ILI = Influenza-Like Illness

Yesterday I had a teleconference with R and C about the new vision for Crowdcast. Basically they want to switch to having users do either regions or states but not both, and then they want to incorporate international COVID-19 data into the hints display. C is handling the assignment of states to users and pulling me in for testing when she’s done. We’re waiting on international data from the API team. In the meantime I’m playing with displays in R.

I also upgraded CUDA on the penultimate GPU machine, and edited the summer student project prospecti. T won’t have time to look them over until later in the week, but that’s fine.

After lunch we had a small field trip to Dylamato’s for groceries, curbside pickup. Worked great, somehow both old-fashioned and highly civilized.

I didn’t manage to put hands on the White but I am learning about universal motors and speed control. There is a great guy on YouTube who takes apart broken treadmills and washing machines and things and turns them into new stuff, and he has some excellent explainers on different kinds of motors. Jeremy Fielding, look him up.

Lunch was slightly delayed because meeting, dinner delayed because my brain is goo and I’ve been playing a lot of Two Dots. Otherwise fine. Crossword after dinner, DS9, sleep. Very weird dreams about Regency living history, currency exchange, chestnut sweets from chestnuts that grew like a head of garlic, car vs train journeys to Disney, school buses with bad parking brakes, getting smuggled in and out of fascist high schools.

COVID-19 news: first death in Allegheny county. The governor put us and several other counties on a stay at home order around 3.