I just finished the second phase of getting a dental implant.
When he was done, Dr. Morgan showed off the torque wrench he used to set the post in my jawbone. He really likes this torque wrench because it doesn’t need to be calibrated for at least a 100,000 cycles.
I like that Dr. Morgan understands his tools and appreciates quality.
Sparky was spooked by a chipmunk.
I never moved Sparky’s food bowl, and I still like to leave the patio door open so Sparky can wander out when I’m having coffee on the deck. Another chipmunk ran into the house. Or the same one, I don’t know.
While working on the bedroom cabinets, I found this wretched hive in the corner of the garage about 4 feet from my worktable.
A few yellow jackets have been buzzing around for a week. Now I know where they’ve settled. Rather than hose them down with hornet spray or put on the bee suit to play Hulk smash, I dusted them with Sevin insecticide.
In a day or so, they will be back in hell.
The Aussie beagle that ate 1.1kg of jelly snakes
This beagle is so pissed off because she ate 5 to 10% of her body weight in what we’d call gummy bears. She thought she was so clever for stealing a bag of candy, then her owners took her to the vet to induce barfing.
Xylitol is a sugar substitute that spikes insulin in dogs, and can trigger hypoglycemia. A few of grams of xylitol is enough to put the dog in the hospital, and that could be just a few gummy bears.
Fortunately, these jelly snakes had no xylitol, so all the vomiting was for nothing.
The Merck Veterinary Manual has actual scientific information.
The Rise and Fall of Anthony Fauci
I’m seeing many articles like this one talking about Dr. Fauci’s senate testimony. At the same time, many people weren’t even aware that it happened. That’s just as well because Fauci pleaded the 5th Amendment a hundred and eleven times.
None of the articles mention Dave Chappelle’s relevant contribution:
While Sparky and I were groveling in place to avoid getting emphysema from the Great Canadian Dumpster Fire, somebody mowed my field.
Nobody expects Canada to be the jack-arse neighbor who burns his garbage and stinks it up for everyone, but here we are. It’s not healthy. I got a sinus infection when I walked down to get the mail.
Sparky and I are going to play it save. Maybe watch some cartoons and cook up a Detroit Style pizza from Costco.
Lettuce or Salad Greens Linked to ‘Explosive’ Diarrhea Outbreak Hitting Thousands Across U.S.
The uninformed answer to that rhetorical question seems like it should be Sparky, but he usually dumps in considerate and unlikely places like down rabbit holes, on a stump or in a patch of poison ivy. He isn’t the problem.
As a food, lettuce brings nothing to the table. Only eat salads that start with some other food, like tuna, chicken, ham, potato, macaroni or fruit. In an unfamiliar restaurant, it’s probably safe to order a salad named after a place, like Waldorf, Russian or Caprese.
This explosive diarrhea fad comes from people taking an expedient shit in a farm field. When it’s time to wipey-wipey, what are they supposed to use? If lettuce is available, nobody is going to choose acorns, coconuts, sea shells or corncobs. They just aren’t.
WaPo: Ozempic may be reshaping the brain
Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs were initially understood as a metabolism breakthrough: medicines that act like hormones to control hunger, blood sugar and weight. But as researchers probe deeper into how the drugs work, early evidence suggests that GLP-1s may also be reshaping parts of the brain.
This, along with President Trump’s recent executive order to encourage testing of psychedelic drugs, means many people are going to get their brains re-jiggered.
That’s good, a lot of brains seem to be malfunctioning. Maybe the brains get fixed or they start malfunctioning in new ways.
“We didn’t expect to see this effect, and we really don’t know what it means,” Shapiro said.
That’s fine. It’s astounding how much of science is useful, but not fully understood.
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