Two & three days ago I received text messages saying Covid-19 door-knockers were in the area letting people in this hotspot know of their options for testing localities. They arrived today at 11:30 am. My options locally were a drive-through facility at a recreation reserve or four ambulance-staffed popup stations in semi open-sided marquees. These four sites were at three locations. Two at the local cultural centre, one adjacent to a retirement village & another in a picturesque little roadside park. I drove past the retirement village one, seeing quite a few older folk queuing or approaching the queue.
Ignored that one & headed for the park. I had a massive queue ahead of me, three people. In & out in ten minutes.
@axodys A couple of token VPs of my recollection are Hubert Humphrey & J Danforth Quayle.
// @matigo @joeo10
Trialled a 20-inch monitor (2005 Apple LED Cinema Display) as a second screen with my 4k iMac 12 hours ago in a Zoom meeting. I had to disconnect it as the screen refresh rate was so slow that image ghosting was evident. In any case the max resolution is 1650 x 1050 & that don't cut it these days. It's OK for occasional use hooked up to either a 2003 15-in G4 PowerBook or a 2005 12-in G4 PowerBook.
Local Officeworks (Office supply store chain) has Acer 21.5-inch LED 1080p monitor at an attractive price: I'll get one when the store opens in around 5 hours.
@matigo My parents had a dog (Kelpie/Golden Cocker spaniel cross) which by the age of 14 years was profoundly deaf & mostly blind, but managed to get by with her sense of smell. Had to be put down eventually. My sister had another from the same litter, it was a male & twice the other dog's size. It also went deaf & blind and went missing from Mum's place overnight about 18 months ago. It was found dead on the adjacent highway where it had come off second best against a truck it was neither able to see or hear.
@matigo It's a nice outside temperature, getting towards unpleasant indoors.
// @hazardwarning
@matigo Since macOS 10.7 Lion in 2011, the increments have been annual. Lion, 2011. Mountain Lion, 2012. Mavericks, 2013. Yosemite, 2014. El Capitan, 2015. Sierra, 2016. High Sierra, 2017. Mojave, 2018. Catalina, 2019.
OS X/macOS 10 has served us well for about 20 years but Catalina sees the end of it. The next version, Big Sur, will be macOS 11.
@hybotics Our own state government here has been lax & two-faced about the whole thing, some restrictions that were lifted 3 weeks ago have been reinstated. I live in one of 6 affected municipalities around the capital city where outbreaks related primarily to botched family gatherings has led to double digit positive cases each day for at least the last week.
There were over 100 at a meatworks plant, they didn't ask the right questions when the first cases were found there & it all blew out.
The public has been lax & the estimated 10,000 participants & organisers of a BLM march were not fined but if an individual such as I were to do anything like what those pricks did, the authorities would come down on me like a ton of bricks.
They just got it all wrong after doing so well in the first few months of partial shutdown & isolation. Bastard sons of feral whores.
I'm immune-compromised & this scares me.
// @matigo @streakmachine @joeo10