Notices by Michael Porter (michaelporter@ottawa.place), page 2

@georgetakei Oooh, I feel this. At least it won’t take up space in the freezer 😄

@thomasfuchs All I’ve got is the old Retina Mac 128k…

@jimcarroll Joking!

@jimcarroll 😉

@spydergrrl I know a couple of *very* intuitive ways to turn it off… As long as you don’t need to turn it on again 😉

@Selena @ned If I could live out my dreams, I would have stuck with the interview until the “Do you have any questions for us?” portion.

“Yes, you said this is a high pressure environment. Does management ever go under review to determine why they are so poor at fostering a healthy work environment?”

@thomasfuchs I wonder - Maybe they chose the arch on purpose, as a way of going hard in the other direction. Odds are, no, but...?

@LALegault Yikes. That should be off by default, @ivory.
I just checked, I don’t think @MonaApp does this.

@dgar

@inthehands @Brad_Rosenheim I’m not going to fix that typo 😄

@inthehands @Brad_Rosenheim Our intercity passenger rail regularly gets delayed because there’s only one track and fright trains have priority…

The LRT in Ottawa was an enormous success… at convincing people they’d be better off taking they cars to work…

Every time I heard that Biden would go to work via Amtrak I would think, “How is that even possible?”

@inthehands @Brad_Rosenheim Oh, come to Canada…

@leigh There’s a setting called, laughably, “Smart Punctuation” - turning it off should fix your problem.

@zens @mhoye @zens @gemelliz @mhoye On a related note, “Ultrasonic Xylophone” is the name of my next band

@erictopol @lisamelton Cool thing I learned about wastewater surveillance - There is a virus, pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV), present in peppers that are used for hot sauces, etc.

According to Wikipedia, it “is consistently found in wastewater from around the world at concentrations greater than 1 million copies per milliliter of raw sewage” and so makes for a good water quality indicator (as it comes almost exclusively from human feces, is stable, and detection is straightforward) as well as a tool to normalize SARS-CoV-2 concentrations for wastewater tracking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_mild_mottle_virus
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-018-0019-5
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35864362/

@thomasfuchs In a similar vein…