(Nobody in the study went entirely without masks.)

6. Selfies

As I type this, we do NOT know if it can spread from an asymptomatic carrier. That is still a matter for speculation and research. (CDC: How Coronavirus Spreads. Should a day come when there’s enough real evidence to change their assessment from “might be possible” to “happening”, they’ll update the page.)

One way or another.

Per Addressing COVID-19 Face Mask Shortages [v1.2], I steamed a 3M™ Particulate Respirator 8210Plus, N95. The printing blurred. Needs salt.

There’s strong evidence that improvised cloth masks are worse than useless: MacIntyre et alia: A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers.

I did the roast-your-own-from-green for a while, and really enjoyed it until I didn’t. I may go back to it. But for now, I’ve taken to ordering Melitta by the case and adding a garam masala and cayenne pepper to the grounds.

Civettictis gavage UP!

It tasted exactly, precisely like coffee.

Yep. Bonus: plugging the video conference computer-with-camera directly into the router means more bandwidth for the rest of the network.

You have to use a polyester napkin.

The “crunched” graphs are using a logarithmic scale, because if you try to use a linear scale to compare a bunch of exponential curves, all you see is a pile of hockey sticks.

It’s not like they start from a melon. With the simpler purely synthetic artificial flavorings—simple esters, for example—they throw together an alcohol and an acid, get an ester, and then pass around the test tube and say, “Fruity, yes, but what KIND of fruit does this smell like?”

No.

The idea that history is made up with just as much of pettiness and dumb shit as it is important events is part of the reason I loved The Favourite so much.

Feed it to a dog and replace it with something you actually like.

Fear of sulfates is silly. Having said that, if you’re advertising something on the basis of its not having sulfates, it should not have sulfates.

Fear of sulfates is silly. Having said that, if you’re advertising something on the basis of its not having…

They did. Section 2.3 of the paper:

The tasters couldn’t tell the difference.

“will block up to 99% of dick pics,”