Ramblings and Curated Info For "Interesting Times"
Why do so many of my newsletters come to me now with the message: “Capitalism is dead! It can’t survive SARS-cov-2! Please donate money to us!” Talk about lightning rods. (For those that have never heard of them, lightning rods were metal – rods, just steel rods – with a pointed bit and all – … Read more
Looking forward, what can we think will happen? I can think of both long and short term events that’ll result from here on. And I can. First, you have to see that this pandemic comes on the heels of a most horrific bushfire season in Australia where people died also, and tens of thousands were … Read more
So a lot of RL stuff has happened here – I’ve been tested for and found clear of COVID-19, the living room has been moved through 90 degrees and several perturbations, I’ve gone from being stressed to being elated to being physically stressed to being panicked again now because my COPD has been exacerbated by … Read more
Last week I was pleased to see in my town, very few cars in the streets and people observing good distance. It was the week before the Easter holiday. It was maybe 2 – 3 weeks tops since we started talking about and adopting lockdown isolation. But also last week our pissweak government started to … Read more
I’m going to repeat this piece from the pinned post and add a fair bit of extra information to it. There’s so much about shopping that’s going to change… We’ve had the Great TP Stampede of 2020. (Probably.) The Pasta Prohibition followed it, along with All Your Yeast Are Belong To Us and the Say … Read more
This. Yesterday, I kept a ‘telehealth consultation’ phone appointment with my GP, who decided my condition warranted a swab test for COVID-19. (The disease that SARS-cov-2 causes.) The frontline elite infection control team at the local hospital processed me through in what would normally have been my lunch break, and left me plenty of time … Read more
Viruses aren’t a bacterium nor a mold nor a fungus, they’re in essence a little tiny grain of minerals and chemicals. A rock, if you like. We have weapons against some viruses, and some viruses aren’t very persistent or harmful. SARS-cov-2 has become a battleground, with a whole civilisation mobilising to fight back against a … Read more
Chicken FB group question: “What can I feed one of my girls who has always been under weight and small …” How about “… into the stockpot?” Stop wasting time trying to keep the weakest of your flock alive, concentrate on making your flock stronger. Here’s a few thoughts regarding the world: On any given … Read more
I’m glad to see that Mr Johnson survived SARS-cov-2, because while I may not like a person for the effect they’re having on the world and even reaching my world with their crap, I couldn’t in all honesty have wished him to die of SARS-cov-2. I would have smiled and felt better if I’d gotten … Read more
I HATE the distraction / word count thing because that’s how my writing progreses, by steps and distractions. It’s my writing style, not necessarily what I choose but I have a life other than writing. It’s a pretty rich life, I also have several programming projects on the boil, a few hardware projects, a garden … Read more