What are you doing during quarantine?

[weirdoguy]

I'm building a model And learning chemistry, which was my very first scientific passion. Love revived after 15 years.

 

[DennisN]

I'm building a model

It looks very cool and very fun! I like building models myself, but I assemble plastic kit models. Are you building your model from scratch, i.e. making the parts yourself? And are you modelling a particular ship? Since there are two gun decks, I guess you are building a second rate ship of the line. And what material are you using, wood? Or cardboard, perhaps?

 

[f95toli]

I'm working from home and so is my team. I've been very busy the past couple of days with hours of online meetings (Teams, Skype, Zoom...), planning, shutting down my lab and making sure everyone in my team is doing OK.
One of my PhD students is due to finish in the autumn and she was in the middle her last experiment. She was getting some very nice data and was not at all happy about having to stop; so trying to keep her motivated has been an important part of my job today.

 

[weirdoguy]

Are you building your model from scratch

Nope, it's a wooden kit from OcCre and the ship is called Montanes: here's a link. I'm also collecting pieces of Soleil Royal from DeAgostini collection. I want to add some extra things to that model like interiors and LED lights. I'm very inspired by this czech modeler Doris: here is an example of her work - Sovereign Of The Seas. She builds most of her models from card. She's so extremely talented, just look at this interior of her Royal Caroline model:

A piece of art! More photos here. Model making was my huge fascination when I was a teenager and Montanes and Soleil Royal models will be some sort of a homage to that part of my life. I don't plan on making any other ship models in the future so I focus most of my modelling energy on these two. Most but not all, because I have another fascination - shipyard cranes - and I plan to build some models of them too. Sometimes it's good to be an adult and have your own money

 

[hutchphd]

A question of etiquette: among serious builders of miniatures (particularly architectural/historical ones) what is the general attitude towards use of mechanically printed stuff (either flat or 3D) particularly for textures for siding, roofs, etc. Is there an agreed upon demarcation line? I have dabbled in railroad diorama.

 

[hagopbul]

This is the scope trace taken this week of simulating an underwater blast wave with a ballistic pressure wave.

A paper published some time ago (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889974697901031) predicted that spheres would create blast-like waves in high speed water entry. Technical details complicated experimental ideas until we found a simpler solution. Water entry needs to be vertical and few facilities are high enough for the distance required for a sphere to separate from a sabot or patch. But a 50 caliber lead sphere can be loaded directly into a muzzle loader without a patch or sabot to facilitate the experiment in labs with normal ceilings.

So, this week, we are using 18th century technology in a 21st century experiment to confirm a 20th century prediction and invent a practical device for simulating underwater blast waves in the lab. Yes, the powder gets poured down the barrel and the round ball pushed in after it. There is a bit of smoke. But on the whole, the time between trials as well as the cost and effort of the experiment are much lower than our previous invention. ( https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4922828 )

cant download the paper from science direct , but sound very interesting indeed

 

[kyphysics]

@kyphysics , @Jarvis323 ,
How are you both feeling, by the way? I'm feeling much better, my cold seems to be going away rather quickly.

@kyphysics , I'm actually going to install the latest version of Cities: Skylines and play it today. And I will be very careful to not cut down on healthcare in the city I will build.

Hey that's great! Any linger symptoms at all? If you wouldn't mind, maybe you can review your entire experience of symptoms.

I am up and down. Yesterday, I got extremely "weak" in my muscles again. I felt I could barely lift my arms for some reason and had cough again. But, that came after what I thought was a day or two of no symptoms. I'm a bit confused. Not sure what's happening with my body. It doesn't seem consistent with the virus, because fever is usually a common and ubiquitous symptom. I've never had a fever on any day. However, I've had singularly or some combination of:

--muscle weakness
--shortness of breath
--burning sensation in chest
--"weird" feeling in chest (hard to describe)
--coughing

No running nose or eyes. No fever. Also, I think I had a gap in those symptoms where I had a day or two where I felt nothing (no symptoms at all). Then, suddenly, yesterday I had two come up. Today they are mostly gone.

Very, very weird. I called my urgent care and they said I could try to get tested at the E.R., but it would be a "gamble." I may not meet the criteria. I've also seen an opinion (just a personal one, not medical) online that if you're not having trouble breathing and in a dire situation, it's BETTER to just self-isolate, because you MIGHT GET IT if you go to a health center (with others who have it). :)

So, far, I'm staying home. I've had family members come over to eat, but that's it. Feeling okay today, so hope that lasts. I really do wonder if I contracted a MILD FORM of the virus.

Hope you're having fun on Cities/Skylines!

 

[Mondayman]

Struggling with the lack of hockey. The NHL is shut down, as my Bruins lead the league. Our drop in games and ball hockey league are cancelled. Canadian problems.

 

[hagopbul]

Hey that's great! Any linger symptoms at all? If you wouldn't mind, maybe you can review your entire experience of symptoms.

I am up and down. Yesterday, I got extremely "weak" in my muscles again. I felt I could barely lift my arms for some reason and had cough again. But, that came after what I thought was a day or two of no symptoms. I'm a bit confused. Not sure what's happening with my body. It doesn't seem consistent with the virus, because fever is usually a common and ubiquitous symptom. I've never had a fever on any day. However, I've had singularly or some combination of:

--muscle weakness
--shortness of breath
--burning sensation in chest
--"weird" feeling in chest (hard to describe)
--coughing

No running nose or eyes. No fever. Also, I think I had a gap in those symptoms where I had a day or two where I felt nothing (no symptoms at all). Then, suddenly, yesterday I had two come up. Today they are mostly gone.

Very, very weird. I called my urgent care and they said I could try to get tested at the E.R., but it would be a "gamble." I may not meet the criteria. I've also seen an opinion (just a personal one, not medical) online that if you're not having trouble breathing and in a dire situation, it's BETTER to just self-isolate, because you MIGHT GET IT if you go to a health center (with others who have it). :)

So, far, I'm staying home. I've had family members come over to eat, but that's it. Feeling okay today, so hope that lasts. I really do wonder if I contracted a MILD FORM of the virus.

Hope you're having fun on Cities/Skylines!

just a question :
do you live alone
did you talk to your family
are you eating well
shouldn't you call some kind of doctor or do a PCR test

 

[Jarvis323]

@kyphysics , @Jarvis323 ,
How are you both feeling, by the way? I'm feeling much better, my cold seems to be going away rather quickly.

@kyphysics , I'm actually going to install the latest version of Cities: Skylines and play it today. And I will be very careful to not cut down on healthcare in the city I will build.

I'm feeling fine now. Glad to hear you're feeling better as well.

 

[hagopbul]

i wondering why it is spread to 155 countries ? so fast ?
and what good from border level isolation after it is spreading to all this countries , shouldn't we send resources more easily on larger geographical scale after all this self quarantining and self isolating if there is one country with problems it will spread to the glob , because we didnt stop SARS we have now SARS-ncov-2

 

[DennisN]

Hey that's great! Any linger symptoms at all? If you wouldn't mind, maybe you can review your entire experience of symptoms.

Hi @kyphysics , my symptoms have been:

• Running nose (very runny)
• Stuffy nose
• Sneezing
• Mild fever for 2-3 days
• A bit of a sore throat
• A very slight burning sensation in the chest (I wouldn't have thought of it if you didn't mention it)

The only things I have at the moment is a mildly sore throat and a very slight burning sensation in the chest, and these symptoms are barely noticeable.

 

[DennisN]

A question of etiquette: among serious builders of miniatures (particularly architectural/historical ones) what is the general attitude towards use of mechanically printed stuff (either flat or 3D) particularly for textures for siding, roofs, etc. Is there an agreed upon demarcation line? I have dabbled in railroad diorama.

I can't say I consider myself very serious, but my opinion is pretty much anything goes. I'd say, if it looks nice and is reasonably accurate, then why not?
I don't do any railroad things, I build spaceships (Star Wars/Star Trek) and some naval ships. I also do some figures. Personally I prefer the painting part over the building part. I love to paint models, which I do with airbrush nowadays.

 

[Dr Transport]

New York is closing down, I just relocated to Connecticut and they are closing down as of Monday night. Defense industry is exempt, so I am good, but my lovely bride is calling me from halfway across the country and begging me not to go out.

I ran to the office to pick up my laptop so that I can work from home, stopped at the store, people are flipping out, they won't touch anything without a bleach wipe in hand and the lady ahead of me came back to tell me that she only touched the credit card machine with a wipe.

My old job is having a mandatory "muster" every morning via email to make sure people are working. I guess that management charging $200+ an hour trying to keep track of people is a good outlay of federal dollars. I'd have been OK, they'd have had to pay me, they wouldn't get me a laptop when I asked for one and I blocked my bosses number in my phone because he was calling me at home to chew me out for his half baked ideas not panning out..

Such is life, I'll be working from home while I can get a vpn slot and when I can't makeup some fake data and spend some time on writing tools for when we get back into the office full time.

 

[kyphysics]

Hi @kyphysics , my symptoms have been:

• Running nose (very runny)
• Stuffy nose
• Sneezing
• Mild fever for 2-3 days
• A bit of a sore throat
• A very slight burning sensation in the chest (I wouldn't have thought of it if you didn't mention it)

The only things I have at the moment is a mildly sore throat and a very slight burning sensation in the chest, and these symptoms are barely noticeable.

Regarding the slight burning sensation, its' very interesting.

I've NEVER felt this before ...ever, I don't think. As I said in my post, it's very weird and hard to describe. And, I myself had not thought to bring it up either, before I heard another person online say they felt it and thought he had a mild case of COVID19.

That's why I wrote perhaps I have a mild case as well. The symptoms aren't getting worse, but have lingered in sort of on and off days. Given that, I'm not going to go see a doctor, as I agree with the advice that unless you're very sick, it's probably best to just let your body self-heal. If you go in for a doctor's visit, you MIGHT GET COVID19 just hanging out in the waiting rooms.

I do hope you symptoms entirely disappear soon and glad they seem to be somewhat diminishing.

Thank you for doing these updates. I find this very therapeutic and shall update again in a few days.

 

[berkeman]

Finally serviced my mountain bike (MTB) shifter lever pawls, thanks to this very helpful YouTube video. Heading out to climb some muddy hills tomorrow, and then doing some more work at home (yes, on a Sunday)...

 

[davenn]

cant leave home , but still want to travel ?

Fire up Google Earth and start doing some street or aerial views of some
places around the world of interest to you.

SLAC Stanford accelerator, California, USA

Or maybe Zurich

exploring new places is easy and a lot of fun, you can wile away many hours just wandering around the planetDave

 

[Marc Rindermann]

our university is transitioning to online delivery. However, physics labs, as of Friday last week, are still going ahead as normal. So I'll go into work unless labs are cancelled.

 

[strangerep]

[...] start doing some street or aerial views of some places around the world of interest to you. [...]

Oh, stuff city travel. This is where I'd like to spend the rest of my life, pandemic or not.

Maybe I should try the "virtual home" thing. I.e., install many large UHD flat screens on walls of my home that just cycle through the pictures in that link (and several others in that same area).

 

[davenn]

Oh, stuff city travel. This is where I'd like to spend the rest of my life, pandemic or not.

Havent been there yet, basically it's out of my affordability range

 

[strangerep]

Havent been there yet,

Imho, the reality of most of Hamilton Island is quite disappointing compared to the hype. But that spot in the "Bella Vista" complex, overlooking Fitzalan Passage, is the most hypnotically stunning view I've ever seen in the entire world. Last time I was there, I just wanted to do nothing else but sit on that balcony and gaze at the intensely blue Coral Sea water, literally all day long.

basically it's out of my affordability range

Yes, -- I can barely afford more than a few days at a time (by myself). I was hoping the COVID-19 crash in tourism might force prices down. So far there's only faint signs of that.

But now, an official advisory has been issued against non-essential domestic travel.

 

[Dr. Courtney]

It does my heart good that we're not becoming like "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble." My wife and I did skip our date night this week. Our favorite Mexican restaurant is too tightly packed to maintain the recommended 6 ft distancing. She did play tennis with friends yesterday, and we'll make a careful, short trip out this morning together. I went fishing yesterday. Didn't catch much, but really enjoyed it, and was grateful to be in rural Georgia. People on boats passing by were unusually chatty, and the boat ramp was busy and packed. Still plenty of room out there for safe distancing.

We're using the extra time from not traveling to work and many social closures to put a lot of extra effort in Spring cleaning in anticipation of our adult children returning from college this week. The road trips to get them and car rides back will probably be my greatest risk of exposure this week, up from zero to epsilon, I guess. Not worried. Happy to have them home. Brainstorming ways (other than fishing and mountain biking) to help everyone keep cabin fever at bay in the fluid environment of additional closures stacking up. Will they close the trails? The boat ramps? The tennis courts? The roads? The wildlife areas? Avoiding Walmart as much as possible as the most dangerous place in town. Setting up work areas for each student in the household. We down-sized our home when they went to college, so it will be closer quarters, and even though we home schooled, we'll be spending much more time at home that we are accustomed to. 44 miles on the mountain bike in the last week. But older adults have much more capacity than youths for limited social interaction.

Grateful for income streams that keep flowing working from home.

 

[pinball1970]

Bought a bike yesterday so I can avoid public transport.
Checked my e-mails on a Saturday, something I said I would never do.
Sean Carroll is doing some posts on YT during the crisis (physics not Covid) so I'll be checking them out.
I want to get back into the maths of some of the physics I have been looking at.
Painfully slow but time is something I have right now.

 

[peanut]

Taking the opportunity to write my manuscript.

 

[jtbell]

South Carolina has not (yet?) put "shelter in place" into effect. In fact, no cases of the virus have been reported in my mostly rural county, nor in two of the neighboring counties. The other neighboring counties (with medium sized cities) started reporting cases last week. Still low numbers, nowhere near the major outbreak centers.

Nevertheless, all schools are closed. Colleges and universities have moved to online instruction. The college where I used to teach, and my wife still teaches part time (one course this semester) extended spring break and will resume classes online tomorrow. All restaurants have been ordered to stop dine-in service, and move to takeout and delivery only. Churches have all canceled services or moved them to online live streams. And of course all sorts of public meetings and events have been cancelled.

We can go out and move around with no restrictions except for avoiding close contact with other people, and most essential businesses are open. We stocked up on groceries more than a week ago, and should be able to wait another week to buy more. I've been walking a few miles a day as usual.

Last week I ordered one of Apple's new MacBook Airs to replace my wife's ancient MacBook and make it easier for her to work from home. It's supposed to arrive tomorrow. It will also give me a "test bed" to figure out how to transition from my also-ancient Mac Pro to a new iMac in the near future.

It looks like I won't be making hobby-related day-trips (or longer) any time soon. The last one was a day-trip to Charlotte a couple of weeks ago.

I have plenty of CDs to rip, tag and load into my iTunes library, and CD-booklets to scan to PDF files. When I get tired of that, I'll switch to preparing new material for my hobby website and updating some of the old pages.

 

[jrmichler]

The nearest virus cases are two counties away from my home in northern Wisconsin. All restaurants in the state are closed for dining in, but take out is acceptable. Most retail businesses are closed. The local grocery stores are out of toilet paper, soap, and sanitizer due to panic buying and hoarding. A friend told my wife that the liquor aisle of a grocery store in the next county was completely empty. The local libraries are closed. All public schools and the entire University of Wisconsin system are closed, although they are all attempting to keep going by distance learning.

I have a part time job that allows me to mostly work from home. And I have enough reading material to last for a while:

 

[hagopbul]

finished chapter 2 of the book i was reading hoora
self quarantine , is challenging thing , but it is in the same time some sort of social responsibility , it is day 7 already

what you do in the normal day i don't know , i went out side to buy few stuff , the mini market do not allow anyone in that is good but who knows how much time he can resist the need to gossip with his neighbors

the number of cases is still low about 200 only so here we are ahead of the problem until now

just wondering now there is so much airplanes on the ground do to the travel restriction shouldn't we use them to transport resources around the glob to better contain this problem it is currently in 150 + that means almost all of the glob

best
hagop

 

[pinball1970]

The nearest virus cases are two counties away from my home in northern Wisconsin. All restaurants in the state are closed for dining in, but take out is acceptable. Most retail businesses are closed. The local grocery stores are out of toilet paper, soap, and sanitizer due to panic buying and hoarding. A friend told my wife that the liquor aisle of a grocery store in the next county was completely empty. The local libraries are closed. All public schools and the entire University of Wisconsin system are closed, although they are all attempting to keep going by distance learning.

I have a part time job that allows me to mostly work from home. And I have enough reading material to last for a while:
View attachment 259122

That is your personal library?
Can I just say wow?

 

[Evo]

We are in lockdown ordered by the Mayor. My car has been in the repair shop since Friday, estimate $2,000! I supposedly need an oil cooler and a crankshaft seal. WHAT? I called around and read several places what was needed and only one place would give me an estimate over the phone, everyone else wanted me to bring the car in. The one place (which is the dealership where I bought the car) that was willing to quote me over the phone came in a few hundred less, but I know that they are always packed. The place near me is empty and they came and picked up my car and will deliver it back to my house when the work is completed, hopefully tomorrow, but it left me without a car when the lockdown was announced, but my neighbors said to call if I needed anything and they all brought food, now I have a fridge full of yummy prepared food.

So I am stuffing my face and giving raised bed gardening advice to the guy next door. He wanted to know how many square feet of dirt he'd need for this unit he was buying and asked if I was buying more dirt. I gave him a nice 4' x 4' raised bed last year, then he came over and "borrowed" all of my miracle gro top soil. BORROWED, like I'm ever going to get them back. I had to go out and buy it all again, I said sure he could have a bag, he took them all.

 

[Mary Conrads Sanburn]

Wow! Dear Evo that guy is a jerk! I sure wouldn't call him a gentleman! Look if you need help and are in California I'll send you food and soil. Where I live, every store is open and has plenty of stuff.