Posts from December 2021

It's been a while. Just popped by to reference something and found folks are still finding my Linkage Disequilibrium article useful.

Who'd have thought the article would help folks for this long.

@paul, @terry and @joe - miss you all. Hope you are doing well!

Hugs,
TP

May the festive spirit always be with you the coming new year!


PS: I miss you, @paul, @terry, @heidi, @libertad, @mike, @joe and @Dianne (well, Joe and Dianne, I have never actually met you but miss you all the same!)

PPS: I am sorry for being away so long... but these apologies are kind of empty because I seem to have less and less time to even breathe these days. Regardless, I remember you all often and send good vibes to you all the time! Many many hugs!

Despite the massively accumulating evidence.

Original article:


NYT Report:


Addiction is a psychological disease. I fail to understand why we are not treating it on a war-footing - or even the same footing as several other relatively milder contagion.

Why are cigarette companies even operating without paying for the health insurance of everyone on this planet? (well... shared equally by alcohol companies and arms and ammunition companies).

To every smoker I know. Please try and quit. At this point, I will be sorry if you die, but I sure as hell won't forgive you if you force the repercussions of your disease on your family, friends and neighbours, knowing well the certainty of this happening.

I just ended up on my own post from almost 4 years ago for the same question I had 4 years ago. Maybe its proof that one never changes inherently.

And I obliterated my FB account just like I shooed away my twitter page all those years back. There is something so indeterminably creepy about FB's security implementation. I am just not on board with it.

On a related note, I don't write for leisure anymore. I sometimes wonder if this is making my general writing more unimaginative.

It cracks me up when I read studies that describe their population as "healthy smokers".


All smokers are clearly mentally sick. How is this "healthy"?

Healthy smokers, my foot.

How come I have never seen this crazy dance before. So insanely awesome! :)


Looks like the women have the easy parts. hahaha

The spring has hardly begun, temperatures are a perfectly pleasant 17 degrees C and some idiots in my flat building have already switched on their A/C.

Is it surprising that this country consumes the most amount of electricity in the entire world?

Oh and I also hope whoever is smoking outside drops DEAD right now. No one likes you. You are a menace to non-smokers.

I woke up today morning and there was a small message scrolling on the top bar of my android phone

>> just say no

I went into work and the first thing I know someone is guilt-tripping me about not helping out in some random project that I am not even committed to or care about or have time for.

I practiced my ignore-stare and unconsciously said no.

No. You cannot take me for granted. You cannot take my time for granted.

As I walked home, I could smell the spring flowers blooming, hear the geese squawking and woodpeckers pecking... and best of all, there was silence from usual guilt-ridden little whiny voice that derails me and let people just walk all over.

Thank you, S. Spring is here.

Beautiful and dead.

Compare to Claritin® @paul #58292

2 cups of korean almond walnut tea
24 X 4 ounces of oolong.
24 X 1 ounces mulberry tea
24 X 2 ounces sencha
1 cup almonds
2 cups of mixed grapefruit + papaya + oranges + apples
2 more granny smiths
16 X 2 chai with milk
1 hard boiled egg
1 stick mozzerella
2 persimmon
1 rambutan
1 cup honeydew melon

And this was my dinner:


Sauteed tofu with sprouted peas, thai chillies, green bell peppers, kale and delicata squash in soy sauce and ginger sesame flavoured olive oil with roasted sesame and coriander.

And two spectacular arepas with melted mozzarella and oodles of butter! :D