Perhaps, if someone didn’t want to do an Eggwich, they could just stuff the oval kind of like a stuffed olive? A stuffed Eggive?

(about 10 years ago, i pooled some money with friends and family and bought my SO a used set of frank netter’s ciba collection of medical illustrations - best $1000 i ever spent, really. she’s still thrilled with having them to this day...)

How cool. There’s a long history of scientific and engineering illustration, going back centuries. I’ve only been exposed to it briefly but it’s impressive and I believe it’s not yet matched by automated systems today (e.g., the automatic generation of line drawings from photographs). Piola’s work fits naturally into…

I hate the subscription for car features idea too, but I can’t pretend I don’t see why this would require someone to pay to keep the data current.

I think sometimes (maybe this year especially) it’s possible to look back and say, “I was paying too much on the lease,” but predicting that result beforehand might have been impossible.

Exactly right. And we’d probably guess that the costs mostly are from hospital stays, where the numbers are trackable. Here’s the abstract of the paper used for the estimate:

Foll0w-on spoiler: Way back when, my wife and I were reading The Stand at the same time. We’d talk about the book when we’d reached the same point. We get to the end of a chapter in which four (or so) characters say goodbye to another, and the narration has it that they’ll never see him again. My wife says, “It’s a…

Wow! Sounds good. I will never make these, but I have to praise your priorities: breakfast should be delicious; it should take little effort to prepare; and the preparation should accommodate other things you need to do, like shower and dress.

Yes. Speaking as manager of a robotics lab, I’ll add that this is code controlling a physical system that has to keep passengers and pedestrians safe. Can Tesla software engineers assume that external modifications won’t adversely interact with Autopilot, even inadvertently? I hope so.

This was clear and well-written piece. Nice job.

My comment was intended as agreement with yours. Sometimes I’m not entirely clear.

Making stuff up to support one’s position is never a good strategy. Successful, sometimes, but never a good strategy.

IN THE OPENING PASSAGE, it’s revealed that he’s still functional enough to be completely living on his own.

That’s not an accurate account of how it happens, according to Darwin’s description.

As you said elsewhere, YMMV. I don’t know that I’ll convince you to rethink, but in case Darwin is reading:

We agree that people with dementia deserve their dignity. Can you explain why this deception is cruel?

So, “Gaslighting Grandpa” is the answer?

Yes, of course you are correct. I wrote too quickly, in anger.

You are correct. I apologize for a poorly written comment.

Also, what about Autobahn!?