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Mon Feb 22 06:00:01 EST 2021
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Slept from eleven to seven.
Woke briefly around four.
Cloudy.
Snow likely early in the morning.
Accumulations up to half an inch.
Highs in the mid 30s.
West winds 15 to 20 mph.
Chance of snow 70 percent.
Work
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- Check unit availability settings
Done.
- Check if auditors are done and we can shut off their accounts
Done.
- Review Bullseye invoice
Done.
- Review credit card statement
Not much.
- Stand up DNS server?
No.
Ten-minute walk at lunch.
Overcast, slushy under foot, but not too cold.
Saw and heard a crow.
Home
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- Laundry
Done.
- Rx refill
Done (3 PM delivery).
https://kottke.org/21/02/daft-punk-have-broken-up
Sucks that they broke up, but what a great video!
Also, the Ghostbusters theme is apparently the same song as NIN's _Closer_.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRKi2yoojHo
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/07/15/330121290/was-the-green-turtle-the-first-asian-american-superhero
> There was another decades-long mystery that loomed over Yang: Did the Green Turtle's creator, Chinese-American artist Chu Hing, want his character to be Chinese-American like himself?
> "When you look at [the] original pages [of the comic series], you kind of see this fight between Chu and his publisher," says Yang, who also relied on graphic designer Alex Jay's research on Chu's background.
> Rumor has it that the publisher thought a series about a superhero of Asian descent wouldn't sell. Fear of the so-called "yellow peril" was alive and well as World War II raged on in the Pacific.
> "He almost always has his back turned toward the audience, so all you see is his cape," Yang says. "When he is turned around, something is blocking his face. It's either hidden by shadow, or he's punching and his arm is in the way. Or there's a piece of furniture in the way."
https://computer.rip/2021-02-20%20555%20500%20710%20etc.html
> Because the use of 555 numbers in fiction was longstanding, the working group explicitly reserved numbers starting 555-01 for use in fiction. This, in 1994, is when this practice became formalized---but only for those 100 numbers.
> For reasons I am not completely clear on, when NPAs were first assigned by AT&T, the middle digit was 0 for all NPAs which originally covered an entire state (e.g. 505 New Mexico, 503 Oregon), and 1 for NPAs which covered only a portion of a state (e.g. 212 New York City and 315 upstate New York). This scheme was abandoned as of the first NPA splits, since having to renumber the area covered by the new NPA was unpopular enough without having to renumber the old NPA as well to turn it into a 1 middle digit. That said, for many years most new NPAs retained a 0 or 1 middle digit.
Servings: grains 3/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 1/3, nuts 1/0.5
Breakfast: carrots, banana, egg, coffee
Lunch: cookies, orange, avocado and bean wrap
Dinner: potato chips
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