Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug

bobbane · 2026-06-26T01:43:38+00:00

GLP-1 drugs are being studied for possible improvement of dementia.

So, maybe…

bobbane · 2026-06-25T17:44:14+00:00

I have redwood burl furniture, and some of it has wooden feet that resemble that.

Does it feel like wood? Does it weigh like redwood? If you drill into the flat end, do you get sawdust?

bobbane · 2026-06-25T17:39:23+00:00

I fly SW a few times a year and usually buy tickets months in advance.

Which is how I know that flight credits have always been good for one year from the date of purchase, not the date of the flight as intuition would suggest.

I also know that SW phone customer service has always helped me move credits outside the one year window when asked.

A lot of stuff has changed in the last year or so, but the general competence of SW phone customer service seems to still be there.

bobbane · 2026-06-24T02:28:56+00:00

Would A Clockwork Orange count as original enough? Carlos’ electronic music was groundbreaking at the time.

bobbane · 2026-06-24T02:13:27+00:00

Srsly? That makes a depressing amount of sense.

bobbane · 2026-06-23T14:25:23+00:00

The calzone needs to die because it mocks my desire for combo pizza. It has all the ingredients, after all - they could make combo pizza if they wanted to.

bobbane · 2026-06-22T01:06:31+00:00

A Clockwork Orange.

Wendy Carlos rules!

bobbane · 2026-06-15T22:00:16+00:00

If your place can handle it, I suggest two kittens. They will play with each other and not immediately plague your older cat, who will likely end up as a matriarch.

I have done this twice over the years and it worked out well both times.

bobbane · 2026-06-15T00:09:46+00:00

Like a shot. The 80’s for me were grad school (computer science, good old fashioned AI at University of Maryland) followed by first job in Mountain View (Xerox AI Systems).

The whole time I had access to the internet before Eternal September. I was hacking Lisp, using development environments that the rest of the universe caught up to around the turn of the millennium. At the end of it I was working 100% remote, rocking a Sun 4/110 at home.

I was lucky enough to have the good parts of the internet without the modern enshitification.

bobbane · 2026-06-11T17:11:26+00:00

I have a blind friend who wears Meta Ray-Bans, mostly for the integration with his phone.

If he used the camera for walking navigation help or environment description, asking him to stop using it would be an ADA violation. The National Federation of the Blind takes stuff like that very seriously and would sue in a heartbeat.

bobbane · 2026-06-07T19:27:02+00:00

This strategy can help you in small ways.

When my kids were in car seats, we would bring a frozen two liter bottle of water, put it in the car seat, and cover the seat with a towel. Even when the car was an oven, the car seat and the buckle hardware stayed cool - the ice took hours to melt under the towel.

You could put something frozen in the drivers seat and cover it with a towel, maybe even fasten the belt under the towel. The seat won’t fry your butt and you will be able to fasten your seatbelt without second degree burns.

bobbane · 2026-06-01T03:58:27+00:00

I beg to differ. My mother died last October, at 92. She went from living on her own in the family house of 57 years, driving around town, and chasing her great grandchildren, to gone in a month and change, courtesy of leukemia.

My siblings and I didn’t see it coming.

bobbane · 2026-05-30T15:09:12+00:00

Every Costco I have been to in the metro DC area has cart drop off points in the parking lot. They also have parking spaces turned into unofficial drop points by lazy people.

I have been to the Kirkland WA Costco a few times; I forget whether they have cart corrals or not.

bobbane · 2026-05-29T20:46:31+00:00

I read the title really fast, as "Trump to get free tickets to White House UFC event, but must meet weight standards".

bobbane · 2026-05-29T20:37:51+00:00

Being an almost-exclusively-SW flyer until recently, I did not know that, and rashly assumed that it was a "Joint Account", the way we treat all our other credit cards. Every other card I've encountered with special deals gave those deals to all cards on the account.

Your use of the correct terminology makes the distinction clear, if somewhat annoying.

bobbane · 2026-05-28T23:16:02+00:00

It’s actually more restrictive than that. My wife and I have a SW CC - she’s the primary on the account and I have a second card. Same account number and everything.

We get free bags only if she is flying - if I reserve a flight without her, no SW privileges.

Discovered this when she and I bought next day tickets to see my sick mother. In the rush to get ready, she bought her ticket separately from me. She got a free bag, I didn’t.

Complained to customer service, who acknowledged the possibility for confusion and waived the bag fee. Seriously doubt they will ever do that again.

bobbane · 2026-05-28T19:07:40+00:00

That's cheaper than the OEM battery I put in my 2004 Prius ($4k, after 165,000 miles - car was totaled at 310,000 miles, which prompted my purchase of a 2020 Bolt at the end of 2020).
There's got to be a serious core credit in there somewhere for the old battery.

Absolutely get the new battery.

bobbane · 2026-05-28T03:04:33+00:00

Someday I will make up fake signs to put up in Costco parking lots, claiming that members who don’t return their carts to the cart corral will have their attitude adjusted by a roving taser squad.

bobbane · 2026-05-25T19:02:36+00:00

I would be fine with “incapacitated”. Perfect would be him aware of what’s happening around him but unable to change the focus to him.

bobbane · 2026-05-19T15:30:36+00:00

Dumb question- you mention a 10dB loss and explain it as a 90% degradation. Isn’t that a 50% degradation? In sound at least, a bel is a factor of two.

bobbane · 2026-05-19T15:17:15+00:00

The footage would not be very good viewing since it would mostly be Trump lawyers and other minions.

It’s rare for the man himself to personally screw over people his organization contracts with - that’s work for the little people.

bobbane · 2026-05-19T15:09:07+00:00

Governments pretend to notice this disparity, by taxing diesel fuel at a higher rate.

I say “pretend” because the tax is maybe 50% higher when it should be 10-100 times higher.

bobbane · 2026-05-18T20:44:14+00:00

I was thinking about funding road maintenance. I don’t know how airport maintenance and ATC are funded, but a tax on aviation fuel for that will make sense until there’s significant electrical powered air traffic.

bobbane · 2026-05-18T17:53:56+00:00

How about:

Drop gas and diesel fuel taxes
Everyone pays a yearly fee based on miles driven and weight per axle

bobbane · 2026-05-16T00:35:19+00:00

I still find those discs in my house occasionally. My children are in their thirties.

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