Not me, but if it helped, I’d do this.
These will be grouchy links. I pulled or tore something in my back (I will know when I get back from idiot, er…immediate care) this past weekend in the gym. I am old, and I am not Warty.
Here be the links.
- NIMBY.
- Looks like the Russian drone pilots not at the Ukraine front are of low quality.
- Nobody wants to live in NM?
- Wut?
Comments are open and all yours.
*Update – hurrah, a completely jacked up left latissimus dorsi. Doc lifted my shirt and gave one of those mafia movie “ohhhh!” type responses – a big bunched up and swollen area… so I get the roids, muscle relaxants and get to pester my wife for a couple of massages. Thanks, doc!*
Wut?
… and other Turkish delights!
Under the “related stories” from that:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/several-tonnes-of-chips-and-chicken-seized-at-swiss-customs/91143095
The Helveticans must have really high food import taxes or something.
Everything in the CH is pricey.
Is that were the stolen KitKats went?
in the gym
That’s a double ouch. We exercise to to minimize the probability of injuring ourselves doing every day tasks. Hurting ourselves in the gym just adds insult to the injury.
Well, it killed Douglas Adams …
I am not familiar with that story.
Adams fell dead of heart failure while using a treadmill at the gym (IIRC).
Died on a treadmill, iirc.
thank you both
I read somewhere once that sometimes the first sign of heart disease is the sudden, fatal heart attack.
On the other hand, people are notorious for ignoring the warning signs.
Jim Fixx, the author who popularized the 1970s jogging craze with his 1977 bestseller The Complete Book of Running, died of a heart attack on July 20, 1984, at age 52 while jogging in Vermont. His death highlighted that, despite fitness, underlying genetic factors and severe atherosclerosis can cause heart disease, as an autopsy revealed significant arterial blockages.
The Case of Jim Fixx: Fixx’s death was ironic as he preached the cardiovascular benefits of running. However, he had a strong family history of heart disease (his father suffered a heart attack at 43), which outweighed his running efforts.
Heart Attack Details: Studies indicate Fixx may have had warning symptoms, such as tightness in the throat (angina), which he ignored.
I worked with a guy that didn’t work out, or do cardio. “You’re only born with so many heart beats. Why would you want to waste them?” In his favor, he had a ranch to work when not in the firehouse.
I stole Jim Fixx’s words on the sign on my garden fence.
“Where Dreams Go To Die”
I never knew the reason I panicked until now.
“Jim Fixx” – Died at 52 from heart attack while running.
Also Jack Kelly, brother of Grace, died at age 57 while jogging.
Conclusion: Too much cardio kills (especially when your heart is all screwed up, like Fixx’s)
“Jim Fixx” – Died at 52 from heart attack while running.
Also Jack Kelly, brother of Grace, died at age 57 while jogging.
Conclusion: Too much cardio kills (especially when your heart is all screwed up, like Fixx’s)
I am old, and I am not Warty.
Seconded. I do squats but only with a kettlebell. In fact more of my efforts are focused on flexibility, then cardio, then strength. Mostly in service of my golf swing.
Tom Brady approves.
Hurting ourselves in the gym just adds insult to the injury.
Yes.
I did my first powerlifting competition a few weeks ago. I did not reinjure my herniated disc though I was very tired for a few days afterwards.
Sorry to hear about your injury. Quick healing to you!
Thanks…I am a bit loopy right now. Muscle relaxant FTW!
Last year, when I threw my back out right before 2-gun nats, the clinic doctor gave me that same cocktail of ‘roids and Flexeril.
In retrospect…I probably shouldn’t have shot the match while under the influence.
Although I didn’t shoot myself or get DQ’d. Small wins.
Hope you feel better soon!
“Muscle relaxant FTW!”
*fist bump*
I was recently prescribed cyclobenzaprin for what I believe, without confirmation, may be some sort of herniated disc. I don’t find that med does anything, to be frank. (“Can I still be Garth?”) My whole body has always been an assortment of shockingly poppy bits. (I’m poppy.)
I have a foam cylinder I roll my back on, which does make it feel better for a spell. I’ve also graduated to popping my chest. About every 30min I’ve got a few kinks in my sternum that want to release. I’ve got an ace up my sleeve with my shoulder, which I can pop (pretty loudly) at will. Hilariously, that came from doing dislocates on the rings when I was a young gymnast. I partially(?) dislocated it and fell on the mat below, which popped it back in. Fun party trick, but has freaked some folk out. (Weirdos.)
A full body cast?
Looks like somebody ran into STEVE SMITH right before they ran into SEA SMITH right after which ZARDOZ used them as a landing pad.
Dr Aloysious recommends a back rub and an adult beverage. Something with Guava nectar in it, like a Guava Margarita. I bet Mr. Ilium has ideas.
Mr.Illium always has a cocktail answer – hence his beloved status in Glibs.
Anything to declare?
I declare Baklava is delicious and Taxation is theft!
Also I’m in sugar shock and need some insulin immediately.
Unidentified drones crash in Finland
The Nordic defense forces Finnished off the mystery drones.
Norway are they letting those drones in their airspace.
Someone is getting a Swed deal on them.
The Russians will have to Sweden the deal, then.
I was too Oslo.
Those are Ukraine drones that passed through Baltic States airspace to attack the Russian oil depot.
Betting the operator was Estoned.
Can’t blame them for getting a Lillehammered.
The amount of cognitive dissonance that still remains in this article is staggering.
The affordability crunch is pushing Democrats to scale back climate ambitions
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/30/democrats-energy-affordability-climate-00848073
When the money arrived magically from DC everything worked. Nobody on Team Blue seem to figure out that when that stopped it’s both unreliable and utterly uneconomic.
Tapped out after a couple paragraphs. Yeah, they’re still playing along with the fantasy even with reality staring them in the face.
They are not gonna let the graft go so easily.
I was just listening to The Fifth Column with David Pogue, who was talking about his new book (which sounds good).
They were talking about AI and how they were optimistic that the insatiable power demands will go down over time and Pogue had to drop a reflexive “and when we get a new president, we’ll get back to solar and wind and nuclear to help with the demand…”
One of those things is not like the other; his (evident) side has been trying to kill it for decades. And the other two things can’t possibly supply what’s needed, as some basic back-of-the-envelope math has repeatedly shown.
They just can’t help themselves.
595 pounds (not those so silly Britisher things) of Baklava? That’s enough for me, what will everyone else eat?
N.M. zoo opening delayed when elephant escapes enclosure
Too much junk in its trunk?
Good luck Swiss, hope you heal quickly.
My left shoulder has been acting up, which is worrisome because I’ve had tears and problems in both shoulders. But we got a new massage therapist renting space at the gym, a guy this time. He cut us a deal where he and his girlfriend get free gym memberships in exchange for my wife and I each getting one massage a month. His day job is a PT, so he’s really good. But you won’t fall asleep during one of those massages, hurts like hell but boy does it help.
I hope it helps your shoulder.
It did. I had the massage Saturday. That night I was really sore. Sunday, much better, today better still. Back to my normal routine tomorrow.
Do you get happy endings too?
I have never had one of those. And this is a guy, so most definitely not. NTTAWT.
Korean masseuse talked me into getting a happy ending for ~$25 or so. There was no happy ending, despite her attempts.
Just… so damn awkward. I find it really hard to ‘lose myself in the moment,’ and her decent ministrations didn’t do the trick.
It was unusual to end that after it already started and I could tell there’d be no climax to that evening’s entertainment.
I legit went in to get just a massage, and I did get (a rather poor one), but after she steered that direction, well. Uh. I didn’t say no.
I need to find a male PT masseuse.
The women Iโve gone to simply are not strong enough to manipulate me.
I was expecting this to be the music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIJSiMrGGts
I love Chopin. He had some killer chops.
I mean, it’s not like she *jumped* the fence, Brandon.
I remember a children’s book where the elephant escaped by stacking blocks of ice into steps. By the time the zoo keepers got there the ice had melted.
You can never be too careful!
Suspicious sound in garbage can prompts Princeton evacuations
“After further examination, the device was ultimately identified as a battery-operated insulin pump that had been discarded in the garbage can,” Princeton police said.
https://longisland.news12.com/suspicious-sound-in-garbage-can-prompts-princeton-evacuations
Those things are like a thousand bucks. Why would someone throw it out?
Either the person died and the family threw it out, or the patient got a new one?
I don’t know if they are allowed to re-use those. However, I did learn recently that pacemakers harvested from dead people can be repurposed for veterinary (but not human) use.
I face-planted on the sidewalk yesterday and hurt both hands. One of them is puffed up like a balloon. I think I can blame the crooked pavement but still… old.
Never stick your hands out when you fall. Everyone does it. It’s the normal instinct. But that is how you break bones.
Pull your arms up close to your body. Twist your body so that you land on your shoulder and side. Spread the impact over a very wide surface area. And, most importantly, keep your head from hitting the ground.
You just need to practice a few dozen times and it become natural. ๐
Tuck and roll! Glad I never did airborne school. My ankles and knees are already bad enough.
I used to do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip-V51uvVXU
The first thing they teach you is how to fall down without hurting yourself. I’ve had many, many uncontrolled falls in full armor without hurting myself.
I haven’t done this in approaching 20 years, but I have had two falls in the last 3 or 4 years. And I can tell you the training sticks.
In both cases, I fell onto concrete, with an audience no less. I had minor bruising but no real injuries. You’d be amazed how people respond when they see a senior citizen take full-speed dive onto concrete. They don’t want to believe you when you say you are fine.
Keep rolling if possible.
I fell of a ladder recently (working at an angle, did the classic misjudge last step when descending). Was not a textbook PLF. On the other hand didn’t break any bones. Scrapes and rash with a little blood but not dressing for the beach once again helped.
Ladders are bad juju. That’s how my dad broke his hip.
I don’t need no stinkin’ ladders. I did it the old fashioned way
My father more-or-less died due to a ladder fall.
I’m not at all comfortable with them to this day.
Kinnath: A friend of mine when on vacation in Aus this past February tripped on a trail water bar plank. Did exactly what you said not to do. Broke a humerous and his shoulder. Just got out of the sling the other day.
“You just need to practice a few dozen times”
I’ve tripped and fallen so many times while surveying on uneven terrain a tuck and roll has become automatic for me. It didn’t help though when my toe got caught on a root and I snapped a fibula. I absolutely hated wearing the boot, especially when I STILL had surveys to do (fortunately I could still drive and my wife is also a botanist).
*cocks head quizzically*
Your plan seems flawed. I catch myself with my hands cuz I’m good at it, but I’m still fit and young. If ya fall to distribute the weight, ya really really risk whipping your skull against the concrete. Fall and just cover your head seems the safest way to protect the most.
Your fingers are there *to* be broken. (As long as they succeed in keeping your head from gettin’ rocked. If they don’t. Well. Fuck you, fingers. Ya had ONE job. All ten of ya’s!)
Note: I don’t really do this unless it’s too short and too fast to have any response *but* the catch the ground before your face or head smack it.
Big falls, on the side and cover your head, but this really hasn’t happened to me. (Oddly.) My bro and I were both competing gymnasts (and power-lifters) with a big trampoline in the backyard and a crazy gymnastics (and cheer-leading) gym.
Most important, I’m still young and fit and just mostly joking. I can’t remember the last time I straight-up fell to the ground without being able to stop the fall.
Ev, trust me, training in how to fall so nothing gets hurt works. Not your fingers, skull, wrist or arm. And yes, itโs kind of a roll, and with practice you build the reflex to protect your head. My aikido training (which includes how to fall) has saved me at least two serious concussions, and maybe a broken wrist/arm.
I’m trying to come up with a pun related to muscle pulls, but everything is too much of a stretch.
*narrows gaze*
Don’t strain yourself.
If Swiss wasn’t such a ham, I’d string this thread out for awhile.
He does have a tendoncy to frown upon these things.
Go for it. Never let the twisted Swisstor cramp your style.
Swiss is secretly Dee Snider? Is He Not Going To Take It if he goes Under The Blade?
Get well soon Swiss!
Two unidentified drones crashed near Kouvola in southern Finland on Sunday, the defence ministry said, calling the incident a “suspected territorial violation”.
“Drones have strayed into Finland’s territory. We take this very seriously,” Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said in a statement, adding that security authorities had been sent to the scene.
ALIENZ!!!
Died on a treadmill
A billion years ago, I used to work out at the Colorado Springs YMCA downtown. There was a row of treadmills backed up along one wall. Some of those people would get going (as in running) at a pretty good clip, and every now and then there would be a trip or a stumble resulting in getting flung backwards into the cinderblock wall. It looked like no fun. No fatalities; as far as I know.
Wasn’t that an early Beavis and Butt-Head joke?
A Turkish national carrying 270kg of undeclared baklava and other pastries in a Swiss-registered vehicle has been intercepted at customs in Kreuzlingen, northeastern Switzerland. The man was fined.
You could have a pretty good time with that amount of baklava.
“The total value of the undeclared Turkish pastries was โฌ2,540 (CHF2,335), the Federal Office of Customs and Border Protection (FOCB) said in a press release on Monday. According to the 44-year-old driver, the delivery was destined for an event in Switzerland.
๐๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ก๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ, ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐. ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ, ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐๐ฌ.” Good for the govt to get their vig.
So, that’s nice? I wonder if they only let him through to continue cuz it’s a *Swiss* event. Can’t, mustn’t leave the attendees baklava-less?
(Flaky pastries are silly. Baklava is good, just fine, but why have a crispy, messy snack? I guess only fancy folk who can afford Help understand.)
Try not to get her pregnant.
Commie sighting of the day. Punk wearing a t-shirt with “The War on Cars” on the front and “Cars Melt Glaciers” on the back.
Freelance flyovers?
โThe Army is aware of a video circulating online that appears to show AHโ64 Apache helicopters operating in the vicinity of a private residence in the Nashville area,โ Russell said. โArmy aviators must adhere to strict safety standards, professionalism, and established flight regulations.โ
Kid Rockโs manager did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the video.
Have they checked with Milo Minderbinder?
Maybe he won it by saving up Pepsi points.
No comment from the Sugarhill Gang.
News you can use. https://babylonbee.com/news/11-pickup-lines-for-getting-chicks-at-a-no-kings-rally
My favorite: “Hey, there. Do you identify as a woman?”
Runner up: “I don’t want to brag, but I once bench pressed 20 pounds.”
11 is a trap! Much like the
wookiewoman they insist is in fact the most beautiful of them allMichaelMichelle!Heal up Switzy! You’ll be needed in a recall status according to MSNBC.
Smoking tires, Illinois plates and Canada bound.
And then there is Virginia.
That, and the Money Blaster 5000 ran out.
Outrage
Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau recorded a video last week to express condolences after a deadly crash in New York involving one of the airlineโs flights. But the top executive of Canadaโs national airline spoke almost entirely in English, prompting outcry and a swift rebuke โ including from Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Facing calls for his resignation, the Montreal-based executive announced Monday that he will soon retire. The airline said heโll be replaced with someone with โthe ability to communicate in French.โ
Rousseauโs video statement offered condolences to the families of two Air Canada pilots who died after a jet collided with a firetruck at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Although one of the pilots who died was from French-speaking Quebec, the CEOโs message was almost entirely in English.
It’s good to know those enlightened folks up north have their priorities straight.
He should double down and go “French is a silly language, and the Quebecis don’t even speak it properly. We’re not going to humor them anymore.”
Ask Rufus how well that’s going.
The more Canukistanis stand up, soon there will be dozens of them resisting, dozens!
If you are outside France you hate the French for being assholes. If you are inside France you acknowledge the sentiment but insist that it is really only the Parisians who are assholes, and that the rest of the country is quite nice. If you are a Parisian, you cannot truthfully deny the reputation, but you can always point to the Quebecois and insist that no matter how rude and smug Paris is, at least it is not as bad as Montreal.
The only people in France I’ve had trouble with are the North Africans and the Quebecois, but that won’t stop me from mocking the French.
Salesforce is a shit company, releasing shit software, made by shit developers.
Trump should pick SF as his next target. I’d cheer. I’d call for Benifuckface to get Luigi’d but that raging asshole needs far more suffering before his worthless existence gets snuffed out.
They have the best bus station.
Your newsletter, etc., etc.
We have switched much of what we used SF for to ServiceNow.
Which also seems kinda janky but I strongly suspect a lot of that has to do with the group in my company who handles it.
Why does everyone have to kinda suck at their jobs?
I don’t even know what SalesForce does.
One team I work with pulls data from them but we do the same with dozens of other 3rd parties. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
We do use ServiceNow, a lot.
*Update โ I get the roids, muscle relaxants and get to pester my wife for a couple of massages. Thanks, doc!*
You get hemorrhoids? That’s not right.
I’m glad your wife is spoiling you. When your back is injured, it’s important to get dinner in bed. Then tomorrow morning, breakfast in bed.
Attn Glibs who have to provide tech support to elderly parents:
This was the best ~ $150 I have spent in quite a while:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1BS7WWK
Remote keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) over the internet. No more “Mom, tell me what you see on your screen…”.
I could have used that years ago. Does it also prevent Mom from giving all her passwords to “Steve” from India who called and told her that her computer has a virus? Asking for a friend.
Not yet, but I’m hopeful.
She handed over her debit card info the other day…
New Rush performance of Finding My Way with the new drummer.
I’m indifferent.
Speaking of tech… I finally broke down and connected my new printer. Via usb cable. It works. The process was actually painless.
Now I’m worried.
Ha, was that the new USB-C to USB-C? Tried to get a charger for my phone and found out the old USB host port has been deprecated.
Ugh I have a bag of cables with random connections most of which don’t fit anything I own anymore.
I’m on my 10 minute break on my online Japanese class. Our discussion is how Japan has a campaign to educate older people about online and telephone scams.
So she asks me what the usual scams are in the US and I answer.
She asks my Taiwanese classmate the same question and she mentions that the current scam there with young people is SMS messages saying they have K-Pop tickets available. I LOL’d.
That’s hilarious. Profound memory teaching Korean 15-17 year-olds: The lesson (not chosen by me) did involve war and conflict. I had audio-visual freedom and put on one of the nuclear bombs on Japan. Kids stood up and gave a standing ovation to the destruction. Curious, I did the same class to different students, also the same age, to see their reaction. They may not have been as exuberant as that first one, but they all were thrilled to see it. “WHOO!”s and pleased clapping did come out.
Nuts to think about. When I was there in 2010, (some of) those kids absolutely had grandparents who lived under Japan and the shit they did, particularly to the sex slaves they turned many Korean women into. (Girls, too.) Curious when I see the two countries compete, like in the World Baseball Classic. (Japan beat ’em this year.) Damn, Koreans really fucking hate Japan, though. (Ha! No shit.)
Funny how Westerners don’t ‘get’ that the three East Asian countries despise each other. (Still, trade does unite ’em. And North Korean fears.)
Understandable if a bit sinister.
Sonos 80’s station got me down a rathole.
What a phenomenal one-man cover:
https://youtu.be/igdM0V_nH2o