But it's harder to type using a toilet seat

An article on how the keyboards at 2 University of Washington computer labs are super disgusting mentions that “At the [Seattle Public] library’s Central Branch, all 378 public keyboards are wiped daily, cleaned thoroughly once a week and put through the dishwasher once a month on a rotating schedule.”

At my library, no keyboard cleaning is done whatsoever. Now wash your hands.
CORRECTION! Apparently there is keyboard cleaning. Now lick your hands.

Two by two, hands of blue

Driving to work this morning, passed 2 cops at the end of my street, one wearing blue nitrile gloves, maybe for evidence collecting? Also a big City of Redmond Police SUV. What terrible crime has occurred???

Mmm…meat

Outside the Ipanema Grill in Manhattan, we saw a sign reading “[n] kinds of meat”. I think n was eight or ten. Here’s what we could reconstruct of the several sword-borne meat options they brought by:

  • Sausage
  • Bacon-wrapped Turkey
  • Chicken
  • Beef ribs
  • Pork ribs
  • Pork loin
  • Roast beef
  • Skirt steak

We think maybe there were some other beef loin things. All in all, a carnivore’s yum-fest.

Why, yes, I do know because!

I’m so glad I don’t have to deal directly with these people:

We found big differences in transactions registered …. [Your] platform report about 103,105 [items], while [our] platform indicates that deliver [items] about 112,547. As indeed we have a difference of 9,445 [items] in favors of [us]. You know because this difference is so great?

(the answer is, of course, that we’re counting [items] differently; fortunately, the people who ask me understand the answers I give them)

Why I love Kirkus

From a Kirkus review of Baker’s The Numerati:

The propellerheads with whom Baker converses seem a pretty benign bunch, far from the Panopticon-loving Dr. Evils the conspiracy-evoking title suggests.