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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Earlier in the year I was in hospital for a while, had to have surgery. I went in at 80kg and after 5 weeks was just under 66kg.

    I’m 175cm tall, BMI 26.1 (technically over weight, but was very fit) down to 21.6, which is considered “normal” but I felt very skinny and unhealthy.

    The BMI thing is a little bit bullshit, since it doesn’t map fitness level.

    As for getting back to a healthy weight, take it slow, eat really healthy foods eat mostly nova 1 & 2 foods, some nova 3 and avoid nova 4 if possible.

    Also if you have been on antibiotics while in hospital, eat ferments like kimchi or sauerkraut, maybe drink some kombucha to rebuild your gut flora. But take it slow as it can really mess you up if you dump too much in at once.



  • Ketamine

    I was in hospital and had some significant pain. Opiate based pain relief doesn’t really effect me so they said we will try a ketamine. I said ok, I had never had it before…wow dissociative drugs, are not for me. I told the nurse to stop it and had a small argument about it with her as I felt myself become distant and spacey.

    I decided that the pain was better then the loosing my mind feeling, stuck with paracetamol.


  • Driver: that thing looks pretty fast, you wanna race?
    Cyclist: sure, switches bike to max assist

    Driver: Toot, toot, toooooot!! (loud roaring of engine)

    Later at the pub
    Driver: I can’t believe you had me for the first 100m, fuck that thing is fast
    Cyclist: I know but the top end isn’t really what I need. Another round?
    Driver: Sure one more, then I have to get home.


  • Honestly just eat vegetables and keep your ultraprocessed foods to a minimum.

    Milk and eggs are pretty good, as they literally have all that a growing body needs. But since I assume you are not a baby posting on social media (never can tell in this “modern” world) you need more than just milk and eggs.

    Eat fermented foods, kimchi, sauerkraut or kombucha etc…great for gut health

    I do like some nutritional yeast though. It is really tasty.











  • The “problem” of negative energy costs is easy to solve, but quite costly.

    Build water desalination/carbon capture and storage/hydrogen generation plants that only run when the price goes below 0; even though these are very energy intensive, they would help stabilize the grid.

    Then build more solar; you want to try to have the daytime price stay in the negative as often as possible.



  • This is a solved problem.

    DC-AC conversion is pretty well understood, as is electrical protection, grid frequency matching inverters are available “off the shelf” for small units and are made to order in the MW range.

    In NZ we have a DC link between the islands, there have been equipment failures over the years disabling the link, but grid frequency events are not an issue. The link has been in place for almost 60 years.

    Also the distributed nature of generation makes cascade failure extremely unlikely. If you have an issue in one solar farm; another solar farm a few km away is extremely unlikely to have the same issue.