Brad Enslen

Grocery Store shopping today. My hoarding:

• 4 cans of Bean with Bacon soup
• 2 cans of SPAM. (But it’s reduced sodium SPAM so it may not count.)
• 2 small bags of rice. I think I bought the wrong kind of rice. Is there a wrong rice? Well anyway I got rice stocked so I can eat. Which is better than trying to hunt for wild rats with a dandelion sticker because you’re starving, by a long shot.

Coronavirus and Our Medical Capacity: Some Numbers Yes I know it’s a Twitter thread but it’s worth reading. Don’t panic, but take it seriously.

It’s hard to blame people for trying to stockpile needed goods. People are only trying to make up for the failures of our leaders who should have been more prepared but were not.

Who’s in charge of this pandemic, anyway?

Ebay has recently started trying to show me a CAPTCHA after I login to confirm it’s me. Except the CAPTCHA never appears. Probably all my ad and cookie blockers. But, hey I really didn’t want to buy on Ebay that bad anyway. I’ll find it elsewhere or do without.

Liked: This rag-tag group of DIYers has an answer for rural Pa.’s internet problem | WHYY

Bookmarked: Making your own hand sanitizer is a cinch | Boingboing

Don’t forget extra vacuum cleaner bags in your self isolation prep. It sounds silly, but think about it, if the entire family plus pets are going to be shut up indoors for 2 - 3 weeks you want to keep your indoor air quality good.

Standby for Action! Gerry Anderson’s Stingray | 1964, Youtube 1:20 min.

Burrito security.

Cc. @cheri

Congress will decide to devote money to the coronavirus emergency in 2 - 3 weeks. This means we have Trump, Pence and McConnell in charge of a pandemic. These guys are the Moe, Larry and Curley of Washington. We’re doomed.

I have a pen and #2 pencil ready to fill out my census form whenever it arrives, so that town, county and state qualify for every dollar doled out by the Federal government. I’m still not clear why we sent our money all the way to the Feds so they can hand it back to us. Shouldn’t the states be doing this?

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a big mug of tea as a chaser, was a pretty good supper tonight.

I’m pumped, I got the conversation.js working with a little coaching from @manton. Thanks Manton! Spacing and such is not quite right but it is legible and it will do. Correcting it is a CSS thing and I don’t do CSS in general and specifically on MB. It will do. I also ditched my custom theme and went back to Marfa from Typewriter, cos Marfa has more bells and whistles like pagination and the other themes don’t.

Getting rid of custom themes means I no longer have replies via the third party IntenseDebate service but I think showing replies via webmention are more important for now. It is very nice to see the replies to my drivel right on the page. It makes me feel more Indieweb.

An emergency situation like the coronavirus outbreak shows the weakness of our “just in time” inventory practice. We no longer have vast warehouses of surgical masks, hand sanitizer or even toilet paper ready to roll when demand spikes.

I just got the Mimi Uploader app for my phone. This is just the ticket.

Now would be a real good time to manufacture N95 respirators (face masks) in the USA, from USA sourced componants, instead of off shoring production to, say, China. Just saying.