Happy Halloween! [DOT 31/10/20]

31/10/20 MegMegMcGee 25

We were planning a little bit of an outside do in my neighborhood for Halloween, but recently found out a neighbor tested positive for Covid; so I got to be the person who sent a mass email cancelling Halloween.

I feel like such a witch, even though I know it’s the right thing to do.

Hope you all have more treats than tricks in your plastic pumpkin today.

Three more sleeps.

Where the race stands, 4 days from Election Day
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/30/what-to-know-election-today/

We are in for a long winter.

U.S. reports nearly 100,000 new cases in one day as infections surge in battleground states
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/30/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

First, coronavirus infections increased. Then, hospitalizations. Now, deaths are on the rise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-deaths-increasing/2020/10/30/2269e88e-1a19-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html

Coronavirus live news: Europe passes 10m cases, Australian cases rise amid border fight
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/oct/31/coronavirus-live-news-europe-passes-10m-cases-australian-cases-rise-amid-border-fight

Sprots!

MLB approves sale of New York Mets to hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/oct/30/steve-cohen-new-york-mets-sale

Lori Loughlin begins two-month prison sentence in college admissions scandal
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/us/lori-loughlin-college-admissions-scandal-sentence/index.html

Stonks!

“I told you a hundred times, you gotta sell your pumpkin futures before Halloween!!”

This is neat!

A 5-story building in Shanghai ‘walks’ to a new location
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/shanghai-relocate-building-preservation-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

Don’t forget to turn back your clocks!

Have a great Saturday. Brain drain will be along shortly to keep you entertained!

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25 Comments

    • …it’s not enough that the clocks change…they have to change on different schedules…it seems needlessly complicated when I think about it

      …every now & again I wonder why they have to shift back & forth by an hour…seems like we could split the difference & shift them all by half an hour & then leave them the hell alone…except I guess that would throw out all the folks synchronizing their sundials at noon?

      …reminds me of a paper I read years ago, though…let me see if I can find it…&…this looks like a .pdf version?

      https://www3.nd.edu/~jspeaks/courses/2009-10/20229/LECTURES/4-mctaggart.pdf

      …either way, I definitely remember it seeming unfair as a student that I had to get up & make it to a 9am tutorial to argue about “the unreality of time”

      • i recall something about daylight savings being agreed upon so theres more daylight time to work in
        sounds about right to me…. screw you buggers going home early coz its too dark to work…we’re just going to move the damn clocks instead

  11. Blue moon tonight, the first Halloween blue moon in 76 years:
     
    https://www.space.com/halloween-blue-moon-full-moon-2020
     
    Not that it’s anything more than a coincidence of the calendar, but sometimes they can be cool. This year on February 29 right before the shutdown, I was at a party where I met two people who had been born on February 29. Just a roll of the dice, but still pretty wild.
     
    So to amp up the coincidences, here is Bobby “Blue” Bland singing Blue Moon:
     

  12. sooooooo……
    on a scale of 1 to oh god! zombies!
    how bad for you are cat anti flea drops?
    the missus had a big brain moment earlier and bit off the twisty cap on the tube and sorta kinda drank some
    is now not feeling so hot
    i figure it cant be that bad.. i mean everybody licks their cats (they has flavours!) thered be corpses everywhere if it was really toxic…
    still… if im wrong i’d apreciate a heads up (so i can board up the bedroom now shes napping:p)

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