KelsonV @KelsonV@wandering.shop

Interesting point about toilet paper shortages: toilet paper sold for home use and toilet paper sold for businesses isn't made or packaged the same way...and all those people who used to be spending some of their trips to the bathroom at work, at a restaurant, wherever, are doing all of them at home. Which means yes, we actually are using more home-grade TP (and less commercial-grade).
https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0

The piano player had gotten a lot better with practice. The singer hasn't ☹️

Oh wait, they just switched over to We Are the Chanpions.

*Sigh*

Neighbor kids are singing Into the Unknown at the top of their lungs. They don't have Idina Menzel's range either, but at least it's a change from 4 months of Bohemian Rhapsody with the occasion break for We are the Champions.

@brion Suddenly I'm thinking of some of the calculations Victor Hugo put into the book in terms of the cost of ship cannon salutes, or just how much fertilizer could be salvaged from the Paris sewers (seriously).

He'd probably *know* how many martyrs it would take to water the meadows... 😬

@brion "Actually, it would have been very difficult for Fantine to belt out this song while dying of tuberculosis...."

DC comics is having a "Darkest Timeline" sale on ComiXology, with all of its alternate-timeline and awful-future stories like Flashpoint, Metal, Injustice, etc. Even Scooby Apocalypse.

Not sure if it's tone-deaf or perfectly on-brand.

Was thinking about how my step count is waaaaay down just from staying home, but I'm still wearing the tracker for heart rate. Wondered what else it might be able to infer & went looking...

Turns out some newer fitness trackers can measure oxygen saturation.
https://www.macworld.com/article/3533344/apple-google-android-fitbit-smartwatch-body-temperature-flu-symptoms.html

Imagine hooking that up to an alert for someone who's been treating at home to catch worsening symptoms early

In this time of minimizing grocery store trips, it's even more annoying than usual to realize that yes, you really should have picked up that thing that you looked at and decided not to pick up.

Discovered I'd mistyped March 37. Thought, that sounds about right.

@brion Funny thing is I would've sent my passport renewal in sooner if I hadn't been waiting for my driver's license to show up first.

@brion They've postponed the RealId deadline to October 2021, so that's something at least.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/26/822031112/tougher-id-requirements-for-domestic-flights-postponed-to-2021

Still sorta kicking myself for not mailing my passport renewal as soon as I got over the flu (it's been on my desk since literally the day the flu hit me), but it's not like I'm going to be traveling internationally for a while anyway.

At least I got my driver's license renewed before all this hit.

US stops processing passports except for emergencies
https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2020-04-02/u-s-suspends-passport-services-except-for-emergencies

Oh jeez, I just went to share something on my phone to Twitter and I was looking under "B" for Birdsite. 🤦‍♂️

App & website developers: please do not disable paste on your login forms.

Let people use password managers so they can keep a unique password for your site that's resistant to both password-guessing and password-sharing attacks.

Thank you.