Jay Hannah @deafferret@octodon.social

@randomgeek Am I doing this wrong? Not really usable for Mastodon?

@carami I ride my motorcycle around for sanity. If you want an escort bike let me know. :)

Word of the day:
defenestrate /dēˈfenəˌstrāt/
verb 1. RARE throw (someone) out of a window. "she had made up her mind that the woman had been defenestrated, although the official verdict had been suicide"

Columbia Sportswear CEO cuts his salary by $3.29 million to keep paying retail staff. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/columbia-sportswear-ceo-tim-boyle-cuts-own-salary-to-10k-retail-employees-receive-regular-pay.html

I made you a playlist of the best 19 seconds I found on YouTube today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o5baMYWdtQ&list=PL8Lf7epQllMYQXhuIo0-_VZXCBi8hI1-X arf_urrg_sniz

Holy shit. Talk about social commentary...
https://www.netflix.com/title/81128579
The Platform
In a prison where inmates on high floors eat better than those below, who get the scant scraps, one man tries to effect change so everyone gets enough.

The URL in the screenshots: https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

So either these projections are wrong, or this is going to be by far the biggest event to happen to Americans in my lifetime? I / we should be losing our minds?

The good news, for us Nebraskans, is that specifically here its only projected to be 4X a high-normal flu season, and we have plenty of hospital capacity.

ha, neat, Half-Life: Alyx taught me: The practice of quarantine, as we know it, began during the 14th century in an effort to protect coastal cities from plague epidemics. Ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor for 40 days before landing. This practice, called quarantine, was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni which mean 40 days.

I remember church being a long line of people telling me how big I got. My 30-something friends are all stacked with babies and OH MY GOD LOOK HOW BIG THEY GOT.
I am old.

Ha. I have a soft spot for minimal tech (1990s web style) ultra-wholesale price finding web crawling database sites:
Ammo: http://www.gunbot.net/
Gold/silver: https://findbullionprices.com/
Left to my own devices, these are the kinds of websites I make. Dense with clickable data, no fonts, no colors, no styling, no art.

holy shit lady on the phone is telling me this 4 foot long black snake outside my RV is "probably a black racer, they're harmless, just stay away from him" ... lol ok. damn he's quick, he hid under something when I tried to see where he went

@randomgeek I assume you're talking international? If domestic travel restrictions are in the wind I need to get my ass back home

@gabek mid-June I'm in Egypt etc. FWIW, everyone involved in the trip is thinking it won't be a problem. Presumably the virus will have come and gone by then... fingers crossed

Really surprised how good this podcast series is. Suddenly I own a bunch of Dolly Parton songs for the first time in my life. Good for her for her rabid LGBTQ support! https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america/episodes/only-one-me-jolene