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It's a nightmare!

Now that would be a tricky puzzle. (No little purple flowers in the corner.) Kinda cool, but maybe kinda creepy? I mean, the moon isn't *supposed* to look that big! Is it about to come crashing down into my living room?

Mostly I don't really care. I was reading the other day that "lay" and "lie" were basically synonyms till just a few hundred years ago (about the same time that the grammar police were founded, I suspect).

That does indeed sound promising -- as long as they can limit that development to just the teeth that need replacing. This could turn dental implants into a passing fad, like video tape cassettes -- only problem being that the people who already have implants would be kinda stuck with Beta-Max. (I had one implant put in, but the dentist screwed up, so I had to pay an oral surgeon to remove it. Not fun.)

What The Hell?

What? NO! (I was writing a google review and this was the prompted question)

I wonder how they do that. Not sure if I want my puzzle to smell like pizza though. I haven’t seen that one, but I wanted to buy the moon one, unfortunately, even the knockoff was too expensive. Wait, let me see if I can find the picture.

Do you all have to check if you use lay lie lied lain laid correctly or is it just me?

Nah, those are not good enough. I want to pluck my eyeball and replace it accordingly. Perhaps change my knees or other joints by taking them off just like a figurine. Spine? Pull it off, or maybe there is some kind of zipper to make it easier. I don’t want to live longer. I just think that living creatures deserve to be healthy until the end of life. Btw, some Japanese scientist have researched a way to block a protein that suppress tooth development. There is hope to get new teeth if bad ones fall off! Silver Braided Sherlockians can be a cool band name.

As you presumably know, we do have pretty good replacement teeth, eye lenses, heart valves, hip joints, knee joints, ankle joints, and functional (if not identical looking) replacement feet, and probably several other things. I don't think I'd want to live in a totally artificial body -- though if that eventually becomes commonplace, it might not seem so weird. I had something slightly similar, though I was around 40 at the time. My hair still had its color -- except for a clump of silver hair in front of each ear. My hair was long and unruly, so to keep it out of my face, I would make a braid in front of each ear, using the silver clump for one of the three strands. I thought it looked pretty cool too!

On the other hand, he may be merely *hoping* that's a misspelling.

Hey, watch your language! Have you ever seen the jigsaw puzzle that looks like a pizza? The box says "Looks like pizza. Smells like pizza. Tastes like cardboard." (And yes, it really does smell like pizza. Though I assume the scent might fade away over time.) That one is about my top limit for tricky jigsaws (one slice of onion looks amazingly like each of the others, and same for the pepperoni), Also about my lower limit for pretty pictures. Mostly I like it because the concept is funny.

My grey (more like silver) hair journey is quite weird. I had one quarter of silver hair when during my teenager years (probably starting from 12), I was bullied because of it, and I remember mom would help with cover them up because of that. Kids are horrible! It was consistent throughout my uni year where I wore it proudly and a friend made it a hobby to braid them together (it actually looked cool imo). I forgot about it when I started working after uni. (I was around 23) I always kept my hair tied anyway. One day I realized I didn't have them anymore. Yes, my hair had turned all normal again! It continued that way and now it 'ages' normally. I have normal amount of grey hair for my age. Not sure what caused it. No genetic, nothing fancy.

Not old fashioned. You are normal. Everyone looked at me funny when I told them I bought that puzzle. However, remember what Sherlock's opinion is about normal!

I stayed in my hometown until 1992, then we moved to a more ‘civilized’ place. I didn’t know this show and I suspected we were still a few years behind here. For example, I only watched Quantum Leap around that year and it was still in the running by the time I left for uni in 1995 (the show ended in 1993) In my hometown we only had one government channel, and we only owned TV for a few years before we moved. Before that, we only caught some shows from relative/neighbor of relative so I have no idea if it’s us, or the show.

I just read about it, it indeed sounds freaking fun! I really think we are not supposed to live beyond Victorian age expectancy because the body doesn’t seem happy. The stupid thing is our brain only matures around age 30. I think there is a big flaw in the design. We are bipedal with weak spine as well! @(#@$@*& My husband had retina detachment (I wrote attachment that would be mildly threatening) before the ‘supposed’ age, and he had multiple eye issues. When I asked him (he is one year older than me at 50), he said he had them since a while ago and they were swimming freely that he had ignored them. Regarding retina detachment, it was very serious because as you had said, it would lead to blindness. We were told to drop everything and he was admitted to the hospital right away. The journey to recovery was torturous. The detachment area would determine the sleeping position because the retina would be ‘glued’ back and they would inject bubble to hold it in place. He had to sleep in downward position (if I remember correctly, for two weeks), and he had another treatment with bubble (this one not for retina) and he had to sleep in sitting position. Bubble means no flying, no strenuous activities. I’m really not a fan of getting older. We should dedicate all time and money to make replaceable body parts possible instead of AI and wars. Another @^$(*@$^

Yesterday was Caturday.

Mind you, I have not yet (and quite likely never will) read the "Revisiting" story. But going by the review of it that you quoted, here's my opinion: Bessancort's Adler is said to "[haunt] the story ... with her activities teasing the detective." I think that also describes Doyle's original pretty well. But the two versions part ways when "it begins to dawn on us that [Bessancort's version] is a woman with a sinister agenda." This Adler, like the Sherlock character, diverges from Doyle's original by being "nefarious" and "sinister," whereas Doyle's Adler was inventive enough to outwit both Holmes and the King without stooping to anything illegal or even hostile. Why do recent adaptations (including the American TV series Elementary) feel the need to make Adler increasingly criminal? Seems like the easy way out!

Good luck with the kitten and I'm sure whatever you add will be spot on. Enjoy your weekend, Steve.

OK, so nobody actually needed to follow either link, because the review is already in your post (as you mentioned). I'm gonna clarify that a bit by enclosing that part of your post in a quote box (please let me know if I've put too much or too little into the box). It's a good thing that you did quote the review, because my link no longer leads to the review, only to a very brief teaser-type description of the story. Or I may be misremembering what my link used to lead to. (We have a new kitten in the house, and I've been kinda distracted!)

Yes, it's the same as the review from KIndle on Goodreads and the one above I included in my post. It also contains adult content so will need a parental warning. Steve.

They should gradually become less frequent and less bright over time. At least, that was my experience. Eventually I would notice them only if I turned my head suddenly in a dark room. And I haven't seen any flashes at all for years now. One thing I recommend for anyone who's not quite as young as they used to be is the Amsler Grid, which looks sort of like a quarter-sheet of black-lined graph paper.. You can print your own from any number of sites, and put in on your bulletin board or the front of your fridge. Whenever you think of it, you cover one eye and stare at the center of the grid for a few seconds, then repeat with the other eye. If the grid doesn't look quite right with either eye, you need to see an ophthalmologist. If I had known about that home test sooner, I wouldn't have a small blind spot in one eye, because they could have started the treatment sooner.

I did go to a doctor and got it checked. Even if harmless, the flashes are still annoying. Some days they distract me from reading/working.

Tbh, I have no idea who they are. They were American TV lawyers (1957-66 and 1986-95, respectively) who (almost) always got their clients acquitted by exposing the real killer on the witness stand. Both were very popular here, but apparently didn't travel widely.