Mark Taylor @markstaylor@mas.to

Well, YouGov, as it happens…

Apparently 87% of people think that overall people aren’t taking coronavirus seriously enough, which suggests that overall people are taking coronavirus quite seriously.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/03/24/how-covid-19-affecting-british-opinions-jobs-and-w

This evening, my son is mostly grumpy about my inability to summon more birds into the sky.

Bit perplexed that BBC News sent me a breaking news notification about microeaves interfering with WiFi but not about this BBC News – Coronavirus: Thousands volunteer to help NHS with vulnerable
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52029877

First sunburn risk of the year! I guess I’m going to save a lot on sunblock…

Dreadful public health advice from this bear.

Both an extremely good and extremely bad time for my video-conferencing startup, Co-Vid

Oh balls, I just realised I’ve got a library book due back.

This seems a weird thing for a vocal critic of the Iraq war to say. Did someone edit out a ‘should be’? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/06/coronavirus-hype-crisis-predictions-sars-swine-flu-panics

This recommendation from Google Play Music does not feel like an endorsement of my taste in music.

At 14 months, my son approaches life like a 90s point-and-click adventure game: wandering aimlessly from room to room, getting enraged at doors he can’t open, and bashing every object into every other object in the hope that something interesting might happen.

Astonished to learn from this article that Lynx/Axe deodorant only arrived in the USA in 2002. I hope they appreciate the extra time they got. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/2/12/21122543/axe-body-spray-teenage-boys-ads

No wonder moving house was so bloody hard.

Rewatching Life on Mars. Spent ages trying to work out where I’d seen the actor playing Malone before and then realised I was thinking of Gene from Wreck-It Ralph.

Give us this day our daily oven baked yeast cookery

I was wondering about how much total human experience happens in a single second so I put '7.7 billion seconds' into Wolfram Alpha and it ruined the profundity

Managed to use up an entire bar of soap without breaking it or dropping it down the plughole. I expect to be elevated to the House of Lords by the afternoon.

‘If you’re a whizz at maths’

Very much enjoyed the BBC His Dark Materials adaptation, but not sure I can forgive it for adding a sinister overtone to my son’s adorable snowsuit.

Personally I just try not to leave any amount up there.