mdlbear | Done Since 2020-04-19 (Reply)

Not too bad a week, I guess. Anxiety and depression, mostly about US politics. The plague doesn't worry me nearly as much -- I can do something about it.

I'm sitting here on Whidbey Island, but I'm virtually at FK-No and the Filk Hall of Fame inductions. The new inductees are Juliana McCorrison, Rob Wynne, and Blind Lemming Chiffon. It was followed by an unexpected chance for the earlier inductees to sing one song. I sang "Ship of Stone". (It was between that and "The River"; I realized later that "Stuff that Dreams are Made Of" would also have been very appropriate.) So this is kind of a s4s post too.

Zoom has its problems, but it's a hell of a lot better than not going to a filk con. I'll take it.

One disadvantage of zoom is that it seems extraordinarily difficult for me to compose a post while listening to filk. This may be due in part to the fact that there aren't any breaks. I'll take it anyway.

Somewhere on the borderland between computer science and music, there was an article in Quanta about Donald Knuth. Including a link to his Fantasia Apocalyptica, which is a massive organ piece based on the Book of Revelations; much of it derived from the numerology therein. That went along with MIP*=RE, a proof that somehow cascades through physics and math, by proving that the set of things computable using a quantum computer that takes advantage of entanglement is identical to the set of things that can be computed. The fact that some things are not computable (e.g. the Halting Problem) turns out rather surprisingly to disprove some conjectures in both physics and math.

Lots of links and a few quotes down in the notes.

Notes & links:

0419Su * litter boxen
* up 5:00; W=195, S=6:20; shower
@ Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper? - The New York Times
@ ‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food on Floor Is Untrue, Study Finds - The New York Times
Longer Contact Times Increase Cross-Contamination of Enterobacter aerogenes from
Surfaces to Food | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
" Although we found that longer contact times result in more transfer, we also found
that other factors, including the nature of the food and the surface, are of equal
or greater importance. Some transfer takes place “instantaneously,” at times of
<1s, disproving the five-second rule. "
@ Computer Scientist Donald Knuth Can’t Stop Telling Stories | Quanta Magazine
Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica
@ Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math | Quanta
[2001.04383] MIP*=RE
" We show that the class MIP* of languages that can be decided by a classical verifier
interacting with multiple all-powerful quantum provers sharing entanglement is equal
to the class RE of recursively enumerable languages. "
& fell into a minor rabbit hole tracking down the two different sets of lyrics to
"Gingerbread" (the first set I found follow this video; there's a second
verse in the Sweet Visitor version [on bandcamp, with lyrics])
The lyrics in the video and on damnlyrics.com are missing the second verse, but
" The song appears in two distinct versions - one on Nancy Kerr's new CD "Instar" and the other on "Sweet Liberties" commissioned by
Folk by the Oak. And please check out Frontier Media's beautiful short movie "
@ Streaming Gigs - A list of live music being streamed Upcoming Events – Gig Stream List
* baking oatmeal raisin cookies (Betty Crocker Cookie Book)
* repair bathroom door trim
@ UW coronavirus model says Washington state could potentially start safely reopening
the week of May 18 | The Seattle Times
-> depends on how quickly the curve starts dropping off, the availability of testing,
adequate hospital space and equipment, the ability to trace and isolate contacts of
people who test positive, and continuing to prohibit large gatherings.
@ Coronavirus: Advice From the Middle Ages for How to Cope With Self-Isolation
* changed cat boxes just before going to bed

0420Mo
& Awake 2:55; S=4ish
* up 7am; S=6:13; laundry
/ semimajor cleanup, C took a shower
# 11am: caught up on reading. That means I should start doing something else instead of
hitting refresh (or looking at things like discord that auto-update).
: git@github.com:gromnitsky/dreamwidth-js.git is pretty useless -- doesn't appear to
take all of the options I need. It uses mobile/post.bml, which is very limited.
Also all it can do is post, which is also pretty useless.
* call about CPAP supplies -> still no tubing; should get call when delivered to Clinton
& finished setting up T-shirt backdrop for video
& replaced glasses stand with the clip-on one, which is better-positioned and leaves
more space behind it.
* set up 1template.flk files in Lyrics-Other and Lyrics-PD
@ How to Prevent ‘Zoombombing’ in a Few Easy Steps - The New York Times
@ Facebook will start nudging users who have “liked” coronavirus hoaxes - Vox (osewalrus)
@ Keep your home free of coronavirus with these cleaning, disinfecting tips
* Re-make bed. Start second load of laundry
% 5:30 feeling warm. Combination of the scotch, exertion ^, and my winter-weight shirt.
@ Adult Coloring Pages · Download and Print for Free ! - Just Color
% 9pm sleepy
: via E: Mom has decided not to have surgery after all.
@ Telehealth: How to find a therapist during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic: Vox

0421Tu
* up 6:30ish; W=198.2, S=; Ticia woke me up by biting my thumb. Hungry?
@ Too Much Oil: How a Barrel Came to Be Worth Less Than Nothing - New York Times
What the Negative Price of Oil Is Telling Us - The New York Times
" the coronavirus pandemic has caused a series of mind-bending distortions across
world financial markets, but Monday featured the most bizarre one yet: The benchmark
price for crude oil in the United States fell to negative $37.63. "
: call from Island Drug: CPAP supplies getting home-delivered today
@ COVID‑19 strategy update - 14 April 2020 [PDF]
@ Republican-Led Review Backs Intelligence Findings on Russian Interference - NYT
" American intelligence officials’ determination that Russia interfered in the 2016
presidential election to assist Donald J. Trump’s candidacy was fundamentally sound
and untainted by politics, according to a key Republican-led Senate review released
on Tuesday. The findings undercut longstanding allegations by Mr. Trump and his
allies that the officials were biased against him. " Well, fancy that!
@ Opinion | The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients - NYT
" Patients compensate for the low oxygen in their blood by breathing faster and deeper
— and this happens without their realizing it. This silent hypoxia, and the
patient’s physiological response to it, causes even more inflammation and more air
sacs to collapse, and the pneumonia worsens until oxygen levels plummet. In effect,
patients are injuring their own lungs by breathing harder and harder. "
" Widespread pulse oximetry screening for Covid pneumonia — whether people check
themselves on home devices or go to clinics or doctors’ offices — could provide an
early warning system for the kinds of breathing problems associated with Covid
pneumonia. "
-> so I've been doing exactly the right thing by measuring my O2 level every day.
-> the time to call for help is _before_ one starts feeling short of breath
: harborview called C to reschedule (presumably next Monday's appointment)
-> will call back ~noon, since they wouldn't talk to me about it. -> never did
@ National coronavirus response: A road map to reopening - AEI [pdf published 3/28
@ guidance document to support governors’ efforts [PDF] (COVID-19 Updates - April 20)
" States should consider initiating the reopening process when (1) the number of new
cases has declined for at least 14 days; (2) rapid diagnostic testing capacity is
sufficient to test, at minimum, all people with COVID-19 symptoms, including mild
cases, as well as close contacts and those in essential roles; (3) the healthcare
system is able to safely care for all patients, including providing appropriate
personal protective equipment for healthcare workers; and (4) there is sufficient
public health capacity to conduct contact tracing for all new cases and their close
contacts. " We'll see how that goes.
@ A parade that killed thousands? (thnidu | Déjá vu all over again)
/ major cleanup.
% heat. Don't think it needs an NSAID tonight.
/ C nauseous.

0422We earth day (50th anniv.) * scoop litter boxen
& awake 3:30ish;
/ major cleanup; put bacitracin and dressings on scald, which is raw in spots.
/ second cleanup needed after that.
* up 7:17; S=5:54;
@ Forget About Zoom — Here Are 3 Open Source Zoom Alternatives
jitsi
BigBlueButton aimed at virtual classroom
OpenVidu more of a framework.
@ #EarthDayAtHome with NASA | NASA
* pick up prescriptions for S at Rite Aid. The guy (Tom?) who took the call was an
asshole and needed to know how many prescriptions I was picking up, saying it was a
privacy requirement. Since I couldn't raise either S or C by phone, had to go back.
Apparently *nobody* else does that; all they need is patient's name and birthday. The
guy also wouldn't take the handwritten authorization I tried to give him, saying they
had no way to keep anything like that on file.
-> plan is to download a blank HIPAA Medical Records Release Authorization Form (which is 3 pages), fill out
all the valid cross-authorizations (5*4 counting V), and fax them.
@ DIY MED - Face Masks
@ An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus | Kalzumeus Software
published predictions about pandemic status in Japan prior to official acknowledgement
: call from Mom. confirms that she won't have surgery. Definitely best choice for her
@ Vi Hart: How We Reopen | Vi Hart
full video script at the end How We Reopen - YouTube
Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience | Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
makes lots of assumptions that won't hold in the US as we now know it. wish they did
* singing: Ripple, The River.

0423Th
* up 5:45ish; W=195.6, T=99, S=6:36;
% left QL -- or something else in the hip area -- painful -> heat
@ ambient-mixer.com Listen and create ambient sounds easily
Pebble Beach | mynoise.net
% 8:50 naproxen
@ The Truth About Hydration: Should You Drink Eight Glasses of Water a Day?
" In 2016, Galloway tested the hydrating potential of a range of drinks and found a
litre of beer was no less hydrating than a litre of water. Similarly, a litre of
instant coffee, containing 212mg of caffeine, was as hydrating as water. Milk was
even more hydrating, and effective as a hydration solution for people with
diarrhoea. "
* unjam icemaker. Not too bad this time.
/ Put another dressing on C's scald.
@ dw_dev | Question thread #62 itemid: entry url = USER.dreamwidth.org/ITEMID.html
dw-free/jbackup.pl at develop · dreamwidth/dw-free
~ pay bills water bill already paid; onstar due 5/21
* 3:30 L picked up the stuff she asked us to box up from the back deck.
@ Cloth Face Masks Could Get A Boost From A Nylon Stocking Layer, Study Finds : NPR
Assessment of Fabric Masks as Alternatives to Standard Surgical Masks in Terms of
Particle Filtration Efficiency | medRxiv [pdf]
* reconfigured charm to use password instead of hash. Still works.
see dw_dev | Security, authentication, and breaking changes to older clients
% 8:15pm back still hurts -> naproxen
& tried to get jbackup working for downloading; it gets a parse error when starting on
the comments. Would work for posts. -> needs to use https
Chapter�29.�Exporting Comments (ljdumpgo/main.go at master · ibukanov/ljdumpgo · GitHub)
https://www.dreamwidth.org/export_comments.bml?get=comment_meta&startid=0
https://www.dreamwidth.org/export_comments.bml?get=comment_body&startid=0
n.b. comments are sorted by ID, but DW and (imported)LJ comments mean that ID order is
not the same as chronological order. OpenID users are just mapped as ext_NNNNN

0424-6 FilKONtari-NO on Zoom

0424Fr
& Awake 3:30ish; back to bed 5ish but probably didn't sleep much if at all
* up 7ish; S=5:33;
* found the bug in jbackup.pl -- it was still using http instead of https
* noon: FK-No starts
* make sure C calls Harborview to cancel Monday's appointment
* pick up C's lorazapam "curbside" at Rite-Aid (actually in a regular parking spot,
since actual curbside puts one in a fire lane.)
% I really have no idea why no songs come to mind when I think I ought to sing. Weird.
~ mop kitchen and bathrooms -> swiffer out of fluid. Guess I'll have to use a real mop
% 10pm sleepy

0425Sa Anzac Day
* up 5:30is; W=196.4, S=6:04;
@ You don't say: Hospital staff infections plummet with masks for all - siderea
@ Isolating the Sick at Home, Italy Stores Up Family Tragedies - The New York Times
" The family acts as a multiplier, said Andrea Crisanti, the top scientific consultant
on the virus in the Veneto region. “This is a ticking time bomb,” he said. "
* cookies (Tollhouse chocolate chip) -> two standing sessions
@ Masks - FAQ for Skeptics · fast.ai (solarbird)
" Wearing a mask decreases the number of people infected by an infectious mask wearer
(“source control”), because it reduces by around 99% the number of droplets that are
ejected during speech. " Amused by "source control"
@ Is Trump killing people on purpose? – Raw Story (solarbird)
" Psychologist and psychotherapist John Gartner, contributor to the bestselling book
“The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” and co-founder of the Duty to WARN PAC, has an
answer: Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist. Our president’s mental pathologies
inexorably compel him to hurt and kill large numbers of people — including his own
supporters. "
% 7:20 way too much standing today. Not actually as bad as it usually is, but...
* FK-no -- sang Windward