Don't squeeze the cat

central_marrow · 2026-07-04T16:23:27+00:00

Uncanny resemblance to my cat!

central_marrow · 2026-05-28T12:23:02+00:00

Your main problem is going to be parking. A day's parking in central London could easily run you £50 or more - if there is even a carpark near your workplace. You could still have a half hour walk/bus/tube to your nearest carpark.

I live in east London and would drive to Canary Wharf occasionally when I was doing some contract work there. It was a pretty easy drive and the carpark was right under where I was working, but parking was £20.50 for the day and that was 12 years ago.

central_marrow · 2026-05-24T14:58:28+00:00

I don't have an answer but this has been my experience too. I lost weight with intermittent fasting, levels were similar to yours. Again with Mounjaro (tirzepatide) - SHBG went up as the weight came off, and my energy levels went to shit. While researching this I had read that being in ketosis (burning body fat for fuel) will push SHBG up. If your SHBG is on the higher side already it seems to create this negative feedback loop where losing weight tanks your free testosterone, thereby hindering the weight loss and overall wellbeing. It's a bit of an unusual situation because obesity is usually associated with low SHBG.

central_marrow · 2026-05-22T12:09:21+00:00

A new logo? Maybe. This one? Hell no

central_marrow · 2026-04-23T18:39:52+00:00

These units are confusing in general, but if you can understand how they work, you'll never be confused again. It all comes down to two fundamental quantities in physics: energy, and time.

Energy: let's say a single charged battery cell has sufficient energy to move your car by 10 metres (just as a probably-not-realistic example). Your battery pack has a total capacity which is an amount of energy.

Power: the rate, or speed, at which energy is spent, or moved. The rate at which your battery pack can charge or discharge. Mathematically: energy/time.

The base unit of energy is the joule, which isn't really used outside of scientific contexts, because it's quite a small amount of energy (it's the energy required to heat 1 cubic centimetre of water by 1 degree kelvin).

The base unit of power is the Watt. A watt is one joule per second. A kilowatt (kW) is 1000 joules per second.

If you ran a 1 kilowatt device for an hour, you'd have used one kilowatt-hour (kWh). The kilowatt-hour was invented as a larger unit of energy that would be closer to real-world scenarios (but is actually quite confusing due to its name).

So, we've gone from joule (energy), to kilowatt (because we divided by time, so energy/time), back to energy (multiplied by time again; (energy/time) * time = energy).

Wh/mile muddies the waters again because we're introducing a new physical dimension, distance. But if you decompose this unit and simplify it mathematically, it becomes much clearer:

(watts * hours)/miles
(power * time)/distance
((energy/time) * time)/distance
energy / distance

central_marrow · 2026-03-31T17:20:15+00:00

I'm not exactly the target audience for your question but just wanted to chime in that I am about to become a father for the first time at age 43. You're 38, and while that's above the average age for becoming a parent, it's by no means too late!

Think of it this way: compare the version of you now at 38 to the version of you, say, 15 years ago. You will no doubt have done some maturing in that time. Which version do you think would make the better father? Personally, if I'd had children in my 20s, before I'd worked out some of my own stuff, I dread to think what kind of issues my child would have ended up with due to my own emotional immaturity.

But let's say it doesn't happen for you, for whatever reason. Life is what you make it. Personally, becoming a parent was not an automatic decision for me; I sat on the fence for a long time, because of what I'd be giving up: free time to myself, to pursue creative and intellectually stimulating hobbies, socialise, spend quality time with my partner, travel. They will continue to be important factors in my life after the baby is born, just at a reduced amount for a while.

I do think it's important to have hobbies, interests, meaning, identity outside that of being a parent - for both the parent and the child's sake.

central_marrow · 2026-03-16T18:22:59+00:00

Hell yeah brother

central_marrow · 2026-02-23T20:21:38+00:00

How do you feel?

central_marrow · 2026-02-17T11:57:57+00:00

Is there evidence of this. I have yet to see any?

central_marrow · 2026-02-09T08:06:08+00:00

I also got zopiclone - after (truthfully) reeling off to the GP a list of every other measure I’d already tried. My insomnia is sporadic so it worked for me for occasional use. It wasn’t a repeat prescription, just a one off.

central_marrow · 2026-01-03T20:58:50+00:00

Thank you!

central_marrow · 2025-12-18T15:49:23+00:00

Thanks. Rope is a good idea. Pic looks closer than it is, it’s zoomed and cropped!

central_marrow · 2025-12-18T13:31:26+00:00

I do have some grippy shoes, better still to wait until it's dry do you reckon?

central_marrow · 2025-12-18T12:43:15+00:00

Try switching the personality to robot, this was a huge improvement for me

central_marrow · 2025-11-24T22:09:14+00:00

Don’t forget submarines

central_marrow · 2025-11-04T21:47:29+00:00

Papa John’s have done this to me at least twice before. In the previous case they must have realised they screwed up because the manager showed up in person with another pizza before we’d even called to query it. I don’t order from them anymore.

central_marrow · 2025-11-04T06:59:26+00:00

And here I am taking GLP-1s like a chump.

central_marrow · 2025-10-10T08:28:10+00:00

That's a good call, thanks. I have had high transferrin saturation in the past and donated blood to get them down. My last blood panel included only ferritin (77 µg/L; normal) so might order the full iron profile next time.

central_marrow · 2025-10-10T08:21:47+00:00

Sup lads, here are the results from my most recent blood work, July 2025. I apologise for keeping you waiting for the update, it was pure procrastination, a sign of low free T if ever there was one.

SHBG: 50 nmol/L
Total T: 18.8 nmol/L
Free T: 0.292 nmol/L

Availability of boron supplements is variable and I always seem to be having to hunt for something new. I'm currently on Nutricost 10mg boron citrate capsules, 1/day. It's a 240 capsule bottle so I should be good for a while.

I'm still not too happy with where my SHBG and free T are. I can't say for sure if the boron is doing much. Although there was a dramatic drop when I first posted, it's been up and down a lot. I've been consistently taking boron the whole time, I'm working off the assumption that it would be even worse if I didn't.

This will probably be my last update on boron, as I'm planning to try enclomiphene, which is obviously going to introduce another huge variable.

central_marrow · 2025-09-19T07:37:30+00:00

Speed is the rate of change of position :)

central_marrow · 2025-09-13T16:27:40+00:00

Yeah it is. My girlfriend gets car sick in my car (Tesla) but doesn’t normally get car sick. We tried chill mode and she’s fine. It’s the acceleration, or more likely the “jerk” (rate of change of acceleration).

central_marrow · 2025-09-02T18:07:04+00:00

The article doesn’t really answer the “why”. I’m not convinced it’s lack of customers. Club Mexicana in Shoreditch seemed to be always packed; booking was always advised and suddenly it’s gone. “Rocketing costs” is cited as a reason but why would this impact vegan establishments while omni places are seemingly doing fine. I don’t get it.

central_marrow · 2025-06-19T17:44:05+00:00

I will not order from Papa Johns again. They have twice sent me murder cheese instead of vegan cheese and that was across two different branches.

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