Papering the record for appeal.
¶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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¶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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¶Having three safe and effective vaccines gives us reason to be bold. No one seems to get this, though.
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¶We added markdown support to posts tonight.
¶Articles and posts are different types of content on Daystream. Articles have titles; posts don’t. Articles are composed with a rich text editor, while posts have always been plain text entries.
¶I’ve always liked this distinction, and felt it was useful because it seemed to help me write more (omitting the need for a title was surprisingly freeing). But, I’ve always felt like something was missing with posts.
¶Emphasis and links are important aspects of web writing, whether the piece has a title or not. Markdown allows us to use these elements in posts without abandoning their plain text simplicity.
¶So take a review of the markdown style guide and start marking down your posts!
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(npr.org)
¶There’s the Defense Production Act, and then there’s the “implicit” Defense Production Act.
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¶I added audio capabilities to Daystream today. You can now upload mp3’s to your journals. This is something I’ve wanted to do for awhile, and I have some bigger plans for the feature in the future. Should be fun.
¶So where’s the first recording? I used our Post to the Past feature to add a recording of water draining into a sewer to my journal for last Saturday.
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¶Oh, and applications of the mRNA technology in the Kariko paper were patented in 2012. The patents describe the process for practicing the technology in painstaking detail, as the law requires. And they expire in five years - in 2026, opening up incredible opportunities for new applications of the technology.
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¶This is the paper that lead directly to the mRNA technology underlying both the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines. Talk of a Nobel Prize has started.
¶“This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants....”
¶This paper is, quite possibly, the best argument of all time for supporting federal spending on basic scientific research. The entire world is aware of the benefit the research produced.
¶Whatever we’re spending on basic research isn’t enough. Figure out how to pay for it…and triple it.
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(cnbc.com)
¶A real impact from the Bitcoin energy narrative - a region in China scheduled shut down of existing mining operations and won’t allow new ones because it’s in trouble with Beijing over energy consumption.
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(nhl.com)
¶The Red Wings are miserable. Post game analysis focused on stories from Larry Murphy and Mickey Redmond about the apparently legendary hot dogs available at the Colisée de Québec, home of the old Quebec Nordiques. They were apparently square in cross-section, not circular. I watched every minute of the game and post game. Great tv, horrible hockey.
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¶Our feral cat returned tonight. We trapped him in the garage last week to give him shelter from the extreme cold and snow. He wasn’t happy about it - stayed away for a few days. But, he was back early this morning and again tonight. I guess he’s done being mad at us for giving him shelter, a warm bed (in the wooden house in the pic), and food and water.
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¶Space Force, still a thing.
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(bbc.com)
¶This might have something to do with it: “President Vladimir Putin himself still has not been vaccinated.”
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¶Biden has really worked the supply side of the vaccine equation. It appears that a real vaccine glut is coming in the not too distant future, which means it’s the perfect time to start working the demand side of this equation. We need consistent messaging that gets the word out - the vaccines are safe, and they’re effective both on the personal and population levels.
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¶I love keybase, but it feels dead since Zoom acquired it. It’s no surprise I guess - looking back on that press release, the acquisition was all about acquiring talent, and had nothing to do with the product (does it even mention their product or service?). Hopefully Zoom at least maintains it. Somehow I doubt that will happen, though.
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¶Good morning! Up and at it!
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