9 months in, people still don't understand the meaning of the words EXTREMELY CONTAGIOUS

 

That's it for Google Search

Looking for an owner's manual, I did a search this morning for "liftmaster garage door opener". One search (and Google provided all the words after "liftmaster"). Couple hours later, this stuff showed up in a page I was reading at msn:



Bad enough the advertisement showed up twice. It showed up three times more as I scrolled down the page, counting them.

That's it for Google. I switched my default search engine to the double duck.

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By the way -- The reason I was looking for a manual was that I had some problem with the garage door opener... Do they really think I might want to buy another Liftmaster?????

A really good article about really bad thinking

From Health Feedback: False claim shared by President Trump that only 6% of CDC-reported deaths are from COVID-19 is based on flawed reasoning

(The article is not about Trump, despite their title.)

When melons become potatoes...

From Sciencing, How to Calculate Percent Deviation:

Calculate the Mean

Calculate the average, or mean of your data points. To do this, add the values of all data points, then divide by the number of data points. Say you have four melons, with weights of 2 pounds, 5 pounds, 6 pounds and 7 pounds. Find the sum: 2 + 5 + 6 + 7 = 20, then divide by four, since there are four data points: 20 / 4 = 5. So your potatoes have a mean weight of 5 pounds.

Product Information at Amazon

1" ID vinyl tubing at Amazon. I looked up their Product Information. This is part of it:

Technical Details -- Vinyl Tubing, 1" ID

Oh by the way, it's 1-inch tubing.

While watching TV:

"They can't make a commercial that shows social distancing," I said. "They can't do it."

The wife laughed and said "They need a wide-angle lens".

Counterpart

Damn good show.

Get this:

Starz opted not to pick up J.K. Simmons-fronted drama Counterpart for a third season after the February finale of season two.

Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch addressed the cancellation at the TCA summer press tour and admitted that the show’s audience was “too male” to fit into its new female-focused strategy.

Windows 10 on January 10

First of all it has

Well first of all, I still want to use the Detail View of files in a folder, and Windows seems to have a problem accepting that fact.

Next, first of all, they pulled a fast one on me by using DATE as one of the default Detail View categories. Instead of DATE MODIFIED which, for example, can tell you whether you actually did update a file in the folder you're looking at, at the moment. I don't know what DATE gives you, some arbitrary date at random, it seems.

And for that matter, it might not be "by default". It might be "my fault" -- but if so, the fact that I found and used DATE rather than DATE MODIFIED is still somehow their fault. I'm sure of it.

And second, when I click on DATE MODIFIED to put the files in date order, it puts them newest first, but shows me the bottom of the list.

What the fuck.