Smae!

Yay, and a happy All Souls to Ye, each and everyone!

I used an iPod touch for calling over WiFi for years. It worked just fine, as long as one had a WiFi connection. Do it!

This was from April ‘22. Why don’t we have these pants by now?

Gee, I’d love to go but I already had plans. (Eek!)

That sounds costly!

Thanks! I’ll give it a gander. I was off hiking today, and used some crappy app to track my progress. I know there’s an open source ware that can do it, without invading my privacy; it’s time to start using that ‘ware.

But why?

I love Obvious Plant!

Weirdly stable. My first mistake was to try to make sense of the quote.

Self Checkout may also act unpredictably when abused.

That’s what she said.

Bingo! This is the way. I only open chrome when I need to log into a google/ alphabet site on the unlikely occasion. And close it immediately after.

BTW it’s Perseid time!

You are, of course, quite correct. And for me today, it was the meme I needed. Dealing with the US medical system, requires perspective.

Curling?

Go find another job, Gall.

Beautiful! I have a slightly different shaped, no less green species that shows up in my garden. Tho’ I haven’t seen one this year.

I approve of this message. schmack

Thanks for asking. I was using incorrect terminology. It’s the Influenza B/Yamagata lineage which has probably gone extinct. According to this paper in The Lancet : https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(24)00066-1/fulltext

The B/Victoria lineage persists. B/Yamagata has not been confirmed since March 2020 according to this paper : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9524051/

This paper from Nature goes into it a bit more, in particular wrt implications for vaccines: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00642-4