Links from the past weeks

Any amount of drinking can be detrimental.

Apparently, alcohol isn’t good for the heart. I read this with interest, because a colleague told me that each time she consumes alcohol, even a little, the body stress (a Garmin construct) goes up. Well, I don’t drink much, but I can’t quite imagine the day where wine goes the same way as cigarettes.

I saw a blue-billed duck for the first time while on holiday, and of course, there is a page titled Top 27 Ducks With Blue Bills In The World.

I recently read The Stranger for the first time, and it was such a good book and I decided to prolong my staying in its headspace by reading reviews. I also enjoyed this article debating what the first line of the novel should be.

There really isn’t much in Morioka, but a NY Times article can bring many tourists over.

It has bothered me for a while, and I finally fixed the Home and End buttons for the external keyboard. Poor Mac users.

We saw race horse plushies in Japan’s UFO catcher machines, and were baffled. I guess it is only in Japan that they get a special kind of love. PS. The other half caught a race horse plushie for me. It is a Symboli Kris S.

I am so pleased that in 2023, there is a YouTube video on Sony’s transistor radio ICF-P26.

I am not a boomer, but I have in my adulthood sought out radios, with their static and crackle, as a nod to my childhood. I have the ICF-P26 and ICF-F10.