I have my eye on the ASUS VivoWatch BP. It measures heart rate and has the ECG feature like the Apple watch, but it also measures blood pressure with PPG sensors! 

As a lifelong jeans-and-t-shirt wearer who needs chunky sneakers that can accommodate my orthotics, I’d love a pair of sneakers that was some neutral monotone color, instead of the usual hot pink and neon purple with orange and yellow stripes (with white rims so they can show mudstains properly, of course). These…

I think that’s true, and it explains how a single experience shared by a family can, over the years, become a collection of wildly different stories told from the perspectives of each family member. Once I learned about that, I made a point, whenever something important happened, to establish an accurate record of it…

But before you flushed the memory, did you make a mental note to learn a lesson about what you did wrong?  That’s what I want to do; extract the “moral of the story” from the traumatic event, so I can prevent it from happening again, and *then* discard the memory forevermore!

Solitaire’s “Spider” game, 4 suit (2 decks).  It’s the most satisfying and addictive of the Solitaires IMO.  I made the mistake of opening it on my laptop again last week, and it’s been sucking up hours of my life and haunting my dreams.  Pairs well with podcasts and Youtube videos!

“When spiderwebs come together, they can tie up a lion,” she told them.

How do we know you’re not a plant here?  And you’re definitely a hobbit.

I wonder whether anyone has ever asked them why we’re not hearing from thousands of distraught parents whose children have suddenly vanished?

Do you know his email address?  Want me to ask him?

The obvious solution here is to find someone with a lot of money who will fund a rescue effort, get some of that “animal anesthesia” into the after-dinner pipes of all the grown men in that colony in one night, and then kidnap/rescue all the women and children while they’re sleeping. Take the women and children to…

I hate that they added that “via Twitter” to the Margaret Atwood quote on the book cover. 

The expressions on the faces behind Trump, though: :-/

Oh, thank you!  I watched her videos years ago but forgot all about them!  She’s great!!!

I wish that there were places we could take our clean, dry, *separated* recycling. Like a big warehouse that had a giant bin for aluminum cans, another giant bin for plastic bottles, another for glass jars, another for metal jar lids, another for plastic bags, another for yogurt cups, another for plastic utensils,…

Well, if it makes you feel better, Luna wasn’t upset about Mufasa dying. She saw the image of Simba on the screen and was transfixed by this four-legged, 2-dimensional creature with huge eyes walking around on the TV screen! She was crying with excitement (“is that a kitty?  I wanna chase it and sniff it and be best…

Give us more details; maybe we have some suggestions. Is this a lifelong thing or just lately? Have you seen a psychologist or psychiatrist? What have you tried so far that didn’t work? Keep in mind that alcohol is a depressant, but, of course, if you’re drinking, you’re probably self-medicating for *something*…

I don’t know if this matters, but I just started listening to the Maron podcast, and he said he recorded his interview with Moore a couple weeks ago, so this quote from her would have preceded the NYT article.

Well, in that case, find someone who was recently diagnosed with tracheal stenosis and ask them if they’ll give you all their unused inhalers! ;-)

Hi, Kender and Saki. If your asthma isn’t responding to medications, you might want to google “tracheal stenosis” (or “subglottal stenosis”). I have idiopathic tracheal stenosis. It started in my 20's, when I started coughing during exercise. Eventually it got so bad, I would be out of breath after a single flight of…

Is anyone else haunted by the thought that all of our recycling is secretly being dumped into landfills, especially since China stopped taking shipments of recyclables from the U.S.?