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shadowkat1. In case anyone was wondering why Twitter has horrible punctuation, and why folks under the age of 30, seem to have forgotten how to punctuate while on social media or text messaging?
Here's why: Periods What Are They Good For (My initial reaction, was nothing good as far as I can tell - but I was thinking of another...ahem...type of period. Which refuses to start by the way, with alls sorts of annoying hormonal and physical side effects. But alas, that was not what she was talking about.)
Apparently proper grammar has tonal issues on social media. If I end a sentence with a period - it looks rude. Okay.
This I have difficulty wrapping my brain around. Keep in mind that for me, the internet did not really come about until ahem, my 30s. And social media didn't take off until I was in my 40s. I bought my first smartphone when I was about 43 or thereabouts. Prior to that I had flip phones that you could not text on. Twitter came about when I was 45, and I didn't join it until around that point.
My introduction to the internet was voy forums, professional listserves on yahoo, and IM Chat rooms - which I abhorred. Also, I almost killed myself learning proper punctuation. It came easily to my niece, who disregards it online, along with her parents - which it also came easily too.And I was taught to NEVER use an exclamation mark - whenever I did - I got kicked. No matter where I used it.
So, yes - the article annoyed the hell out of me. I wanted to smack her.
But I've also been very irritable lately. Been mediating, mainly to deal with the overwhelming desire to smack people upside the head.
Maybe I need a punching bag?
2. I don't know if this is good news or bad news?
The Big 12 on Wednesday may have salvaged the remnants of the college football season. It also may have simply delayed its collapse.
One day after the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences postponed football until at least the spring semester, the Big 12, which includes titans like Oklahoma and Texas, said it intended to hold league games beginning Sept. 26. Each team is expected to also play one additional game before that date.
The decision left three of the sport’s most influential leagues planning to pursue a football season, shriveled as it might be, and offered a measure of cover for two of them, the Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences, which have said previously that they were moving ahead with plans to start the season.
Before the Big 12’s announcement, some college sports executives said they believed any ambitions for a season would erode if the Big 12 declined to play.
The Big Ten and the Pac-12 cited the virus’s risks and uncertainties when they separately announced on Tuesday that they would not play sports this fall. Those decisions placed new pressure on the A.C.C., the Big 12 and the SEC, whose teams play in some of the nation’s most virus-ridden states but are also cultural touchstones and economic juggernauts for their universities and surrounding communities.
Apparently the Big 12 is going to try. Even though the Pac 12 and the Big 10 chickened out? I don't know how it is going to work - but it should be interesting to watch.
Anyone else feel like they are stuck in horror film written by Monty Python?
3. Remember when I told you that our Governor is test happy and that NY is obsessed with testing? How could you not - I keep repeating it. It's become a theme!
Well...apparently it's also trying to out test California (it won't, California has more people) but it is making a good attempt. So Test happy and competitive.
Yesterday, New York State reported a record number of COVID diagnostic tests in a single day: 87,776 people, with a rate of only 0.79% of them testing positive. To date, New York State has tested over 6.7 million people and leads the nation in testing. Testing tens of thousands of New Yorkers every day allows us to gauge the infection rate and understand how widespread COVID is in various regions. What's especially encouraging is that daily new cases have dropped even as New York's testing capacity has gone up.
Remember that any New Yorker can get a COVID test for any reason. Find a testing site near you.
Honestly, if he could, the Governor of NY would test every state resident and every single visitor five times a week for the virus. The thing is? Apparently if you test too soon - there's a false negative. It's dependent on when you test. I'm ignoring these dictates to get tested at the moment.
Also, the uptick in cases apparently is in Sunset Park. NY's response? Test the hell out of Sunset Park. They even provide little kits to folks who tested positive and have to quarantine.
4. Per the Governor's Newsletter: "Mental health resources are available to any New Yorker who needs them. We don't underestimate the impact this pandemic is having on mental health. New Yorkers can call the state's hotline at 1-844-863-9314 to get free emotional support, consultations and referrals to a provider or visit headspace.com/ny for free meditation and mindfulness resources. "
Right now, headspace is working and CBD, and talks to mother, and texts to family, and social media interaction and coworker interaction via the computer and phone. But it is nice to know it's out there - if needed.
5. All motor vehicle passengers 16 and older must wear a seat belt in every seat. We know that seat belts save lives and yesterday, I signed legislation requiring all passengers in motor vehicles over the age of 16 to wear a seat belt, even in the back seats. New York was the first state to pass a mandatory seat belt law in 1984 and we building on this legacy for a safer New York. - honestly, I thought this was already a law. I feel bad for not taking advantage of it not being a law when I had the chance, not that I'm in a car that often. Very rarely actually.
My mother is amused by my brother's nervousness and anxiety regarding teaching his daughter to drive. Driving came naturally to my brother. He doesn't have any of the issues that I do. No coordination issues. No flipping of left and right, etc.
When my parents taught me to drive - I drove them nuts.
Dad: Turn left at the corner.
Me - I start to turn right.
Dad: Left! Left!
Me turning right
Dad: LEFT!
Me turning left at the last minute.
Dad cursing in fear.
I can't tell left from right to save my life. Now I have little tricks, but I have to think about it.
6. Hmmm..apparently all 64 Suny College Campuses (these are the New State Colleges - and are basically free to various residents) figured out how to do a COVID-19 re-opening plan and submitted on time. Suny Campus Re-Opening.
While New Jersey kind of gave up and is doing it all remotely.
My niece has some issues. She has one in-person class. But there's another class that she is going to have to do remotely on-campus, because there's not enough time between classes to get to it. Only 10 minutes. She's in a high school/college hybrid. She'll graduate with an Associates Degree.
They discovered it was cheaper.
I asked my mother how that was going to work. My mother stated she'd have to use the cafeteria or the library or somewhere...safe to use her lap-top.
I don't know what NYC is going to do.The whole parents setting up "hives" or parental remote learning/play groups - about five in a group, irritates me. I keep thinking about the poor kids who can't do that or aren't invited in hive. Any time anyone does an exclusive group thing - I want to go all COMMANDO on their ass. It was pointed out to me by a former minister at my church that I did not like anything that was exclusive.
I don't like groups. I do not do groups well. The moment I figure out I'm in a group and that it is excluding folks, I start to pull away and do weird things to kick it in the teeth. So hives? EVIL! When news was discussing it, two thoughts hit my brain: 1) Oh what about the poor folks who can't find a hive or don't have one, what about them? and 2) thank god I don't have kids and went to school in the 70s-80s and 90s. I thought that was bad, this is worse.
7. The NY Botantical Gardens has re-opened in phases, apparently. Not that I've ever been to it, or could conceivably go to it. But it's nice to know in any event.
8. So these memes are all the rage right now..this is the best I've seen to date, from the movie Clue COVID Calendar Meme. It's better than the movie, which frankly bored me.
9. Also from Twitter Favorite Movie Cats Meme (As a side note - I'm getting these from Smart Bitches, I'm never on Twitter. Twitter gives me a headache.)
10. Apparently Harris County (Houston) got desperate and put a commercial on Twitter. Commercial for Curbside Pickup at the Barbara Bush Library in Harris County
11. Who's On First Sketch for the 21st Century
12. Worker Burnout - I don't think it is just working from home, it's the uncertainty - not knowing if you are going to work from home forever or brought back into the office at any given time. That's why people feel the ground shifting beneath them.
Also the sense of not enough work, or too much.
Plus the inability to get away from it. Some can, but a lot like myself can't. And work never goes away. I get emails from work now - all the time.
I am turning it off. But it can be taxing. Walking helps. As does writing in this space. And calling co-workers or emailing them, which I do. So not burned out yet. (Fingers crossed.)
13. What he says regarding Kamala Harris as VP pick.
As a former attorney general and someone whose crime policies were not, shall we say, the most enlightened, Harris is not a huge favorite of the more progressive folks who are aligned with the Democratic party. Inasmuch as the Republicans will try to scare the white folks with the idea of “soft on crime” Democrats, however, her being on the ticket will make that slightly less effective. Given that half the white people in America are currently and inexplicably still planning to vote for Trump, these little things will matter. I mean, honestly, what the hell, fellow white people, why are at least half of you this way, please stop.
This is not an election cycle for people who need perfect people with perfect positions in any event. It’s an election cycle between “likely competent” and “actually fucking criminal.” So: Kamala Harris! Very likely to be a super-competent vice president! Hooray! I was going to vote for Biden anyway, because a meh president would be a refreshing change from the awful bigoted trashfire of corruption that is the alternative. But now at least there’s someone on the ticket I’m actually happy about. Let’s hope we make it to November, everybody!
Here's why: Periods What Are They Good For (My initial reaction, was nothing good as far as I can tell - but I was thinking of another...ahem...type of period. Which refuses to start by the way, with alls sorts of annoying hormonal and physical side effects. But alas, that was not what she was talking about.)
Apparently proper grammar has tonal issues on social media. If I end a sentence with a period - it looks rude. Okay.
This I have difficulty wrapping my brain around. Keep in mind that for me, the internet did not really come about until ahem, my 30s. And social media didn't take off until I was in my 40s. I bought my first smartphone when I was about 43 or thereabouts. Prior to that I had flip phones that you could not text on. Twitter came about when I was 45, and I didn't join it until around that point.
My introduction to the internet was voy forums, professional listserves on yahoo, and IM Chat rooms - which I abhorred. Also, I almost killed myself learning proper punctuation. It came easily to my niece, who disregards it online, along with her parents - which it also came easily too.And I was taught to NEVER use an exclamation mark - whenever I did - I got kicked. No matter where I used it.
So, yes - the article annoyed the hell out of me. I wanted to smack her.
But I've also been very irritable lately. Been mediating, mainly to deal with the overwhelming desire to smack people upside the head.
Maybe I need a punching bag?
2. I don't know if this is good news or bad news?
The Big 12 on Wednesday may have salvaged the remnants of the college football season. It also may have simply delayed its collapse.
One day after the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences postponed football until at least the spring semester, the Big 12, which includes titans like Oklahoma and Texas, said it intended to hold league games beginning Sept. 26. Each team is expected to also play one additional game before that date.
The decision left three of the sport’s most influential leagues planning to pursue a football season, shriveled as it might be, and offered a measure of cover for two of them, the Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences, which have said previously that they were moving ahead with plans to start the season.
Before the Big 12’s announcement, some college sports executives said they believed any ambitions for a season would erode if the Big 12 declined to play.
The Big Ten and the Pac-12 cited the virus’s risks and uncertainties when they separately announced on Tuesday that they would not play sports this fall. Those decisions placed new pressure on the A.C.C., the Big 12 and the SEC, whose teams play in some of the nation’s most virus-ridden states but are also cultural touchstones and economic juggernauts for their universities and surrounding communities.
Apparently the Big 12 is going to try. Even though the Pac 12 and the Big 10 chickened out? I don't know how it is going to work - but it should be interesting to watch.
Anyone else feel like they are stuck in horror film written by Monty Python?
3. Remember when I told you that our Governor is test happy and that NY is obsessed with testing? How could you not - I keep repeating it. It's become a theme!
Well...apparently it's also trying to out test California (it won't, California has more people) but it is making a good attempt. So Test happy and competitive.
Yesterday, New York State reported a record number of COVID diagnostic tests in a single day: 87,776 people, with a rate of only 0.79% of them testing positive. To date, New York State has tested over 6.7 million people and leads the nation in testing. Testing tens of thousands of New Yorkers every day allows us to gauge the infection rate and understand how widespread COVID is in various regions. What's especially encouraging is that daily new cases have dropped even as New York's testing capacity has gone up.
Remember that any New Yorker can get a COVID test for any reason. Find a testing site near you.
Honestly, if he could, the Governor of NY would test every state resident and every single visitor five times a week for the virus. The thing is? Apparently if you test too soon - there's a false negative. It's dependent on when you test. I'm ignoring these dictates to get tested at the moment.
Also, the uptick in cases apparently is in Sunset Park. NY's response? Test the hell out of Sunset Park. They even provide little kits to folks who tested positive and have to quarantine.
4. Per the Governor's Newsletter: "Mental health resources are available to any New Yorker who needs them. We don't underestimate the impact this pandemic is having on mental health. New Yorkers can call the state's hotline at 1-844-863-9314 to get free emotional support, consultations and referrals to a provider or visit headspace.com/ny for free meditation and mindfulness resources. "
Right now, headspace is working and CBD, and talks to mother, and texts to family, and social media interaction and coworker interaction via the computer and phone. But it is nice to know it's out there - if needed.
5. All motor vehicle passengers 16 and older must wear a seat belt in every seat. We know that seat belts save lives and yesterday, I signed legislation requiring all passengers in motor vehicles over the age of 16 to wear a seat belt, even in the back seats. New York was the first state to pass a mandatory seat belt law in 1984 and we building on this legacy for a safer New York. - honestly, I thought this was already a law. I feel bad for not taking advantage of it not being a law when I had the chance, not that I'm in a car that often. Very rarely actually.
My mother is amused by my brother's nervousness and anxiety regarding teaching his daughter to drive. Driving came naturally to my brother. He doesn't have any of the issues that I do. No coordination issues. No flipping of left and right, etc.
When my parents taught me to drive - I drove them nuts.
Dad: Turn left at the corner.
Me - I start to turn right.
Dad: Left! Left!
Me turning right
Dad: LEFT!
Me turning left at the last minute.
Dad cursing in fear.
I can't tell left from right to save my life. Now I have little tricks, but I have to think about it.
6. Hmmm..apparently all 64 Suny College Campuses (these are the New State Colleges - and are basically free to various residents) figured out how to do a COVID-19 re-opening plan and submitted on time. Suny Campus Re-Opening.
While New Jersey kind of gave up and is doing it all remotely.
My niece has some issues. She has one in-person class. But there's another class that she is going to have to do remotely on-campus, because there's not enough time between classes to get to it. Only 10 minutes. She's in a high school/college hybrid. She'll graduate with an Associates Degree.
They discovered it was cheaper.
I asked my mother how that was going to work. My mother stated she'd have to use the cafeteria or the library or somewhere...safe to use her lap-top.
I don't know what NYC is going to do.The whole parents setting up "hives" or parental remote learning/play groups - about five in a group, irritates me. I keep thinking about the poor kids who can't do that or aren't invited in hive. Any time anyone does an exclusive group thing - I want to go all COMMANDO on their ass. It was pointed out to me by a former minister at my church that I did not like anything that was exclusive.
I don't like groups. I do not do groups well. The moment I figure out I'm in a group and that it is excluding folks, I start to pull away and do weird things to kick it in the teeth. So hives? EVIL! When news was discussing it, two thoughts hit my brain: 1) Oh what about the poor folks who can't find a hive or don't have one, what about them? and 2) thank god I don't have kids and went to school in the 70s-80s and 90s. I thought that was bad, this is worse.
7. The NY Botantical Gardens has re-opened in phases, apparently. Not that I've ever been to it, or could conceivably go to it. But it's nice to know in any event.
8. So these memes are all the rage right now..this is the best I've seen to date, from the movie Clue COVID Calendar Meme. It's better than the movie, which frankly bored me.
9. Also from Twitter Favorite Movie Cats Meme (As a side note - I'm getting these from Smart Bitches, I'm never on Twitter. Twitter gives me a headache.)
10. Apparently Harris County (Houston) got desperate and put a commercial on Twitter. Commercial for Curbside Pickup at the Barbara Bush Library in Harris County
11. Who's On First Sketch for the 21st Century
12. Worker Burnout - I don't think it is just working from home, it's the uncertainty - not knowing if you are going to work from home forever or brought back into the office at any given time. That's why people feel the ground shifting beneath them.
Also the sense of not enough work, or too much.
Plus the inability to get away from it. Some can, but a lot like myself can't. And work never goes away. I get emails from work now - all the time.
I am turning it off. But it can be taxing. Walking helps. As does writing in this space. And calling co-workers or emailing them, which I do. So not burned out yet. (Fingers crossed.)
13. What he says regarding Kamala Harris as VP pick.
As a former attorney general and someone whose crime policies were not, shall we say, the most enlightened, Harris is not a huge favorite of the more progressive folks who are aligned with the Democratic party. Inasmuch as the Republicans will try to scare the white folks with the idea of “soft on crime” Democrats, however, her being on the ticket will make that slightly less effective. Given that half the white people in America are currently and inexplicably still planning to vote for Trump, these little things will matter. I mean, honestly, what the hell, fellow white people, why are at least half of you this way, please stop.
This is not an election cycle for people who need perfect people with perfect positions in any event. It’s an election cycle between “likely competent” and “actually fucking criminal.” So: Kamala Harris! Very likely to be a super-competent vice president! Hooray! I was going to vote for Biden anyway, because a meh president would be a refreshing change from the awful bigoted trashfire of corruption that is the alternative. But now at least there’s someone on the ticket I’m actually happy about. Let’s hope we make it to November, everybody!