So the virus has finally reached our shores with the first case of unknown origin in California and the possibility of several more cases out there thanks to the insistence of the administration in bringing people from the affected zones without proper quarantine procedures in place or even the appropriate equipment.

The president* yesterday called for a press conference where it seems he was hoping to and I quote “try to the kill the virus with pure incoherence,” and naming Vice President Mike Pence who when he was governor managed to enable an HIV outbreak, and until as recent as 2000 was still writing articles denying a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.

That makes me feel secure. But then again, we are witnessing the apotheosis of 40 years of conservative philosophy with regards to government, which for one led to the dismantling of the CDC pandemic response teams.

I pray that this doesn’t get worse.

I recently got a brand spanking new computer. Runs Windows 10, for compatability sake. And, unsuprisingly, it has a couple of little quirks that are REALLY REALLY annoying. And googling as not given me the answers.

1) I can't get the monitor out of sleep mode. Even mashing keyboard buttons, moving the mouse AND turning it off and on again doesn't work. I have to reset the entire computer. I've "solevd" this by telling the computer to never put the monitor to sleep. Is there a better solution.

2) It takes longer for the router to boot up than the computer. so the computer, bless it's idiotic little brain, starts trying to diagnose the connection problem automatically. How do I stop it from running "troubleshooting" automatically.

60 facts about the world of Dr. Seuss

It's worth your time to give that page a peruse.

...Chibi-Moon gets her empowerment from.

Previous thread is here.

IHNV, IJLSNT*




*I Have No Video, I Just Like Saying "New Thread".

But that was before I stumbled across...

I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator

Sometimes you see a story and think "man, I'm old..." Here's a place to mention and vent.

Starting off:

20 albums that turn 20 in 2020. I didn't think that any of these were particularity old...

A thread for all those trope-related things that just won't fly outside of the Politics subforum.

Such as:

• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Trump blasts best-picture Oscar for South Korean film Parasite, apparently without having seen the movie
  

I just got a heads-up about an anime now available on Crunchyroll ... and if you thought Kancolle or that one about high-schoolers replaying the Romance of the Three Kingdoms were weird, well, they've now got another major competitor (apparently, it's been around as a manga since 2014):

Quote:After Japanese warlords inexplicably reincarnate as dogs in modern Japan, their scheming is once again in full effect! Oda, the fiercest warlord in the Warring States period of Japanese history, is reborn as a Shiba Inu. He discovers that his rivals and comrades have also been reborn as dogs and their journey to navigate through the modern world takes off at the dog park!

So... like I said I would a few weeks back, I've assembled all the chapters of John Biles' Dance of Shiva and converted them to HTML, and that to MOBI format.  Right now I'm doing a double-purpose read-through and edit pass before a final MOBI conversion.  I've been fixing spelling errors, and I've been converting everything that's in ALL CAPS to italics (except SHIVA's speech) to improve the readability in HTML and on ebooks.  I'm two-thirds of the way through it as I write this.

Anyway, the reason I'm even mentioning it now is basically to ask itsune9tl to relay a query to Biles for me:  He's got a lot of mid-90s fansub-transliteration spellings of character names -- "Macky", "Celia", and "Wasyuu" in particular.  And he uses both "Macky" and "Mackie".  I would like to standardize the spellings -- which of the latter two would he rather see throughout the story?  And does he want Celia and Wasyuu converted to the modern accepted spellings?

Thanks.