[edited to replace second with minute because I'm a moron] GNB has been slow to load for years. Literally. At some point in the past someone...

I am not a lawyer. I have attended many classes and read many sources on self-defense law with respect to both firearms and martial arts. This is a distillation of my acquired information and should not be considered legal advice but a basis for…

Turns out the voting database I downloaded for the 2018 election is flawed. If you add up the entire population of its county subdivisions, you get almost 363 million people in the US, which is about 35 million too many. Obvious error is that it…

I have been, frankly, too in despair to do a lot of data mining the past few days. But today I sucked it up and downloaded my usuals and did the basics. And, lo and behold, there is something new in the data. Let's look at WA state first. This is…

US Daily Deaths show a brief downturn but rise again on the 21st. I suspect the downturn is New York, with other states picking up the slack. The comments to this entry are closed.

[Updated 2020-04-18 @ 2350 to note dates we hit 4000 daily deaths and 37000 total deaths] 26 March: Math Sucks 8000 dead between 2 and 9 April <--- Hit on 4 April 3 April: Math is unrelenting 64000 dead on the 13th or 14th of April <--- Missed! 25800…

For those of you who've read various stories about Amazon branded deliveries stopping or Amazon ending deals with other sites: this is what it is about -- reducing "non-essential" order load. Amazon has been hit with a huge increase in orders. Last…

We hit 1000 deaths between 1 April (955 deaths) and 2 April (1299 deaths). That's between 8 and 9 days to double the number of deaths per day. Today we have a bit over 18000 deaths total, and we were at 9129 on 4 April. That's 6 days to double.…

Data from The Covid Tracking Project. About the Data. Honestly, there isn't a lot of here here. I've just finally gotten a source and spreadsheet set up to monitor our testing regime here in the US and thought I'd throw some numbers out there. In the…

I'm going to jump right in. I want to talk about the IHME-UW (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington) modeling and why it concerns me. Don't get me wrong. I look at these almost every day. I keep track of several…

I haven't written here in years. Blogging as a mainstream activity for individuals is mostly dead. But long form writing on Facebook doesn't work. Not only is the material disappeared very quickly, it's difficult if not impossible to embed non-text…

I've consulted six different summary sites (ncov2019.live, woldometers, Johns Hopkins, WHO, Google, and the BBC). There is variation but all agree the current death rate worldwide from COVID-19 is about 5.8%. We all understand that both cases and…

Well, tomorrow is 4 April and we will hit 8000 deaths. Couple of days late on 2.5 day doubling, but right on (3 doublings in 9 days) for 3 day doubling. So, 9 days from tomorrow to 64000? That would be the 13th or 14th. Math is unrelenting.

On 19 March, I wrote that we'd see 1000 deaths in two weeks. It's taken seven days to get to 1080 (a point in time today, it'll be different soon). Deaths are doubling roughly every 2.5 days. If that continues, 8000 dead by 2 April. If it drops to…

And we are over 1000 dead in the US, barely a week since 150. Deaths are doubling about every 2.5 days. If this continues, in a week we will have 8000 deaths. If it drops to every five days, it will take two weeks to reach 8000 deaths.

Now 150 dead 14 days at least 1000

[This is an email I sent a couple of friends who requested my take on things] Lots of links down below. If you’re going to read one, read this one (it’s also down below): If two, add this one: Here’s the short version: COVID-19 is more infectious and…

Pulled from a comment thread. This is in response to anyone saying "it's just a cold", "it's not a big deal", "compare it to the flu", "2% isn't so bad"... This is the scary estimate: ALL OF THE BELOW IS SPECULATIVE If it spreads like the seasonal…

It’s esoteric but I want to preserve this information. If you use sidecar (XMP) files in Lightroom, DNG files do not have a sidecar file as the metadata is stored directly in the DNG. This has significant implications for backing up files. If you…

I wrote a comment on a facebook post about Adobe subscriptions versus buying full copies of the software. People seem to have appreciated it, so here it is (with corrections and addenda as I feel necessary). The original post was asking why you can’t…