I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
fixmyquarantine.com
fixmyquarantine.com
One minor quibble..."Outbreak" is a terrible movie, bad enough that I'd say don't bother with it. Some good actors, but writing terrible enough that it doesn't help. "Contagion", on the other hand is very well researched, with better acting. It's also interesting how many of the sub-plots and terminology are happening in real life, right now.
Personally, I watched it for the first time about a week ago, and was hoping for a movie that was primarily about a virus outbreak. Which it was, for the first hour or so. After that it became a generic (and comically over-dramatic) 90s action movie about the military being bad or something. I wouldn't say it's unwatchable, and it's definitely helped by its all-star cast, but I would agree that if you want to watch a movie about a virus outbreak, you're better off watching Contagion.
Are we saying 'want to watch a movie about a virus outbreak'means needing near documentary accuracy with some components? I look at film as a total free for all artistic/author's thing. Cristicising with that in mind seems a bit.. I'm not even sure what to say. I would say yes lazy writing where gaping hard to follow plots or oddball scenes can be difficult but even those are sort of fun if you like experimenting with alternate mindsets. 'The Room' comes to mind. Not 'Room'.
To be clear I don't know anything about how to watch movies properly... so maybe I'm messing up.
Cheers
I was just relaying my own personal experience with the film — it wasn't really what I expected, and as much as I love the silliness of 90s movies, it just fell a bit flat for me.
"I want to know just one thing. Can you read electron micrographs as well as you can run?"
"Captain Salt, if you fail to observe strict decontamination protocol, three things can happen. First, you can be court-martialed. Second, you can die from this horrible disease. Third, and worst of all, you can incur my displeasure"
Ugh.
"nobody talks like this"
This is a game introduced to me by a 4 year old. You take turns saying "nobody talks like this" in the most ridiculous and creative voices you can conjure up. I guess the winner is the one that doesn't soil themselves, it is seriously funny hearing what kids will come up with!
As you mention, Contagion is REALLY well done. Google a bit, and you'll find the people behind that. There's a reason it rings true with current events.
That made my day. Thank you.
Even during the heyday of LiveJournal or whatever, I loved having bookmarks where I could look in on whatever fun/interesting/amusing links people had shared recently. While there are some still kicking, it seems like most of that content has either gone to aggregators or meta-forums like reddit/HN and to the trickle-feeds of Facebook and its spawn.
There's something to be said for a list or RSS feed of these kinds of sites and I think it's a shame they're not as prominent as they once were. I'm glad when anyone decides to put up a new one.
If it's helpful for the author I was able to do a quick fix for myself with Stylus by adding: body { text-align: center; }
Another option would be warping everything that needs to be centered in a div and putting the align attribute on that.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=055:52:58 is the order to stir the cryo tanks
I’ve already seen the YouTube videos you recommend, but I like your music selection!
Not quite, to type the first cap you will need right shift :)
sigh.
That's what midnight UTC is in my timezone (US Central).
FYI This is going to trigger some people as they go nuts if they see someone on the street. I guess it's good that might trigger some discussions on the overzealous people.
PS: The secret link is the best
I don't know why these two comments bothered me so much, I guess I generally expect better discussion from the community.
ON TOPIC, Cool site, I got a chuckle out of the link, information was presented nicely, I felt like there was enough content without overwhelming me while still having enough to keep me entertained.
The government has put up a site where they update stats daily, it's in Spanish though
Same with anything these days, it seems.
We are not facing an existential threat.
The next pandemic? That might be worse. But rising ocean levels are pretty bad.