Army Soldiers Have 90 Days to Get Measured Under New Height-Weight Rules
Under the new policy, an assessor will measure a soldier’s waist circumference at the navel in inches and divide that figure by the soldier’s height in inches. Anything below 0.55 passes.
It is good to see somebody officially dump the BMI. Medical research didn’t validate BMI as an indicator of overall health, and common sense didn’t either. A muscle-bound jock could fail for being too muscle-bound.
Do normal people have headboards to keep their stuff in?
I had one as a kid, and liked it. It’s time I had another one, so started building it. I’m on the polyurethane stage of the game.
“But Uncle, that just looks like a bunch of pallets stapled together.”
Push to rename Nashville airport for Dolly Parton gets a boost from Tennessee’s governor
Renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is uninspired, but this is a great idea.
I am qualified to judge because I usually come up with good names. Sparky is a great name for my little piglet, and my one-handed sledgehammer is ‘pocket Hercules’. I have names that made it into corporate literature, but let’s stay focused on Nashville International Airport.
Commentators haven’t yet explored why this is such a good idea.
Extraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth.
Earth vs The Flying Saucers came out 70 years ago. The special effects aren’t convincing, but the movie doesn’t rely on spectacle. Nobody is fat, the cars and clothing are vintage, and everyone is competent.
Clean as a whistle, even before it was swept.
If I put Sparky in the stove, I could get a really cute photo of him looking up the chimney flue.
I’m not going to do that, but I do want to try.
Maybe good robots are coming. This Microduck from Pollen Robotics seems like a decent platform. Out of the box, the Microduck can walk around and can get up after tripping. The good part is the software is open-source, so more inventive people can generate programs to make the Microduck useful.
Don’t think of Microduck as a cute, waddling mechanical duck that just stepped out of a Pixar animation. Okay, think of it like that, and Microduck would be entertaining for a couple of hours. Maybe a couple of days if your friend buys one also.
Microduck is a mobile sensor platform linked to an AI controller. Now it’s good for something.
Sparky was excited to tell me that President Trump just changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
Sorry to dampen Sparky’s enthusiasm, but that was a dumb idea.
China doesn’t often have a good, original idea, but the World Humanoid Robot Games is fun.
Events are competitive sports analogous to human sports and scenario-based challenges. Some events are fully autonomous, and some allow remote control.
Sparky just told me that today is National Dog Day. He says that he has been hinting around all day, but I wasn’t picking up on it.
In my defense, Sparky is naturally charming and attentive, so it wasn’t obvious that he was being an extra good dog.
I will give him another piece of orange chicken to celebrate his day.
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