Author: Thomas DelMundo
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Personal Protective Equipment for COVID19
First off, COVID19 is not a truly deadly pathogen for a majority of healthy people. So avoiding the virus is not as personally important to me as recovering from infection. That said, for Health Care and 1st Responders who have to go into hot-zones frequently, it’s important. Here’s protective guidelines from the CDC https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/respirator-use-faq.html I…
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Prequal to I am Legend
I hear Will Smith is working on a prequal to “I am legend”. The working title is, COVID-19
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Ok boomer
Insightful words from a Millennial. I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue…
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Elon Musk: Super-Villain
A young Elon Musk dreamed of living on Mars. When he earned millions after selling PayPal to Ebay, he started SpaceX to get him into space. He soon realized his millions weren’t enough to get to Mars, so he started Tesla to sell cars and generate the millions more needed to fund SpaceX. That’s Super-Villain level planning right there.…
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The Mandalorian Season 1 Finale Letdown
I’m still looking forward to season 2 but Favreau writing on the season finale was….disappointing. It started strong with a funny scene with Jason Sideikus and Adam Pally as stormtroopers who can’t shoot worth a damn. But the back half is full of plot holes and inexplicable character decisions. 1. Why reveal Djin’s face? Ever.…
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X-Wing and T.I.E. Fighter Costume
This Halloween, my daughter wanted to be R2D2 and my son wanted to be a Stormtrooper so I created cardboard costumes for my kids this Christmas. We created a family costume of the Death Star Trench Run from SW4. The T.I.E. pilot, Darth Vader and R2D2 costumes were a mix of toy-store costumes, SW branded merch and airsoft tactical…
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Federal help NOT wanted for homeless problem
I agree with my State Senator, Scott Weiner, that the Feds shouldn’t get involved with the homeless problem in California. But that’s because our State and San Francisco politicians should and must clean up the mess THEY created. As to arguments by some that stricter First Time Home Buyer Loans (FHA) makes the Homeless problem…