Posts by Doc&Ruby

  • "Corona Virus" What did you do today?

    4 hours preparing lectures yesterday. Started this morning at 7am, recorded first Lecture Cast, (pod cast lecture). 10 am started second one. Now I'm editing audio, uploading files, uploading Lecture notes. 12:30 and I'm still at it. Figure I might be done by 3 this afternoon.


    If I was just teaching, I would have started at 8 and been done by 11:30 and my Sunday would have been free. 🤔


    On top of that, nice sunny morning has turned cloudy and threatening rain. 🤨

  • Corona Virus

    Quote from SZurlo

    I keep hearing about rapid testing supposedly coming any day now. My 86 year old father went to the ER yesterday and they gave him the covid test. Said it would be 5 days. :(

    The fast test was developed by Abbott Labs in Illinois. This test machine gives a positive test in 5 min, a negative response takes 15 min.


    They are making as many as possible as fast as they can. Not sure what the production rate is, but I'd bet most are going to NY, LA, WA, and CA right now.

    Seems sure your dad's test is seriological and has to be processed in a remote lab (not on site at the hospital).

    So sorry to hear that, we'll say a prayer for you both.

  • Corona Virus

    Quote from SZurlo

    You sure that's accurate? That would be 569,400 deaths a year in the metro area. According to the the NY State Department of Health's vital statistics website, that's nearly double the number of people that actually die in the entire state annually (310,376 in 2017).

    My death rate came from the CDC...

    I'll check my math on this though

  • Corona Virus

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/…sks-matter-tests-dont.php

    An interesting article about death rates, testing rates, and mask use.


    In short, data shows virtually no correlation (0.01) between testing rate per capita and death rate per capita.


    There is a strong correlation (0.77) between testing rate and reported infection rates, but this is not indicative of successful treatment, only case reporting.


    The article does suggest a strong correlation between face mask use in public and strictly segregating the most vulnerable individuals, and death rate.


    The article also reports the US death rate per capita as lower than most European countries. US death rate is 24 per million vs an average of 62 per million in other countries.


    When you hear all the shrieks about how our government (particularly Trump) have failed us, consider the facts they are ignoring.

  • 3 dollar prank

    Three dollar prank... that's the way the article described it. This showed up on reddit, seems some poor sod took his car in (several times) for a strange noise. Seems the noise got louder, and stranger, as the car went faster.


    When they finally found the cause, it seems someone had fastened a cheap harmonica to the underside of the car with zip ties. As the car sped up, it "played" the harmonica! 🤪


    Eye watering "fun". I just knew some of my friends here would appreciate the artistry involved, even though no one here would ever dream of doing such a thing! 😁


    https://driving.ca/auto-news/e…om&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s

  • "Corona Virus" What did you do today?

    Well, our Governor just signed an executive order stating that out of state "recreational travelers are to be denied lodging in Arkansas." He still hasn't locked the state down like CA, NY, and others have done.


    Y'all can try to convince folks you're on essential business when you roll up in a slingshot, but that may be a tough sell. 😊


    Ride on, stay safe!

  • Corona Virus

    Quote from SZurlo

    What is the number were it becomes non-trivial?

    Non trivial personally and statistically are two very different questions.


    Statistically, there are a great many causes besides the virus that have a 0.0024% daily rate. The average mortality in the USA overall is about 0.0074% - that's about 1560 people per day in the New York metro area.


    Are the viral deaths trivial, no certainly not. They are adding about 30% onto the daily toll... that gets no news coverage at all. The regular flu causes similar spikes in death rates most years.


    Just trying to offer some perspective in the face of sensationalism. Kinda like trying to push back the tide by peeing in the ocean, I guess.

  • "Corona Virus" What did you do today?

    Quote from Funinthesun

    Not sure what these grocery stores are trying to pull. I tried to buy a ham for next Sunday (Easter) dinner. All I could find was "CURED hams". Why don't they have hams that were NEVER sick in the first place? And what did they have? I'm not going to buy a ham that came from a pig that had the Corona Virus that was in quarantine for 14 days before they slaughtered him up and packaged it for sale

    Ima stealing this from you for my weekly lecture!🤣

  • "Corona Virus" What did you do today?

    Quote from FunCycle

    I can see that you did not watch the little experiment that FOX News did a year or so back. If I remember correctly they used 3 phones. They left one alone and they cut everything off on one and then even took the battery out of the third one. At the time (whatever brand of phone they were using) You were being tracked with all three of the phones. The fact was if you did not want to be tracked you had better leave the phone at home.

    Ugh. You're probably right. 🤬

  • "Corona Virus" What did you do today?

    https://www.engadget.com/googl…ty-reports-095050862.html


    This is creepy as hell. Google is using your location service on your phone to track how well people are obeying the government self-confinement orders.


    A lot of us want to get out & ride. We're not stupid about big groups, and a Slingshot is about as good a place as any to insure we're not "sharing the air."


    But Big G is tracking you & forwarding data to the government. If you don't think this could get more sinister, you aren't thinking clearly.


    Fortunately, the fix is simple. TURN OFF the location service on your phone. Plan your own damn trip or use Ride Command, not Google maps. Ask a person for directions. Find places on your own without the Google crutch. You know, like we all used to do before we got connected and lazy!

  • Hood Pins

    Quote from studiopeg

    I am done. I have had Phil's hood pins for a year now, and have been through at least 7 people saying they will look and then saying nope they will not install!


    Gonna sell them!

    What color & how much?

    Photo?

  • Conservative Politics & Daily Events Discussion

    Quote from WOLF

    I wish I had time to be bored. I'm still working and then caring for my father-in-law who is on Hospice care(Leukemia). Hospice care is a shadow of what it was before Covid 19. No aids, no hospital...all things that are "normal hospice care" are limited or on hold completely.


    That is a cool machine I would have been proud to make on my time off.:)

    Hi Wolf,

    We went through hospice with my mother last fall and the Captain and I have been helping out with an elderly neighbor who just lost her husband a week ago. She took care of him at home and he was only in hospice for a few days - my mom spent months and went by inches.


    I know how hard it can be on the family - please know that you have our sympathies, and our prayers. God bless you, Sir.


    Doc

  • New 2020 is home. Ride command is busted though

    Quote from EjFord

    For my $5.00 ears the Polaris Sound system is fine. I hate the fact that the am/fm reception is nonexistent. I do have lot of music on memory sticks and that works fine for riding the by-ways.

    I have the the same model ears. If I'm not wearing my hearing aids, I can't hear crap unless I turn it up!

    I usually put Pandora on my phone and play it through bluetooth through the ride command.

    If you hear Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Maynard Ferguson, or Big Bad Voodoo Daddy rolling down the road, it's me! 🤩