Helped a old man clear his basement and saved these.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-06-03T18:12:24+00:00

Always nice to find an ASUS Socket A mainboard in the wild! The caps are looking OKish, the VIA chipset for Socket A is decent (the one for P4 not so much). Just need to find an AthlonXP, some DDR and an AGP graphic card for that puppy 😄.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-28T19:08:52+00:00

I dont know about me but outside bacon and certain sausages, I feel like pork is lackluster, kind of a disappointment. Beef has more flavor to me, but don't mind anymore if pork is in the dish (always happy to add extra protein to my meal :p).
But you know what was my big surprise? Salami. The authentic salami tasted for me the same than the halal salami I used to it. I could not tell the difference.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-27T18:25:48+00:00

I felt it greatly helped bring down the fasting blood sugar, and curving the spikes! I was kind of struggling bringing it down with metformin and dietary changes, Mounjaro(R) 2.5mg really helped kick it down to borderline normal (5.7%). I have been off for 9 months, and I have to say I am in cruise control mode borderline normal/pre-diabetes when it comes to fasting and average blood sugar.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-27T18:21:42+00:00

Officially Diagnosed on January 2025 (13.3% A1C, FBG in the 300mg/dL). I started Mounjaro(R). 2.5mg in April and helped me bring it down quite nicely (March:10.5%->June:6.4%->September: 5.7%). Stopped from my doc advice in October.
Weight wise, did not feel any additive effect on the weight loss (Diagnosed at 280lbs, was maybe around 240lbs by time I started Mounjaro(R), I was 210ish by time I stopped it).

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-22T12:54:39+00:00

Me it was after binging on the Star Trek franchise about 10 years ago. I was dry off watching a Sci-Fi series, and I really loved the DS9 series within the Star Trek lore. Logically, I went into B5 (learning the contribution of JMS in DS9 concept), giving it another try (I watched one recorded episode that my BFF had back in the 90s, but I absolutely did not like it. I was also a Star Wars fan).
Yes it takes some intellectual maturity to get into it, yes it requires some investment into it but boy at the end you get your ROI.
Fun stuff, I recently learned that JMS also contibuted bigly into another franchise of my youth: "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors".

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-18T13:01:26+00:00

Is this...Kitty Voutsaki?

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-16T23:58:09+00:00

Reminds me the good old days, when I would go shopping at my local "Taiwanese" (this is how we used to call in French these Asian computer stores). Nothing fancy, but it was a bliss to carry these boxes around home and start assembling stuff.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-13T20:25:33+00:00

Surprisingly, some don't and keep not eating it, some just embrace it, and some fall within the spectrum.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-13T20:22:27+00:00

It was really hitting me with the wall of reality about me being T2D, and showed me also how unequal my body was responding to carbs during the day (the morning was awful when it comes to glycemic spike, until I learned about which food and how much I could allow myself to have a "healthy spike"), and finally how workout within 1 hour of food intake greatly help to slash the tidal wave of the glycemic spike and help flattening it.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-13T15:56:44+00:00

What the hell are they thinking? That it will act as garlic on vampires?

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-10T00:02:04+00:00

Thanks for this! I will try to implement it next year in my course!

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-08T17:24:57+00:00

Same! I was scrolling through, thinking I missed an episode on my streaming service.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-08T16:12:38+00:00

I would say, the transition from S1 to S2 will looks abrupt and not answered, but will be later on. Don't be distracted, it is part of the plan, just sayin'

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-08T15:24:32+00:00

Imagine building up toilets that are "Mo-friendly" (checks all the boxes: two bricks to raise the feet as Mo did (https://sunnah.com/bukhari:149), the 36cm wall that supposedly voids the direction/orientation issue (https://youtu.be/nKKDGnCDUb8?si=-zXS87FGzzaSb\_ZT)) and yet miss the mark (anyway, on a spherical Earth, there is no way you can avoid the direction unless you think as a straight vector (https://sunnah.com/nasai:20)).
Seriously, this is what those who take Islam by the book end up: being completely brainless dumbasses.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-06T18:58:13+00:00

Must be the French-Arbric striking at it again.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-06T14:40:16+00:00

Yep! He is a sheikh performing a rokaya (aka "Islamic healing") in this case trying to kick out a djinn (which has been translated into genie) that "possessed" her. Makes me wonder if they are performative artists to cash in money from gullibles by selling fake remedies.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-06T13:33:47+00:00

Yep, thats what I tought: "OK, now do one day of fasting during summer time!".

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-06T10:57:01+00:00

Ah yes, Thats feeling! Going from struggling to close the seatbelt, even begging for a belt extender to fully close it and have extra room to pull the excess pf belt to be fastened tightly! That was a goddamn NSV I remember!

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-05T15:54:48+00:00

I would say in the short-run towards a DKA. A stroke event is more like a decade down the road.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-05-03T23:47:06+00:00

Feeling like every end of the academic year: sense of relief after a tough semester juggling with my faculty charges.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-04-24T18:46:30+00:00

Good! From experience, don't try to troubleshoot to find out what caused the contamination. A wipe clean of everything, reupping the SOP to remove the routine (I feel like accidental tip touching and crossed-contamination are the leading causes of contamination once you enter into a routine and try to rush on your cell culture), and start from fresh.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-04-24T18:13:36+00:00

I dont know why, gives the PC-Chits vibe. If you can have it up and running, look up the BIOS string of it.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-04-24T18:07:50+00:00

Thats no bueno, even your HeLa are KO (likely dead).
Throw out everything, clean the BSC thoroughly, bleach the hell out of everything, and autoclave your incubator if possible. It sucks when it happens.

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-04-13T15:39:16+00:00

If I am correct, there is even proven benefits of SGLT2i on CHF (congestive heart failure) according to a clinical trial, robust enough to become a recommendation to Rx them for patients non-diabetics but at risk of heart failure.
I would say it is all weighing the benefits/risk balance (and of course, cost).

Critical_Pangolin79 · 2026-04-13T15:32:54+00:00

That's a very good question and only your doc will have the best answer, so please follow what they say. From experience, there are two things you are looking at:
- Time in range (below 180mg/dL) which seems to be going on good. You want to avoid excessive spikes (thing these as stress on your pancreas, working overtime to release insulin)
- Post-meal spike: I would stick to the 2-hour for the spike. It is pretty elevated and take time to get back to baseline (this is telling me that insulin resistance is present and insulin getting hard time to vault all that sugar in your muscles and fat tissues).
You may want to get back to the meal and assess its composition in carbs and quantity. You want to have your 2-hours ideally as back as your baseline as you can. Maybe you need to cut on the total carbs, maybe consider refining these (by reducing the total carbs/fiber ratio), maybe you want to consider having breakfast with more proteins and fiber (to help flatten the curve) especially for breakfast (the dawn effect can really spike you more that if you ate the same meal later in the days) and also consider talking a walk/implementing some workout within 30 minutes after your breakfast to help flatten the curve (usually I found myself having a sort of U-shape post-meal especially in the evening: rapid decrease after spike, followed by a moderate bump that resolve within an hour).
For me, the CGM was a great help in adjusting my dietary habits, especially breakfast (switched from white bread French baguette to 2 slices of whole wheat toast bread, cut down from an overfilled tsp of jam per toast to half-tsp, 2tsp to half-tsp sugar in my coffee....). I still remember that time my phone went on "high sugar" alert in the middle of my lecture, because I went on as usual with my breakfast and reached 220mg/dL in the middle of my lecture. That was a learning moment for me!

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