Fogbow

from daughter.tek:

The dog is really, really sick of us being home all the time so he can't get in the trash

I sent the link to my older brother.. he was an F-4 and F-15 crew chief in the USAF, spent many years training forces for McD, and is now at another large aircraft manufacturer making sure that aircraft are maintained correctly: A lot of the older guys who had crewed f-4s in Vietnam or Thailand (whe...

Florida and other states doing little will wait until they have a lot of deaths. Then act after many people are already infected. ms.tek and I, here in south florida, are not thrilled about any of this. Though I have to say that, by and large, the people (at least here in semi-blue Palm Beach Count...

local pizza shop putting up make-your-own-pizza kits for kids (and their parents)

I think the data is noisy.. 3/26 and 3/27 might be a little high, and 3/21 was very low..

Testing isn't uniformly distributed in time or population, so it is hard to tell what the 'new cases' graph means..

good point: "hospitals that have spent years working toward maximum efficiency are seeing that efficiency turn into scarcity"

Wow... pretty damning.. Inspection of the engines on the B-17G N93012 established magneto and ignition failures existed. Regarding engine 4, to prevent the magneto “P” leads from separating from the magnetos, someone had attempted to rig the magneto leads in place with safety wire. Inspection and te...

Daughter,tek has been sewing masks for a local hospital.

I am a car enthusiast, a classic Mopar fan..

Today this arrived:

Jeffrey wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 28, 2020 7:09 am

Anyone wanna explain this?

The Apprentice, Coronavirus Edition.

SO I say screw it all, WIN THE SENATE WIN THE HOUSE WIN THE POPULAR VOTE WIN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE and then purge them all from public life. Make it so 10 years from now people will be ashamed to admit they knew any Republicans. I'm good with that.. Turning Florida blue, one vote at a time..

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is spearheading plans for an executive order to have federal agencies such as the Departments of Health and Human Services, and Defense obtain medical equipment and supplies from American manufacturers. “We need to have them buy that from American producers o...

Trump has told people he wants his signature to appear on the direct payment checks that will go out to many Americans.

If banks were smart, they'd refuse to cash them.

Volkonski wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 6:16 pm

Pres. Trump names White House trade advisor Peter Navarro to serve as Defense Production Act policy coordinator for the administration.

What could possibly go wrong? Navarro is brilliant!
(Narrator: he's a maroon)

Dr. Fauci Reports That Alcohol May Help People Survive Coronavirus Briefings https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/dr-fauci-reports-that-alcohol-may-help-people-survive-coronavirus-briefings “What we have found is that a single dosage before the briefing and as much as a double dosage aft...

As I am rapidly learning, the amount of bullshit in the way of getting things done is phenomenal...

I have read about this in the run up to WWII, but I now get to experience it first-hand.

The good news is that, at the low levels below TVdar, there is a lot of good happening..

totally in character:
My way or the highway.

Sit the f'k down, Bernie.

another project just stormed in.. I'm already working modifying a particular ventilator so that it can be monitored/controlled from outside the room, so staff doesn't have to burn a set of PPE for routine look-and-adjust. Now a request to modify portable, 'battery-powered' "mass casualty" ventilator...

ME! ME! ME!

DejaMoo wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:37 pm

Eff 'em.

This seems an appropriate response to them

Real info about the auto industry's involvement.

https://www.autobeatonline.com/news/aut ... -equipment

Equipment is nice, but as I'm learning in my sudden involvement with this mess: It is all about the PPE. Of course, that's an overstatement. But. Things like ventilators were not designed with conserving PPE in mind.. so there was no consideration of hands-on, in-the-room interaction required. Too, ...

No freezers available for purchase within 100 miles here in FL. We left our freezer in Mass for the new homeowners, who are appropriately thankful. We ordered a new Freezer from the place on Lawn Guyland where I have ordered a LARGE AMOUNT of appliances in the past. Eventually, after we had to switc...

RTH10260 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 23, 2020 3:07 pm

media presence

Giuliani: Coronavirus pandemic 'more complex than 9/11'
by Caitlin Yilek
| March 22, 2020 12:16 PM

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... -than-9-11

ME ME ME ME ME!

I am sick and farking tired of all the ME!

/rant

I guess the good news about my instant immersion in some projects to bend the curve on med device and PPE availability has an upside:

I have not seen the news today until now.