Michelle C. Hauer

@DennisF Hey we all get our adrenaline in different ways.

Just saw The Devil Wears Prada 2 and I cannot accurately describe the horror of watching Anne Hathaway type her stories DIRECTLY INTO THE CMS.

@wynrosei You had to be LUCKY CALLER NUMBER 7! Or just go to Tower Records.

I’m curious : Before the digital era, how did people get concert tickets? 40 thousand people lining up outside the stadium????

@BendPulse @BendTheatrePub @ElTenEleven were fantastic. They did comment that this was the quietest Bend crowd they’ve played for. You could have brought some noise!

@MichelleCHauer @BendTheatrePub Hope you had a great time! I didn’t make it last night but I’ve heard nothing but good things. El Ten Eleven always puts on an awesome show.

@AutismCapital @bryan_johnson You have an office?

@bryan_johnson We have a BJ minutes to midnight clock in the office before you try drinking urine. We’re three minutes out. 😂

I started milking my eyelids. Here's the situation. My eyes have been dry/irritated/red for the past year or so. I started using eye drops to moisten and it didn't make a difference. So I went to see an eye doctor. The source of the problem is that my meibomian glands, the tiny oil glands lining the eyelids, were clogged up. Without the meibum they secrete, the tear film on my eye evaporates in seconds which is bad for eye health. We're not sure of the cause of the dysregulation. We have few theories that we're looking into. Taking a closer look with infrared meibography, the imagery showed that my meibomian glands were congested, distorted, and partially dropped out. This is bad news because atrophied glands don't regrow! It's situations like this that makes me wonder why we do not have a better operating manual for the human body. How could I have prevented this from happening and why didn't I catch this sooner!? I did additional tests to assess the damage and my situation now. The Schirmer test (paper strip measuring tear wetting over 5 minutes) came back at 6 and 6.5 mm. A borderline reading consistent with mild dry eye. A healthy reading is typically 15 mm or above. Here's what I'm doing now to try and nurture my remaining glands back to good health: 1) Forma RF, Radiofrequency (microwave) heat applied from outside the lid, melting the obstruction. 2) LipiFlow, a device that sandwiches each eyelid: heat from the inside, pulsed pressure from the outside, squeezing the obstruction out. 12 minutes, both eyes. 3) Both capped at 41°C, not the standard 42°C, to spare eyelid collagen and elastin. No thinning skin, no premature sagging. 4) IPL around the eyes that shut down the abnormal blood vessels feeding chronic lid inflammation, the engine of MGD. 5) Manual gland milking, the doctor squeezes the lid margin between two instruments, forcing the plugs out. Hard, pasty secretions came out initially. The second and third mechanical milking the glands are returning to a normal, expected oily state. 6) Daily upkeep includes warm compresses, lid hygiene, omega-3 to keep secretions thin and glands moving. My next check in is 3 weeks form now. My doctor mentioned that meibomian gland dysfunction in her patients has increased since Covid, likely driven by the rise in screen time. When staring at screens for long stretches, people blink less frequently and less completely. Normal blink rate is roughly 15-20 times per minute but drops significantly during screen use. Incomplete blinks mean the meibomian glands don't get fully expressed, which over time contributes to gland dysfunction and evaporative dry eye. It's worth you getting checked for this and a good practice generally to make sure your eyes are in good health.

New post from Woody on social media: “Not a lot going on at the moment”

Amtrak Informs Small Town Girl Living In A Lonely World That They Don’t Actually Have A Midnight Train Going Anywhere buff.ly/L6BNnJQ

@illicitbrennan Need a link to this playlist

can they just agree on something???

@illicitbrennan Hilarious!

I love the swaying parts so much.

@jh4vaj L for Loop-dee-loo

抵抗がRなのはわかる コンデサがCなのも分かる コイルがLなのはわからん…

@ptrschmdtnlsn Oh and that’s probably about 20 to 23 inches if the velocity is about 0.7c to 0.8c for typical coax cables.

@ptrschmdtnlsn 2.5 nsec =(245.3-65.3 deg)/(360*0.2GHz) from the negative phase slope

Pop quiz: How long is the cable I'm testing?

@NobodymrRobert Adding this to the Amazon wish list for my future @Tesla_Optimus bot who will earn his keep doing this for everyone in my town.

And so it Begins.

Nothing beats a chance encounter with a legend! While driving home to Utah after the rock climbing divisionals in Sacramento, this father-son duo crossed paths with a true monster of the rails: Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014. 🚂💨 Currently on its historic 2026 Coast-to-Coast Tour, this 1.1-million-pound beast is the only operational steam locomotive of its kind left in the world. Seeing those 5'8" wheels in motion puts its 133-foot scale into perspective. A massive piece of history heading back toward the same Wasatch Mountains it was built to conquer. 🏔️ 💪

@TheTSD_updates Agreed. Love that opening line. Played CLM on repeat when the album came out. And then it was my surprise song in Vegas with Taylor and Marcus only a few feet from my seat in the 2nd row. Nearly died from bliss.

💬| Marcus Mumford reveals “cowboy like me” is his favorite Taylor Swift song during Zach Sang Show interview The Marcus Mumford said: “cowboy like me is my favorite Taylor Swift song. It starts with the verse ‘and the tennis court was covered up with some tent-like thing’, and it’s curious because, at first glance, it might not seem necessarily identifiable. But the song immediately transports you to a place—you can visualize the scene very clearly. It’s very visual, very specific, and from the very first line, I’m already completely immersed.” He praised the vivid storytelling and cinematic quality of the track from Taylor Swift.

@Devon_Eriksen_ Going to petition HR to change my title to Principal Technical Wizard.

The distinction between engineering and magic is entirely a modern linguistic conceit. To the ancients, a wizard, a magus, a sorceror, was not a man who commanded forces outside the laws of nature. He was a man who commanded the forces of nature, by manipulating them through his understanding of natural law. But the modern word for a man who commands the universe by understanding its laws is "engineer". Yes, the ancient sorceror would try to commune with the spirits of the dead, or read the destiny of kings in the stars, or perform fertility rites to make the crops grow, but this wasn't some special supernatural discipline to him. This was simply his model of how the natural world worked. He would not have made a distinction between understanding heat and phase changes, and thereby distilling alcohol, and cutting out the intestines of a bird to predict the fortunes of a business venture. Both, to him, were philosophy and natural law. But as our understanding of the laws of physics grew more sophisticated, we gradually exiled the term "magic" to that which had not been proven to work, and to that which had been proven not to work. Were we given the opportunity to take an ancient Egyptian king on a tour of modern society, riding in an electric car, he would remark that we are a rich people, because we have many powerful magicians. Some of us might hasten to correct him, telling him that there is no magic used here. But he would not, in fact, be wrong.

Gen X trained for this…

This is accurate. And unironically why America wins every new technological era.