Today in History: 15th March (couple for yesterday as 16th is a slow day for tech history)
1985 – The first Internet domain symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company. Interestingly this domain now goes to The Internet Museum.
1975 - Issue number one of the Homebrew Computer Club’s newsletter is published. Only 21 issues are published through December 1977, but the newsletter is considered influential in the early culture of the personal computer industry.
The Funnies:
On the Menu Today – Dakdoritang (Spicy Korean Chicken Stew)
Well folks, it’s Monday again, I hope you are all well and none of you or your loved ones have been struck down by COVID-19 so far. Some very different times we live in right now. I was attempting to make a lasagne for dinner yesterday but my plan was foiled when I was unable to purchase any dried lasagne sheets anywhere. Four shops I tried and every single one was empty of all pasta. The panic buying insanity is really starting to get on my wick but hey ho, I’m sure things will return to normal soon enough.
Anyway enough of all that, today’s recipe is a beautiful spicy chicken stew from Korea. When I say spicy, there’s a fair chance it will cause a bit of a sweat hehe, my advice is to adjust according to taste. As it’s a fairly long recipe the link is below to avoid turning the Spark! into a scrollathon.
Here’s the recipe!
Quote of the Day:
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” ―Dale Carnegie
Comic of the Day:
Mouseover: 2030: “I just bought a house for one bitcoin. No, it’s the equivalent of a dollar. Houses are often transferred for a nominal fee because the buyer is taking responsibility for containing the holo-banshees in the attic.”
Explain XKCD
Image Credit: XKCD
Inspirobot Sometimes Controversial Inspirational Quote of the Day:
Heavily Grounded InspiRobert of the Day:
Friday’s spooky superstitious Spark! by our very own @vikingmichael can be found here!
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It’s funny we went shopping on Friday evening and most of the shelves in Tesco were empty. The surprising thing was all the healthy food had gone , as well as toilet paper. It’s funny how people thing it’s a good idea to be health conscious at tat time like this lol
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InspiRobert:
I see what you did there… 
@rhummel
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People who panic buy are nothing more than sheep who are unable to think critically about anything. These are your Daily Mail and Sun readers mostly. Those scumbags who hoard stuff to resell at extortionate prices when demand exceeds supply are the real evil. These are your Daily Telegraph readers
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Thank goodness I read the Daily and Sunday Sport 
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I bought an extra bag of coffee when I went grocery shopping this weekend. That’s the extent of my “panic” buying. My local grocery store had signs all over the store announcing limits on certain food types.
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I’d say you covered a critical necessity!
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I must confess, I bought a ton of Mountain Dew…because it was on sale. Guilty as charged.
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deank321
(Deank321)
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I work for a grocery chain with 17 stores. Our IT area has a window overlooking our warehouse. Over the weekend, most of my team was down there helping pick orders and load trucks while I took calls and adjusted quantity limits on our website for online orders of things like sanitizer, bleach and TP. (I would much rather have been contributing down there, but I have a knee injury keeping me at my desk.) I want to find time to put together a time-lapse video from the security cameras in the warehouse showing it get depleted. This perspective of ground zero of panic buying has been shocking and disturbing. This is the new 9/11. Everything changes from this point forward. I’m not sure what the new normal looks like yet…
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Robert5205
(Robert5205)
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Same thing happened for Y2K. I was able to buy a lot of stuff cheap at yard sales following that one.
Panic makes news and news makes panic.
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Some of you will probably hate me after saying this but I agree with Inspirobot today, to me most “modern” art is just silly.
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The reverse is also true… Modern Silly is Art
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jemjules
(JemJules)
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@biscuitking nah, I am with you man. Some of the stuff that gets sold for TONS of money, I look at and think, I could have painted that. And I could have, just didn’t. I guess I am in the wrong business.
We didn’t panic buy anything except a couple(2 exactly) of Totinos pizzas in case I have to work from home, I like to eat those on “do your own days” cause they are easy and remind me of childhood.
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cooperjs1
(CooperJS1)
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As long as I have propane for the grill (and I do), the family and I are covered for any outbreak.
My freezer is full of meat and should I need to purchase more, I have plenty of toilet paper to barter with.
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blu79
(blu79)
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Hahaha! I bought two extra canisters of coffee. I don’t think I would survive without coffee. I did get some extra pasta (2 boxes) and canned veggies (I bought two instead of 1), but that is about it. Not because I am panic buying, but because I want to make sure I have a lil extra because of the panic buyers. I usually just buy enough groceries to get us through the week, but I am unsure how long it will take the stores to restock. It is extremely aggravating. Now my kid is out of school until the 31st, but will have to do elearning. smh.
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Nail: Meet Head:
Heavily Grounded InspiRobert of the Day… Talk about a visual!
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mweed
(MWeed)
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Thank God nobody was hoarding the Easter candy! I was able to stock up. Joking aside, it was interesting to see that people bought out all the bottled water (even though there’s no threat of utilities going down) and juices but there was still plenty of soft drinks and beer on the shelves.
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I was talking to the manager of the meat department at the Big W where I was shopping this weekend, he told me that week over week they had done an extra $300k in sales. The largest of the Big W grocery stores in the area had increased sales from $3 mill to $4 mill, roughly. It’s crazy.
Not much has made me happier recently than reading the story about the pair of brothers in Tennessee that bought up about 17,000 bottles of hand sanitizer to sell on Amazon for a significant profit, then Amazon pulling all their sale listings and refusing to let those items be posted. Karma at its finest.
@rhummel @deank321
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InspiRobert hit me in the feels today. 100% truth
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