¶Heading to Costco on a Sunday morning. No doubt the toilet paper crazies will be out in full force.
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¶Someone was here before me…I don’t think they were taking photos.
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¶It was crazy windy tonight but I decided to take a quick trip over to the river for the sunset. It was really cloudy, but the sun managed to poke through for a bit.
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¶Low light performance of the camera on the new iPhone is pretty crazy. It was damn near pitch black out when I took this photo.
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¶The cargo ship Narie leaves downtown Toledo
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AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world (technologyreview.com)
¶I don’t fully understand the math involved, but I appreciate the significance of the advance made here. And the potential practical applications are interesting - the author sees a role for it in weather predictions…and climate change
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¶Speaking of signs, the message on this one is always good advice.
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¶I’ve never been a fan of yard signs. I actually wish more people would put flags in their yards for Election Day - I think it conveys unity and common purpose, rather than focusing on division and opposition. Maybe we can start a movement
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¶Looking through the roof of my car as Jake takes off. Never gets old.
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¶Song in my head on waking up this morning - Sweet Child O’ Mine by Guns N’ Roses. Definitely a favorite of mine, but I can’t remember hearing it yesterday or any other reason it would pop into my head overnight.
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¶Lucy’s got that look - clearly she’s a bit upset I was paying more attention to MacBreak Weekly than her.
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¶Really an odd random radio song this morning - Our Lips Are Sealed by The Go-Gos. No clue.
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¶Dreams by Van Halen for random radio this morning. No clue as to why it’s in my head on waking up. I’ll take it, though!
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¶Random song in my head on waking up this morning - Rosanna by Toto. I can’t remember hearing this song on the radio or anywhere else over the last few days…at a loss as to why it’s in my head, especially overnight.
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¶After catching her peering through the garage door, I decide to take a few more snaps of Lucy inside. She was all too willing…even posing a bit, I think.
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¶Lucy waits patiently every night for her feral cat friend to show up for dinner. He’s late tonight, and hasn’t been around in a couple days. I seriously think she’s a little concerned.
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¶Still waiting on Jonathan’s absentee ballot, which he sent via USPS Priority Mail Overnight Express on Friday. It was supposed to arrive yesterday. At noon. Tracking information indicates that it left Boston yesterday. At 3:30 PM. Unbelievable.
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¶Parked next to another Tesla Model 3 at Costco this morning. Identical to mine, save the vanity plate.
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Tutorial: Hosting a WordPress blog with Amazon Linux (amazon.com)
¶AWS tutorial on hosting a Wordpress blog on EC2.
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¶It’s easy, of course, to focus on the negative aspects of a pandemic. After all, it’s all negative, right?
¶I say no. I actually think there’s a bright side to this whole thing. I had to force myself to find it, mind you, and I’m worried we (the collective we) are going to miss it. But, I can at least see it now and have no doubt that COVID has a bright side for all of us.
¶How?
¶It’s a damn good reminder that we’re all the same. On the most basic level, every one of us is a biological being susceptible to attack by all sorts of things, including viruses.
¶This is always true, of course. Just think of cancer and flu. We all live with the possibility that those killers will impact us every single day. They’re different, though. They’ve established a prevalence that pushes them to the background in our minds, individually and collectively. Knowingly or not, every one of us has accepted the odds that either of those will attack our own body and we go about living our lives.
¶But a pandemic forces each of us to think about our own susceptibility, and that of the people close to us, every single day. We think about our biological vulnerability in a way that we don’t normally do.
¶Once you realize that, it’s not difficult to see the opportunity that’s before us. It’s natural for people to think about the things that define our differences–race, sex, religion, etc. The pandemic has everyone thinking about the thing that defines our commonality—our biological susceptibility. This brings an incredible opportunity to bring people together. To unite us on a foundation that we all share. To focus our attention and energy on a common target like we’ve never done before.
¶We need leadership that recognizes this and leverages it.
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Social distancing reminder stickers on the floor outside the Apple store in Toledo, OH. (Toledo, OH)
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¶Lucas county just flipped red again on the COVID dashboard. Ugh....
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¶It’s cold and drizzling today, with no let up in sight and the temperature is set to drop over the course of the day. Fall is indeed here and it feels like Winter is already knocking on the door!
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¶We’ve been feeding a feral cat for weeks. As the weather gets colder, we’re worrying about where he’ll find shelter for the winter. Over the last week or so we’ve lured him into the garage for dinner. Tonight we set out a box with a towel and lined a path with treats, hoping to show him the way to a comfortable and warm bed. He ate the treats and investigated the box, but didn’t stay. We’ll keep trying.
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The Federal Weser approaches the Cherry Street Bridge on the Maumee River in downtown Toledo, Ohio (Toledo, OH)
¶And later in the day I watched the Federal Weser leave port.
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