WTF-Beta

@wtg thanks for posting that article. I had actually heard about the “London cabbies have bigger hippocampi” finding (that research study is apparently from 2000), but it’s interesting to read about it now, when practically everyone relies on GPS to get around and esp. to go new places.

I’m surprised the author didn’t mention that, but I have read people talking about the skills we lose when we don’t learn the lay of the land, so to speak…

(ETA I had to look up the plural of hippocampus, I wanted it to be hippocampuses…

Happy birthday @mik !!

kerfuffle

@wtg thanks for this. My most recent hotel stay was actually on a university campus, so I used the campus wi fi service (which is called eduroam and should be very secure). But I have a lot of conference travel coming up this fall and next spring, and most of those are massive hotel/convention center places.

Subs

BTW from the Guardian article:

The news industry in the US used to hold corporations more accountable for the quality of their products and service. But consumer-facing business news was decimated when local newspapers disappeared and national news outlets shifted their corporate coverage to focus on investors.

Yep, it's all connected.

Brilliance

This is why I'm terrified that something in our house will break. Not because we can't afford to replace it, but because the options we'll have to replace it with will most surely be lower quality and not last as long.

@Bernard said:

When a brand changes hands this many times, the name becomes the product and the pan becomes a cost to be managed beneath it: thinner steel here, an offshored handle there

And this is why Mr SK can't find the kinds of pans he wants.

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Wow indeed! Congratulations!!!

Squeaker

I took these photos in April 20202, when I was WFHing because of the pandemic.

Very cute — until it started chewing on the wooden window sill and then we kicked it out. It never came back (or if it did, it stopped eating the sill)

@AndyD said:
fingernails...

That was another thing I quickly noticed, was that trying to continue both classical guitar and piano would be near impossible because one requires fingernails and with the other, they are totally in the way!

Long

@wtg those are fun!

I have a piano score the for Wellerman Sea Shanty, but it’s not very fun as a solo piano piece!

@axtremus that’s hysterical!

@kluurs I'm sorry to hear about your concerns. Hopefully it's nothing to worry about, but you're smart to get it checked out.

@kluurs said:

My physician retired - and it's taken over a year to get a new pcp.

That is the worst! Sadly, I can relate. When we first moved here, it took forever to establish care, and I finally found someone I liked, and had some things scheduled, and she left the practice. I got kicked out the system and had to re-establish care from zero. Fortunately, I was able to get some specialists for some things and that helped to keep my prescriptions current, but it took two years to get things back on track with a PCP. It was so frustrating.

bullhorn

Beautiful photos everyone!

Some of you might remember that I was worried about something eating our black eyed susans before they had the chance to bloom... Well whatever it was decided that they didn't actually like the black eyed susans, so this is what it looks like now.

They are actually trying to take over, so when fall comes, we're going to have to figure out how to rein them in. But for now, they look so cheery, right outside the front door.

@AdagioM oooh those are pretty!