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Wed Jun 17 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from ten to seven. Woke around four, and took a while to fall back to sleep. Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. East winds up to 10 mph. Work ---------------------------------------- - Keep working on Entrata security deposits, rents Done. - Review Newegg invoices Done. - 2 PM Yardi license call Done. - Email Dell rep about quote (at least for phase 3 properties) Done. - Schedule call with Yardi Done. - Drop user ticket for Gary Done. - Look at unit types, amenities for Entrata phase three migration A bit. Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Hot and sunny. Saw a cardinal, a blue jay, a pair of morning doves, and a large taupe butterfly with small blue accents (some kind of swallowtail??). Home ---------------------------------------- - Drive car Done. Three or of the four lanes of Thirteen Mile are closed for some kind of sewer(?) project. Vacuumed. Played with GrafX2 a bit more. https://www.wired.com/story/hikaru-nakamura-twitch-chess/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537774 > Nakamura is a five-time US chess champion. At age 15, he was the youngest-ever American prodigy to earn the “grandmaster” title. He helped the US win a gold medal at the 2016 chess Olympiad and, to this day, remains among the top 20 chess players in the world. But since the pandemic has paused over-board, or IRL, tournaments, Nakamura has magicked his life as a chess pro into a full-time gig streaming and commentating on chess on Twitch. > In March, when he first started streaming in earnest, an average of 2,000 people tuned in live to watch Nakamura. As quarantine intensified, that number jumped to 18,000. Now his fanbase has grown to 366,000 followers. And as his fivehead chess plays and genius-guy stunts have attracted the notice of the most popular streamers on Twitch, they’ve sought him out to learn the 1,500-year-old game—in turn bolstering its notoriety, and Nakamura’s, among gamers. Chess is having a watershed moment on Twitch, a platform known for clutch Counter-Strike plays and Call of Duty pop-offs. As a category, its popularity has grown six times over since March. > Nakamura’s impressive, lightly trollish chess gimmicks—blindfolded matches, matches without queens or rooks, solving as many puzzles as he can in five minutes—have spurred Twitch’s top personalities to try the game for themselves. Instead of looking down his nose at these pro gamers who come to him for guidance, he exudes respect for Lengyel (“legendary character”), who has three million followers, or Saqib “Lirik” Zahid, who has 2.6 million followers (“honored by his visit”). Now, top Hearthstone, Fortnite, and Valorant streamers are sliding into Nakamura’s DMs asking for coaching. Nakamura has in turn developed his own streaming persona, somewhere between a proud dad and a laughing supergenius. If the numbers are accurate, Michigan is doing well. US tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 21 22 19 23 22 23 23 20 20 25 20 22 24 20 20 (today) 3-day avg: 21 23 21 22 21 US new deaths: 1172 → 1015 → 909 → 1100 → 746 → 453 → 640 → 941 → 933 → 751 → 695 → 358 → 375 → 713 → 782 (today) 3-day avg: 1032 766 838 601 623 MI tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 54 75 4 163 25 36 54 1 54 71 80 64 340 62 63 (today) 3-day avg: 44 75 36 72 155 MI new deaths: 17 → 25 → 260 → 36 → 4 → 17 → 31 → 12 → 30 → 5 → 23 → 3 → 1 → 17 → 2 (today) 3-day avg: 101 19 24 10 7 Oakland county new deaths: 2 → 4 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 2 → 1 → 4 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 (today) 3-day avg: 2 1 2 1 1 Beaumont 5/14: COVID-19 patients: 315; COVID-19 ICU patients: 185; all patients bed occupancy: 72% Beaumont 5/18: COVID-19 patients: 283; COVID-19 ICU patients: 84; all patients bed occupancy: 71% Beaumont 5/21: COVID-19 patients: 255; COVID-19 ICU patients: 75; all patients bed occupancy: 76% Beaumont 5/25: COVID-19 patients: 215; COVID-19 ICU patients: 63; all patients bed occupancy: 57% Beaumont 5/28: COVID-19 patients: 227; COVID-19 ICU patients: 70; all patients bed occupancy: 68% Beaumont 6/01: COVID-19 patients: 178; COVID-19 ICU patients: 70; all patients bed occupancy: 61% Beaumont 6/04: COVID-19 patients: 163; COVID-19 ICU patients: 67; all patients bed occupancy: 65% Beaumont 6/08: COVID-19 patients: 130; COVID-19 ICU patients: 54; all patients bed occupancy: 55% Beaumont 6/11: COVID-19 patients: 132; COVID-19 ICU patients: 64; all patients bed occupancy: 70% Beaumont 6/15: COVID-19 patients: 114; COVID-19 ICU patients: 59; all patients bed occupancy: 63% HCC Region 2 North 6/17: in critical 55, on ventilators 30, inpatients 91 Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 1/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: cookies, egg and cucumber wrap, banana, coffee Lunch: salami and cucumber wrap Dinner: Cheetos, ramen -29

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