Football Epilogue

The one thing the stay-at-home order for Covid-19 along with having a bit of time off to use (use it or lose it) is I have made quite a bit of progress on my basement remodel. Yesterday's accomplishment was getting one part of the new recessed lighting installed.  I used three Ostwin 6" LED lights to replace one very old ceiling sconce. This might be the first time that far corner has gotten adequate light. I was initially thinking this was an overkill amount of lighting, but now I think it works to give the area a much bigger feel. Additionally, I also put the lights on a three-way switch to allow operation from either end of the room.  There are two additional recessed lights I'm nearly done adding on a four-way switch to operate at the top and bottom of the stairs as well as at the walkout entry door. I have the remainder of the electrical in place and will be finishing up the drywall hanging. In hindsight, I really should have bought the big bucket of dry...

Now if I could only cut the outlet holes consistently properly twice.

It is interesting that we can get a daily account of the number of cases of Covid19. For the most part we get a reporting of the total number of cases and the number of new cases.  Being I live in Minnesota, I track this data the most. As reported in the news, testing is limited and the data likely does not reflect the true coronavirus infections; testing seems to focus on capturing the worst cases. Still, there are some interesting things to tease out, even if you're playing with just the news reported data. My disclaimer here is that I'm doing minimal analysis and really when it's this early in the "pandemic" I'm trying not to let the "Belief in Small Numbers" [Kahneman and Tversky 1971] cause me to jump to any conclusions.  Also, I apologize that my graphs aren't as fancy as, say, the Star Tribune's or the Johns Hopkins app. Frankly, I'm feeling kind of lazy towards a fancy visualization tonight. Looking at the total num...

Welcome to the Greater Depression. Image from Yahoo! Finance on 3/16/2020

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Here's an earworm for today. I hope the traditional Pi day food is in greater supply today than toilet paper and hand sanitizer! 100 Digits of Pi

Russell 2000 Index. Cross-hairs are centered on election day 2016. Graph is a screen capture from Yahoo! Finance taken on March 11, 2020 Just a quick view to show that the stock market is back to where it was on election day 2016. Perhaps this will be brief, but I think this corona virus thing is just getting going. The graph is for the Russell 2000 index, a very large and comprehensive list of stocks. The DOW is doing a little better, but the regularly change out companies for better performing ones. The stink of it is a lot of the big tax cuts from 2017 were likely invested and have been lost. Tax cuts should be given to those who will use it to buy bread and not to gamble on the economy.