Brother-in-law lives in Cheyenne WY. He reports they got 3 feet of snow.

I can't even imagine.

Stay warm you midwestern/plains peeps.

40 minutes to go on that iso download...

Trying to rehab my crazy-old-and-slow-running dell desktop for recycling. Attempt at upgrading from windows 8.1 (with media center!) to win 10 failed for unspecified reasons.

Okay--ubuntu it is then...

what's a good movie I should watch tonight w/the family?

What's a good cloud backup solution?

I bumped up to the 200GB google drive allotment & it's apparently not enough, if I mean to really back all my stuff up.

Back in the day I used JungleDisk, which was a pretty convenient front-end for an amazon S3 bucket. But they don't have a non-corporate offering anymore, alas.

Looks like yes--there's the plain (full) Switch and the Switch Lite.

DW would like a switch for her birthday. There are only 2 basic models to choose from, right? The one that docks/connects to TV & the one that doesn't?

Haven't finished reading this, but man what a heartbreak. :(

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/qanon-parents-millennial-children

TIL that fentanyl can come in the form 'LOZENGE ON A HANDLE' and that just makes me think of a heroin lollipop.

It did not have to be this way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/coronavirus-seattle-success.html

TODO: read this.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/1020600/facebook-responsible-ai-misinformation/

GOP push for estate tax reform is a handout to the rich - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-03-10/gop-estate-tax-reform-lies

A G.O.P. senator tweets approvingly about part of the stimulus bill, without mentioning one detail: his ‘no’ vote. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/us/roger-wicker-tweet-stimulus.html

Dear wife just filled out an adoption app for a puppy... Exciting!

is this piers morgan everyone's on about over on the bird site the same dude CNN used to have on their politics shouting programs? The trump apologist?

TODO: read this
https://www.salon.com/2021/03/09/a-year-of-coronavirus-trump-is-gone-its-time-to-let-go-of-the-partisan-responses-to-the-pandemic/

Georgia family sues grocery clerk for posting about their alleged involvement in Jan. 6 insurrection
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/06/georgia-capitol-riot-defamation-lawsuit/