Friday, February 5, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
A former QAnon person changing their mind
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/tech/qanon-mom-former-believer/index.html
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Interview with call center scammer in India
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/magazine/scam-call-centers.html
How to care for loved ones remotely when they're in the hospital
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/helping-hospitalized-father-from-afar/2021/01/29/3b86f5d0-55d0-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html
When people slander you online, not a lot of recourse available
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/technology/change-my-google-results.html
Successful teams according to Google
https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/googles-5-step-formula-for-team-success-is-a-master-class-in-emotional-intelligence.html
Denon settings
http://manuals.denon.com/AVRS650H/NA/EN/GFNFSYvdfworfs.php
https://www.aperionaudio.com/blogs/aperion-audio-blog/receiver-set-up
Tree trimming and 'crape murder'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/pruning-small-trees/2021/01/26/bfbebd24-5b39-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html?outputType=amp
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/dont-commit-a-crape-murder/2015/03/17/269d2508-c446-11e4-9ec2-b418f57a4a99_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_14
UV robots for disinfection
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/01/27/hotels-robots-cleaning-hospitality-covid/
Supreme Court moots emoluments cases
Inaugural poetry
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/gorman-performance-vital-poetry/2021/01/22/010c35dc-5c2e-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html
Democrats were ready to defend the vote
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/democrats-trump-election-plan.html
QAnon follower was holding out hope
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/qanon-meme-queen.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/20/qanon-trump-era-ends/
Ideas on combating misinformation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/media-fight-trump-big-lie/2021/01/15/d3cafa3c-5745-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html
Misinformation dropped after Trump banned from Twitter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/16/misinformation-trump-twitter/
Two differing reactions in evangelicalism over insurrection
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/opinion/trump-evangelicals.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Visible people arrested for the incursion at the Capitol, more on the ground reports
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/arrests-capitol-riot/
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-capitol-riot-what-the-parler-videos-reveal
https://www.newyorker.com/news/video-dept/a-reporters-footage-from-inside-the-capitol-siege
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/four-hours-of-insurrection/
Couch in a box options
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/cnn-underscored/sofa-couch-in-a-box/index.html
Friday, January 29, 2021
UC's possibly test optional for class of 2022
Friday, January 22, 2021
Friday, January 15, 2021
Final act of incompetence on the handling of COVID-19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/15/trump-vaccine-reserve-used-up/
Coordination, communication. Basic 101.
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Secret Service not allowed to use the Kushner's bathroom
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/secret-service-bathroom-ivanka-trump-jared-kushner/
Monday, January 11, 2021
Bible Commentaries Review site
https://www.bestcommentaries.com/
I learned that technical commentaries are not for me.
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Arthritis drugs further help severely sick patients
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/08/covid-arthritis-drugs-treatment/
Parler cut off by Google, then Apple, then AWS
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/technology/apple-google-parler.html?action=click&module=Alert&pgtype=Homepage
This is crazy - hang Mike Pence was trending on Twitter
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-trending-hang-mike-pence.amp
Self-pardon might actually induce charges
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-raffensperger-pardon-prosecute/2021/01/06/a32388fe-4f9d-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
Authorities more than twice as likely to break up a left-wing protest
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-response-to-the-capitol-breach-wasnt-an-aberration/
Micro led starting to eliminate green screens
https://www.techradar.com/amp/news/the-mandalorians-microled-displays-could-kill-off-the-green-screen-for-good-heres-why
Pentagon pulled back after backlash from June clearing of park
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/national-guard-trump-protests-washington/2021/01/06/d9b6b968-5065-11eb-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html
Lack of planning too
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-protests-washington-guard-military/2021/01/07/c5299b56-510e-11eb-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/01/09/military-quick-reaction-force-not-deployed-during-storming-capitol-because-lack-planning-defense-officials-say/
Conservative media didn't cover Reaffensperger call
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/conservative-media-raffensperger-georgia-trump/2021/01/04/d4bdb64e-4ea0-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html
Arrests from assault on the capitol, no antifa
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/2020-election-misinformation-distortions?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#fbi-says-there-is-no-evidence-antifa-participated-in-storming-the-capitol
Friday, January 8, 2021
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Saturday, January 2, 2021
Flashing for plastic roof protection
Also get brown rustoleum paint and marley bolts for future projects.
Shed one half dimensions - 41" long x 32.5" wide
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Examples of abuse claims settled that show a pattern
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/dc-police-lawsuits/2020/12/24/e986472c-2375-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html
Retirement meta study and impact on health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/retire-or-keep-working-the-healthly-answer-isnt-that-simple/2020/12/18/c65f60d2-33ef-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html?outputType=amp
Article on critical race theory
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/12/23/black-pastors-break-southern-baptist-critical-race-theory/
For future reference/reading.
Another example of voter fraud claims being debunked
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/heres-what-happened-when-a-georgia-lawmaker-scrutinized-the-trump-campaigns-list-of-allegedly-illegal-votes/2020/12/10/1400d628-3b06-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html
Evangelical support of election doubts leads to doubts about their faith
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/prominent-evangelicals-are-directing-trumps-sinking-ship-that-feeds-doubts-about-religion/2020/12/07/5ad8eb0c-38c3-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html
McCarthyism, Trumpism comparison
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/joseph-mccarthy-movement-trumpism/2020/12/04/d6e807ee-3460-11eb-b59c-adb7153d10c2_story.html
Pandemic affect on male friendships
https://www.washingtonpost.com/road-to-recovery/2020/11/30/male-bonding-covid/
CDC's failure early on to create a simple COVID-19 test
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/cdc-covid/2020/12/25/c2b418ae-4206-11eb-8db8-395dedaaa036_story.html
Korea study shows distant infection beyond 6 ft
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/infected-after-5-minutes-from-20-feet-away-south-korea-study-shows-covid-19s-spread-indoors/?amp=1
How I fixed Arlo motion detection, I need to update my rules
https://kb.arlo.com/42/What-are-modes-and-rules-and-how-does-Arlo-use-them
What probably happened with the Stanford Hospital algorithm
Probably focused on preventing deaths rather than infections and didn't take into account the changes in exposure due to changed practices.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/21/stanford-covid19-vaccine-algorithm/
Scientific Humor Theory
https://bgr.com/2020/12/22/funniest-joke-ever-study-science/amp/
Benign Violation Theory
- An unsafe violation of a situation
- A flip of the situation so it feels safe
- Both simultaneously
Contrasts and resolutions part of the brain
Change in what is "safe" as diversity of jokes.
17 days latency before safe to do a joke about a serious situation
PPE shortages and need for on-going funding like defense items
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/health/covid-ppe-shortages.html
Cialdini - use social proof to increase COVID-19 compliance
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/magazine/covid-research-behavior-.html
NIH studying study on allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-vaccine-allergic-reactions-study/2020/12/21/e01001d2-431a-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html
Russian opposition leader dupes spy into reveal poisoning technique
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/12/21/europe/russia-navalny-poisoning-underpants-ward/index.html
Lawsuit that led to some semi-retractions on certain conservative networks
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/media/smartmatic-lawsuit-fox-news-newsmax-oan.html
Latine instead of Latinx
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/latinx-latinos-unpopular-gender-term/2020/12/18/bf177c5c-3b41-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html
Employers can require COVID-19 vaccine shots
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/us/eeoc-employers-coronavirus-mandate.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Story of Trump Administrations response to COVID-19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/trump-covid-pandemic-dark-winter/
Trail of particles follows a person
https://scitechdaily.com/safe-social-distancing-alert-long-streams-of-virus-laden-droplets-can-trail-behind-infected-individuals/
Premature birth drop during pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/health/coronavirus-premature-birth.html
Possible hypotheses raised in the article:
- Rest, less stress from commuting
- Avoided infections
- Air pollution drop
- Fewer induced labors due to high blood pressure
Woman tackles black kid she accuses of stealing her iphone
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/28/keyon-harrold-racial-profiling-hotel/
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Vaccine doubters changing their mind
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/health/covid-vaccine-hesitancy.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Thursday, December 24, 2020
More examples of African Americans getting inferior medical treatment
So sad.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/24/covid-susan-moore-medical-racism/
Lean Cuisine Ratings
Buy again
* Spaghetti and meatballs
* Meatloaf with mashed potatoes
* Lasagna with Meat Sauce
* Chicken Parmesan
* Salisbury steak with macaroni and cheese
* French bread pepperoni pizza
* Tortilla crusted fish
Meh
* Spaghetti with meat sauce
Skip
* Glazed Turkey Tenderloins (whipped sweat potatoes were horrible)
* Fettuccini Alfredo
* Creamy Basil Chicken
Sunday, December 20, 2020
How to convert flac to mp3
https://videoconverter.iskysoft.com/convert-mp3/convert-flac-to-mp3-vlc.html
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
COVID-19 death toll compared to other historical events
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/19/ranking-covid-deaths-american-history/
https://time.com/5815367/coronavirus-deaths-comparison/
Monday, December 7, 2020
Possible approach to PSAs for C19
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/covid-public-health-messaging.html
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Yet another missed expectation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/05/operation-warp-speed-coronavirus-vaccine-shortfall/
Friday, December 4, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
Missle interceptor worked
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-missile-defense-test/2020/11/17/3778f050-28fe-11eb-b847-66c66ace1afb_story.html
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Why mRNA vaccines need to be kept at such low temperatures
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/17/935563377/why-does-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-need-to-be-kept-colder-than-antarctica
Why fighting disinformation is hard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/20/affidavit-giuliani-vote-fraud/
Combine with This American Life episode
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/724/transcript
There's a belief that there are so many cases of election fraud that even if one example is proven to be false, that there must be some truth there since there are so many accusations.
Add to that that many more people are getting their news not from news stories, but from editorials and you can see how we end up to where we are today.
Schools not spreading COVID-19?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/20/covid-19-schools-data-reopening-safety/?arc404=true
More Republicans distrust outcome than Democrats in 2016
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-republicans-distrust-this-years-election-results-than-democrats-after-2016/
Minneapolis violence as police officers leave
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/minneapolis-police-shortage-violence-floyd/2020/11/12/642f741a-1a1d-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html
Cytokine storm may not be what it was first thought for COVID-19
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/health/covid-cytokine-storm.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Wow, really?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-dakota-er-nurse-recalls-151800579.html
People not wanting to believe they have COVID-19.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/16/south-dakota-nurse-coronavirus-deniers/