I just started using Scrub Mommy and it started falling apart a week ago. I had to look back and we’ve been using this for 6-months. Kinda shocked how durable a sponge could be. At this rate the 10-pack I bought is going to last almost 5 years!

Using the AI Coach and ran into a bug. It was giving me the daily wrap up and it gave me this sleep recommendation:

> “Get screens off by 10:15pm and in bed by 10:05pm.”

So bed *before* screens off.

When I pushed on it, the AI admitted it had flipped the times in the sentence and said the underlying calculations were fine, just the wording was wrong. It then “fixed” it to a more normal target (10:30pm bed / 10:00pm screens-off).

An example of where the natural language layer can contradict basic logic, even if the underlying data analysis is OK.

Anyone else seen similar oddities with WHOOP Coach where the final recommendation doesn’t quite line up with common sense?

Snagged this photo of the Scots leaving town to head to Miami /s.

Just kidding this is the cleanup from Sunday’s BAA 10K.

Looking back at photos of old bills, it was a mandatory 6% fee for several year. Now they add it as an optional line item after swiping a credit card.

TIL her full name is Heloise Nerz

I used to love these growing up in the 90s. It was great until the outer rubber started to break and the hard core was exposed and it killed when it hit you.

PS The Aerobie was invented by Alan Adler who also invented the AeroPress for all you coffee fans out there!

I made a late night mistake and bought StubHub gift cards from NewEgg because I recall seeing here that people were able to get bonus points with the CSR + StubHub.

I’m now realizing I should have checked out on StubHub + Paze instead of buying gift cards through NewEgg + Paze.

Oh well I live and learn. I’ll just have to find another concert to go to.

Is this based purely on child age or should I also take into account their weight/height? /s

I used to love getting posters and books of autostereograms and staring at them for hours.

I’ve been going to the BOS Chase Sapphire Reserve lounge for the last year but this is the first time I’ve made it to breakfast. Nice spread of premade food, and omelet station, as well as made to order dishes.

New recommendations reflect evolving therapies, shared decision-making and changing evidence in BPH management.

New guidelines on benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) were published in May and introduced during the afternoon Plenary on Saturday. There are no dramatic changes, but earlier guidelines have been updated to reflect new technologies and new approaches.

“Lower urinary tract symptoms are very common, often attributable to BPH,” said panel moderator Jaspreet S. Sandhu, MD, attending urologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. “Seventy percent of men over the age of 60 have some element of BPH, and treatments, particularly procedural, are evolving quickly and expanding actively.”

Newer, less invasive approaches are gaining attention, especially those with the potential to spare ejaculation. More importantly, the guidelines are patient-focused rather than procedure-focused,
“This is a patient-centered guideline with shared decision making from the center,” Dr. Sandhu said. “That’s what we focused on as opposed to a procedure-based guideline.”
The initial evaluation and approach to treating BPH remain the same, he continued. Every patient should be counseled as an individual. Urologists should discuss options for intervention, beginning with behavioral and lifestyle modifications.

The new guidelines rely on two distinct grades of evidence. One is the expert opinion of the panel, a consensus based on literature reviews back to 2009 for medical approaches and 2014 for surgical intervention.
The other is a clinical principle, which is an existing, agreed-upon statement that may or may not have clinical evidence. There is little evidence that the use of 5-alpha reductase inhibitors (5ARI) is helpful in managing BPH, for example, but the class is widely used to slow or prevent progression. Trials have shown that the class is not associated with increased mortality.

Lifestyle modification and weight loss are typically the first and least aggressive approaches for many patients. Alpha blockers and 5ARIs are the usual first-line medications. New evidence supports the use of daily low-dose tadalafil with alpha blockers to help preserve ejaculatory function. Earlier guidelines had advised against the combination due to a lack of evidence.
Daily low-dose tadalafil plus finasteride is another new medical approach.

Transurethral resection of the prostate is still the leading surgical intervention. There are two approaches: the familiar monopolar or a newer bipolar. Both are effective, and the choice depends largely on the surgeon’s experience. Other acceptable procedures are transurethral incision of the prostate and transurethral vaporization of the prostate.

Two more familiar procedures, transurethral microwave therapy and transurethral needle ablation, are now considered legacy technologies and no longer recommended.

Prostate artery embolism (PAE), a technique from interventional radiology, is an acceptable approach but is not recommended. There is evidence of at least a short-term benefit for PAE versus observation in select patients, but insufficient evidence to recommend it.

Source: https://www.auadailynews.org/meeting-coverage/article/22967056/updated-bph-guidelines-focus-on-patients-not-procedures

Currently rocking the Amazfit Cheetah Pro 2, Apple Watch Ultra 3, Whoop MG, and Garmin Forerunner 235 to ensure my data is properly synced across Garmin Connect, Strava, and Apple Health but the buttons keep accidentally getting pressed. How do you wear your fitness trackers so this doesn’t happen?

Obviously you wash your white tape on hot and black tape on cold, but what temperature water do you guys wash your clear tape? /s