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Mon May 6 09:43:30 EDT 2019
Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty.
Woke briefly several times in the night.
High of seventy-three today, with thunderstorms later.
Work:
- Another leasing workstation test VM
Done.
- Call Mr. Hartman
No answer.
When manually partitioning in the Ubuntu installer, the ESP partition type is only available if the installer was booted in UEFI mode.
Trying to force this for `virt-install` with `--boot uefi`, I was getting this on a Debian Stretch hypervisor:
```
ERROR Error: --boot uefi: Did not find any UEFI binary path for arch 'x86_64'
```
Solved by `apt install qemu-efi ovmf`.
Ten-minute walk at lunch after shopping at Meijer.
No rain yet.
Saw a blue jay.
Today may be the tipping point from "many trees have leaves" to "most trees have leaves".
Home:
- Pick up prescription (and deodorant) at Meijer
Done.
- Play with D&D stuff?
A bit.
ssh://paulgorman.org/~/repo/dnd/apehawk
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a4535/4325774/
> A 2006 study by the University of Southampton in England asked six veteran fingerprint examiners to study prints taken from actual criminal cases. The experts were not told that they had previously examined the same prints. The researchers' goal was to determine if contextual information—for example, some prints included a notation that the suspect had already confessed—would affect the results. But the experiment revealed a far more serious problem: The analyses of fingerprint examiners were often inconsistent regardless of context. Only two of the six experts reached the same conclusions on second examination as they had on the first.
> Ballistics has similar flaws. A subsection of tool-mark analysis, ballistics matching is predicated on the theory that when a bullet is fired, unique marks are left on the slug by the barrel of the gun. Consequently, two bullets fired from the same gun should bear the identical marks. Yet there are no accepted standards for what constitutes a match between bullets.
> It's likely that the microscope of serious scientific scrutiny will turn disciplines such as fingerprint and ballistics analysis, which have long histories and large sample sizes, into stronger standards of evidence. But many other forensic disciplines may be classified as far less sound. Bite marks, footprints, tire tracks, handwriting, bloodstain patterns and other forms of analysis that suffer from multiple confounding variables could end up being used as exclusionary evidence or as qualified supporting evidence only. Some types of evidence may be completely discredited. That's what happened with voiceprint analysis and lead analysis of bullets, which were popular forensic techniques until studies showed significant error rates.
http://www.weirdmichigan.com/monsters.html
> The group did their broadcast from a park outside Grand Rapids, while pretending to be just outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin. They invented a slew of characters including a skeptical veterinarian, a teacher who was attacked after school, a thirteen-year old girl, and an Elkhorn restaurant owner whose main quote was "the sightings are the biggest thing around here since girl's basketball in Œ88." The players added sound effects such as crunching snow and snapping twigs, while exclaiming over sights such as mauled, dead deer and glimpses of dark things running through the woods. People began calling the radio station immediately after the ruse was admitted. Some had believed they were hearing a true, live account and felt both disturbed and betrayed. Others compared it to Orson Welles' 1939 War of the Worlds broadcast, when Welles pretended to be reporting a Martian invasion, said Butler.
Idea for help desk/ticket system name: WoeDesk.
Another ten-minute walk after dinner.
The rain stopped.
Watched the last few episodes of season two of The Good Place.
So good.
Ha — the Cheers reference in the season finale.
Started meditating again a few days ago.
Not sure if I've made any progress yet.
Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 5/4, dairy 0/2, meat 4/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: migas, carrots, banana, tomato, coffee
Lunch: doughnuts, celery, mandarin
Afternoon snack: coffee, grapefruit
Dinner: Thai
126/74
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