Bummed about the SWA changes. They were my default domestic carrier. I don’t fly domestically enough for status but maybe time to fly the same alliance for both domestic and international moving forward. #southwest
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COVID in Austin Update (June 15)
The good news for today is the daily numbers aren’t worse than the weekend. 119 new cases today, which seems to be our new normal now. 23 new hospitalizations, so we’ll stay in Stage 4. Our 7-day average is 22.6. The 142 currently hospitalized is a record high. We’re stable with 52 people in the…
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Emoji 13 Coming to WordPress
As of r48048-core, WordPress will polyfill Emoi 13 glyphs on devices that do not support them. What this means is whether or not your viewer’s device is able to display a 🫀 or not, you can include one on your WordPress site and it’ll display for them. You have stuff to do — like feed…
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The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
In the news recently is a group of Longhorns student-athletes who, among other things, have asked The University of Texas at Austin to stop singing The Eyes of Texas. The Eyes of Texas is rooted as satire making fun of then-University President Prather who used the phrase “The eyes of Texas are upon you” in…
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COVID in Austin Update (June 14)
The good news is our death rate remains relatively low and stable. Our 7-day average for deaths is an even 1, which is middle of the road over the last few months. We’ve stayed under 1 for long periods of time, but also been as high as 2.4. The bad news is, well, the rest…
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COVID in Austin Update (June 13)
It’s a Saturday and weekend days have traditionally been “better” as results tend to back up to spike early in the week. Austin saw 147 new cases reported today, which is the all-time second highest after Tuesday’s 161. On the hospitalization front, better news both in number of those hospitalized dipped from 134 yesterday to…
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Covid in Austin Update (June 12)
I’ve been commenting on Austin’s daily report on Twitter; moving that to my site. To catch up, this has been a week. We’re just far enough out from Memorial Day and the increased re-openings to see the impact from the additional human interaction. This week, we saw new cases reported at relatively high numbers. Prior…