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  1. Forget the original movie, it was terrible, someone spliced parts of Melancholia together, including the end-of-world part to make a fan-made music video for an Avenged Sevenfold song.... Very badass.
  2. Nope. I have it on good authority that Greenland will not be hit.
  3. If you crave more daily analysis about the coronavirus from a real doctor breaking things down, check out this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg He's an old British doctor who does a good job explaining shit. In his Sunday update, he's calling on WHO to go ahead an declare this a pandemic.
  4. Our top riser today, who has moved all the way up to #9 on the Cases-outside-of-China chart, is Iran. Iran used a million strong parade to catapult into our top 10. They're also sitting at #1 on the Deaths-outside-of-China Chart. Congratulations Iran. After the break, our Long Distant Dedication from a Cruise ship near Japan, to the people of Travis AFB.
  5. I've never been hacked like that, so I can't say I know what that feels like, but I can tell you it's a really shitting feeling finding out that all the backups for a business critical app are bad. We had a yearly security audit and realized that for 6 months all the DB backups were zero length. Not cool man. Very not cool. Hopefully your DBAs have actually checked that the backups were actually running.
  6. I tried to find the average recovery time for this thing and can't get a clean answer out of google. I've had the flu before, as have a lot of people, and it seems like most people recover from it in about 7 days. Webmd.com says most people take 5-10 days. We don't seem to be seeing the same recovery duration with Covid-19. Are they waiting some extra long period after you've recovered to officially declare you better? In the US, on Jan-23rd we had 1 case, Jan-27th there were 5, on Feb-3 there were 11 cases. As of Feb-18 there are 15 cases with only 3 recovered. It's been 26 days since the first case, 22 days since we had the five cases, and 15 days since we had only 11 sick. I would have expected most of the first 11 to have recovered by now. Based on rough numbers from the western world, it seems like the recovery time is longer than 3 weeks. That would seem to make it much more impactful than the flu.
  7. Back when he first made this claim, video of the play started circulating with the sound from the field. No N-bomb to be found. It doesn't matter if the player mics were muted when you have a bunch of these around
  8. I was 14 minutes slower today than the 3M half marathon a month ago. I guess I should have expected that, because my training since the 3M hasn't been very good... the good thing about that long delay at the start, was it an extra bathroom break. So I got that goin for me, which is nice.
  9. N-Nitroso-N-methyl-4-aminobutyric acid is a good reason NOT to buy generic. That's the cancer causing contaminant that keeps getting into generic blood pressure medications causing them to be recalled. I asked my pharmacist how much the Name Brand was... he pretty much laughed at me. Seems Merck stopped production when their patent ran out. Today there are only generics and almost all of them are made by shitty companies from India.
  10. Potatoes have healed my hunger many times.
  11. Wes Anserson movies all 'taste' the same....different setting and different faces, but it's just the same stuff. You could probably splice clips from the Grand Budapest Hotel into that trailer and it would all seem like it fit.
  12. How has Africa been skipped by this thing? There's something like a million Chinese in Africa building massive infrastructure projects. Are they all poor Chinese workers who didn't get to go home for Christmas/New Years? When this story broke, I guessed that they'd get hit early and hard due to their limited ability to contain and treat.
  13. To reiterate a statement from above. Peer Reviews don't mean shit. What do peer reviewers do? Mostly they ask themselves: A) Does this paper seem plausible? B) Does this paper use the right terminology? C) Does this paper agree with my biases? That's basically it. Peer Reviewers do NOT reproduce the work and they almost never check the math. Does the peer review process filter off completely bogus papers. Yes. Does it filter off bad science? No. Does it give an indication of the correctness of accepted papers? No.
  14. And now weather.com has Sunday listed as: High 75 / Low 62 with high humidity. I'm going to enjoy the race, but I'm not going to be setting any PRs. I seem to recall it being like 35 last year.
  15. If you have lots of trees, you really need two chain saws. A gas powered one for bigger bulk work, and a smaller (cheap) electric one that can be easily be managed with 1 hand on the top of a ladder or on a pole. Sooner or later you're going to have to cut a branch that isn't on the ground. I have fond memories of growing up in an orchard and being on the top of a ladder with a big ass gas powered monster, but it was actually pretty stupid. I'd also suggest getting a corded (plug-in) electric rather than a battery powered one since they typically have more power and don't fade as a battery dies. You'll also find that a small electric chain saw is just damn convenient (as long as you have a place to plug it in).
  16. Did you actually read the article? The NY Times is ragging on China, but the WHO, the CDC, and the US Secretary of Health and Human Services never do. The Times even paraphrase anonymous 'experts' who "speaking anonymously for fear of upsetting diplomatic relations". Some quotes from that article: They never go on the record and say things like: The Chinese are not forth coming. The Chinese numbers are understated by a large amount. The Chinese are misstating when this started to spread. The situation in China is much worse than the Chinese are saying. Nope. None of that. China is doing a great job. BTW you should totally trust us, we're experts.
  17. Perhaps I do. Can you point me to where the WHO or the CDC or the US Surgeon General or similar type experts that speak with authority call out China? The only thing I see is those type organizations bending over backwards to not offend China.
  18. Trust us children, we know better. FTS. I don't hear the experts calling out China for their lack of timely and honest reporting.
  19. Let's see, what Big 12 teams are projected to be in the Tournament based on ESPN's Bracketology: #1 Baylor #1 Kansas #3 West Virginia #7 Texas Tech #9 Oklahoma ...and what teams from Texas do they project making it... #1 Baylor #7 Texas Tech #7 Houston #13 North Texas #13 SFA 16 Prairie View A&M Sigh. The frustrating part is it's like this every year. I long ago boarded the "Fire Shaka Express", but it's been stuck in the station. Maybe this year it'll leave the station and start picking up speed.
  20. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. I have a week long business conference in Paris in early March....I've been looking forward to this for some time, but with the slow and steady build of this virus I'm now thinking that it might not be a good idea to: Go through multiple airports, Be in a sealed container for 10 hours with a couple hundred strangers, Interact with about 3,000 people from all ends of Europe in a convention center. There are 11 cases today in France, I think if that number doubles in the next week, I'm hitting the eject button.
  21. I'm betting he didn't call out the bogus 'official' numbers that the CCP are putting out. Seems like that misinformation is making the work far harder than anything a lazy reporter or 4chan troll could do.
  22. By 'this' do you mean screwing up the Iowa results? It's absolutely a self-inflicted injury that there is no excuse for. I attribute it to incompetence, hubris, and probably a good dose of bias. I'll stop short of calling it corruption, but as we learned well after the last election, people really were actively stacking the deck again Sanders. If 'this' is referring to the in-fighting, I think that's pretty normal when multiple different folks want the nomination. The longer the fight goes on and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place candidates remain viable, based on history, I think we can expect the in-fighting to become more intense. It was Bush sr. that coined the phrase "voodoo economics" in a primary fight against Reagan; The Dems ran hard with that in the general election. A big advantage of an incumbent is not having a primary fight. Unfortunately for the Dems, there is no 'likely' candidate at this point.
  23. The Austin Marathon / Half Marathon is in 9 days and the weather forecast is not great for a race. Weather.com has: 65/50 with a 50% chance of rain. The rain may actually help with heat as long as it doesn't turn out like the Cap 10K last year and get canceled due to lightning. Accuweather has: Overnight it projects 51 but says 63 for the 'morning' with a high of 69. No rain in this forecast. Weatherunderground has: At 7:00am they project 54 degrees with 46% chance of rain.
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