July 28th, 2020
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Coverboy More Fun Than A Cat With A Ball Of Yarn
This Is Going to Be Weird Week...
By Daddy
Las Vegas — The wound nurse didn't show up on Friday because of car problems so she's going to make an appearance on Sunday. The wound clinic is going to be closed on Monday so we're moving to Tuesday. Since we're doing the wound clinic on Tuesday the wound nurse gets moved to Thursday and Saturday. However, no Angiogram on Thursday so it all works out. BTW: All the patients Angiograms got canceled on Thursday, which should be an interesting tale. The hospital schedulers on both sides are not amused.
I just finished Day 48 of the SwiftUI. For those that are wondering why keep bringing this up; one of the rules is: "Every day you post about your progress to the social media site of your choosing. Tell people!" Since I'm not on instagram or facebook, this the closest I can come to meeting the rule.
Day 48 brought back a lot of memories as it was how to draw things in SwiftUI. My first job was creating Fire maps. We had a card punch operator that would created cards with information about each landmark that needed to be on the map. I was responsible for writing the Fortran program to convert the map data. Both decks of cards would be submitted to a Univac 1108. If the program didn't having any syntax errors, I'd get back a magnetic tape a day later. That tape would go to a Calcomp plotter and It'd get back a D Sized drawing (22" x 34"). The only reference material was in several 8 1/2 x 11" binders and the only training was by experimenting.
Fast forward forty-five years. What used to take a computer in a large dedicated room with a cost in the neighborhood of a million dollars, now sits on my desk at about 7.7" square since it's a 2012 model it runs about $300 used. It's faster, has more processors, with a lot more memory, and much more disk space. The reference manuals and the training are now all online. Testing a program happens in seconds instead of days. Much the same things as what I did in the 70s; just a few bells and whistles added in. That perhaps explains how I'm tearing through the course that or I'm having more fun than kitten with ball of yarn!
The Flirt4free commission arrived and I'm Watching every penny and barely scraping by, but should be able to make it through the end of the month. To all those that have donated, Thank you! Any help is appreciated. Here's a link to the How to Donate Page which has been updated with the new address.
'RuPaul's Drag Race' Is Launching Yet Another TV Show
By Staff
Unknown — Premiering on August 21, RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue is a six-episode docuseries revolving around the RuPaul's Drag Race Live! residency. That show launched earlier this year (we loved it) and cast show alum as its stars. (More)
Olivia De Havilland Embodied Old Hollywood, and Shook It Up
By Hillel Italie (AP)
Unknown — She was one of Hollywood's most glamorous stars and determined off-screen fighters. No one was better suited than Olivia de Havilland to play the sainted Melanie Wilkes in "Gone With the Wind" or more tenacious about the right to appear in the films of her choosing. (More)
British Actors Who Play Brothers on ‘Emmerdale’ Revealed to Be Dating in Real Life
By Staff
BBC — A source told the paper: “They were cast as brothers and are really alike and have been joking that casting did a great job. The boys kept in touch after Kris finished on the show but they’ve spent a lot of time together over summer. It’s early days but they’re really enjoying themselves and who knows what the future holds.” (More)
Conservatives Are Refusing to Use Wrapping Paper Now Because of the Gays
By Bil Browning
Cyberspace — It must be hard to be a conservative Christian. All of the nonstop boycotts must make it difficult to go shopping for a gift. Now that won’t be such a problem though since the latest target of the religious right is wrapping paper, cards, and Christmas ornaments. (More)
Billy Eichner Will Play Paul Lynde in New Biopic “Man in the Box”
By Christopher Rudolph
Hollywood — Billy Eichner revealed that he will be playing TV icon Paul Lynde in the new biopic Man in the Box. The Difficult People star is developing the project with producer Tom McNulty, and they have optioned a script by Edwin Cannistraci. (More)
Legislature Expands Gender-Neutral Bathroom Mandate
By Lucy Nicholon (Reuters)
Albany — One year after the New York State Legislature required single-occupancy bathrooms in state-owned buildings to be gender-neutral, lawmakers took things a big step further with new legislation that expands that requirement to public accommodations like bars, restaurants, and more. (More)
Nyle DiMarco Announces New Netflix Reality Series Deaf U
By Taylor Henderson
Streaming — I’m excited to finally announce my Netflix series as an executive producer, with you all," DiMarco wrote on Twitter. "Deaf U is a coming-of-age documentary series following a tight-knit group of deaf students at Gallaudet University, a renowned private college for the deaf and hard of hearing, in D.C." (More)
Twitter Allowed 1,000 People to Access Internal Tools
By Lawrence Avery
Cyberspace — The social media company Twitter took a casual approach to security, allowing access to its most sensitive internal tools to more than 1,000 people, including outside contractors, according to a report by the news agency Reuters on Thursday. Those tools would allow those with access to alter user account settings, or even give control of those accounts to other people, according tl tyhe report. (More)
LGBTQ+ Voters Could Decide Key 2020 Races
By Sarah Kate Ellis
.UNITED STATES — If every LGBTQ+ person voted in November, Donald Trump would soon be a bad memory. We are just 100 days away from the most consequential election of our lifetime. On November 3, voters will decide if we will maintain the status quo or if we will turn the page on this dark moment in American history. As LGBTQ+ people, we can’t afford to be complacent. We must get educated, engaged, and turn out in record numbers. (More)
