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To and From, On a Quiet Day
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
There’s a Saint for That …
REUTERS tells us that the designated patron saint of epidemics is — you guessed it — St. Corona. Read and see more here.
Today’s Local News
The Ides of March …
In just two weeks …
[rDay Eighteen-Hundred-Three]
Without Eyes 2
[rDay Seventeen-Hundred-Seventy-Two]
Everyone Skis
My old computer programming colleague, Jeff, brings to my attention this video, done in our old neighborhood and dealing in part with Anthony Lakes Ski Resort (one of our very earliest website customers). More backstory here.
SIDEBAR: I remember so well how then-four-years-old-or-so Ivi cried and cried as we drove past the Anthony Lakes exit, returning from a trip to Boise, distraught because she wanted so badly to go to Anthony Lakes (a place she had never been before, incidentally).
A Crisis of Internet
The previous post made mention of how an overnight wind and snow storm brought down our residential internet connection. Here, we see the repair team — a grizzled gray-hair and what appears to be a wet-behind-the-ears trainee — attack and resolve the problem, tracing the outage from our house to cabling extending across the street to a utility pole connection.
[rDay Seventeen-Hundred-Fifty-Eight]
Dark Night: Bill’s Take
Bill reworks and retitles my earlier evening image of Kim walking (also here), clearly demonstrating a significant difference in our personalities:
For more on this Bill guy, see this page on HHR.