The convocast series that @andysylvester and I have been doing strikes me as the podcast version of the MarcoPolo app.



Hobby Lobby Defies Stay-at-Home Orders by Reopening Some Stores.

The people, the authorities, the companies … that do this have a lot in common.


Lots of Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian ships are registered in countries like the Bahamas to avoid U.S. tax, employment, and environmental laws.

… there are some 6,000 people out there … somewhere … on cruise ships.


I think I just heard Bernie say

“The champagne is very very different to what I have experienced before.”


Random Walk - Math of Random Walks - Unsolved Math Problems

Actually ‘solved’.

”The researchers found that random walks that meet a certain criterion based in vector geometry are the ones that converge with everything else.”

Well that explains everything!!


Remember those kids that we used to complain about? How there was an entire generation that were locked up in their homes playing on computers.

Are these the same kids that we now worry about being shaped by COVID-19 … having to get used to things like no physical proximity?


Democrats fear court sabotage if Congress is allowed to vote remotely.

Not exactly a Catch 22 … but close enough.


If anyone at home in these times say they have ‘nothing to do’ … they aren’t taking washing, cleaning and disinfecting seriously enough.

It’s still boring - but it really is incredibly time consuming.


We all know it - but interesting none the less.

Trump’s quotes on covid-19 show how his response has changed over time.


A question for the Blot cognoscenti.

Is there an easy way that when you see a page rendering on your blot site - you can quickly find and open the original file on dropbox?


Instructions for the times of COVID-19


I see conference after conference moving from physical to online.

What I don’t see is a reduction in fees to attend.

Am I expecting too much?



Two thoughts on reading that only $5,179 was earned last week at the United States box office.

  1. Who are those people still going to the movies?

  2. Actually, probably the best physical distancing you could really do.

No?


Virus crisis gives US abortion opponents an opening.

Seriously?

The fact that they are even thinking about doing this in these times is abhorrent.

The fact that they actually are makes me want to pop over to one of those other ‘essential’ stores that are open in Texas.


Iran Covid Deaths Rival US as Trump Blockade blocks Medical Supplies and Europe Defies Washington

”Instex operates in Euros rather than dollars and avoids US banks, so that the US Treasury Department cannot claim jurisdiction over it.”

Think about that sentence for 2 seconds.


Value.

Value.
What Is It?

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Practice ‘physical distancing’ not 'social distancing’.



We live in an age of transparency - just don’t speak to truth or you will be fired.