Hi Michael,

That seems to make eminent sense. I'm sure all
sensible medical people have always dreamed of this,
but it's only with modern computer processing power
that the ideal comes anywhere close to reality.

Since computers can crunch numbers/data so much faster than people

can, > it makes sense to use them. As I understand, Watson (the
computer that > beat the all over top 2 Jeopardy players, is now used
for medical

research/analysis.

I've got a couple uneasinesses about that.
First, I have a similar suspicion with respect
to them that you have regarding seeing-eye
automation - lack of insight. and if they do
eventually get insight, that's scarier still.

Choice between a rock and a hard place or the devil & the deep blue sea.

The other issue is that computers are hackable.

That's very scary, knowing that so much can be compromised so fast.

scales that are dual English/metric also. Some things we

weigh out > ML> in > grams as they're more precise than ounces. Comes from our living > ML> in

Germany for several years, and having cook books that use

metrics. > ML> And then there are those of us who seldom measure

at all. It's amusing that someone who basically can't
see does most of his measuring by the eyeball method.

If it works for you, don't belittle your methodology.

That was a joke.

It's also half serious--whatever works best for you, go for it. Just
don't try to make something that calls for small, precise measurements
unless you know how much your "pinch" really is.

With this 737 Max-8 thing, I'm having my
apprehensions now.

Same here. They are finding alarming similarities in the 2 crashes.

Though I'm pretty apprehensive about what happens to
the rest of the flying fleet if Boeing goes down.
Maybe it'll be reincarnated as a maintenance provider.

I'm not even going to think about the possible ramifications to the air
travel industry.

It's done, even tho most everybody knows that water (and soft

drinks) > are cholesterol free. Just like you may find fruits

and > ML> veggies labeled > fat free.

Well, if it were true, that would be useful information.
But take your ordinary wonderful, wholesome apple. It
contains 0.3 grams of fat. That's not zero, but it may
be advertised as such, by the arcane rules.

Close enough to fat free to be labeled as such.

Yeah, and there are lots of foods that qualify for
the labeling that really aren't. It shouldn't be
this way.

Do you think your wheel is squeaky enough to get the grease that will
change the whole food labelling industry?

Among other things. Fat is also a major player
in our basic metabolism. If you don't eat enough
of it, your body compensates in various ways,
including making it, and if you even so don't have
enough, you die.

Can't win for losing.

Can't win by losing, either.

Unless it's unwanted pounds.

Some I just avoid, period. Coffee, peanut butter,

coconut..... > ML> All foods I like. I might have said adore, but
that's

a term almost as objectionable to me as certain others
are to you.

It's another word that is wrongly applied to food.

The question arises what constitutes right and
wrong in this context. If there's such a thing.

Personal choice, probably. I'd say that adore would apply to animate
objects (people, animals, etc) but inanamate objects (food, drink, etc)
would not be "adorable".

I'd still rather leave my small one home, don't want it

confiscated. > ML> Of course; and if your local TSA personnel are

competent, that should happen 100% of the time.

AFAIK, the Raleigh TSA does well in that regard. Every so often the

news > will have a story on "This is what the TSA confiscated in X
months

locally".

And then you get stories about "our reporter took a
hand grenade through security without being stopped."

Not so many of those, actually.

Speaking of which, I was going out the security exit
at Phoenix when in my peripheral vision I noted
someone zip in the exit, which triggered an alarm.
I was glad to be leaving the airport rather than
trying to catch a flight.

I'd agree with you there. It's been a while since we flew in/out of Sky Harbor--that was the one we'd use when we were in HI and our girls were
(both) in AZ. Hawaiian had an overnight flight from Honolulu to Sky Harbor--very convenient for us.

RICH BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

A couple of teaspoons of ground cinnamon makes them even better.

To me, blueberries are delicate enough to
require that other distracting flavor be kept
out of the way.

IIRC, the cinnamon was in the recipe in my James Beard cook book. I'd
probably use a teaspoon, maybe less, of it, just to play off the
blueberry taste.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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