Greetings and Salutations. How are we all doing in this time of discord? It's Fall east of the mountains. The sun is noticeably lower when we're riding through the trees. It's also chillier, no need to get up early and run out the door.
The laptop situation may be resolved. We had it at Friendly Computers for two five day stretches. During this time we were told that he could not replicate the dropping of the internet, the freezing of the cursor, and the over heating. The second five day stint, allegedly he upgraded the firmware and refreshed the thermal paste. When we got it home the second time, it died within five minutes. So, we looked at Yelp and found Pruitt PC. After we described the problem, his first words were "sounds like the network card is bad." Yep, it was. He also upgraded all of the firmware (suggesting it was not done by Friendly), and checked the event recorder which showed there had been issues with the touch pad. Did you know your laptop has an event recorder? I did not. So, we will see if it stays fixed and on the internet. Now we have a spare HP for the next laptop badness. Jim is very happy to have his backlit key board back.
We've been doing not much of anything. The Liverwort continues on its path to world domination. I love this stuff.
There was a sunset behind a cloud.
Pumpkins up the street.
See the furry thing living on the rock? There's an arrow pointing at it. Who knows what this is? Google Lens has no idea. Observe the lushness of the moss on the ground. This area gets a lot of sun, so the moss surprises me.
There are three personal watercraft in this photo. The one on the right you just sit on, no problem. The other two drag you through the water until you're able to boost yourself up to stand on the back. Guy in the middle was good at it, got right up. Guy on the left had trouble doing it, not helped by the fact that his buddy kept roaring up to him and swamping him. Eventually they were all able to leave and make noise elsewhere.
The lake, the millfoil is starting to lose its bright yellow color. It was a truly gorgeous day.
Who is aware of the Blue Zones where people live a long time? There has been a fair amount written about these special people who live a long time. The underlying theme behind the reporting is basically why don't all people follow their diets. It turns out that the Blue Zones are bad record keeping and pension fraud. There is an article on the recent Ig Nobel (pun on ignoble) award in which Dr. Saul Newman debunks the Blue Zones. Article is here, and there is no paywall. Here is an excerpt below. It's a short read and is entertaining.
Dr Newman received the award for research that revealed fundamental flaws in extreme old-age demographic research, by demonstrating that data patterns are likely to be dominated by errors and finding that supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud (paper pre-print, not yet peer-reviewed).
For example, despite vegetables and sweet potatoes being promoted as key components of the Okinawan ‘Blue Zone’ diets, according to the Japanese government, Okinawans eat the least vegetables and sweet potatoes in Japan and have the highest body mass index.
Other than this, I have nothing much to say. I was going to discuss the Evangelical Minister and Lt. Gov of North Carolina's sex scandal, but it's just too disgusting to discuss. It's getting limited reporting because it's too disgusting to put in print. I will say that he reported in detail his threesomes with his sister-in-law and one of her friends on a porn site. Can you imagine how his wife must feel? That poor woman can never go to the grocery store again. That's it! That's all I have to say about that.
the liverwart photo looks like it belongs in a tide pool. curious plant. The fuzzy thing looks like if you touch it a portal might open an you will be very sorry because it is the portal to globular fuzzy blobland. So don't do it!
ReplyDeleteOur lake, water for the enitre county...has just been crowded from a broken sewage pipe- 50,000 or more gallons of shite in the drinking water. Great engineering on that one!
Everything is terrible.
BUT I think I found the shoes that I have been looking for- Brooks!
I had not heard of Blue Zones before. While there is longevity in my family, Dad was 98, his mother 104, I have no doubt I'll be pushing up daisies long before that.
ReplyDeleteThe sunset photo is gorgeous.
Every accusation by a Republican is a confession it seems.
the women in my dad's family are long lived, well, some of them so I'm hoping to take after his sister and aunt. not so much the men.
ReplyDeleteI've read plenty on social media about Robinson. he is one disgusting human being. wants to bring back slavery among other things. he'd buy a few.
I did read a story about Mark Robinson but not going into that much detail. The guy sounds like a psycho. (His claims to be a "black Nazi" are bad enough!)
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what that fuzzy stuff is, unless it's just dead moss that's faded to gray?
Haha, as a North Carolinian, I can tell you that all the news reports only concern MR calling himself a "Black Nazi" and promoting slavery on the porn site but nothing about the sexual aspects of what else he posted, so you have actually provided me with more info than our esteemed local journalists. Guess they don't want to offend their viewers even more than we are already offended by the fact that a complete turd like Mark Robinson is actually on the ballot! He's going to get stomped in the election and was even before this most recent lurid news came out. (Oh, and don't feel too bad for his wife; the other big story about him is the subpar daycare that they ran with major safety violations - she's likely not much better a human being than he is.)
ReplyDeleteYes, definitely heard of blue zones. What a shame that it is a sham. It was such a cool, positive thing. Nothing is sacred anymore!