Sun Jan 24 18:04:00 EST 2021

U.S.: 25 million confirmed cases of Covid-19; 480,000 Covid deaths.

Monday 00:00Andrés Manuel López Obrador: Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19
Mexico has registered nearly 150,000 COVID-19 deaths and more than 1.7 million infections.
Monday 18:58The Flaming Lips (Wiki) Perform at Space Bubble Concert In Oklahoma ( Read more... )

Fri Mar 27 13:05:00 EDT 2020

Country after country are discovering people sick with COVID-19 and imposing lockdowns. Why aren't they getting it? By the time people know they are sick they have been infected for weeks. And they have probably been infecting others. When you start to see people sick, the virus is already spreading through your ( Read more... )

Wed Mar 18 15:03:07 EDT 2020

Heard on the radio:
The stock-market "circuit breaker" has stopped trading 4 times in the past 2 weeks.
It tripped once in the previous 30 years.

[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1131223.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
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Mon Jun 18 13:06:09 EDT 2018

I am sick of hearing about movies setting box-office records. To what extent are these "records" just documenting inflation, rather than viewership? Don't tell us people are paying more for movies. That's not news; people are paying more for everything. Tell us more people are going to the movies - or not, if that's ( Read more... )

Wed May 23 11:36:22 EDT 2018After fumbled first date, New Port Richey man puts apology signs all over town
NEW PORT RICHEY (FOX 13) - After their first date went horribly wrong, a Pasco County man made an attempt to salvage the situation by putting up apology signs all over town.
Is there some reason a "news" item can't give the city and state? I ( Read more... )

Fri Aug 8 16:46:56 EDT 2014

There were no leftovers this morning from last night's dinner. I didn't have breakfast today, but I had an early lunch.

Last day of classes. ☹ I had two classes with Erin today.

Today's classes:
WhenHrsWhereNameInstructorDescriptionComments
09:002.0A&S 11Basic BookbindingLady Angharad verch Glyndwr O Llang
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Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:00:40 +0000

Thu 2013/10/17

You've got to wonder when a chatty co-worker comes up, sees you're busy, says "You're always busy," you agree that you always have things that need to be done, and then he natters on about nothing related to work ( Read more... )

Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:47:57 +0000
Linux-powered CD player attempts audio perfection
Mar 22, 2013
Parasound, a purveyor of fanatically high-end consumer audio equipment, has introduced a CD player that's controlled by an internal Mini-ITX computer running embedded Linux. Using a CD-ROM drive for playing CDs, the "Halo CD 1" sucks in the CD's ( Read more... )

Sun Dec 23 10:46:43 EST 2012
The US could end homelessness with the money we spend on Christmas decorations.
I wonder what we could do with the money we you spend at Starbucks?
9 Daily Habits That Will Make You Happier
#8. Turn off "background" TV. Many households leave their TVs on as "background noise" while they're doing other things. The entire ( Read more... )