The default option on all Substack posts is to send out an accompanying email. I vehemently despise spam emails, so I always uncheck it. There is an issue with the program still sending out emails regardless and for whatever reason, it seems to be happening nonstop this week for all of my posts (because I have the bulk of the posts this week).
I’m starting to go crazy and second-guess myself if I actually am unchecking the box. I can totally accept human error happening every now and then, but I can’t imagine forgetting to do it so many times in one sitting.
I apologize for spamming your inbox. We’re trying to get to the bottom of the issue.
hehe...On About page for my old company my boss had Die Hard Bruce Willis as his picture. On purpose and it was on there until we all left a little over a year later.
I think he meant why do math for fun? I go by the household rule of “don’t yuck my yum” so I’ll say that doing math problems would not cross my mind as a fun activity 😂
I was watching Homeland with my dad...I only watched the first two seasons (when it was great) in the past before stopping. However, at some point in season 4, my dad opted to watch some episodes without me and is now two+ seasons ahead. Worse, I accidentally walked in on a future season finale and found out the fate of a major character. By the way, I was surprised to see a young Timothée Chalamet in season 2.
I have the last 4 episodes I've been waiting to binge watch with the series finale that's happening this Sun. Both Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin are on Stephen Cobert and he did a Q&A. First question was a spoiler that must have happened over the 4 episodes I haven't watched so I stopped watching.
I thought Picard was okay, but a big part of the disappointment came from the thought that they more or less ruined Picard's happy ending from the TNG finale for this story? Picard was also too much of a passive character on several episodes, even if Star Trek has always been an ensemble show. I turned out to enjoyed Discovery more just because I had no expectation for it.
The future of the Picard series is clearly darker than the flash-forwards from the TNG finale. Picard is a lot more haunted by the storyline that drove season 1 of the new Picard series.
That wasn't a real future that happened though, right? It was just a possible future. Besides, we didn't know too much about the full backstory of that that timeline either, just that Picard was retired on his vineyard... which he was in the Picard series.
I thought Picard was just ok, really slow to start, but picked up- also, I was never that much of a TNG fan. Discovery OTOH was a hot mess in the first season, but threw the the trash out and re-booted in the second and I found it quite good.
I loved TNG... overall I really liked Picard and most of my complaints were relatively minor.
I was a little annoyed that the new-look Romulans appear way too human. Also the planet of the androids and some of the underlying motivations of the characters there seemed a little under-examined. It was fun though.
I've watched nearly all of DS9; some of it is pretty great, but it's also quite hit and miss. The first couple seasons are a little rough, it hits its stride in the middle seasons, and the last season or two are a bit of a mess IMO.
True, the first 2 seasons aren't the best, but I disagree about the last 2, the 6th might actually be the best season and I really like the final season. Unlike TNG the writers aimed for the fences and sent the series off with a bang.
Besides compare Gul Dukat with Q, who's a more compelling character?
I'm tired of the whole Star Wars franchise. Saw the first one when I was a little kid. The last few since Disney bought the property from Lucas have been underwhelming and repetitive.
My observation on the Disneyfication of things....Disney is not about making great movies. They are about selling an emotional response. So, you have some things that done even a little differently could be great movies (a few scenes in last jedi done with less attention to the audience and more on character motivation, as an example) that just entertaining. Also, most Pixar work after the first Toy Story hit. Generally the stuff is very entertaining, but not great movies as they play to much to the audience. Since the TV shows don't generate the same level of profit that a hit movie does, the Mouse cares less about selling it and lets people make actually good content.
Aside from the baby yoda thing, there wasn't much that felt Disneyfied at all in the Mandalorian. It felt pretty true to the Star Wars vibe, and that made it a lot more fun to watch.
I loved The Last Jedi (which I mostly chalk up to me loving Rian Johnson movies in general), but otherwise . . .
The Force Awakens was entertaining but extremely derivative of the original trilogy, and Rogue One was all right I guess (though I didn't like the creepy CGI-ing of dead actors into the movie, all of which felt unnecessary to the story). Solo felt like a big nothing, and Rise of Skywalker was simply a bad story.
I guess when I watch a movie I just want to be entertained. it could be underwhelming but if I'm entertained I'm good. I guess that's why I, for the most part, like the Fast and the Furious franchise. The stories are stupid but the movies are entertaining.
Parks and Rec is doing a quarantine reunion/fundraiser for @FeedingAmerica. I think I saw in a different article that it's Leslie Knope wanting to see how her friends are doing during the quarantine.
I’m not pleased that Ohio State overtaking SC in terms of first round draft picks, if only because that doesn’t help with recruiting. Also because it’s An Ohio State.
That may be true. However, I don’t think the current regime is well positioned to resume the lead, especially given how good some of the SEC teams are as well.
I watched/listened to more draft last night than all previous years combined. Which says something about the current state of affairs than the draft. Glad to see Herbert with the Chargers, where it might just work out. 49ers got a good one with a lot of speed in Aiyuk. Tonights 2 rounds will be interesting on several levels.
Sadly consistent with their moves in recent years. I don't think Aaron Rodgers will finish his career with the Packers. He will probably pull a Joe Montana/Tom Brady and chase another Super Bowl ring elsewhere.
It doesn't bother me either. The threads all show up in their own email and gmail combines them together so it isn't too bad. They don't show up individually.
I have 3400+ emails in my work Inbox, even though I file things. I have 694 unread in my Yahoo that are old and not actually unread, but turned that way in some upgrade or another a few years ago. I should probably clean those out.
Zero for my main emails (which does include some newsletter emails that I open without reading). I have a second, older Yahoo account that lists a rather imprecise "999+" unread emails.
I used to do this a few years ago. I was super diligent about either deleting or filing away every email in a subfolder. Then I went on vacation or something and I never caught back up and now my main inbox has almost 18,000 emails. I've read them, but they're not filed away and I have to use the search tool to find anything. Sigh.
I don’t try to actually empty my inbox but I do keep the emails from stacking up. There are a few senders - Substack and Canvas (the tool the school system uses for emails) whose emails are filtered to “read” status; and I’ll sometimes snooze emails I don’t feel like reading right now. Otherwise I read it, create an action item of needed, and move on.
yeah that sounds good. Once all this is lifted I still want to do the Philly/NYC trip. Either after a work event or just separately. Maybe along with No 3 if it can be timed correctly.
how careful is your new facility? I assume the old one had an outbreak because one of the health care workers brought it in since i assume no family members are able to visit.
My new facility went on complete lock down when the shelter in place orders went into effect. No outside personnel or visitors. All staff have to wear masks and all patients now too as of Tuesday this week, if they leave their rooms. The community dining room for patients was closed so they all eat in their rooms now. Every patient room already had sanitizer dispensers, so now we have to hand sanitize on our way in and out of patient rooms. From there, we have to immediately go to the nursing station to wash our hands. All staff get the temp taken 3 times per day; when we come into work, mid day, and once again when we leave. So if there is a marked increase in temp, we can immediately track everyone that person has come in contact with that day.
All ambulance drivers have to have their temps checked before they are allowed in. My new facility has automatic doors at the entrance but have been turned off from the outside, so someone inside has to let you in. Since this particular facility is 90% rehab, all of our patients are short termers; 2-3 week max stay. Once La Rona hit, most if not all elective surgeries stopped, so our census dropped from 75-80 to 40-45 now. We have consolidated all patients to one station and use the empty nursing station to isolate any patients for three daysif they start to show any symptoms. Anyone going into an isolation room has to sign in, and there are full PPEs hanging on the outside of the door that we wear. All new admissions are isolated for three days before being moved into gen pop.
A lot of these measures Alameda county just put into place once the facility in Hayward got out of control. Now I've read my old facility has its second Rona death. They have 25 patients and 23 staff infected.
Update: I wrote back to the NYT reporter stating I no longer work at the old facility. She just wrote back saying she would like to speak with me regardless. Look for ya boy in the NYT!
"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it. Supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. And is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? It would be interesting to check that. That you’re gonna have to use medical doctors with."
LOL: "Darden said Petersen objected to being photographed because he was not taking part in the protest and didn’t want to be associated with it since he’s looking for a job, according to the publication."
I don't suspect that having the story of you threatening people with a deadly weapon be at the top of your google search results is going to help you land a job more easily, but what do I know.
Also, Christopher Darden?? The OJ prosecutor? Is this unemployed guy's attorney? Huh.
A coworker just emailed me, "Hey, I think one of the pictures is wrong on this website. I thought you might want to know."
See if you can spot what she meant: http://als-enable.lbl.gov/wordpress/about-us/
hehe...On About page for my old company my boss had Die Hard Bruce Willis as his picture. On purpose and it was on there until we all left a little over a year later.
Jay is very handsome
lol
I stayed up until 2am working on math problems...and failed miserably. If you're interested: https://twitter.com/Cshearer41
Got the first one, the one with the rectangles are congruent with area of 9. Working on the 4 of the 5 squares are congruent one.
those look like fun. I'll have to find some time to do them.
Why?
Because I haven't really flexed my math muscles in YEARS, so it's hard for me to do it now?
I think he meant why do math for fun? I go by the household rule of “don’t yuck my yum” so I’ll say that doing math problems would not cross my mind as a fun activity 😂
I like crossword puzzles. Math puzzles are the same thing, but for math.
I do the NYT crossword daily but that’s just a collection of class markers - which I assume is not true of math
I, too, am a high class motherfucker.
I also spent an hour doing logic puzzles on Sporcle yesterday, so...yeah.
The boys and I used to love doing the Sporcle ones. No 1 used to smash all the Harry Potter quizzes
DBD AV Club
I was watching Homeland with my dad...I only watched the first two seasons (when it was great) in the past before stopping. However, at some point in season 4, my dad opted to watch some episodes without me and is now two+ seasons ahead. Worse, I accidentally walked in on a future season finale and found out the fate of a major character. By the way, I was surprised to see a young Timothée Chalamet in season 2.
I have the last 4 episodes I've been waiting to binge watch with the series finale that's happening this Sun. Both Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin are on Stephen Cobert and he did a Q&A. First question was a spoiler that must have happened over the 4 episodes I haven't watched so I stopped watching.
Can't wait to watch the last 5 episodes.
just finished watch Star Trek Picard. i know i am a couple weeks behind. overall i thought it was good and typical Star Trek stuff.
i ended up losing interest in Discovery after 1.5 seasons.
I thought Picard was okay, but a big part of the disappointment came from the thought that they more or less ruined Picard's happy ending from the TNG finale for this story? Picard was also too much of a passive character on several episodes, even if Star Trek has always been an ensemble show. I turned out to enjoyed Discovery more just because I had no expectation for it.
Heh, I don't see how they ruined TNG by creating other shit that Picard went through afterward as an Admiral.
The future of the Picard series is clearly darker than the flash-forwards from the TNG finale. Picard is a lot more haunted by the storyline that drove season 1 of the new Picard series.
That wasn't a real future that happened though, right? It was just a possible future. Besides, we didn't know too much about the full backstory of that that timeline either, just that Picard was retired on his vineyard... which he was in the Picard series.
I thought Picard was just ok, really slow to start, but picked up- also, I was never that much of a TNG fan. Discovery OTOH was a hot mess in the first season, but threw the the trash out and re-booted in the second and I found it quite good.
I loved TNG... overall I really liked Picard and most of my complaints were relatively minor.
I was a little annoyed that the new-look Romulans appear way too human. Also the planet of the androids and some of the underlying motivations of the characters there seemed a little under-examined. It was fun though.
Either TOS or DS9 for me; DS9 is about 1,000 times better than TNG
I've watched nearly all of DS9; some of it is pretty great, but it's also quite hit and miss. The first couple seasons are a little rough, it hits its stride in the middle seasons, and the last season or two are a bit of a mess IMO.
True, the first 2 seasons aren't the best, but I disagree about the last 2, the 6th might actually be the best season and I really like the final season. Unlike TNG the writers aimed for the fences and sent the series off with a bang.
Besides compare Gul Dukat with Q, who's a more compelling character?
...and no, I don't think it's 1000x better than TNG, or even significantly better overall. I liked both.
This interesting to me, as I also recently watched Picard and enjoyed it and am planning to watch Discovery soon. I'm hoping it'll be fun and campy.
Fun, maybe, campy, no.
I will reserve judgement.
Also, finally watched The Mandalorian, I though it was an enjoyable romp. Better than the movies in a way.
I was pleasantly surprised with it. Might rewatch.
Same.
i watched it once already. going to try to re-watch w/ the 2 girls during corona virus times.
I thought they did a good job with it.
I'm tired of the whole Star Wars franchise. Saw the first one when I was a little kid. The last few since Disney bought the property from Lucas have been underwhelming and repetitive.
My observation on the Disneyfication of things....Disney is not about making great movies. They are about selling an emotional response. So, you have some things that done even a little differently could be great movies (a few scenes in last jedi done with less attention to the audience and more on character motivation, as an example) that just entertaining. Also, most Pixar work after the first Toy Story hit. Generally the stuff is very entertaining, but not great movies as they play to much to the audience. Since the TV shows don't generate the same level of profit that a hit movie does, the Mouse cares less about selling it and lets people make actually good content.
Disagree 100% about Pixar. They have been pretty consistently quality with their storytelling, aside from the odd blip (those Cars sequels).
Aside from the baby yoda thing, there wasn't much that felt Disneyfied at all in the Mandalorian. It felt pretty true to the Star Wars vibe, and that made it a lot more fun to watch.
I liked The Last Jedi well enough, but I agree with you about The Force Awakens, underwhelming and repetitive. Haven't seen the last one.
I loved The Last Jedi (which I mostly chalk up to me loving Rian Johnson movies in general), but otherwise . . .
The Force Awakens was entertaining but extremely derivative of the original trilogy, and Rogue One was all right I guess (though I didn't like the creepy CGI-ing of dead actors into the movie, all of which felt unnecessary to the story). Solo felt like a big nothing, and Rise of Skywalker was simply a bad story.
I guess when I watch a movie I just want to be entertained. it could be underwhelming but if I'm entertained I'm good. I guess that's why I, for the most part, like the Fast and the Furious franchise. The stories are stupid but the movies are entertaining.
Quite enjoying the third season of Babylon Berlin, the wife doesn't like it as much as the earlier seasons, but I think it's just fine.
Parks and Rec is doing a quarantine reunion/fundraiser for @FeedingAmerica. I think I saw in a different article that it's Leslie Knope wanting to see how her friends are doing during the quarantine.
https://twitter.com/parksandrecnbc/status/1253461556102197251
No Problem! Write on! Go BEARS!!!!
NFL Draft First Round = BORING.
I’m not pleased that Ohio State overtaking SC in terms of first round draft picks, if only because that doesn’t help with recruiting. Also because it’s An Ohio State.
More time will tell, but it *MAY* be that SC (and others) were overtaken by Urban Meyer more than by Any Given Ohio State.
That may be true. However, I don’t think the current regime is well positioned to resume the lead, especially given how good some of the SEC teams are as well.
Other than Clemson (the most SECish non SEC school in existence) and Ohio State, no one is.
We’re extra unprepared though
I watched/listened to more draft last night than all previous years combined. Which says something about the current state of affairs than the draft. Glad to see Herbert with the Chargers, where it might just work out. 49ers got a good one with a lot of speed in Aiyuk. Tonights 2 rounds will be interesting on several levels.
Aiyuk was a good pick-up, Saw him last year at Memorial and was impressed.
Green Bay... lol...
Sadly consistent with their moves in recent years. I don't think Aaron Rodgers will finish his career with the Packers. He will probably pull a Joe Montana/Tom Brady and chase another Super Bowl ring elsewhere.
Green Bay has no receivers other than Adams.
:-|
didnt watch but cringed when my beloved Raiders reached for that CB at 19. If you wanted him, trade back and pick him up in the 2nd round
fastest guy in the draft, you knew they had to.
To be honest the emails don't bother me, either when a post is put up, or when a like or comment is received, fyi
It doesn't bother me either. The threads all show up in their own email and gmail combines them together so it isn't too bad. They don't show up individually.
I've never received a single email from the site. Maybe because I'm an author on the site?
I get a thread for every DBD I comment on
Same here. fortunately the email address is the spam one, with no notifications to bother me.
Is there anything you do that makes you constantly second-guess yourself?
is having a porn dong really a bad thing?
Work
Confuse management with facts.
Watch the news theses days?
^^this^^
Inbox zero
I have 3400+ emails in my work Inbox, even though I file things. I have 694 unread in my Yahoo that are old and not actually unread, but turned that way in some upgrade or another a few years ago. I should probably clean those out.
work inbox 428, 32 unread. Home inbox 1500, 1450 unread.
I am a ruthless filer/deleter of work emails. unless I can't figure out what to do with it.
Zero for my main emails (which does include some newsletter emails that I open without reading). I have a second, older Yahoo account that lists a rather imprecise "999+" unread emails.
I used to do this a few years ago. I was super diligent about either deleting or filing away every email in a subfolder. Then I went on vacation or something and I never caught back up and now my main inbox has almost 18,000 emails. I've read them, but they're not filed away and I have to use the search tool to find anything. Sigh.
I don’t file work emails. Maybe I should? I flag personal emails that are orders, donations, and payments.
30,706
5,999 emails in my inbox going back to 2007 that I have not yet deleted. Have read them all, though
I just hit 11,000 unread today. Truly an amazing milestone.
🤢
i'm right around there among the 30 odd thousand total in my in box. That's the un-filed ones
🤮
You file yours?
by project. Sometimes
dear god that just makes me uncomfortable to think about
I set up a filter for WFC to put in a folder and mark as read
I don’t try to actually empty my inbox but I do keep the emails from stacking up. There are a few senders - Substack and Canvas (the tool the school system uses for emails) whose emails are filtered to “read” status; and I’ll sometimes snooze emails I don’t feel like reading right now. Otherwise I read it, create an action item of needed, and move on.
Spam
My hangover meal is a few slices of spam fried with rice and eggs sunny side up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka21UZUBgSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLih-WQwBSc
TIL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8OeNvHWqaQ
Musubi
there is a hawaiian place in NYC that serves amazing musubi. we should go next time you are in town.
https://www.noreetuh.com/
yeah that sounds good. Once all this is lifted I still want to do the Philly/NYC trip. Either after a work event or just separately. Maybe along with No 3 if it can be timed correctly.
Mmmmm
Better fried or diced in hash or scrambled eggs than on pizza.
Today in covid-19
https://twitter.com/BrowainMabUrien/status/1253548382255222784
Received an email from a NYT reporter looking to speak with employees at my old facility where there has been a major outbreak.
Yikes!
how careful is your new facility? I assume the old one had an outbreak because one of the health care workers brought it in since i assume no family members are able to visit.
My new facility went on complete lock down when the shelter in place orders went into effect. No outside personnel or visitors. All staff have to wear masks and all patients now too as of Tuesday this week, if they leave their rooms. The community dining room for patients was closed so they all eat in their rooms now. Every patient room already had sanitizer dispensers, so now we have to hand sanitize on our way in and out of patient rooms. From there, we have to immediately go to the nursing station to wash our hands. All staff get the temp taken 3 times per day; when we come into work, mid day, and once again when we leave. So if there is a marked increase in temp, we can immediately track everyone that person has come in contact with that day.
All ambulance drivers have to have their temps checked before they are allowed in. My new facility has automatic doors at the entrance but have been turned off from the outside, so someone inside has to let you in. Since this particular facility is 90% rehab, all of our patients are short termers; 2-3 week max stay. Once La Rona hit, most if not all elective surgeries stopped, so our census dropped from 75-80 to 40-45 now. We have consolidated all patients to one station and use the empty nursing station to isolate any patients for three daysif they start to show any symptoms. Anyone going into an isolation room has to sign in, and there are full PPEs hanging on the outside of the door that we wear. All new admissions are isolated for three days before being moved into gen pop.
A lot of these measures Alameda county just put into place once the facility in Hayward got out of control. Now I've read my old facility has its second Rona death. They have 25 patients and 23 staff infected.
To the non-expert, it sounds like your current place is a hell of a lot better run
Update: I wrote back to the NYT reporter stating I no longer work at the old facility. She just wrote back saying she would like to speak with me regardless. Look for ya boy in the NYT!
They want the dirt! Post a link when it's available.
Also, don't eat UV bulbs. Full quote:
"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it. Supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. And is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? It would be interesting to check that. That you’re gonna have to use medical doctors with."
but if we let Trump keep talking his base keeps shrinking and shrinking
This is what I keep thinking.
You joke about this, but....
https://www.ibtimes.com/us-coronavirus-deaths-may-cost-trump-reelection-more-elderly-republicans-are-dying-2964190
Not only that, but recent polling indicates that Trump is losing support to Biden among older voters.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/politics/2020-polls-battleground-states/index.html
I posted a politico article about that yesterday
Oh yeah, I did see that.
I remember this as well.
but if the base shrinks, then the lightbulb won't screw into it anymore!
In response, a scientist:
https://twitter.com/briannawu/status/1253468203222814720?s=21
There are no words.
there are words. WHY HAVENT WE BEEN MAINLINING LYSOL THIS WHOLE TIME
https://twitter.com/jondoc80/status/1253504273238941696?s=21
We're coming up on twice as many COVID-19 deaths in America than supposedly missing Hillary Clinton emails.
FDA commissioner advises us not to eat or inject ourselves with disinfectants, despite the president's recommendation
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-04-23-20-intl/h_1d2d1c2779b624b151a1f72557aabe0d
Today in our stumbling, bumbling, crumbling democracy
This is a fairly bonkers story https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/1253530939147370502?s=21
sweet jeezus people be stupid.
LOL: "Darden said Petersen objected to being photographed because he was not taking part in the protest and didn’t want to be associated with it since he’s looking for a job, according to the publication."
I don't suspect that having the story of you threatening people with a deadly weapon be at the top of your google search results is going to help you land a job more easily, but what do I know.
Also, Christopher Darden?? The OJ prosecutor? Is this unemployed guy's attorney? Huh.
well...since he's apparently no longer defending the guy who killed Nipsey Hustle, he needs clients.
Pros
seeing the pics of everyone's wfh draft rooms was funny
Kliff Kingsbury should check his basement for a middle aged Korean man.
92 year old Vin Scully hospitalized after fall at home https://twitter.com/blmohr/status/1253654712597057536?s=20
Noooo don’t let Vin get the ‘rona
Cal
Ashtyn Davis 3rd round pick 4 (68) to the J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets!
Go Big Blue, Show what you Can Do!
Go Bears!
Write On!