All signs point to "K"

The Fembot: I am enjoying the arch and ktxt.

b1-66er: I've never been so active...

Even eclipses my Haiku Years. 

Special K's losing his mind, which makes it better. 

F: You two do write entertaining stuff! 

b1: We're glad you think so.

F: I know you do it mostly to amuse yourselves, but I appreciate it, too.  It is a good look inside your minds... kinda like the 24HOTV sessions.

b1: Exactly. 

F: Now you are both just weird all the time, without lack of sleep and bad TV.

b1: Good observation. 

K will love that. 

F: I am sure you will share with him.  Someday I would like to meet him in person.  Does he come to DenCo, now that his MIL has died?

b1: Not as much. His brother still lives there.
You'll meet him. 

Have your ant eating mammal turn the dial a little to the left

Special K: "Tomorrow Trump is visiting @fema where he will hold a video call  with Governors. He's teasing a big announcement from the 

@US_FDA

 that we expect him to make at the 11am #coronavirus Task Force briefing, likely having to do with a possible treatment."

b1-66er: We're breeding pangolins and gonna drop them on the Taliban?

K: Tune in tomorrow!

b1: I listen to K radio. 

"I prefer my records warped."

K: 95 FABULOUS KBOT!

b1: "All static...

... half the time. "

K: 10,000 milliwatts of pure stereo power!

b1: "It's got a good beat and I can dance to it, I'd give it an 85, DICK."

Days of nothing go by incredibly quickly. I'm sad when they end.

K: Why? Tomorrow is the same.

Magic K-ball

b1-66er: Make a prediction. 

About anything. 

It's WAY better than hearing you rolling numbers like a beaver ball, again. 

Special K: That's because I mostly know to shut up.

I predict online-only.

WWDC will be canceled*.

b1: Agreed. 

K: The next wave is canceling the online-only versions of conferences that were instituted a couple of weeks ago.

b1: Oh! Interesting! Why?

K: Even to put on the online things requires people to get together to do planning. That's super hard to do now.

b1: Ah!

K: International air travel will be suspended (if it isn't already).

b1: ALL countries or just U.S.?

K: Just US, I mean.

b1: Okay. 

If the U.S. does it,  will others follow?

K: Not many. Maybe big countries.

*this is a bit of a cheat by the K... I've already heard from my contacts at AAPL that the WWDC is not happening live and they're just trying to figure out the messaging... and the K has/had b-fast every Friday with in-and-out AAPL employee, the Grumbler. Likelihood that K heard it "somewhere" is high. 

Estupidia nervosa

Special K: I've been offered a COVID-19 test. I'm not sure whether to take it.

b1-66er: Who offered it?

It doesn't really matter...

Because you either have it or you don't...

If you do, it's not going to change your behavior at all...

If you don't, then you know you didn't as of, what, 4 days ago?...

Then what?  You take it again some other time?...

No fever. 

No cough. 

No symptoms. 

NO TEST. 

Special K: I signed up for G's new trial service, just to see what would happen.

I was shocked to find they accepted me and said I could get tested.

They are only testing healthy people.

(I think)

To see how prevalent it really is.

That is, asymptomatic people.

b1: Ah.

K: I'm strongly leaning toward not going. I don't need a trip to a clinic when I'm not feeling any symptoms.

Is it un-civic or unpatriotic of me not to go?

If I have it, am I harming my family by not going?

b1: No one gets a staph infection at home. 

You're vectoring through the world. 

K: I figure if I don't go, someone else will take my place, so they'll get the data they're looking for.

b1: The ONLY reason I could think of going -as you- is you're in the higher risk group...

But the answer means nothing relative to your behavior. 

Pass.

You've got the dog and mail truck problem...

What do you do now that you've caught it?

AND THINK AHEAD ON APPLYING FOR STUFF FOR CHRISSAKES. 

Don't do things just to see if you can get it. 

I slit two different throats over my interviewing career of people who were doing that for jobs I had open...

Snidely Straight Neck used to do that. 

Absolutely despicable. 

K: I saw somebody online who applied and was rejected. I assumed that would happen to me too.

b1: That's lame. 

"I saw some guy get turned down buying black tar heroin in five points so I thought I'd try. 

I did it. 

Now what do I do?"

K: My family agrees with you.

<ed: TXTing is a spectator sport at the K household during lockdowns>

b1: Coronavirus has made you ill. 

K: No doubt!