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Quote from IMScotty: “Perhaps the increase in dementia was not caused by the PPI drugs after all, but the regular heartburn medication these folks probably take for many years previous? Just thinking out loud. I am sure the CDC is right, just like they are about Chronic Lyme Disease ” The study also didn't control for other factors such as type II diabetes. Acid reflux, type II diabetes, cerebral vascular disease are all significant comorbidities with metabolic syndrome. That's the danger of ret…

Aluminum is definitely far down on my "things to worry about" list. It's ubiquitous, it's always been ubiquitous on the Earth, we're adapted to deal with it. Because of the early reports suggesting the role of Al in Alzheimer's, the element has been studied intensively. So intensively that the studies suffer from the green jellybean effect: significant.png "So, uh, we did the green study again and got no link. It was probably a--" "RESEARCH CONFLICTED ON GREEN JELLY BEAN ACNE LINK; MORE STUDY RE…

Nice video, if a bit one sided. The story is not without its controversy. If you want a background long-read, there's one here.

Aluminum metal passivates so easily that it's hard to extract any significant amount of Al+3 from metallic Al with acid alone. The amount of Al you get from cookware is a tiny fraction of the amount you get from typical municipal water supplies that have been treated with aluminum-based flocculants such as KAl(SO4)2. Etching aluminum usually needs another metal as a catalyst (copper is common), HF, a strong alkali, or peroxide. For surface prep on aluminum components that will be exposed to hars…

Quote from CoachLou: “Out on the trail again (...pictures...) ” What's the current project? Still working on hardening the AT in Harriman, or doing the repairs up in the Shawangunks, or what? It'll be nice when the unexpected urgent stuff dies back enough that the LDTC can work again on making the connection from Wawarsing to Vernooy Kill Falls. The route has been flagged for long enough that the flagging will surely have to be refreshed before construction starts. It's just been one thing after…

Quote from Foresight: “Ran across these little lovelies not long ago..... (...picture...) So I gathered 'em up, sauteed in butter then made some gravy and tossed them in some grits.... (...picture...) ” I'm envious. I seldom see morels - seldom enough that I've never learnt to make a solid identification of them, and so wouldn't harvest them if I did see them. (I'm generally not sure I'd trust my identification of fungi - I think color-blindness may well be a serious handicap for that.) Anyway, …

If anyone has a lightweight solution for occasionally wanting to fry something, I'd like to hear about it. Once in a great while, I have a trip that might possibly involve fish. While steaming the fish (over real rice and veggies; the juices from the fish flavor the rice and it comes out kind of being a fish risotto) is nice, simply being able to flour them and throw them in a pan with some grease would be really nice, too. I do a fair amount of home-packed FBC or FBC-hybrid. (One of my favorite…

Quote from LIhikers: “Sorry to heat about your loss Kevin. Don't let yourself get involved with the "Drama", it isn't worth it most of the time. ” I'm back in town. The drama mostly sorted itself out. I think that the people who need to be looked after are being looked after. Otherwise, I've got no skin in their games. Marie, her fiancé, and a few of her nieces and nephews were the only ones in that crowd that I gave a rat's arse about, and Marie is beyond the drama. As long as Louis is looked a…

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Quote from meat: “Quote from Dan76: “Read an article in the April edition of Outsider on the number of reported missing folks in public lands. Over the years, the number is in the thousands. ” My first experiences with these occurrences was circa nineteen eighty sumthin' on a trip out west with my dad, every gas station we stopped at had posters of missing people young and old. If I recall correctly Utah and Nevada seemed to be missing more than most, very disturbing and for the remainder of tha…

It happened, Marie's at rest. Now there's a lot of family dynamics to get sorted out. Not being blood relatives, my brother and I are kind of stuck at a distance watching an ugly scene play out. We haven't much formal relationship; my parents were never Marie's foster parents legally, although she was their godchild and often lived with us. Her birth family, and Louis's, have some problems. to put it mildly. In Paradisum deducant ea angeli : in eo adventu suscipiant ea martyres, et perducant ea …

Any of you that are the praying sort, could you put in a good word for my foster-sister Marie? Her health has taken a terrible turn for the worse, and she's not expected to last the night, the last I heard. She and Louie, her companion of forty years, were at long last to have married next month. Her nephew Danny, who will have the task of making arrangements, is recovering from a massive heart attack of his own, and just buried a brother a few weeks ago. Sometimes life just sucks.

Quote from Drybones: “Quote from NoAngel: “I hear a lot of "Have a blessed day" around here too. ” That's our southern polite way of saying....f*** off! ” Why, bless your heart!

2017 hiking plans: Maybe I'll get to hike. I got a cortisone shot to a bad tendon a week ago, and it's feeling much better. Now to try to figure out the balance between getting out enough to get into better shape and getting out too much and doing further damage. I'm probably going to err on the "further damage" side.

Quote from SarcasmTheElf: “ I did say that! ” That you did. I think you were about here when you said it. 14527159560_3093050d96_z.jpg

So, you discovered the East Branch! When Elf and I were in there on our way to Lone, Rocky, and Balsam Cap, he mentioned that if you were along on that trip, we'd never have bagged any peaks because we'd never get you off the river. All those beautiful brookies - skittish wild ones that will never give you more than one cast. Slide is the second-easiest summit in the Catskills, if you approach from the west. (The easiest is Windham High Peak, also from the west. Bearpen is also pretty easy, up f…

Quote from Rasty: “Quote from Wise Old Owl: “Is it not time to donate again - Just asking? ” I've got the cost down to around $30 per month. It isn't a huge thing anymore. ” I make it a practice to throw something in your tip jar whenever TOS bugs me that it's time to renew over there. If you don't need it to run the site, I don't mind at all if you drink it instead.

Those drawings - Ben Hunt?

Quote from odd man out: “Yes, I always carry a sliver of Irory or some other kind of plain unscented soap in a baggie. I've considered bringing some sort of portable sink for that washing up as a luxury item. I've seen syl-nylon water bags. or just cut off the bottom of a gallon plastic milk jug. ” Sea to Summit silnylon bucket, so I can hang it from a tree branch and have a really convenient sink. It's also useful as a settling tank in places where the water is silty, and as a way to haul up 'd…

Quote from meat: “Yeah, my balls hadn't even dropped in '89 ” What, you'd never made an infield error before then?