I went through a phase of several months where I did calorie counting, a low carb/low sugar diet, about 18 hours of walking with weights and/or jogging each week, plus 9 hours of taiko drumming practice a week. I lost about 5% of my body weight and hit a plateau, still obese, still in the same clothing size, but with…

I’m on Ozempic anyway, and I would like to try Wegovy if my insurance will cover it.

With Ozempic, I am satisfied with smaller portions. That said, it does basically nothing against cravings between meals, and has only helped in a very minor way with weight loss. Some diabetes meds actually make it more difficult to…

I’m convinced that the state government (usually very heavily Republican) hates St. Louis because it leans Democratic, and because it’s where most of the Black people live.

It’s not like St Louis and its dozens of little suburban fiefdoms are entirely a progressive paradise, but goddamn it’s still about 80 years ahead…

I’m going to guess that a moveable taskbar will be one of the most popular and quickest developed third-party tools for Win 11.

I have a 21:9 screen at home and move it to the side, and a Windows tablet (used only for Kindle, and web browsing on the road) where the pen doesn’t work very well near the bottom so I moved…

As long as the frame rate doesn’t drop to something like 10, or stutter obviously, I don’t ever find myself caring about it.

I also run games at 2560 x 1080. My eyesight kind of sucks anyway so it’s not like higher resolution is going to do anything for me other than make performance worse.

In not-a-pandemic circumstances, I’d generally love to go watch Marvel movies in a theater as opposed to watching it from home.

The Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), is the films weakest component. The character never feels like an imposing threat.

Elsewhere I saw some people complaining about the monologuing, but I loved it. In just this one episode he made Kang (who I didn’t know that much about before) a far more interesting villain (....or many, many villains...) than Thanos or Ultron ever was.

This version of Kang was just a nerd who became a tyrant kind of…

I think it was formerly just illusion and maybe teleportation (or fake teleportation by using illusions?)

I think during the series he levelled up, taught by Sylvie or learning from her example. He seemed to have a “wait, did I really just do that?” look when he caught the falling building.

I never use the messaging stuff. The last thing I want to do is share “private” communication with a social media company.

What I want is kind of the opposite of Threads. Just the feed from accounts that I follow, with no “Suggested For You”, no ads, no highlighted comments, no continuous scroll of accounts that it…

I saw an article similar to this about ten years ago and a lot of things about my life clicked into place. My usual anxiety does tend to get worse in the summer. Restlessness and agitation for sure, like I need to escape whatever situation I’m in. Not violent behavior as such, but a kind of angry frustration that…

Taskmaster’s first battle action scenes were perfect. My only disappointment with the character was we didn’t see a lot of that superpower. There’s a vibranium shield, and a bow with exploding arrows, and the Black Panther claws (but not a lot of his fighting style). And there are some poses imitating Nat, kinda. But…

I forgot their uniforms were made of upcycled bath towels. But then, all I really remember from the movie was the approximately 13 hour long scene where Enterprise sat in the dock doing nothing while spotlights were slowly switched on, one at a time.

That movie injured my childhood love of space.

Fort Lauderdale is 200 miles away from Disney country.  That’s like Bill de Blasio wanting to build subways in Washington DC.

They should have named it X Æ A-12.

“I truly believe that space belongs to all of us”

He does have the big beefy arms.

Things I definitely don’t want:

Also sounds like it won’t work if you have aphantasia. It’s pretty rare that I picture things in my mind visually.

I thought the same.  Doublechecked the credits to make sure it wasn’t.