Mike Leipe

Thanks for the heads-up, I've just pre-ordered it for my e-reader. Really looking forward to this one. 👍

Fall colours are great when they're on the trees, not so much when you find yourself spending a couple hours a week raking them off your lawn. Worth it, though, IMHO, and a lot less work than shovelling the 5 - 15 cm of snow that are forecast for later today.

🤞->⛷️

Something else the podcast touches on near the end also struck me reading her books - her dietary advice generally seems quite reasonable. I can understand why some who follow it might end up feeling better, but that in no way supports her assertion that it's all about the avoidance of seed oils.

Appropriate to include her IMHO, as she seems to be the most outspoken in this space, having published two books on the subject. Also, it's her that people point me towards to justify their assertion that the anti-seed-oil thing is scientifically justified. And she's been on this track for 5+ years.

I've two of read her books. Classic examples of what @caulfieldtim.bsky.social calls "sciencesploitation", cherry-picking impressive-sounding studies and scientists that support her hypothesis while ignoring or dismissing the wider body of research and evidence. Very speculative and mechanistic.

Cool! If you drop me a line next time you're headed that way maybe I'll stowaway in your suitcase. Although as I recall you travel pretty light, so I'll need some advance notice to lose some weight.

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Thanks for giving me an excuse to read the book again! 😉

I don't imagine Smiley's gold lighter is still lying on the ground there where Karla dropped it...? Any idea, @nickharkaway.com?

My main interest would be WWII-era historical artefacts. Most have been destroyed, but my understanding is that there's still enough around to make it worth a trip for me.

I've got relatives I'd like to visit there, too - it's not often I get to meet someone who shares my surname!

Some day...

Definitely one of the few cities still on my bucket list.

Did you first take Manhattan?

Meanwhile, here in Canada, 6 hours drive from the most distant city in Vermont, I've just had a tumour removed from my lung, my 4th cancer surgery. Pre-op, surgery, 5 nights in the hospital, post-op follow-up, etc., total cost for this one was $93.60, for hospital parking.

There is a better way. 🇨🇦

I grew up in the mountains of northern British Columbia, and people often ask me how I could leave such a beautiful place. Every time I leave the house in the fall here in eastern Ontario I have an answer to that question. And even in winter, with all the gorgeous browns in the fields.

I also recall people saying that this coin was disrespectful to the monarchy, because it had a picture of the queen with a bear behind.

Feels a bit like passing the buck, including potential liability, from HHS to clinicians.

At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, I can't help but wonder how much of the "talk to your doctor about acetaminophen in pregnancy" guidance will result in malpractice lawsuits by mothers who were told by their physicians that it's okay to take it and ended up with children on the spectrum.

Doing it with cancer is even worse.

A tree with a bunch of old shoes nailed to it.

Our cottage neighbours, on whose property this stands, think it's funny as hell. I think it belongs on the cover of a @stephenking.bsky.social novel.

#creepy

I've got a black '76 Rickenbacker bass that I bought used in '79 and I always say that when the house is burning down, as soon as the wife and kids are safe, I go back in for the Rick.

Funny how you get attached to the things, eh?

If you could only keep one of those four, which would it be?

If I was still working I'd probably be in the office every day, but that's just because we had a really great gym... 😉

I still see great business value in the spontaneous synergies that come from having people together in the office (I retired as a manager in a large tech firm just as the pandemic was winding down), but that's not every day. I like "collaborate in the office, get stuff done at home", i.e. hybrid.

My employer and even the CRA provided some level of compensation for the costs of working from home through the pandemic. I wonder what the chances are that they'll do something similar for the costs of working in the office.

Not to mention the hours spent sitting in traffic, pumping carbon into the atmosphere, which could otherwise have been spent working, parenting, exercising, etc.

Thanks, John! One of our guests is thinking that his mom would enjoy "Fire Weather" and "The Tiger", and she is 75 years old, so not as fluent in English as younger generations are. Still, perhaps she'll choose to work her way through them in English - great souvenirs to bring home from Canada!

Got some book-loving friends here from Denmark and giving them my standard rant about my love of @johnvaillant.bsky.social's work - are any of them available in Danish, do you know?

Those remaining mitochondria that hadn't already been destroyed by seed oils! 😉

And when these and other vaccine-preventable diseases return with a vengeance due to low vaccine uptake, Kennedy and his ilk will blame it on the mRNA-based COVID vaccines having "destroyed our immune systems" or some such nonsense. I'd put money on that.