Notices by Sam Levine (srlevine@neuromatch.social)

I'm all discombobulated this morning. For the last few years showers at home have mostly been at night and meant winding down for the day, any morning showers were typically taken at work. But the shower I had easiest access to is no longer as close to work with the move so I showered at home this morning. I might have to either resign myself to showering Sunday nights or seeing if I can make it a habit to use the other shower I know of on campus (though that one is much riskier since it's single person and therefore could easily be tied up by someone else in a pattern I don't yet know).

I have just had the single worst yoga experience of my life (and yes, I am back at my desk 30 minutes early).

(spoiler & CW for COVID/infectious disease discussion, and personal boundaries)

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Anyone have experience splitting a costco membership with someone (only one other person) who doesn't live in your household? To our advantage we have the same last name...

Do they notice if you always shop at different ones?

@intransitivelie so this is an example of what I'd consider a cute prank?

They probably sent an email out to their user list that said "issues with 600 MHz instrument" this sort of thing happens all of the time and that school has multiple instruments so at most it elicits a response of "oh, I should read the email before I book instrument time today". And the link goes to something that is immediatly apparent as joke for anyone familiar with the instruments. And they did a bunch of cheesy photo shop to really run the joke into the ground and write a whole narrative about it while using terms that get tossed around about major NMR disasters.

Another Sam is weird story: I realized I wasn't going to have enough Dr Bronner's so I looked around the apartment for something else that might work and decided that the liquid dish soap that is "lavender-mint" would probably be fine since I use peppermint & lavender Dr Bronners mixed together and the ingredient list looked reasonable. And lo and behold it seems to have worked well (I also chucked in plenty of baking soda + water in with the soap). It seemed to foam up better than Dr Bronners so maybe I'll try it again? Though I don't have much of this left either...

I have become the sort of person who makes their own laundry detergent from Dr Bronner's liquid soap (the nearest place to buy bulk dry detergent is very inconveniently out of my way pretty much ever, and also expensive). This is a problem when I finally round up all of the laundry and realize I'm out of detergent. Do I wing it with the bottle of Dr Bronner's plus a box of baking soda at the laundromat? Do I try to make more? Ugh...

If anyone else rides a bike in Orange County and wants to join a queer (& allies) group ride at a casual pace tomorrow morning: http://theunlikelycyclist.com/new-events/a4acc7ebtttj8cwyyxmx2a5jzpezkm

I was assured that eBikes were fine since one of the organizers just had a knee replacement and will be riding hers (and this will be her first time out riding since the surgery...aww)

#BikeTooter #SoCal

@skinnylatte Like grill before you put it in the quiche?

@skinnylatte How do you feel about broccoli & cheese? (I've also had broccoli rabe and cheese, and that was amazing but it's much harder to find)

You know why I'm a radical: because someone called me a beautiful angel & thanked me for giving her a pair of grubby socks tonight. Capitalism sucks.

Full story: I stopped at a light where I was walking my bike across a nasty intersection and there was a houseless person curled up under an overhang. I gave her cash and chatted a bit and she asked if I had socks with me (she was wearing flip-flops and only had a basically empty purse with her). I said I did, but they were kind of icky since I wore them earlier today (from biking to work). I offered to get her some from grocery outlet when I got my groceries if she would still be there in 30 minutes and she insisted that she would be happy with the ones in my bag and that I shouldn't spend money to buy her a pair. I also gave her the last cookie I had on me. But this was awful. There is nothing I can do that makes a big enough difference, maybe the bit of cash I gave her is enough for something small at a fast food place? But the fact that she was grateful that I would give her what amounted to my dirty laundry to keep her feet warm made me want to cry. I can't fix this. None of us can on our own.

@Infoseepage Wasn't that basically her entire job?

Mom: Do you have a pizza cutter?
Me: I have a big knife.
(I hand her my largest knife, it's reasonably sharp)
Mom: I'm having trouble this is really dull.
(I look over and she's attempting to saw through the pizza as if the knife is serrated)
Me: Uh, give me that.

(I was able to use the knife for it's intended purpose of cutting down hard in a single slice to cut through the crust, but AHHH! You made it to what age and didn't know this?)

(This is probably due to my mom not learning how to cook much at all until after she met my dad and he taught her, but he was not a good teacher for most things)

I forgot it was going to start raining mid-day today. So not only did I get nothing done with current research today (I haven't had time to interpret any of the new NMRs), but I'm going to get home soggy and cold. Oh and I still haven't started any cleaning/tidying up and my mom arrives in <48 h!

@ELS @mcnado It's neither in this case. Mycobateria in their latent states exhibit phenotypic rather than genotypic drug resistance, which is the problem with eradication since infected people host multiple sub-populations in different growth sates and you have to keep up treatment until you've gotten all of them (it's much, much easier to kill actively growing Mtb than those in their latent state). I did Mtb research as a postdoc that included studying latent vs. active TB, if you'd like references I'd be happy to dig some up later.

@Bronwyn I think people push libreoffice now?

ETA: it's the successor to open office

What on earth do the screen writers think the NRC does anyway?

#Monsterdon

That was a CHUD? really? Humanoid is NOT a descriptor I would have picked.

#Monsterdon

"Lunatic ravings of this paranoid hippie" wow, is this an 80's movie or what.

#Monsterdon

Imagine if this was now: you'd just plant an air (stalker) tag on your target!

#Monsterdon