Not enough salt in the diet (messed-up sodium/potassium balance), low thyroid, maybe other reasons I haven't come across, that not being the focus of my reading in the literature. But that's what I'd look at first.
Try taking potassium instead. The generic one-a-day supplement usually suffices. It's basically what they give you at the emergency room for off-the-charts hypertension. Lemon juice works well too:
Also, do a full thyroid workup. Low thyroid increases blood pressure. Extremely low sodium levels can do the same. (In fact, low sodium diets have been found to have a higher mortality rate.)
Printer cartridge manufacturers got away with it; now everyone thinks they can do it.
[eyes high-end HP inkjet with five FULL carts that won't work because they're past date, even if the printer could still be used... HP says "outdated so no drivers for you" and has deleted them from its website.]
Yep, when I look at the solar data, that's what I see too. Another Little Ice Age, probably within our lifetimes.
Not too concerned about futures predicted by models that can't even accurately predict the past, or cries of "record heat" that conveniently omit the 1930s, tho the day will come when a little more warming woulda been nice. I remember the bad winters of the 1960s.
Personally, I don't CARE that the Trinity apps tend to be a generation or two behind... generally I can't tell Trinity's version from the same app on the straight KDE box, and the only one that annoys me by being really ancient is Dolphin. (The latest version runs, but looks weird.)
Then again, my main box is still WinXP, so I'm evidently not all that stuck on latest and greatest.:)
I did test-drive Mint, with Cinnamon desktop. It's nice enough, runs slick, doesn't load nearly as much needless shit as most (which makes a huge difference in performance). But I found it too limiting, and after the 2nd time it self-nuked GRUB (apparently triggered by merely looking at the function to change the video resolution) I gave it up.
Me, I've always greatly preferred KDE to Gnome, and even more now that Gnome has become a giant cellphone. At present my two keeper installs (out of ~200 distros tried in the past 3 years) are both PCLinuxOS, one with Trinity (which I like best), the other with KDE. (Guess it's no great surprise I landed there, since in the olden days my preferred distro was Mandrake.)
Many agree, but the barrier is that Apple isn't a software company. It's a hardware vendor that sells software as a marketing gimmick for their spectacularly-overpriced commodity hardware.
Lack of morning appetite is a common hypothyroid symptom. (Incidentally, so are both insomnia and a need for more sleep than normal. See today's other discussion.)
Arteriosclerosis is caused by calcium being pulled out of the blood and deposited where it doesn't belong (arteries, also joints). Which is caused by low thyroid. Which also causes poor protein metabolism and consequent flabby heart syndrome (ie. future heart failure), and high blood cholesterol (because it's not transported efficiently into the cells where it can be used).
80% of people over age 50 have some degree of hypothyroidism at the tissue level, due to reduced conversion of T4 to T3 (TSH will still be in range, which is why it's critical to get a complete workup).
Examine and normalize thyroid first and foremost, and a host of health issues vanish without further treatment. Thyroid affects *EVERYTHING*, but hypo symptoms can appear unrelated (as varied as adult-onset tooth decay, some types of cancer, and most of what we think of as "normal aging") -- and are generally not recognised by current medical practice, which tends not to see the forest for the trees.
I sound like a broken record on this, but I read the research literature, and it's astounding how little has filtered down to general medical practice, and how seldom the symptoms are identified. A non-exhaustive list:
Yeah, you're getting your use from it, as an extremely portable computer and media center. If my SansaClip ever dies, I might have to turn a phone into a portable media unit.
Costco has an unlocked Motorola for $200 right now; fairly tempting if one needs the whole package.
Mine isn't much better than FIDOnet; it cost me $12 bought outright (Samsung flipphone, uses a cheap Verizon account). Dumb as a rock but does the job required, which is to be a phone on the only network with good coverage hereabouts. Costs me $15/month.
So I look at a $1000 phone with a $100/mo. contract and think... nope. Do without first.
You jest, but I discovered something interesting whilst living in the People's Republic of California:
Most of the tested pollution actually IS in the tailpipe. Or at least, in the gadget they stick up your car's tailpipe.
Smog testers are not cleaned between uses (in fact, typically they are NEVER cleaned, and the state's specs say this is fine), and emissions gunk accumulates. But I found a mechanic who kept his pristine-clean. And with clean testing equipment, my truck tested in the bottom 10% of the pollutants range... instead of in the upper quarter, as it did elsewhere.
As I was reading this I was thinking.... is that Joanne Dow?? and then I got to the sig, and... yes! Dunno how I've managed to avoid seeing you here. I've moved back to Montana so no more LASFS for me.
Anyway, great story, and that was Jerry in a nutshell.
Regina (Jerry's dual Xeon, the giant Compaq) came to live at my house after it was retired, and I have it still. Gave it a RAM upgrade in Jerry's memory.
I knew Jerry in meatspace (from about 1990 onward), and while he was often loudly opinionated, he was never a crank. His views were always reasoned, and he was careful about distinguishing the factual from the emotional. And he was never swayed by political correctness.
I wasn't a fan, and I didn't particularly like him, but I learned to respect him.
Ha... I still have Netscape 3.04 installed, and occasionally use it for one thing or another (it's a lot handier and faster if I need to trawl through an FTP site, and unlike Mozilla, it can multitask -- no need to wait for the link handler to finish processing before I can hit the next.)
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Good luck, and health to you.
Not enough salt in the diet (messed-up sodium/potassium balance), low thyroid, maybe other reasons I haven't come across, that not being the focus of my reading in the literature. But that's what I'd look at first.
Try taking potassium instead. The generic one-a-day supplement usually suffices. It's basically what they give you at the emergency room for off-the-charts hypertension. Lemon juice works well too:
https://www.highbloodpressurem...
(written by a cardiologist)
Works like magic in 4 minutes flat.
Also, do a full thyroid workup. Low thyroid increases blood pressure. Extremely low sodium levels can do the same. (In fact, low sodium diets have been found to have a higher mortality rate.)
Anyone who thinks identifying and remembering novel objects requires a significant IQ has never been around cattle, or for that matter, sheep.
Printer cartridge manufacturers got away with it; now everyone thinks they can do it.
[eyes high-end HP inkjet with five FULL carts that won't work because they're past date, even if the printer could still be used... HP says "outdated so no drivers for you" and has deleted them from its website.]
Yep, when I look at the solar data, that's what I see too. Another Little Ice Age, probably within our lifetimes.
Not too concerned about futures predicted by models that can't even accurately predict the past, or cries of "record heat" that conveniently omit the 1930s, tho the day will come when a little more warming woulda been nice. I remember the bad winters of the 1960s.
Also says nothing about the prolonged heat of the 1930s, which made today's "records" look downright chilly.
Personally, I don't CARE that the Trinity apps tend to be a generation or two behind... generally I can't tell Trinity's version from the same app on the straight KDE box, and the only one that annoys me by being really ancient is Dolphin. (The latest version runs, but looks weird.)
Then again, my main box is still WinXP, so I'm evidently not all that stuck on latest and greatest. :)
Or, why my primary distro right now is PCLinuxOS with Trinity desktop -- all the love of KDE3 without the patina of antiquity.
I did test-drive Mint, with Cinnamon desktop. It's nice enough, runs slick, doesn't load nearly as much needless shit as most (which makes a huge difference in performance). But I found it too limiting, and after the 2nd time it self-nuked GRUB (apparently triggered by merely looking at the function to change the video resolution) I gave it up.
Me, I've always greatly preferred KDE to Gnome, and even more now that Gnome has become a giant cellphone. At present my two keeper installs (out of ~200 distros tried in the past 3 years) are both PCLinuxOS, one with Trinity (which I like best), the other with KDE. (Guess it's no great surprise I landed there, since in the olden days my preferred distro was Mandrake.)
The old Borland compilers may not be libre, but they were made freely available over a decade ago.
http://edn.embarcadero.com/art...
Many agree, but the barrier is that Apple isn't a software company. It's a hardware vendor that sells software as a marketing gimmick for their spectacularly-overpriced commodity hardware.
Because if not, there's a good chance Facebook was simply responding to an earlier cookie.
Best description of this place ever. :D
Oh, and mine is smaller than yours. :P
Well, that explains why we're still here!!
Lack of morning appetite is a common hypothyroid symptom. (Incidentally, so are both insomnia and a need for more sleep than normal. See today's other discussion.)
Arteriosclerosis is caused by calcium being pulled out of the blood and deposited where it doesn't belong (arteries, also joints). Which is caused by low thyroid. Which also causes poor protein metabolism and consequent flabby heart syndrome (ie. future heart failure), and high blood cholesterol (because it's not transported efficiently into the cells where it can be used).
80% of people over age 50 have some degree of hypothyroidism at the tissue level, due to reduced conversion of T4 to T3 (TSH will still be in range, which is why it's critical to get a complete workup).
Examine and normalize thyroid first and foremost, and a host of health issues vanish without further treatment. Thyroid affects *EVERYTHING*, but hypo symptoms can appear unrelated (as varied as adult-onset tooth decay, some types of cancer, and most of what we think of as "normal aging") -- and are generally not recognised by current medical practice, which tends not to see the forest for the trees.
I sound like a broken record on this, but I read the research literature, and it's astounding how little has filtered down to general medical practice, and how seldom the symptoms are identified. A non-exhaustive list:
http://hypothyroidmom.com/300-...
Not to mention its end-stage, hyperparathyroidism (the body's response to low blood calcium, and probable root cause of osteoporosis).
Yeah, you're getting your use from it, as an extremely portable computer and media center. If my SansaClip ever dies, I might have to turn a phone into a portable media unit.
Costco has an unlocked Motorola for $200 right now; fairly tempting if one needs the whole package.
Mine isn't much better than FIDOnet; it cost me $12 bought outright (Samsung flipphone, uses a cheap Verizon account). Dumb as a rock but does the job required, which is to be a phone on the only network with good coverage hereabouts. Costs me $15/month.
So I look at a $1000 phone with a $100/mo. contract and think... nope. Do without first.
You jest, but I discovered something interesting whilst living in the People's Republic of California:
Most of the tested pollution actually IS in the tailpipe. Or at least, in the gadget they stick up your car's tailpipe.
Smog testers are not cleaned between uses (in fact, typically they are NEVER cleaned, and the state's specs say this is fine), and emissions gunk accumulates. But I found a mechanic who kept his pristine-clean. And with clean testing equipment, my truck tested in the bottom 10% of the pollutants range... instead of in the upper quarter, as it did elsewhere.
Somehow this does not stop California from having the highest gas taxes in the U.S.
Here ya go.
https://goo.gl/maps/Qdy9gdi5uZ...
https://goo.gl/maps/4sDGuvywrf...
https://goo.gl/maps/KRoyccRBiM...
https://goo.gl/maps/W9VQJtVGWZ...
Tho I'd agree that their utility is suspect, since there are dozens if not hundreds of uninspected alternate routes.
As I was reading this I was thinking.... is that Joanne Dow?? and then I got to the sig, and... yes! Dunno how I've managed to avoid seeing you here. I've moved back to Montana so no more LASFS for me.
Anyway, great story, and that was Jerry in a nutshell.
Regina (Jerry's dual Xeon, the giant Compaq) came to live at my house after it was retired, and I have it still. Gave it a RAM upgrade in Jerry's memory.
I knew Jerry in meatspace (from about 1990 onward), and while he was often loudly opinionated, he was never a crank. His views were always reasoned, and he was careful about distinguishing the factual from the emotional. And he was never swayed by political correctness.
I wasn't a fan, and I didn't particularly like him, but I learned to respect him.
Disabling disk cache helps somewhat. Because every cache system needs 1500 empty folders!
Ha... I still have Netscape 3.04 installed, and occasionally use it for one thing or another (it's a lot handier and faster if I need to trawl through an FTP site, and unlike Mozilla, it can multitask -- no need to wait for the link handler to finish processing before I can hit the next.)
Agreed on the versioning madness. It's to where I think of them all as multipled by 10, or maybe 100.
User-agent changer (anything you want) and various other handy toggles:
http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/
The one add-on I can't live without.