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Mon Mar 30 06:00:01 EDT 2020
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Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty.
Woke briefly around one-thirty.
Colder.
Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the mid 40s.
West winds 10 to 20 mph.
Work
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Julie, Jennifer, and Kari are all in the office this morning.
- Prep for training meeting
Done?
- Add Entrata rollout schedule to ticket
Done. (Apparently, I had already done so.)
- Write user questionnaire
Mostly done.
- 2 PM Fifth Third call
Done.
- Look for other softphones
Done.
- Investigate large attachment issue
Done.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Saw a raptor, floating, silhouetted against the pale gray sky.
Home
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Washed dishes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22729819
https://medium.com/@GigWorkersCollective/instacart-emergency-walk-off-ebdf11b6995a
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/823767492/amazon-instacart-grocery-delivery-workers-strike-for-coronavirus-protection-and-
I postponed by Instagram order out of solidarity.
https://medium.com/@GigWorkersCollective
https://www.metafilter.com/186301/Denies-Difficulty-Breathing-Denies-Further-Magnets
> An Australian astrophysicist was working on inventing a necklace to warn you when you touch your face, but one thing led to another, and he ended up in the hospital with four magnets stuck up his nose.
> > “I had a part that detects magnetic fields. I thought that if I built a circuit that could detect the magnetic field, and we wore magnets on our wrists, then it could set off an alarm if you brought it too close to your face. A bit of boredom in isolation made me think of that.”
> > However, the academic realised the electronic part he had did the opposite – and would only complete a circuit when there was no magnetic field present.
> > “I accidentally invented a necklace that buzzes continuously unless you move your hand close to your face,” he said.
> > “After scrapping that idea, I was still a bit bored, playing with the magnets. It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril.”
> > Reardon said he placed two magnets inside his nostrils, and two on the outside. When he removed the magnets from the outside of his nose, the two inside stuck together. Unfortunately, the researcher then attempted to use his remaining magnets to remove them.
> > “At this point, my partner who works at a hospital was laughing at me,” he said. “I was trying to pull them out but there is a ridge at the bottom of my nose you can’t get past.
> > “After struggling for 20 minutes, I decided to Google the problem and found an article about an 11-year-old boy who had the same problem. The solution in that was more magnets. To put on the outside to offset the pull from the ones inside.
> > “As I was pulling downwards to try and remove the magnets, they clipped on to each other and I lost my grip. And those two magnets ended up in my left nostril while the other one was in my right. At this point I ran out of magnets.”
> > Before attending the hospital, Reardon attempted to use pliers to pull them out, but they became magnetised by the magnets inside his nose.
Michigan COVID-19 cases: 1012 new, 6498 total
Deaths: 52 new, 184 total
Michigan's rate of increase has started to declined: 119% → 125% → 420% → 163% → 143% → 132% → 128% → 134% → 124% → 129% → 128% → 127% → 118% → 118% (today).
Global COVID-19: 770,653 total, 36,946 deaths, 160,130 recovered
Oakland country has fallen to #20 (yesterday #17).
Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: coffee, egg, carrots, pineapple
Lunch: last of the left-over pizza
Afternoon snack: banana
Dinner: Thai
Holy, shit, this geriatric Republic death cult is amazing — "I'm not afraid to die for the economy."
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131/81
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