe, only to find that Larfleez (the Orange Lantern powered by greed instead of willpower) has been stealing ALL of them for himself.
W.
T.
F.
https://screenrant.com/green-lantern-best-kfc-dc-comic/
yeah, they did 3 promotional comics with DC a few years ago.
They were utterly bizarre.
The first one had Col Sanders team up with GL & Flash against his doppelganger from Earth 3 who wanted to open a knockoff chain staffed by supervillains. The second one had him team up with Flashes from 11 different parallel universes, because someone had stolen his memory of the secret recipe and scattered the ingredients across the multiverse.
Couldn’t report the missing items through the website or through the app, had to call …
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 …
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 …
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.
covid tracing
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.
