Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Tue
--   6:45a  Up
--   7:35a  Leaving to bike, then pickup breakfast @McD
--   7:40a  Having trouble with internet and in car I heard on the radio that Comcast 
is having serious problems which are also affecting WBBM-AM. 
At first I thought my radio was broken but I'm able to listen 
to the station on the FM version.
--   7:50a  I was able to connect to the internet at McD.
--   8:31a  Inside after biking 3+2;   Breakfast @home: hotcakes and sausage
The internet seems to be back up
--   9:02a  Inside after biking 2 mi;  "Kelly & Ryan" ...
--   9:20a  "Jimmy Kimmel"
-- 10:02a  "The View"
-- 11:14a  Skim Ch2 news;  No word on what caused the Comcast outage
-- 11:39a  "Big Leap, The" ...
Although they are supposed to be in Detroit, the opening scene was filmed
outside LaSalle Florists on LaSalle & Superior.
-- 12:30p  Went out to move planter into garage.  Neighbor got painter to help.
Then biked 3 mi.
--   1:00p  Arrived to pickup lunch @McD:  Free chicken sandwich (for Nat'l Chicken Sandwich Day)
--   1:09p  Then I went to BK to get a free chicken sandwich, but I couldn't get the app to work.
It lets me click on "Add to mobile order" but there is no evidence that an order exists.
There is no place to review it, or checkout.  And the employees have no clue.
--   1:38p  Got gas
--   1:46p  Went to a 2nd BK but still had no luck
--   2:00p  Home;  Lunch @home: chicken sandwich (from McD)
--   2:30p  Inside after biking 2 mi
--   3:18p  "Inside Edition"
--   3:45p  "Seth Meyers"
--   4:31p  Skim Ch7 news
--   5:34p  "Stephen Colbert"
--   6:32p  "ET"
--   7:06p  "4400"

They showed a printout with a very small amount of computer code.  My assumption was
that it was COBOL.  Then, one of the characters, who was probably born around 1995, says
that no one has used COBOL since the '70s.  But an article written this year says there
are about a billion lines of new COBOL code being written every year.  And the
most recent update of the language seems to be from 2014.  But I don't know why that
character would recognize COBOL.

--   8:42p  "Resident, The"
-- 10:21p  Skim Ch5 news
-- 10:39p  "Jimmy Fallon"
-- 10:48p  "Jimmy Kimmel"
-- 11:55p  Bed
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