darksabre

Soon:

My schedule has stayed pretty much the same. Still going to the office since our suite has so few people in it anyway. I did get a new game, Jalopy, for my XBox just for funsies. It's really janky but actually pretty hard/fun. And the story is really intriguing...

Interesting...

It's freaky deaky quiet here today. We're right on Sheridan Drive and there's a lot less traffic noise outside. The office buildings are pretty much cleared out. I think it's our company's two suites and maybe one or two other companies running bare bones staff. And Homeland Security has a couple suites here.

The dynamic here is about 80% people who are reasonably concerned but not panicked, and then about 20% who are acting like total sociopaths. There is definitely a sub-set of the US population (that does not follow any particular political or ideological bounds) that thinks this is funny and is enjoying poking the concerned people, which is really unkind.

This is my company right now. Apparently half my office has had it ?

For sure. It'll just be interesting to see if the lack of reaction by leadership months ago, in order to quash over-reaction, ends up creating an over-reaction that is far worse.

My boss had something like this back in November. That's kinda why I'm curious. Increased testing is going to give us a much better picture.

Is it possible that COVID-19 has been here longer than we think, and that some deaths previously attributed to the regular flu were actually from this virus? It'll be interesting to see what the curve looks like as testing ramps up. NYC jumped significantly overnight.

I'm hopeful that things won't get to the point where we have to find out. Regardless of where things go from here, my only takeaway at the moment is that wherever we end up will have caused some level of suffering that is greater than it needed to be.

Interesting stuff here woody, thanks. I don't think anyone thinks that the testing is going well. It seems pretty obvious that the people responsible for making sure we could do proper testing did not do their due diligence. And I don't mean to be cynical, but how many people do we think need to die from this (including from the economic fallout) to see this actually happen? 200,000? 500,000? I'm simply skeptical that America, and Americans, are capable of anything other than management by crisis.

keeping my fingers crossed for you and woody

Game 2 is up

Tampa being remotely relevant for even a second would be wild.

About that

It's funny because he plays such a good game in game 1, and then it just falls apart in game 2. Weird how that can go.

Oh this IS the Umberger hit game! Wow. It's just as brutal as I remember. It comes out of nowhere. The announcers just explode.

This is the double OT win. Next game is Esche melting down, can't wait for that one to get uploaded!

I think we could do it if we wanted. Everyone just hits play at 7:05pm using the World Clock https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

My god I forgot how gritty this team was. Kalinen is a physical force. Briere is fearless.

For your viewing pleasure during the pandemic

That's basically the issue and the reason for all the hubbub. Because it's a new version of a coronavirus the medical community isn't sure what is going to happen with it. Maybe it just ends up being like the normal flu and subsides with warmer weather? They don't know yet. So idea is to try to slow the spread until they can figure out just how likely it is to either end or reemerge, and to buy capacity for hospitals and time for researchers working on vaccines.

I would expect the time between contact with the surface and the puck to be longer on asphalt due to friction, so I think that makes what Ovi is doing even more impressive. The best shooters are the ones who can go from loading the stick on the ice surface to making contact with the puck in the shortest time possible. So it doesn't surprise me at all that Ovi would be significantly more efficient at this process. I bet if swamp isolated Ovis shot in this video the results would be very good.

I had my meetup game tickets up on StubHub because I can't make it anymore and I pulled them down right away because of this. Didn't want someone buying them only for the Sabres to issue a refund or something.

Waiting for the NHL to cancel games could be weeks or months. Weak.