b1-66er: Ramen are the pubes of the noodle world.
I mean that in the best possible way.
13.3.20
Now WHERE is that bomb shelter key?
Special K: Santa Clara County* just closed the schools. There is a fucking run on food at grocery stores.
*Santa Clara is the county that headquarters nearly all the world's high tech companies, except Microsoft.
12.3.20
Bigger than the chip washer
b1-66er: "The coronavirus is creating weird new business opportunities, from robots to anti-spitting hats"
"Amazon has removed more than a million products that claim to be effective against the coronavirus"
Special K: Broadway is closed! "Broadway theatres will go dark beginning 5 pm today."
b1: Right choice.
K: So far Playful People is not closed, but we're on the verge.
b1: "Because Broadway did. "
You're going to have to take up knitting.
K: Harry Potter and Hamilton in SF shut down too.
Harry Potter was trying to finesse it with smaller crowds, but they bailed on that today. Things are happening so fast.
b1: Close the world.
Stop the virus.
(SM)
K: I like it.
b1: It's actually a great tagline.
K: Yes.
b1: You can play it either way.
K: I see friends reporting how crazy busy Costco is. But the grocery stores I've been in have been normal. I wonder what's up.
b1: Survivalists.
"We need everything in quantity, where do we go?"
K: Yeah.
b1: I had an entire raft of sardines in my grocery cart last night...
And some 40 something sneered as he walked walked past...
"Man, I eat 6 things and have a compromised immune system. You have no idea. "
K: The sneering, I don't like them.
"It's no worse than the flu! It's the media!" Fuck 'em.
b1: You and I have fallen victims to them all our lives...
... the worst is when it's been me on you.
K: Eh, it's ok.*
XFL seems to be the only league standing.
b1: "Sponsored by Carona
It's not a virus.
It's a BEER."
K:
- NBA suspended indefinitely
- MLB suspended indefinitely
- NHL suspended indefinitely
- Big East Tournament canceled
- SEC Tournament canceled
- AAC To2/2 urnament canceled
- ACC Tournament canceled
- Big 10 Tournament canceled
- Pac-12 Tournament canceled
- MLS suspended 30 days
b1: CinemaCon canceled!
So, the Dear Hunter asked me a good Q.
Are they going to shut the casinos?
K:
How can they shut the casinos? How can they not?
b1: I think they have to.
And all those chips?
K: Chips seem like a good vector.
b1: I doubt washing them is the answer.
K: You couldn't wash them often enough.
b1: I hadn't even thought of the 'reuse' component!
K: Have the casinos ever closed?
b1: That's a good question.
I don't think so.
There's been disturbances that have shut some temporarily.
Like the MGM the night Tupak was shot.
K: March Madness canceled! That's gotta hurt LV.
b1: Yes.
K: All content on https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/coronavirus is now free.
b1: GREAT!
K: Yes.
More sites should do that.
b1: All information free.
Coronavirus free.
"Like the old days. "
K: Trump: ""You know, we need a little separation until such time as this goes away."
b1: Oh, IT will go away, all right.
You're not doing your job as watchdog...
I think Public Madness is officially 9/10.
K: Yes. It's a low-key panic.
b1: I have a degree in applied mathematics. I can say those kinds of things.
K: It's good that he said that, rather than ignoring it. Maybe people will come around.
DISNEYLAND IS CLOSED!!!!!!!!!!!
"i think the impulse for many people is to look at things closing down or events cancelling right now as a sign of doom, but for the most part i think it's cause for optimism—someone in charge of something is taking this seriously, and doing what they can to limit interactions"
b1: AND REASONABLE K EMERGES FROM THE SWAMP!
*<ed- it's not. >
10.3.20
Hooked on Corona
The Actore: Because of corona bs, I got upset that I couldn't open a public door that needed to be pulled without actually touching the surface.
So today I made this thing out of a piece of scrap wood so I can push or pull doors open without touching them. Also push elevator buttons, etc. I know I'm a little crazy, in that most of corona spreads in the air, but there is a little piece of mind that comes with this:
8.3.20
Almost like shaking hands
Special K: "Out of a total of 5 Stages, the City of San Jose is in Stage 4, High Response Level of its Pandemic Response Plan and has proclaimed a local emergency. This means that there is high risk to the local population."
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b1-66er: Does THAT mean everyone will start crashing into other people's butts with their heads?
K: It's protocol.
6.3.20
You and your tiny infinity
b1-66er: Closing monologue of "The Incredible Shrinking Man"
So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero.
Special K: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-06/apple-encourages-silicon-valley-staff-to-work-from-home-on-virus
b1-66er: (And the stock goes down 4 points. )
That's a good pic of the campus. I've never seen that view before.
Random headline: "Coronavirus will probably affect you. How you can prepare."
K: OK. I devour social media and I sense a change in the wind today on the virus. The trend is for more people to back off panic and back
off taking it super seriously. I think panic and overreaction is going to decline. It might rise again, but it's going to decline for the next few days at least.
b1: You should start a channel.
Social Media Prognosticator.
K: I'm too lazy.
In Watchmen, the world's smartest man figured out trends by watching a giant bank of TVs and figuring out the gestalt.
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b1: Whoa. Nice comic pic interplay in the conversation, K-bot!
K: I only have a few points, so I might as well make them over and over.
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