Well, we’ve survived another weekend. Life & society has, for the most part, adapted to the changes brought about. One of the larger microbreweries in Vancouver – Parallel 49 – has started making hand sanitizer from their excess ethyl alcohol during their beer production.
Due to a shortage of plastic bottles, it’s being both canned & refilled into existing pump bottles. There’s no word if you can go down & get a growler full for individual use. It’s a noble way to keep your name in the news and increase foot traffic to the facility during the Bad Times. It’s certainly a different approach than New York, which is using prison labour to help produce the product.
Today’s internet good dog is Louie, a Golden Retriever who wants to go for a walk.
https://twitter.com/Kiaz19/status/1243068535896760321
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
- WWE WrestleMania 32: From Arlington, Texas – 7:00 PM | ESPN
- WWE stars collide on “The Grandest Stage of Them All” in Arlington, Texas. Matches include Triple H vs. Roman Reigns; Dean Ambrose vs. Brock Lesnar; Shane McMahon vs. the Undertaker; and Kalisto vs. Ryback.
- Really, it’s worth watching because it was one of the shittiest ‘Manias of all time, and the worst in recent memory.
- It sets the standard for the pre-taped Wrestlemania next weekend to beat.
- Buddy vs. Duff – 9:00 PM | FOOD
- Buddy Valastro and Duff Goldman conjure up cakes filled with special effects to celebrate the fantasy and fun of Medieval Times’ 30th anniversary.
- Sword fighting, jousts, and royal pageantry inspire them to make two of their most ambitious cakes yet.
- Buddy Valastro and Duff Goldman conjure up cakes filled with special effects to celebrate the fantasy and fun of Medieval Times’ 30th anniversary.
- Spy Wars with Damian Lewis – 8:00 PM | SMITHSONIAN
- The largest surveillance operation in British history is examined by Damian Lewis, who looks at the 2006 joint investigation between MI5, London’s Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Unit, and the CIA to track down a homegrown Al Qaeda cell in east.
- This show has been quite enjoyable.
- Citizen Kane – 8:00 PM | TCM
- After a multimillionaire newspaper magnate utters the mysterious name “Rosebud” on his deathbed, reporters scramble to decipher the word’s meaning, touching off a fascinating series of flashbacks on his life, career and relationships.
- Unironically, Donald Trump’s favorite movie.
I’ll let you know how the return to school tomorrow goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ04WbgI9rg
Can we find an independent judge to settle Trump’s dick measuring contest with China?
My vote is for Ghana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShMQw2H2cM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iiGqBfyLaw
And as things fell apart, no body paid much attention.
Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?
You ought to know
not to stand by the window.
Somebody see you up there.
I wish David Byrne were president. I might be a little more optimistic about the future.
I am using this advice right now. This isolation thing is making me a bit…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jqdz5EnYBY
https://hitrecord.org/records/1671318
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6HhdqA95w
https://hitrecord.org/records/1614315
Hai kitty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29ER-QTt_Y
https://hitrecord.org/records/1602893
Counterpoint: Don’t
I spent the whole day getting quietly drunk and stoned and stayed away completely from the usual news sites I visit, and watched various PBS and BBC documentaries. It was very therapeutic. I guess I am going to have to re-immerse myself tomorrow in order to keep abreast of the situation and how it might affect my position with the Department of Defense. I’d really rather not go to bed at this point, which would mean that I have to get up in the morning. Going to see now how long this can keep me awake:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/swamp/
I’ve been on and off with news, it’s good to strike the balance between immersion and being informed. I keep reminding myself that people did actually get PTSD from just watching 9/11 news coverage. Most people are probably nowhere near that point, but it does highlight how significant a mental effect all of this can have on us.
I’ve done the don’t want to sleep because tomorrow thing and i’m sure you have before too, try to get 4 hours if you can.
I talked to the smartest person in the world I know yesterday, she is a structural engineer who leads my engineering technical support team down at the USAF Civil Engineer Center where I have the worst fucking commander-in-chief in almost 250 years. Thankfully she is a full 20 years younger than me and happily married and has a cool husband and a very smart 12 year old daughter whom I dote upon, so no gross old man stuff will ever transpire, though if I had known her 20 years ago I might have pursued. Smart women turn me on. I did invite her and her family to come out and have a swim in the pool, which is now at 72 degrees. I told her I think we can maintain the social distancing as long as everybody makes their own drinks; she’s down with it and maybe I will have some visitors in the next week or two! Yay!
Hope it works out!
The socially distanced pool party thing I mean
Thank you. Fingers crossed for an optimal outcome. Will update as events warrant.
Word of warning; it is a bit depressing, but very well done.
Thanks. Being that it’s PBS, I don’t expect it to be anything but both/either of what you lined out.
I don’t think I have seen an American Experience that was not well, done, but I have seen some where I already knew most of the story and had to turn it off….. because we are terrible.
No one here gets out alive.
Puppies help.
My girls are in their mid-teens, failing noticeably in their seniority, and that is bumming me out even more than if I did not have them. (enter sad emoji here).
Doesn’t help what we are handing over to them.
Mother! seems to be a weird reboot of Rosemary’s Baby.
So like,1970’s devil worship panic for millenials? Neat!
https://www.10tv.com/article/fda-approves-use-battelles-mask-sterilizing-technology-full-capacity-2020-mar
Maybe that Cats thing isn’t that bad.
I’m not intoxicated enough to view this gif, there should be a warning
Seriously?!??
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7908628/
But, what if cabriolevirus also affected mosquitoes? Would we even want it to go away?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0dy-FoV4U4
We’re perfectly capable of killing mosquitos with biological agents that don’t also kill us
But those biological agents are just bats that eat the mosquitoes. Wait, bats, the RAND Corporation… It all makes sense!
Nah, we got genetically modified bugs that make em sterile, but people are afraid to unleash them because they’re soft
MI just had its first politician die from it: a state rep in Detroit who was only 44. The executive orders are coming out one after the other the last few days. Last couple hours had one for new prison rules which will restrict transferring inmates between facilities without proper testing and controls and give local prison more leeway to start releasing non-violent offenders, and one reducing liability for healthcare providers by giving more decision-making authority to RNs and NPs and allowing med school students and such to volunteer for testing services. Meanwhile, the confirmed count is doubling every couple days or so (80 cases to 5.5k in 10 days), with the explosion coming out of Detroit and the surrounding areas, but it’s rapidly moving north, and there’s a county with a dozen or so confirmed cases just south of the bridge that connects the peninsulas, so this shit is spreading fast. They also aren’t testing healthcare workers who aren’t showing symptoms due to scarcity of the tests. This is what it’s like with a state with aggressive testing and emergency management. I can’t imagine what the red states will look like when this shit hits full gear.
This is unfortunate, you could see MI ramping up a few days ago but I hoped it was a fluke 🙁
Red States will be interesting, despite LA being ahotspot Mississippi was still business as usual a few days ago. I guess they don’t have the population centers, so that might limit cases, but they also don’t have the health care capacity so I wouldn’t be surprised if their death rate is tragic.
Acting early is the only real defense, and despite an increase in cases here I think CA has got things under more control than many other places in the country. And my parents are doing ok in MD
People who were super sad literally every person in New Orleans didn’t die in Katrina so they could turn it into an amusement park are definitely big on sticking to business as usual in LA
Also, for the MI thing, Detroit is one of the most vulnerable spots in the country. It’s basically kindling for every outbreak. It’s the poverty and disenfranchisement of the poorest areas of Mississippi with a much higher population density. They see it pretty much every time something bad comes through.
This pisses me off, I’ve only visited Detroit but I really enjoyed it. It’s like all the stuff I hated about Chicago was distilled into Detroit in pure concentrated form. Fuck the midwest and their thinly veiled friendly racism
I mean, they literally built an 8 mile wall between the black and white areas in the 40’s, and that shit paid dividends in the way of racial strife for about 60 years.
Yeah, Chicago they at least pretended they were tracking an interstate through the middle of the city for development and ‘slum clearance’ and the fact that it eradicated minority neighborhoods and cut off the ‘black belt’ from the rest of the city was just coincidence… fuck the midwest
Ah and I see here is says youre from Maryland? We all saw that documentary about The Wire.
Maryland; from city type suburbia to deep south in ten minutes.
Little America, or America in a Nutshell but there is disagreement on the type of nut
Apparently The Wire has become popular again during quarantine? I only watched the first season, I should go back and watch more. I was more on the DC side but I always enjoyed Ballsitchmore
See also: New Orleans.
https://www.wwno.org/post/monster-claiborne-avenue-and-after-interstate
It was unfortunately a common tactic, and one promoted by federal funding
They did manage to stop a couple of freeways from going through the cities, notably in Boston and Memphis.
I think I’m mildly allergic to sparkling wine made using the Charmat-Martinotti method, but I’m not going to stop drinking it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8oJy_ngl2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsbd9j20JOs
I may have to put Churchill back into my “three dead drinkers dinner party” roster.
Dorothy Parker, Thurgood Marshall, Winston Churchill, and me making the martinis. Sounds like a fine time!
(slightly embarrassed that I had to google Dorthy Parker)
If you have extra free time now, use some of it to read her short stories!
I’ll just assume she’s related to McArthur Parker.
That’s MAC Arthur Parker to you sir!!
I’d ask about food shipments to India and Gallipoli, then we’d just get in a fight.
Also, would call into question the wisdom of aerial policing of Mesopotamia.
You just went for the soft underbelly of Churchill……..
/sorry/ not sorry
“Soft underbelly indeed.”
—Monte Cassino, 1944
Kinda the intent, but yeah.