In the “it’s a crazy small world” category. I just FaceTimed my daughter to answer a tech question she’d texted me about yesterday. Caught her hiking up this hill in Gandaki, Nepal.
The connection was remarkably good; only a couple dropouts. Although occasionally there was labored breathing or it would be interrupted by brief interchanges like:
“Stand over there.”
“One sec, Baba. Comstock photos…I’m not standing over there, there’s a spider.”
I’m Kee Hinckley (he/his). That’s my wife Mollie Pepper on the right. I’m a senior software architect at TiVo Corp (I get the metadata from point A to point B) with a BA in Anthropology. Mollie’s a sociologist with a couple Masters and a PhD on the way; she specializes in borders, gender, and violence. I have two kickass daughters. Shireen Hinckley is a film editor and documentarian currently working on a movie on refugee resettlement, Home Is Where the War Is. Shadi Fotouhi is a QA automation expert at Wayfair (and formerly at robotics firm Jibo), and an amazing artist.
let's order strange things from NIST! first up is this jar of reference peanut butter. it's only $881 per jar!
2oh my god so i signed up to this organisation thing where uni students studying french get paired with old people in france who are lonely to have conversations over skype and i just had my first one and it was the most WHOLESOME thing 🥺🥺🥺
This is the most upbeat and positive tweet I've read all year.
Only 18 days until we start having more daylight each day.
Percent of wages currently subsidized by governments due to COVID:
Japan: 100% for small businesses; 80% for large firms
Netherlands: Up to 90%
Norway: Up to 90%
Germany: Up to 87%
France: Up to 84%
Italy: 80%
United Kingdom: Up to 80%
Canada: Up to 75%
United States: 0%
@jsher88888 I had polio at 2, 70 years ago. walked agan but had many childhood illnesses and surgeries, and now I endure postpolio syndrome. I worry that 70 years from now, there still will be sufferers of postcovid syndrome.
Antivaxxers are fools.
