I have a Fitbit that I never wear unless I want my heart rate. And that I find pretty unreliable.

@wtg @mik In London this is the trade off, of excellent optics & selection of booze, versus the crush of the unwashed hoards (there are queues to enter at 9.30). Thank goodness for Waitrose, excellent coffee in a quiet cafe, but buy very little in there as it's pricey. I do like a Costco chicken bake. Gives me indigestion but

I lived in France and never noticed I was doing it wrong.

Never heard of it, but I poked around and see there are a bunch of places that are doing the same thing. I wonder if you have to pay a tariff on the oil they send you!

wtg said: Yea, this is a statin that I had never heard of, pitavastatin. And this is the generic, not a brand name. Not sure why it costs more than other statins. Mr wtg tried several of the others (simvastatin, atorvastatin) many years ago and couldn't deal with the side effects. The cardiologist said this one seems to have fewer side effects and he thought it was worth a try. After three months on the lowest dose of pitavastatin, Mr wtg's total cholesterol is down 135. His LDL dropped to 79 from a high of 122. The original goal was to get his LDL down below 70, but when we talked to the cardiologist a few days ago after the lipid panel came back, he said the most recently issued guideline (for someone like Mr wtg who has had a stroke already) is an LDL of 55. Talk about moving the goalposts! This statin has been way more effective with no side effects for Mr wtg. The max dose is 4 mg; he's increasing from 1 mg to 2. Hopefully that will do the trick.

OTOH, maybe you should just eat your cheese...and ice cream.... https://www.npr.org/2026/07/13/nx-s1-5884664/zeke-emanuel-optimize-health-long-life

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“The Last International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) Problem AI Could Not Solve” Link to video

I love the Brooks Falls Bears and when I taught grade 1/2 we would vote in Fat Bear Week. I even have a board game called Katmai which features the bears of Brooks Falls!

Link to video Lilibet's surrogate found in a Colorado. Harry has in fact not proven his paternity. Can he? I saw this coming before the marriage ceremony. What a dumpster fire.

Link to video This is too funny! Most expensive gems. 1, 2, 3. More like: here's random few expensive gems. Looks like a rock to me and not in a good way. This is why I post this video. Jade. It's valued above emeralds. Many variables but Jade is most valued green stone. Of course it has to be the quality shown here. Look at it! Isn't that incredible?! Pink diamonds. What is he on about? Not close to true. This is a talking point the Argyle mine, Australia put out recently after their mine ran out. The jade shown here ("It looks like Jade but it's jade" * snort * ) has a value in the stratosphere. It's always been that way.

@CHAS said: Stranger @chas @steve-miller @all Try Eva Cassidy's rendition Live at Blues Alley if you haven't. It's my favorite recording of W S. Correction, No. It was not performed there. It was studio recorded for an album and the compilation album Songbird is the easy place to find it. Whoa. At this point I'll link to it. Link to video Back to scheduled program.

@bernard I'd like to know one instance in the history of English when a time ago two words that have nothing to do with each other were harnessed to each other to form a "term", and noting nothing of it modulated by the population but imposed down from the top of society, e.g. "workforce housing" that are still extant in English. I'll wait.

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Very exciting!

@adagiom That’s a great way to incentivize people to recycle. ASSUMING that they really do recycle everything. It seems though that most plastic ends up in a landfill even though you put it in the blue bin.

That looks great! @AndyD said: Dates from 1860-70 Wow!