What are you doing during quarantine?

[DennisN]

@kyphysics , I'm actually going to install the latest version of Cities: Skylines and play it today. And I will be very careful to not cut down on healthcare in the city I will build.

Hope you're having fun on Cities/Skylines!

I had forgotten how fun that game can be.
All is well in my virtual city, except in a suburb I created for supplying my forest industries with uneducated workers. The suburb has only got houses and shops, no schools, no police, no firefighters, no healthcare, no garbage collection. It has become a problem, since crime is now rampant, garbage is piling up, dead people are left in the apartments and people are getting sick. There's talk of a virus in town... :

My suburb experiment is failing, so I will probably bulldoze it.

 

[astrotemp]

It's day 5 (I think?) of my quarantine, and I'm mostly passing the time online, thinking about food, making food, or eating food. 3 meals a day honestly feels pretty wasteful when I'm stuck inside doing nothing. Still another ~10 days before I'm allowed out. I could try working on research stuff but it just really doesn't feel right, living in this vacuum. I find it hard to impose structure on myself.

 

[Dr. Courtney]

Thankful to be in rural Georgia rather than Baton Rouge when things went sideways. The trace below is the ballistic wave created when a 0.177" diameter steel bb impacts water. This is a bb gun from the sporting goods section of Walmart that you pump up. The horizontal scale is 200 microseconds per division. Water is in a 300 gallon stock tank from Tractor Supply. The goal of these experiments is developing a simple laboratory way to simulate under water blast waves without the excessive costs, handling requirements, and bureaucratic issues of using real high explosives. A Navy contractor reached out to us asking about a simpler way to generate underwater blast waves for calibrating and testing wearable sensors they are developing.

Put any concerns with zoning laws and the like to rest. In this neighborhood, the locals shoot deer out of the window (in season) and often are shooting Tannerite.

 

[hagopbul]

did you try bubble bursting?

 

[Auto-Didact]

Today, while turning off all computers just before leaving for home at the end of a very hectic day, I got an on-call emergency request to visit a patient at home as a favor for another primary care clinic. I literally had no information except an address, that the partner was in panic, and a warning that verbal communication was nigh impossible due to an unbreachable language barrier. Grabbed my bag, ran down the street, entered the house in full protective gear.

When I arrived I didn't even need to listen to lungs or check her oxygen levels; the only time I heard a wheeze as bad as this was on the ICU... upon measurement it was even worse than I estimated. Called the ambulance right away, when they arrived a few minutes later they seemed surprised that I had on the same gear as them. Walked back to the clinic, doused all reusable stuff in alcohol, threw the white coat in the washer and disposed of the rest. Tomorrow will be another day.

 

[Bystander]

2020 Census, took a couple minutes.

How many times does it get sent to a given address? Am I going to be "haunted/hounded" forever? Just got another copy in the mail (that makes it at least a weekly annoyance); the "tempest in the teapot/zombie apocalypse/1918 pandemic centennial flop" is bad enough without census bureau asking me weekly whether I've dropped dead.

 

[Mary Conrads Sanburn]

My husband and I took Gracie Girl (dog) to the golf course up the hill where we live. Gracie had a super-duper run and we all had fun. It was a beautiful day! No one was there but us.

 

[strangerep]

Put any concerns with zoning laws and the like to rest. In this neighborhood, the locals shoot deer out of the window (in season) and often are shooting Tannerite.

Geez, I'm so glad you guys are half a world away from me.

 

[Klystron]

Library, gym and swimming pool closures have truly impacted my lifestyle. Being retired, the shutdowns have not effected me as much except I see more of my young neighbors (from a distance .

Going back into physical therapy Thursday which will compensate for pools and gyms being closed. I exercise better under supervision, anyhow. At home I either overdo it else forget some exercises. Very relieved and happy that physical therapy businesses allowed to function normally.

My spare bicycle is mounted on a Windjammer stationery trainer so I can watch movies on widescreen while cycling. Placed some yoga mats nearby for stretches. Trying to walk outdoors on a regular basis. Weather here is sunny but cool and windy. Finally have enough strength to start spring cleaning garage.

 

[hagopbul]

Tried to watch star trek Picard but couldn't subscribe to it

Watching flightradar24
And windy.com
Sometimes

The daily number of flight is not that low it didn't reach zero

 

[DennisN]

I have taken time to refill my fridge:

 

[nuuskur]

Same old, reading papers, coming up with conjectures, trying to prove or disprove said conjectures and in some way or form write an article . Also, I'm in charge of linear algebra this semester, so with the recent developments in mind, I have to redesign the course on the fly to be electronical.

In other news, it's not nearly as bad here as somewhere like France. There's no strict curfew, we can still move about, but we can't group. Shops are open, toilet paper's a plenty, I went shopping yesterday, found all that I needed without a problem.

 

[Mondayman]

Kids in the neighborhood rearranged the letters on the church sign from something about hope, to "Hiring All Hoes".

 

[hagopbul]

the government are asking people to stay in home for more than 3 April , reading some undergraduated books , thinking dose UV effects viruses

only ate few things from the refrigerator , don't want to cook today i need to shave that is for sure

only one question remain what the official sources knows about the SARS-ncov-2 that we don't know ?

 

[osilmag]

Brushing up on my guitar and reading.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Professor Hossenfelder has been singing again.

 

[hagopbul]

what book he is reading

 

[PeroK]

I've been thinking of writing a novel, but all I have is the title: "Love in the Time of Coronavirus".

 

[Keith_McClary]

what book he is reading

"?? and Space Time"

 

[hagopbul]

spinors and space time

 

[Keith_McClary]

How to Make Bagpipes Out of a Garbage Bag and Recorders

 

[Auto-Didact]

spinors and space time

One of Penrose' classic works. I'm going to reread this one

 

[hagopbul]

One of Penrose' classic works. I'm going to reread this one

i am reading undergraduate physics books now , that is more chalenging reached 50% of one and chapter 2 of the other and few more books to read now , hard to site like that to read , that is really hard to do

 

[Auto-Didact]

i am reading undergraduate physics books now , that is more chalenging reached 50% of one and chapter 2 of the other and few more books to read now , hard to site like that to read , that is really hard to do

The spinor calculus is by far the most elegant formulation or generalization of calculus IMO, much more beautiful than tensor calculus tbh. It is easily one of my favorite mathematical physics methods to use to take a new look at old physics, at least on the occasion that I am not in the mood for doing messy experimental computer numerics in the modelling and study of dynamical systems.

 

[nsaspook]

I might be getting ready for a hunting trip in a major city AKA I Am Legend .

https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/Coyotes-are-being-seen-on-the-empty-streets-15159105.php
Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

 

[Auto-Didact]

I might be getting ready for a hunting trip in a major city AKA I Am Legend .

https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/Coyotes-are-being-seen-on-the-empty-streets-15159105.php
Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco

What kind of rifle do you use?

 

[nsaspook]

What kind of rifle do you use?

BLR .308
https://www.browning.com/products/firearms/rifles/blr.html

 

[Klystron]

Sorry to burst your "I am Legend" dreams but coyotes are indigenous to the San Francisco Bay Area and are frequently around SF proper. I used to visit from a distance a well-behaved coyote family with winter dens in Golden Gate Park during my weekly hikes. Most people think, "Look at the skinny dog!", if noticed at all.

 

[nsaspook]

Sorry to burst your "I am Legend" dreams but coyotes are indigenous to the San Francisco Bay Area and are frequently around SF proper. I used to visit from a distance a well-behaved coyote family with winter dens in Golden Gate Park during my weekly hikes. Most people think, "Look at the skinny dog!", if noticed at all.

I actually waiting for the herds of deer on the streets.

 

[anorlunda]

I searched for "amateur rocky horror" on youtube and I discovered a whole genre of charming videos.

 

[Klystron]

I actually waiting for the herds of deer on the streets.

Hmm, sounds more like "12 Monkeys", the future scenes where a male African lion roars over the ruins of a department store?

 

[nsaspook]

Hmm, sounds more like "12 Monkeys", the future scenes where a male African lion roars over the ruins of a department store.

Spoiler

 

[hagopbul]

there is other film come to mind i am surprised you are not remembering that one

 

[kyphysics]

I've followed the news obsessively. Probably more than I should. I know we need to take breaks, but being trapped at home gives you a lot of free time and I keep shuffling back and forth between news and Twitter sites.
I initially thought I'd be watching a lot of movies. That hasn't happened. Although, I am going to force myself soon to have days off where I do zero news watching and just relax with fun stuff.

 

[hutchphd]

I finally joined Facebook.