The official Sunday Snowzilla total for the town was 22″. It’s continued snowing today, so I don’t know what the final accumulation will be. It’s light, fluffy snow, and good for throwing with the snowblower.
There was a National Cartoonists Society Zoom call this evening. I had a chance to chat with Colleen in a “break-out session.” Nobody else on the call mentioned Scott Adams, so I didn’t either.
The Second Amendment boys helped to get Trump elected and reelected. How do they feel, now that someone has been murdered by Trump’s ICE goons because he carried a firearm? Which he did legally.
Gun Owners of America [headed by Erich Pratt] said in a statement: “The Second Amendment protects Americans’ right to bear arms while protesting – a right the federal government must not infringe upon.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nra-stress-carry-weapons-wake-222952765.html
When stuck on a Windows Server problem at work, I would sometimes check Stack Overflow. As I noted yesterday, most of the site’s users jumped ship as soon as AI provided them with a viable alternative.
This reminds me of what happened to my former employer after the HITECH Act of 2009 took effect. A part of ARRA, HITECH infused tax money into what had been the stable and slow-moving hospital software market.
Suddenly, hospitals were able to get financing for the otherwise unaffordable software from Epic Systems. Customers started leaving us and the company has yet to recover from that loss in business.
Industrial policies by the federal government run the risk of picking winners, intentionally or not. Epic, which got its start as a customer of ours, won the HITECH prize. The financial hit on myself and my former colleague friends was profound.
One area where I see the positive potential of AI is with medical applications. If there’s an IPO for Open Evidence, I hope to hop on board.
There were a couple of spots on my leg the dermatologist wanted to biopsy. They appeared identical to me, but one of them was nothing and the other was pre-cancerous. The treatment was a blast of freezing liquid nitrogen.
The Liquid Nitrogen instructions:
Hmm. To rupture or not to rupture? I’ll contemplate what to do while awaiting the arrival of Snowzilla.
At the NCS conference last August, Colleen Doran and I discussed how, generally, comic book people are more familiar with comic strips than comic strip people are familiar with comic books. Today’s Jumble has an exception to that generality.
Boomer boy that I am, Marvel Comics from the Sixties are one of my favorite things. Another is, of course, the Beatles.
LBJ was notorious for strong-arming legislators into voting his way. What if he had been a flat-out authoritarian president, like Trump? Could he have kept the Beatles out of America?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/could-president-deploy-wartime-law-203749200.html
