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RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

Just got an email from DoorDash a reataurant delivery service. It lists what they do to keep people from getting infected. They even offer a service where they drop the food at your door so there is no personal contact.

What about the restaraunt? And so what about the delivery drivers droping the food with no personal contact if the food is already infected or gets infected going from their car to the door, or the bag the food is in?

When it comes down to it...Don't know how people are going to get food without it being contaminated, no matter how much they wash their hands.

Guess we need to start wearing tyvek suits with filtered air, and set up a plastic clean room to wash yourself and everything you bring into your home.

Outback Porsche · 03-13-2020, 12:04 AM

Out of the blue chat with the CDC this arvo. Now at the clinic getting tested.

Outback Porsche · 03-13-2020, 01:03 AM

Thanks to being in the boonies, we have a 36hr wait for the results.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

My wife met her friend for lunch yesterday at a local taco joint. All the employees had on gloves, gloves only protect the food from their hands. How often do they change gloves?

The terminal where almost everyone slides in their credit card and then touches the screen gets cleaned how often? The tables have rolls of paper towels, that are on a stick. How often does that holder get cleaned? How about the hot sauce bottles?

It is that way every single day at millions of restaurants across the country. The germophobes are in panic. I do have a good immune system, but I certainly know with certainty I can be infected by just one careless person.

Common sense hand washing and some luck is about all we can do.

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

Saw some Canadian show investigating the cleanliness of restaurants last night. None of the restaurants met the conditions to get good marks on just the board of health guidelines, let alone anti-virus measures. They all were not clean even the ones that wore gloves.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

I do like the new style of restaurants that are open to the kitchen so you can see the cooks at work.

I always feel better when I see an employee of the restaurant eating at the restaurant. It is like an endorsement that the place is not horrid behind the scenes.

Porsche-poor · 03-13-2020, 07:43 AM

Morning all. All the schools closed here till at least 4/27. I am working on taking computer gear home to set up a home CAD station incase I need to stay home. The wife's office is on the 12th floor and two floors down they have 3 confirmed cases. We are watching and waiting. She is the managing partner and made the decision to have everyone work from home.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

David, I am curious. Besides the obvious computer and the CAD program, do you use a digitizer pad or tablet? How to you edit the files, just with a mouse?

Porsche-poor · 03-13-2020, 08:59 AM

We used to use a Kurta 12X12, 4 button puck but now its all mouse.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

Interesting.

I used to have a digitizing tablet to run one particular program way way back in the 1980s and early 1990s. It had a menu overlay that let me pick the different menus of the program. I soon learned that I could run the same program from home, and the menus were all numbered. So the keypad made it fast to get to the menu selection, and once the menu numbers are used a few times it was faster to enter 67345 and get the selection needed than use the tablet.

This was all in the days of DOS 3.3 to DOS 6.1 and 5.25 inch floppies.

Then I had to reboot the computer with a special floppy and autoexec.bat and system files to get the program to write the proper SCODL files for the film recorder to work. Then reboot with no floppy to get back to normal computer operation.

Dang I am old.

Porsche-poor · 03-13-2020, 09:36 AM

Yes we are old!!

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

I had software for my Mac that simulated DOS 3.3 and RS232 port on USB with an adapter for an RS232 R/C radio transmitter and ran DOS 3.3 software that simulated flying radio controlled airplanes and helicopters that simulated flying real airplanes and helicopters.

Way Geeky Cool back in the day.

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

Visiting a friend in Dallas he had a mac setup with 3 21inch monitors so it was like the front and two side windows around you like an airplane. He had a game called Hellcats of the South Pacific. A mutual friend was they guy that wrote the software. He wrote it to take advantage of the 3 monitors.

We took turns flying sorties with the monitors and game controllers and pedals etc that made it very realistic for a home game. The graphics were vector graphics but still very realistic.

The Helcats were supposed the fly in at high altitudes, then dive bomb their targets. Instead of flying in high, I flew very low like a cruize missle. Because I was so low I could take out the ack ack guns on the target base, then gain altitude and bomb the ground aircraft with impunity. It made the programmer mad. He said he was going to give me a copy of the game, but now I was going to have to buy it.

One mission was to bomb a Japanese carrier. Your plane aways go shot down by the guns on the carrier. Then I did my cruise missle thing barely clearing the waves. It was lower than the carrier could shoot. To bomb the carrier I flew thru the open fantail of the Japanese carrier and dropped my bombs while flying thru. I was the only one that was able to sink that carrier. One time my plane was shot up and I bailed. Parachuted onto the deck of the carrier. The game said I was found by friendlies and returned to the base. He said he was going to have to fix that.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

The project I have running right now covers 25 square miles and has almost 2,100 images. I like to keep the task manager open and watch the resources used. The two video cards are loafing along at 20% the boot drive is a SSD and at 30 to 40% use. The drive with the data on it is almost no activity, the RAM is currently only at 94 Gig or 37% of total. The CPU is pretty much pegged out at 100%. I guess I should have bought a dual CPU machine after all.

The 16 cores and 32 thread Core i9-9960X CPU needs more speed. I guess I could overclock it real easily.

Jim Richards · 03-13-2020, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Thanks to being in the boonies, we have a 36hr wait for the results.

What kind of nasty business from the outback are you getting tested for, Jeff? Something even newer and more contagious than COVID-19?

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

Busy week.

Hope all yall have a good weekend. Except you fellers with names starting with J. Enjoy the lifetime weekend.

Jim Richards · 03-13-2020, 04:22 PM

I’m on it, Brent!

Outback Porsche · 03-13-2020, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Richards

What kind of nasty business from the outback are you getting tested for, Jeff? Something even newer and more contagious than COVID-19?

Nope, just the covid-19. I think we were our clinics first group to be tested as they were not very well prepared for us to come in.

Jim Richards · 03-13-2020, 06:13 PM

Well, I hope you guys are healthy!

Outback Porsche · 03-13-2020, 07:31 PM

Thanks Jim.

I have a cold and Sharyn has a cough, otherwise we're fine. But that combined with international travel is the reason why the gov wanted us tested. We expect the results to be negative as I caught the cold from my snotty nose 3yo grandson (most likely before we departed), and Sharyn has had a cough since my brothers funeral in early Feb.

Anyway, we're now in quarantine until the results are back (we've actually been self isolating since returning home 5 days ago anyway - just in case).