GIT for Windows

Having somehow installed git for windows a long time ago, I am now happily realizing that it runs fine from the DOS command line. That is all I need, except for some clues.

This guide is fucking amazing and the bomb: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

Here is how I fixed my "git clone fatal: unable to access SSL certificate problem unable to get local issuer certificate" problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23885449/unable-to-resolve-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate-using-git-on-windows

This seems to indicate that plain notepad should work for the git commit message editor, and also that I can just fuck the git commit message editor by using the -m argument with my commits: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10564/how-can-i-set-up-an-editor-to-work-with-git-on-windows

This article showed me how to get around the HTTP Basic: access denied problem that was occurring due to the recent change in my NDC password. There are lots of seriously important suggestions here, but I just did the one where I directly enter my user name and password into the https link to my repository: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47860772/gitlab-remote-http-basic-access-denied-and-fatal-authentication

My main reason for getting git for Windows is so that I would be able to add all my files at once to my next project instead of one at a time through the web interface. Of course it's not easy, and the info was buried in the greatest tutorial in the world so I just googled it and found the relevant Stack Overflow thread. I used the commands "git add ." and "git -a -m "message"" method instead of the other fancier looking methods in this thread:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19576116/how-to-add-multiple-files-to-git-at-the-same-time

May Diversions

Politics:
An actual courtroom confession by Barr? Why isn't this getting more coverage? No wonder he's afraid to go back for additional testimony:
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/1/1854621/-Sen-Harris-gets-AG-Barr-to-admit-he-never-even-reviewed-the-underlying-evidence-in-Mueller-Report?detail=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3HeRX6m-akxCrCBehBojNDHLN1wFsHp5ZuMQhRa6oaSb9tukZe5Bnpk7A

Buttigieg has been campaigning in California, which puts him
in competition with Kamila Harris for rich donors:
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/05/09/buttigieg-california-donors-1313119

Why Biden is a terrible candidate:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/60087798_593822484359870_7134417299766771712_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=f1b8efdd7abe42b65060b6f45a4c4783&oe=5D5DCAE3

I hope I'm not losing free views over this article. Somebody tries to link Democrats vs. Trump to some Roman guy who fell into a trap, but without providing any proof that there even is a trap and what it might be:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/like-hannibal-of-antiquity-trump-is-baiting-the-democrats-into-fighting-on-his-turf/2019/05/10/7f1addfa-7348-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html?utm_term=.52469ccd5d99





An article from shortly after the fire which does an amazing job enumerating what survived:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/04/17/notre-dame-damage/?fbclid=IwAR0FjXt8VZ9Lzm1bZUNsVNU_bS6-GUnTu5Q9baJ2zwYV4fMJ9IHpoPG1Naw

Also:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/arts/music/notre-dame-organ-fire.html?fbclid=IwAR0uZVrqmAJmJDUelYFoncimZQEfg_zxpTxBM0x5kGmiTWPwsnY7ioqhhxs

I couldn't figure out how to insert an inline picture in the new OWA. It turns out that there is just a little icon of a picture in the frame for every compose window!:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/office-365-emails-inserting-pictures-inline/0b7b54d8-e32e-431d-8065-48b3d41a2638

There seems to be no way to have a blank cell be the result of a formula. The only real answer is to have the negative result of a formula be a special word, value, or character, and then key on that as needed later:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18768020/if-statement-how-to-leave-cell-blank-if-condition-is-false-does-not-work



PewDiePie, a trash human being, is shocked that murders are being committed in his name:
https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/28/pewdiepie-asks-for-end-to-meme/?sr_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3qpXQDvpAl-gBUJBWh2zNTpYFwxWNKaCy8Z6FtJfV1d68EgwDydc-a2pg

A nice picture of Marcia:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10218233018554166&id=1151141007&anchor_composer=false

The incredible "one take" tap number, and some of the background behind it:
https://twistedsifter.com/videos/nicholas-brothers-jumpin-jive-cab-calloway-stormy-weather/?fbclid=IwAR2hP8sxPr7n0yw01_TXGpHegINhAyFlcnPn2RsQwxcbxSQpEMOAxKbnKII#.XGM5Wdkrhrc.facebook

A strange satellite experiment. It shot a harpoon, at itself!
https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/02/15/experimental-british-satellite-tests-harpoon-in-orbit/

Wait, Candice has non-Hodgkins Lymphoma???
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2309243582693608&id=1988646198086683&anchor_composer=false

Even worse behavior than usual by a fraternity:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/swarthmore-fraternities-rape-attic.html

Some interesting answers about comparing well drilling charities (the question implies more than one but I've only found one):
https://www.quora.com/Which-charitable-water-well-drilling-organizations-in-Third-World-countries-are-most-effective

The new malaria vaccine that we've been hearing about turns out to be only 39% effective. It's good that they are distributing it anyhow:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/malaria-vaccine-rollout-is-a-gamble-an-imperfect-tool-used-imperfectly/?fbclid=IwAR0bB-diPrVjP-cB3yqcpFQEDcsJVcZ5LTTgSiFG76BbXtQGx_1LHEYgNzc

The article about the latest AIDS treatment news has the words "end to the epidemic":
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/02/end-to-aids-in-sight-as-huge-study-finds-drugs-stop-hiv-transmission?CMP=soc_567&fbclid=IwAR2OkF2ZaaqqGXLFrOv8gkQQJZqITONSMRLf5g6gADCrWRLmt1Jj2wWddvY

This Pokemon wiki has long episode plot descriptions that, while not quite accurate sometimes, answered my questions about the story arc of the latest series:
https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_the_Series:_Sun_%26_Moon_-_Ultra_Adventures
https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Seasons

The exciting news about the new Denisovan fossil. Note that the Ars article is a really good explanation of how modern science is being used to link these widely scattered fossils together:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/finally-a-denisovan-specimen-from-somewhere-beyond-denisova-cave/?fbclid=IwAR3XBpyzWB5PU1ylg_yjQFdluvPMp3RE9H2imWFp0X4X11zRUBVetdqRYT8

The link to CFIN's farm:
https://www.communityecologyinstitute.org/community-ecology-center.html
https://www.facebook.com/communityecologyinstitute/

This article about a post-midlife author is so breathless and namedroppy that it could have been written in 1922. Oh, it's the New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/david-brooks-conversion-story?utm_source=pocket-newtab

The comments are 10 pages of griping about how much threads on Twitter suck:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/bl391m/elon_musk_on_twitter_spacex_needs_to_demonstrate/

On the anniversary of Neil Armstrong's ejection from the LLRV, the many gifs of the event promoted me to do some research:
https://www.airspacemag.com/videos/armstrongs-close-call/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle

Chernobyl has been in the news this week for some reason. The abandoned towns in the exclusion zone are a popular photography subject, but even the eerie images can't overcome the banality of the presentation in this article:
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-abandoned-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-after-nuclear-disaster-david-mcmillan-2019-4?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=auddev-test12348&fbclid=IwAR0h2g_78kXAXbXh_58pr94qMY0p4YOZM2c8x-zrGW6MzIlK53D4kidt2Q8#then-on-april-26-1986-a-reactor-at-the-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-in-ukraine-exploded-shooting-out-toxic-radioactive-particles-across-parts-of-europe-4

The New Yorker history, brought on by the HBO drama about Chernobyl:
https://paidpost.newyorker.com/article/chernobyl?fbclid=IwAR224GxwAqwtJ1o-npud0cYgJJNQwDmlTh0aX3IyG0O35bZyvLAOA0ozia0

A nice analysis of The Beatles' 'Help' vocal layering:
https://www.culturesonar.com/the-beatles-help-breaking-down-the-vocal-tricks/?fbclid=IwAR39sDSgT6U2pPOFzhVH0c8Tg7dWMFNNUUjO8_5EpAV64Ixo-kLqRYyzmSo

The "Alzheimer's is prions" crowd claims success in a recent study, although I don't see how age-related drops in protein levels support this theory:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/05/414326/alzheimers-disease-double-prion-disorder-study-shows?fbclid=IwAR0l4gtrt6FDSZC8yR5JgzpUgEnoEST0uRQv5FE8fcOoUWMxVXNcVGIsyHw

A new experiment with superionic ice uses X-ray crystallography to verify the structure of samples created in a few billionths of a second. This stuff supposedly exists in quantity in gas giants:
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-giant-lasers-crystallize-shockwaves-revealing.amp

Jalebi links:
An article about history and ethnicity:
https://www.thelongestwayhome.com/blog/food-around-the-world/nepalese/jalebi/
The Wikipedia article:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalebi
A recipe:
https://m.recipes.timesofindia.com/recipes/jalebi/rs53099699.cms
A recipe on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wuJYFCN9P8
This article mentions jabeli at a North Laurel Indian market that seems no longer to exist:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/laurel/ph-ll-ethnic-markets-1128-20131125-story.html

A "new type of endlessly recycable plastic", PDK, is a clever bit of chemical engineering. More soluble than recyclable, it at least has close to 100% recoverability of its component chemicals, when soaked in acid FOR 12 STINKING HOURS:
https://www.sciencealert.com/at-last-we-have-a-plastic-that-can-be-efficiently-recycled-over-and-over-again/amp

The "Minecraft Browser Game" in this article looks like a lame repackaging of disappointing PiCraft, but some of the related links at the bottom of the article on other Minecraft topics look interesting:
https://kotaku.com/minecraft-is-now-a-browser-game-is-still-good-1834611805/amp

I guess that I need to read the links in this article to really understand what happened in "WW2's strangest battle":
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/that-time-when-americans-and-germans-fought-together-during-world-war-ii

Spoiler for the stupid coffee cup controversy:
https://hypebeast.com/2019/5/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-starbucks-cup-origin?amp=1

This Chinese sci-fi movie is on netflix and sounds interesting:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/netflix-stealth-dropped-chinese-sci-fi-blockbuster-the-1834565000?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=io9_facebook&fbclid=IwAR3nfCpt20HVl9xVeW0zmNeFaWG-h2quZI1-_oAkdKbMFtwgppdu7wAi3xE
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_wandering_earth

A really great history of the research into the Cosmic Background Radiation. It was discovered while building the first microwave telecommunication network, and among other things we have learned is that the plane of our solar system is aligned with it?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/50-years-with-the-big-bangs-smoking-gun/?fbclid=IwAR2skkSXG41R1gGOpCwj-KLvrggLWYG6WFnaM3uHZBbq_EcgjH1qyvZ8tNo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil_(cosmology)

Some more background on the seizure of the North Korean ship. It was trying to sell coal to raise money for the country: https://www.foxnews.com/world/ap-explains-whats-behind-rare-us-seizure-of-n-korea-ship.amp

Very intact anglo-saxon grave found in England: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/09/britains-equivalent-to-tutankhamun-found-in-southend-on-sea

Some research, some cheap shots at the "Gut Doctor Begs You To Throw Out This One Vegetable" ads on webpages: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/8/18537279/chum-box-weird-sponsored-links-gut-doctor

A cartoon about artificial languages that taught me names of several that I'd never heard of before, and that the first ones were from 1870! https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/59862904_2037915486334442_8112245120998309888_o.png.jpg?_nc_cat=107&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=e55937ddbfe1c51d179cb62814371b3d&oe=5D592454

A breathless review of Detective Picachu: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/detective-pikachu-film-review-this-is-how-you-adapt-a-video-game-for-theaters/?fbclid=IwAR35fybrLxHQ05ccYeihKsaKHPDSBQG9cZO1tHictjmlhQDhhScoFEHA7c4

Background of the SWAT team raid on a reporter in LA: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sf-reporter-police-raid-adachi-20190511-story.html?outputType=amp

This "leading animator" was involved with Ren and Stimpy and other highly recognizable cartoons, but these articles oddly make him sound like a backgrounder:

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/chris-reccardi-leading-animation-industry-artist-dies-at-54-173590.html
https://www.animationmagazine.net/people/passings/ren-stimpy-powerpuff-girls-artist-chris-reccardi-dies-age-54/?fbclid=IwAR0lkpqrJHycO78m_6mDo6CgXV0bor-OEs545Uz3QtMti7j4JPP1njJBQiA

Liedenfrost droplets
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/study-finds-ultimate-fate-of-leidenfrost-droplets-depends-on-their-size/?fbclid=IwAR2AgrL_eqZ23B3PVnZZKmyva-xK-XNtjoRLfmuVz1hBWR_yDCmsKjRhL38

The spacex time machine:
https://spacextimemachine.com

A farm like CFIN's:
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/lena-brook/biggest-little-farm-bumpy-and-beautiful-road-farming-healthier-planet?fbclid=IwAR1NuGRU0j2_eMu4eTpFZUroCK-AjNRsJcp_hUkKYEkLE76HZtmrGKtjECs

plastic found at the bottom of the Marianas trench:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/victor-vescovo-deepest-dive-pacific/index.html?gallery=0

A new WannaCry is comming, apparently:
https://www.engadget.com/amp/2019/05/14/windows-7-xp-rds-vulnerability/

An amazing article about teenagers as the barometer for the decay of american morals:
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/teenage-pricks-pareene?fbclid=IwAR21M6HzkfzU9ljl2OyN5M90qriNvU4tZa3_il3L-4vfAEt0qUchf81vLB0

Forbes has been on fire with science articles recently:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/14/this-is-why-mars-is-red-and-dead-while-earth-is-blue-and-alive/amp/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/05/13/heres-why-we-cannot-just-nuke-hurricanes/?fbclid=IwAR17wnAy24fftEsj80qJBS5nvYc3legZ1nmVFz74EzSNReV1XXilegQvHgI#5abb7aba7928
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/11/ask-ethan-how-well-has-cosmic-inflation-been-verified/?fbclid=IwAR2pUNZmQ9WC0YAEplS_OeOq2YORRIgvDbyK32_csY3GTGJJ05oInruzsWQ#6e1c06b31d07

An interesting article about a never-pursued Darpa proposal for a rocketplane that would use both SpaceX and Rocketdyne engines:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/blff76/the_pd2_a_lesser_known_nasadarpa_proposal/

An attempt to compare Brexit to a failed Danish attempt to expand their borders. Some interesting points and interesting history, but the direct comparison is a stretch:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/world/europe/brexit-denmark-1864-movie.html


Current info on some of my favorite cartoonists that I haven't heard from in a while:
https://mobile.twitter.com/heliothaumic?lang=en
https://mobile.twitter.com/yeahduff?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
fictioncircus.com/mwhf/
fictioncircus.com/Jeanne/comics/
https://mobile.twitter.com/manwhohatesfun?lang=en
https://mobile.twitter.com/badmachinery


https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/abortion-is-immoral-except-when-it-comes-to-my-mistresses?fbclid=IwAR276BogmgSP8XPExT33nNTbaffZpnKF8Dl610_V9sqJt25uG8MY85ujr9k


A story about last year's show that explains the "Kids' Cabaret" that will also occur this year, as well as a review of the show that makes you feel like you saw it. Also, one of the Coward twins seems to have gotten a lame part:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/laurel/ph-ll-lmph-aladdin-web-0816-story.html

An evangelist is masquerading as 25 separate identities on Facebook and was unmasked. Why isn't this front page news?:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/05/16/tldr-kullberg-network/?fbclid=IwAR3uRFJSxpoUNUkYsz3xJ13b7mMRDuYfvN0W1YFrmWPkBulln9GAVRbWhgU

How to find our pho place:
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS705US706&hl=en-US&biw=320&bih=492&ei=fOXdXNWHJa_v_QahzYaIBA&q=pho+dat+thanh+columbia+md+number&oq=pho+dat+thanh&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.1.0.0i71l5.0.0..7304...0.0..0.0.0.......0.U976x7Nw1y8#trex=m_t:lcl_akp,rc_f:lac,rc_ludocids:14597874367900386167,rc_q:Pho%2520Dat%2520Thanh,ru_q:Pho%2520Dat%2520Thanh

An ICE prisoner from Cameroon of all places who Ken seems to be sponsoring:
https://www.change.org/p/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice-help-us-save-our-friend-s-life?recruiter=1884308&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=113a3a40-d349-012f-a0bd-40401fa5e37a&utm_content=mit-15277626-10%3Av2



https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/60639315_2394466207242980_9143824921795756032_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=5e6664953a9476afcece68517a87d4da&oe=5D6438C2

249mph bullet trains. Alfa-X. To be tested for 3 years and not enter service until 2030! Air and magnetic speed brakes, and earthquake proof!
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/japanese-railway-company-starts-testing-249mph-bullet-train-speeds/?fbclid=IwAR2SR2BN7nyr_d2r8zzwB53PYecmKId1K_DPydBQGeFnE1Hcbf5yTNM0mLA

Explainer for the just published New Horizon results:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/first-results-from-new-horizons-time-in-the-kuiper-belt/?fbclid=IwAR133EvkhzK2WRC5IymEfWRUgeQ4bYCiCUnVgf-UA2wBL8nMpNEnlcYxmsY

What happened with the Solar Shingles (factual):
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613541/teslas-trumpeted-solar-shingles-are-a-flop/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0Jx8nUW6KebtS9HvPgQyvB0_cWkuaCHuoAix9se6m9Frdyr3yROBMntEI

Fascinating setback in the European right wing assault:
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2019/05/austria-chancellor-kurz-announces-snap-election-190518170506716.html

SE2 is coming out in September maybe. The XR is out now but doesn't sound great:
https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/iphone/iphone-se2-3500611/

Lots of old SE1's on ebay about as cheap as androids:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m4084.l1311.R1.TR3.TRC1.A0.H0.Xiphone+se+128gb+ve.TRS0&_nkw=iphone+se+128gb+verizon&_osacat=0&_odkw=iphone+se+128gb&_sacat=0

Older iPad minis at 128gb are cheaper too.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m4084.l2632.R2.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xipad+mini+12.TRS0&_nkw=ipad+mini+128gb&_osacat=171485&_odkw=ipad+mini&_sacat=171485

Diamond Dogs was supposed to be "1984".
https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/19/david-bowie-nineteen-eighty-four-george-orwell-diamond-dogs-dorian-lynskey
Interesting background, but after the article is a great review of every album:
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-bowie-diamond-dogs/

My two running routes:
http://www.mappedometer.com/?maproute=748644
http://www.mappedometer.com/?maproute=748650



The word is tsundere:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere
https://www.google.com/search?q=tsundere&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS705US706&oq=tsund&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.3699j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Lisa's iPad is a mini4, apparently:
https://www.google.com/search?q=MK6L2LL%2FA&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS705US706&oq=MK6L2LL%2FA&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58j0l2.15301j1j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8



The incredible story of how gravity wave detectors were designed and built:
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/19/723326933/billion-dollar-gamble-how-a-singular-hero-helped-start-a-new-field-in-physics

The real story of Thomas Beckett is so interesting than just the murder! He became quite drunk with church power and it went on forever before he was killed, with mad excommunications and trips to France and the Vatican:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becket_controversy

Cute picture of a cat imitating lion statues:
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/60355237_2077032575740016_5312577857401126912_n.png.jpg?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=28d006d780a23a748521d801eb02d317&oe=5D525397

How to find find my new accountant:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=lcl&ei=kDvkXMSeF6uu5wK_laroAw&q=Wakely+and+kline+laurel+md&oq=Wakely+and+kline+laurel+md&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i299k1.8184.14055.0.14473.28.23.1.4.4.0.236.2027.12j5j1.18.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..5.23.2077...0j0i131k1j0i67k1j0i131i67k1j0i10k1j0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1j33i22i29i30k1j33i160k1.0.x_TuyAiBT2w#rlfi=hd:;si:17131875526312806557;mv:!1m2!1d39.09984797731903!2d-76.84975998542649!2m2!1d39.09948802268097!2d-76.85022381457351!3m12!1m3!1d204.10171843728347!2d-76.8499919!3d39.099668!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i982!2i810!4f13.1

The other accountant in Laurel. They have a nice suite at Laurel Lakes:
https://rtmcpa.com/

This therapist for T is no longer at Patuxent Ave, and here schedule is pretty full:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/cynthia-lengrand-columbia-md/72034


An article about drinking a lot of water. Nice to see somebody else's journey:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-happens-when-you-drink-a-gallon-of-water-a-day

Dr. Google diagnoses T:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/oppositional-defiant-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20375831

Telescope view of the Starlink satellites all in a row!
https://amp.businessinsider.com/starlink-video-netherlands-astronomer-spacex-satellites-2019-5

What the hell can't Drmocrats do anything right?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1010336

How to print photos from text messages on android

The trick was to figure out how to save the photo from the text message, then it was possible to print it from the gallery app.

The process on my phone was a little bit different than as described in this link, but the hurdle was solved by the realization that I tap and hold on the photo to select it. In my case, the "save" option was in an ellipsis drop-down menu that would appear instead of appearing as a save icon when the photo was selected. https://www.techbout.com/save-photos-mms-message-android-phone-13066/

Beagle Bone Links from old phone

These are some open tabs from when I was trying to get the BeagleBone configured to talk to an external HDMI monitor.

List of common resolutions:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions

Why is there no info in this wiki page anymore about the LCD7?
https://elinux.org/CircuitCo:BeagleBone_LCD7

A fascinating forum thread about which resolutions the BB supports and why. The BB guy who seems to always be answering questions on this forum put in a tantalizing message "just wait".
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/beagleboard/4vge3Zs8dYE

The elusive Jeffery Briscoe

Finally found him, but man that must have been a long time ago.

https://www.usphonebook.com/jeffrey-briscoe/UADM3gjNwYDMxgDM5cDOwADN5MzR

Jeffrey Briscoe, Age 65

Current Address:

8113 51st Ave; College Park, MD 20740-2516

Phone Number:

(301) 408-6392 - Wireless

Prior Addresses:

15209 Orchard Farm Pl; Upper Marlboro, MD 20774-9040
7648 Elioak Ter; Gaithersburg, MD 20879-4531
57th Ave; College Park, MD 20740
813 51 St; College Park, MD 20740

Prior Phone Numbers:

(301) 345-2436 - LandLine
(301) 787-2277 - Wireless
(240) 381-3055 - Wireless
(301) 523-0383 - Wireless
(301) 474-7541 - LandLine
(301) 474-3421 - LandLine

Relatives:

Benjamin Brisco

Janice Briscoe

Pearl Briscoe

Shayla Briscoe

Associates:

Sheila Hudson

Email:

mjmbris@aol.com

One caller from a fake Silver Spring number claimed to be calling about "A real estate matter"

The area code (667) 444-5* calls are apparently unassigned VOIP numbers.

During a call from one of those numbers today the caller claimed to be from Virtuoso Sourcing Group, which is easily findable online as a debt collector. A good number of the links are to lawyers offering to help people being harassed by the collector!

Add folder name to file name linux

I had a bunch of misnamed files throughout a directory tree that I had to fix the names of to have a common prefix with the name of their folder appended. Actually it was the name of a folder two levels up.

Theoretically a single-line 'find' command with the right -exec should be possible. However, encapsulating an awk script within a mv command hanging off of find, even with xargs proved to be too tricky, and I ended up just creating an echo statement with the mv commands and then taking the echoed output and putting it into a shell script.

Here is the final find-xargs-awk command line which generated the stdout that I pasted into my shell script. In this case, the original files are in ./$TL/$SL/ and $TL is a date code and I wanted to find the oldfile which had the wrong date code on the front and rename it to a new file prefix with the desired datecode on the end:

find . -name "*oldfile.csv" | xargs -I '{}' echo {} | awk -F'/' '{SL = NF-1; TL = NF-2; print "mv " $FILENAME "./" $TL "/" $SL "/newfile_" $TL ".csv"}'

Here are some relevant links turned up during researching this:

Here's a super simple example of using find to rename files. The commenter here likes xargs too much when it's unnecessary: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/227662/how-to-rename-multiple-files-using-find

I tried using SED to split up the directory path but it's way too hard to get it to treat slashes as delimiters, plus the result keeps the delimiter for some reason: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16643288/sed-to-extract-text-between-two-strings

Still trying to get sed to work, here is a nice comparison of the same task with parentheses in different languages: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108250/print-the-string-between-two-parentheses

Here is an example that is a lot of what I needed with my two directory levels, but aside from generally reminding me how to use awk I didn't end up stealing a lot of this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/277231/how-to-get-second-directory-name-in-the-perforce-file-path

Here is the example that I stole most of my awk code from. It has several great examples, including using a for loop (which turned out to be largely unnecessary for me) and the kint of using the built-in swk variable FILENAME. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134212/extract-file-name-from-path-in-awk-program

Here is where I got the other part of my awk code using the NF built in variable. The example is in a for loop but I was able to do the same thing with find and xargs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/643372/append-name-of-parent-folders-and-subfolders-to-the-names-of-the-multiple-files

Here is an example of a super fancy xargs command with find: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10972002/batch-renaming-files-in-command-line-and-xargs

Here is an example where somebody was just not doing xargs correctly, and the answers eventually converge on just using the -exec feature of find: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90886/how-can-i-find-files-and-then-use-xargs-to-move-them

Here is another example of a for loop for somebody that is trying to do something remarkably similar to what I want to do, but these examples weren't actually very helpful: https://superuser.com/questions/516082/add-folder-name-to-beginning-of-filename

Gifts of stock form 709

Basic info about 709. The $14K limit. The trick of husband and wife donations, the way that gifts are counted against estate taxes:

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/10/03/form-709-do-you-need-to-file-a-gift-tax-return.aspx

So the giver has to pay the taxes on gifts?

This link seems to indicate as such by listing the one case where the recipient has to pay the gift tax. Also gifts to pay tuition are excluded from being taxed! Also the fines for not paying the gift tax on time are very severe.

https://finance.zacks.com/dont-file-gift-tax-return-8338.html

This link spells almost all of the above out with exceptional clarity:

https://www.thebalance.com/when-to-file-gift-tax-return-3504960

This link precisely described how Doris filled out her form 709s.
It then says: "If the stock pays dividends, you will receive the dividends after the transfer and pay tax on them.",
and "If you sell the stock, your gain will be based upon what your father paid for the stock and not what it was worth when he gave it to you."

https://www.calcpa.org/public-resources/ask-a-cpa/tax-tips/general/how-will-a-gift-of-stocks-affect-my-taxes

Here surrounded by fluffy introductions of the basic concepts is the exact formula that I will have to use to calculate our capital gains tax using the basis:

https://www.moneycrashers.com/gift-tax-rate-rules-exclusion-limit/

A super interesting distinction laid out here is that the value of the gift is the value of the stock at the time given, but the capital gains tax is on the basis.

https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/how-to-value-a-gift-of-stock

This link is more about regular stocks, but with so much delicious rules info, like weird gaps in the basis and long-term and short-term tax rates:

https://www.edwardjones.com/social/gifted-stock.html

But wait! What about "Items affecting basis"? Uh oh, this was an S corporation and the basis changes!

https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2012/jan/20114319.html

This answer from Turbo Tax seems to fully describe the algorithm for computing basis. Could it be true that income, on which I have already paid taxes, increases the basis????
https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/4289459-how-do-i-calculate-the-basis-for-my-shares-of-an-s-corporation-that-was-sold


The answer is in this beautifully written analysis: YES! But this doesn't result in double taxes! By adding income to the basis, the taxed income is effectively subtracted from the capital gains tax!:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2014/05/06/tax-geek-tuesday-determining-a-shareholders-basis-in-s-corporation-stock-and-debt/#6c8dd08e5268


But wait, if that is the case, then is the income is reducing the tax on the initial value of the stock gift? I think this is just sign confusion. The income *adds* to the basis, which is subtracted out of the capital gain at the time of sale. Also a review of the form 709's seems to call into question whether we paid the taxes on the initial gifts, since they seem to be above the maximum untaxable value?

I found the above analysis almost verbatum right in an IRS page (fairly, this cribbing was mentioned in the analysis):
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/s-corporation-stock-and-debt-basis

Here is a tax group's worksheet for calculating one year's worth of basis adjustment:

http://www.thetaxbook.com/updates/TheTaxBook/Client%20Tax%20Tools/S_Corporation_Shareholders_Adjusted_Basis_Worksheet.pdf

Here is a different tax group's explanation of the basics for computing basis and their slightly less nice worksheet for calculating one year of basis adjustment:

https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/f58c8f33/files/uploaded/S-Corp_Shareholder_Basis.pdf

Here is an official worksheet straight from the PA dept of revenue, with instructions specific to their weird K1 form:

https://www.revenue.pa.gov/FormsandPublications/FormsforBusinesses/Partnerships-S-Corps-LLCs/Documents/rev-998.pdf

It looks like my situation is that at the time of the gift, the fair market value was way below the basis. The basis continued to increase over time. The final sale price is still way below the basis.

This link seems to pretty clearly describe the consequences of the basis being greater than the fair market value at the time of the gift, and the final sale price being between the basis and the original fair market value. Do I have a net capital gain of zero? : https://budgeting.thenest.com/fair-market-value-basis-tax-treatment-gift-24602.html

Here is the exact same information in an IRS document, except that troublingly it omits the one case that seems to apply in my case, neither a gain or a loss: https://www.irs.gov/faqs/capital-gains-losses-and-sale-of-home/property-basis-sale-of-home-etc/property-basis-sale-of-home-etc

This article again describes the basis-fmv-sale price gap, although interestingly with different language. Still no attribution to applicable tax law. https://corporate.findlaw.com/finance/tax-basis-of-inherited-and-gifted-property.html

This IRS page doesn't describe my situation, but it starts with what forms are required, so I will probably be able to look into those specific forms to fill in my numbers. The rest of the article is about brokered stocks and debt instruments: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/cost-basis-reporting-faqs

Here is the famous Publication 551 on the subject of cost basis, hopefully with all the details which cover my situation.
Oddly it does little more than other articles in terms of describing the case of no gain and no loss; you'd think that there would be a form on which this should be specifically reported: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p551.pdf

If the computation of the capital gain or loss is simply a matter of basis, fair market value, and sale price, why does my last K1 have additional boxes filled in which were never had values reported on previous K1's? There's a value in section 8a, Net long term capital gain (loss) which unexpectly shows a positive if low value, and the mysterious sections 8c Uncaptured sec 1250 gain and 9 Net section 1231 gain (loss). Starting to search for the meaning of these entries.

The IRS publication on the K1 form is brimming with amazing information and I haven't even gotten to the part about sections 8 and 9 yet. It even has a huge section on computing basis including links to finally an official IRS worksheet for computing basis. It states exactly where to report the numbers for boxes 8a, 8c and 9 on tax forms and has some helpful information about what they mean.: https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1120ssk

1250 Gain links:

Here's a description in fairly plain english of Unrecaptured Section 1250 Gain. Apparently our property is depreciated? And it's assuming that our basis is less than was report on form 709?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unrecaptured-1250-gain.asp

Here is an even plainer description, complete with examples involving rental houses. The mystery in this description is how it says that the section 1250 gain is a tax on the purchase price of the house after sale of the house, while still talking about the capital gain tax also. https://finance.zacks.com/unrecaptured-1250-gain-9659.html

Here is a much more technical article, although it does seem to have an example which almost perfectly matches my own. This article mentions the Unrecaptured Section 1250 Gain Worksheet in the Schedule D instructions that was also mentioned in the IRS K1 instructions: https://www.taxcpe.com/blogs/news/recaptured-and-unrecaptured-real-estate-rental-section-1250-gain

This appears to be a link to the IRS Unrecatpured Section 1250 Gain Worksheet? https://taxmap.irs.gov/taxmap/ts0/unrecapturedsectio_o_24a36bb4.htm

1231 Gain links:

Apparently 1231 is tax speak for business property. Here is a basic description from the point of view of a small business owner:
http://loopholelewy.com/loopholelewy/15-selling-your-business/selling-your-business-12-sec1231.htm

This answer seems frustratingly incomplete. It references other gains unrelated to 1231 but does mention where to report the number on the Schedule D:
https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/3856828-i-have-a-large-gain-on-my-k1-form-net-1231-gain-is-all-this-gain-taxable

More background information on 1231 and how it relates to 1250 and 1245 (the latter doesn't apply to us for some unclear reason):
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/section-1231.asp

More info for various tax forms:

Here are the IRS instructions for Schedule D. This directly applies to my returns: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i1040sd--2018.pdf#page=14

Schedule D supposedly requires that all stock sales be recorded on form 8949, but the instructions for form 8949 imply that it contains info tranferred from a form 1099-B or 1099-S, Neither of which I received: https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-8949

More about 8949. The language sounds a lot like sales of stocks in an S-corporation: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/form-8949.asp

These instructions for 8949 seem to spell it out; they say that I must use Schedule D only, and the corporation itself files 8949, I think: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i8949.pdf

This TurboTax faq seems to imply that TurboTax will report info from the K1 on the 8949 as well as the Schedule D. This kind of confident sounding answer makes me wish that I was using TurboTax instead of H&R Block: https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/3069162-where-do-i-report-the-sale-of-my-partnership-interest-in-an-s-corporation

Searches of reporting sales of S-corp stock often result in links that explain it from the point of view of the corporation itself. These are very interesting behind-the-scenes clues about why my K-1 might be looking the way it does:

https://info.legalzoom.com/record-s-corporation-stock-sale-23128.html

https://www.upcounsel.com/sale-of-s-corp-stock

http://www.scorporationsexplained.com/shut-down-an-s-corporation.htm

This article is so specifically talking about "liquidation" which is my scenario that it must be relevant to my case. The article mentions two IRS code sections that I've never seen mentioned before (331 and 1000), has a couple of fairly concrete examples, and then goes into better alternatives for doing liquidation: https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2008/apr/understandingthetaxconsequencesofliquidationtoansshareholder.html

Final desperate searches for what is up with my K1 eventually led me to just go for the extension:

This answer about a "Final K1" insists that there should have been a 1099-DIV. No other source maintained this position so I think that this might have actually been a wrong answer, but it made me nervous.

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/4611573-final-k-1-after-dissolution-of-s-corp-how-to-enter-basis

Final step was to request extensions:

Here is the link from Maryland saying that the extension is automatic in the event of a federal extension (and MD taxes will be a refund): https://taxes.marylandtaxes.gov/Individual_Taxes/Individual_Tax_Types/Income_Tax/Filing_Information/Filing_Deadlines/Extensions_and_Amendments/Request_an_Extension.shtml