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¶The CDC is paralyzed by fear. It’s the FDA after Thalidomide, overly cautious, afraid of being blamed for doing something even if the science supports it. It’s exactly what we don’t need right now.
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¶I’m still wrestling with our home network tonight. It’s amazing how complicated it’s become. I would guess we have more connected devices than the average family, but I don’t think it’s excessive. Even so, with phones, laptops, streaming boxes, IoT devices, NAS’s, printers, scanners, and the Tesla, we’ve got 30+ devices on the network. I feel like you need to be a part time network engineer to keep things going sometimes.
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¶Long day at the office and then a long evening battling a bit of code. All fixed now, but didn’t get much time to post today.
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¶The money quote, literally, on subscription v. ad models for social platforms:
¶“You’re banking on making more revenue from a small subset of passionate customers willing to pay for the product than you could from showing ads to the whole customer base....It’s risky to rely on keeping consumers paying over long periods of time, but beautiful if it works.”
¶Read that carefully. It’s risky only because you might not achieve theoretical maximum revenue through a subscription model. The ad model could bring in more revenue than subscriptions…that’s the risk you’re taking as a business owner when you choose a subscription model over an ad model.
¶As most business owners know, some risks are worth taking.
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¶Horn fixed!
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¶Well, I’ve never seen this in a hockey game before - the scoreboard at Little Ceaser’s Arena is malfunctioning during tonight’s Red Wings game against the Lightning. The buzzer is going off constantly, seemingly ever minute, on the minute. The refs stopped play when it happened the first time, but told the players to just ignore it after that. So, the buzzer’s buzzing but the game continues. It’s weird and funny at the same time. And, of course, this is all happening with only 750 fans in the stands because…pandemic
¶I’m betting someone is on the phone with customer support at Datroniks. We’ll see if they get it figured out before the second period.
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¶The celebrity stampede to the NFT gold rush is well underway. I’m starting to wonder who will be the one to define the “jump the shark” moment here. Maybe Henry Winkler will tokenize a digital representation of his thoughts while he was literally jumping the shark. That would be cool.
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¶Grilling our first steaks from the beef we bought directly from the farmer tonight.
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¶Governor Dewine expanded vaccine eligibility in Ohio based on age to those 50 and older. I think the glut has arrived.
¶It’s time to shift our focus to the demand side of the equation. Expand access, increase number (and types) of sites, and communicate a clear, consistent message on the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, and the importance of vaccination.
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¶We took Teddy over to Debbie’s house, and grandma and grandpa came over, too. It’s probably the most normal family thing we’ve done in a long time…and it felt great. The dogs loved it, too.
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¶Our decreased activity during the pandemic has reduced itself to a repetition of the same things, day after day and week after week. It’s the Groundhog Day effect. I realized today, during our weekly trip to Costco (which we do at the same time and day each week), that we see a lot of the same strangers each week. Our patterns are aligning…and it’s weird.
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¶We just finished watching the first two seasons of Succession on HBO. It’s tremendous. The storylines are well written and intertwine tightly, and there’s really no weak spot in the acting - you’re sort of left loving and hating every main character. I’ve got to let it sit in my mind a bit but it might be my new favorite show that we’ve streamed. Really well done.
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¶Running some errands with Teddy this morning. Tesla Dog Mode for the win.
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¶The vaccines are the answer, period.
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¶It’s 24 hours since I got the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. I had a slight headache last night and a little bit or soreness in my shoulder where I received the jab. That’s it. Renee had the same, plus some slight chills overnight. We’re solidly riding the blue line of Fig. 2 now.
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¶Toledo and the NW Ohio region put together The VProject to encourage vaccination. I’ve seen some of the groups efforts and it feels like they’ve made a difference. People around here seem to be not only willing to get the vaccine, but excited to do it. They gave us this pin when leaving the vaccination clinic this morning.
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¶The vaccination clinic is a well-oiled machine. They’re processing a high volume of people and it moves along at a steady pace. You hardly have time to take a pic between stations!
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¶Renee and I get our second doses of the Pfizer vaccine today. The communications from our county health department have been great, e-mail and text alike. Really a smooth process.
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Sounds from a COVID-19 vaccination clinic
¶History is happening in these vaccination clinics. I thought about what it would be like to look back on this in the future, either as myself or as someone learning about the COVID-19 pandemic, and realized photos might be a little flat as far as primary resources go. Some environmental audio might help to add some texture to the scene, so to speak.
¶So, I recorded this audio during my trip through the clinic today as I got my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. It captures almost the entire process - I cut the check-in procedure and a personal conversation I had with a friend during the waiting period after receiving the shot as both had some identifying information of other people. Otherwise, this is the raw audio (muffled as it is) of my trip through the clinic.
¶Listening to it while looking at the wide view of the clinic, above, is really interesting to me. I think, together, they do a decent job of conveying the scene of these clinics. They’re organized and efficient. People are helpful. It’s a process. An assembly line. Getting the shot takes no time at all (you don’t even realize the exact time I received the shot in the audio, other than the nurse telling me “you’re all set.”). Organizers wonder about how they’re doing (“How was everything?”). All of this against a backdrop of casual conversation in several groups of people as they wait in line beforehand and in the holding area afterward.
¶And, as I exit the clinic, someone entering the clinic tells her friends she was nervous about getting the vaccine, but that “Dave said it beats COVID, so....”
¶Yep, it captures the scene…and the moment we’re in, quite well, I think.
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¶I feel I had to tell the story of ordering the Meat Mountain at Arby’s tonight.
¶Me, to the drive-through speaker: “Do you guys make the meat mountain.”
¶“No, sorry.”
¶pause
¶…I can hear someone talking to them in the background…
¶“Sorry…yes, we can make that for you.”
¶Boom! It’s real. Apparently you just need someone in the kitchen that knows about it.
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¶Turns out we don’t need to break the speed of light barrier to become an interstellar species. We just need enormously powerful gravitational fields, like those provided by planets, to bend space time inside a warp drive.
¶Thinking about riding a warp drive around a planet makes me think of the song #Spacegrass# by Clutch:
¶Lay low, watch the universe expand. Skyway, permanent Saturday. Oh, by the way, Saturn is my rotary.
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¶If the BBC’s vetting process can’t identify an impostor of a U.S. Senator, how will they deal with deepfakes? Trust in content is growing in importance, and will become more valuable as technology advances. Major publishers with brands that signify trust are in a great position to take advantage of this…until they aren’t.
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