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Cake day: April 14th, 2025

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  • Don’t let it update. Find a list of their update servers and block them locally. My computer was totally normal and during this last update last week it took a long time updating. So I tried logging in and it would just load part of the desktop ui before freezing totally. I found it was the cryptographic service. Once you kill that service the machine works just fine. But then that program gets called by every program multiple times. So you open services and keep ending that service multiple times during the day. Its annoying to no end. Definitely not encouraging me to get windows ever again.











  • My wife got a light headed dizziness this morning. The kids freaked out and ran downstairs trying to get me. As I approached the kitchen one of my kids, super scared points towards the kitchen area. I can’t see yet. My mind naturally goes… "She’s dead isn’t she? Oh yeah, she’s a gonner…WTF! Who’s gonna do the taxes? Who’s gonna feed the kids and get them to school? Who’s… I’m totally screwed! No! K love her and need her too much! Why is she just quitting on me like that! Bitch! WTF! Where is she!

    Oh she’s fine! I finally make the turn into the kitchen. Its just another bout of high blood pressure. But I’m the crazy one for not eating all her ethnically correct lard cooked everything. Ooh! You gotta try the chocolate! Its traditional! Here, let me just add more lard and triple fry it for you…no way hose lady! She will just not listen. The good thing is she’s not that big in case I need to carry her around the house one day. I’m going to have to change her diapers and everything. That’s the scariest.



  • In the new study, the research team succeeded in engineering the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce a precise mixture of six key sterols that bees need. This was then incorporated into diets fed to bee colonies during three-month feeding trials. These took place in enclosed glasshouses to ensure the bees only fed on the treatment diets.

    Key findings:

    • By the end of the study period, colonies fed with the sterol-enriched yeast had reared up to 15 times more larvae to the viable pupal stage, compared with colonies fed control diets.
    • Colonies fed with the enriched diet were more likely to continue rearing brood up to the end of the three-month period, whereas colonies on sterol-deficient diets ceased brood production after 90 days.
    • Notably, the sterol profile of larvae in colonies fed the engineered yeast matched that found in naturally foraged colonies, suggesting that bees selectively transfer only the most biologically important sterols to their young.





  • I’ll give you an idea…my wife keeps all the thin plastic food containers from when we bring food from a restaurant. Now we have hundreds of reusable containers. We don’t need to buy new plastic containers or plates!

    So instead of selling the food in thin containers that eventually become planters or paint buckets, why not let people bring their own Tupperware or plates from home?