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It certainly seems like Hollywood screenwriters have done more "homework" on this topic than our lawmakers. Nevertheless I still couldn't put any trust in the gang that keeps on vomiting out the Enhance That Photo bull$#1+ in so many movies and TV shows. They bend the truth or completely...

The Johns Hopkins University map is looks pretty slick (it kind of reminds of the big nuclear war display in the 1980's movie War Games). Unfortunately some of the data is out of date. It's currently not showing any cases in Colorado when actually the case load nearly doubled from the 30's...

I'm praying this coronavirus thing burns itself out ASAP. I would very much prefer the case numbers to start dropping and make it seem like a relatively minor crisis in retrospect. Hearing complaints and outbursts like "I told you this wasn't nearly as bad as the flu" would be worth it. The...

The funny thing is outbreaks of infectous diseases with higher mortality rates tend to burn themselves out pretty fast. MERS has a pretty high mortality rate, between 25% and 33%. But outbreaks of MERS have been very short and sporadic. The illness has a rapid onset and quickly incapacitates...

I went ahead and installed CorelDRAW 2020 on my notebook PC at home. They really need to work on the preview visuals with how Variable Fonts react with the interactive sliders in the Text Properties palette. It really really sucks compared to the performance of the sliders in Adobe Illustrator...

One concern now from medical professionals is a growing question over flu-related deaths. Due to the sheer lack of coronavirus testing kits nation-wide some COVID-19 deaths may be going mis-diagnosed as flu-related deaths. The lack of testing kits may be allowing a lot of community spread to go...

I watched the "webinar" about the CorelDRAW 2020 Graphics Suite this morning. The presentation was fairly mediocre. There was no interactive Q&A session following the overview. That pretty much means they could have made a video of this presentation for anyone to download or stream at their own...

I can understand the medical professionals and emergency management people being careful about the narrative they choose in delivering information to the public about a given public safety crisis. But they still have to provide timely, consistent and accurate information. That hasn't been...

The mobile phone screen is most definitely a very high touch surface. So is the computer keyboard, mouse, etc. I'm most wary of the high touch surfaces in public places, such as door handles, buttons on an ATM machine, etc.

There was panic back then and even worse panic in previous pandemics (unintentional alliteration there). Epidemiologists, doctors and scientists are very concerned about the potential of what COVID-19 could do if it is not contained. Just because this new virus hasn't already killed millions of...

In other more relevant news the President ordered travel between the US and Europe (except for the UK) suspended for the next 30 days. This evening the NBA announced the rest of the season will be suspended after tonight's games finish. The Thunder vs Jazz game in OKC was nearing tip-off and...

I've been watching a bit of the activity at the CorelDRAW user forum. There is a discussion about CDR 2020 in the CDR 2019 Windows sub-forum. It looks like there were initially some glitches in the download links, but they apparently have them fixed now. Based on what I've seen in the product...

It looks like CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2020 has become available a day earlier than I expected. Corel has two webinars scheduled for tomorrow. The 2020 suite doesn't show up on the front end of Corel's web site. But registered users, particuarly those who signed up for the upgrade protection...

We use Principal LED for a lot of our jobs. They'll put together LED layouts for channel letters and discuss possible solutions for various other kinds of lighting jobs (sign cabinets, border lighting, environmental lighting, etc).

Pendry Script was originally one of the Letraset "Fontek" fonts back in the 1990's. URW distributes it now. URW has also made an identical knock off, the Pentland D font. The old Denba Canvas drawing program included it as part of a 2000 font package of URW fonts. By the way, what was the...

The commissary on the post is decent but plenty of military people shop out in town too. You have to have some form of military ID to shop at the commissary. There's a lot of people here who aren't military. It's difficult enough as it is just to get onto the post to do any business there. Back...

I do have an Amazon Prime account. However, the "Whole Foods of Lawton, Inc" store here was not affiliated with the big Whole Foods Market chain now owned by Amazon. It was just a small, independent "natural foods" store. It closed a few years ago. I don't think the Lawton Fort Sill area is big...

To answer the original question, what would you do if you though you might be infected with the coronavirus? I would likely self-quarantine. I can work from home easy enough. I would also try to think where I might have contracted it and who I was around the previous few days and warn them to...

Scientists are applying the same kind of metrics they're applying to flu cases. The overwhelming majority of people who are affected by the flu do not see a doctor or do anything to document they had the flu. Still the medical community has enough experience dealing with the flu to have a good...

First, I agree the media is doing its best to sensationalize the situation in return for ratings points. But this is nothing new. Compounding the problem, certain politicians are not helping the situation by twisting and distorting the truth to fit their own desired narratives, be it the...