For an adult turning 60 years old, vaccines are one of the most effective ways to maintain health, protect against severe illness, and boost waning immunity. Key routine and recommended vaccines for a 60-year-old include: Core Routine Vaccines Shingles (Herpes Zoster) Vaccine: Shingrix (2-dose series, given 2 -- 6 months apart). Why it matters: Shingles ... Read more
Allen Carr’s methodology -- originally developed for quitting smoking in his famous book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking -- has been successfully adapted to alcohol, overeating, gambling, screen/digital addiction, sugar, and pornography. The primary reason Carr’s framework translates so seamlessly across wildly different behaviors is that it does not treat the substance or behavior ... Read more
Thailand: Comprehensive National Policy Framework: PM2.5 and PM10 Suppression 1. Actual Impact of Particulate Matter Pollution Particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) represents one of Thailand’s most severe environmental, public health, and economic crises. The impact spans three main dimensions: Health Impacts Mortality & Morbidity: Prolonged exposure contributes directly to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), ischemic ... Read more
By that I mean open source software. Yes, there are problems in this golden age namely that the gold isn't flowing to all the most vital projects. We need a large amount of money to be taken from rapacious proprietary software purveyors and distributed to open source projects. That is clear. Note: this is only ... Read more
Respect for Things - Respect for the Environment - Avoid Wastefulness Refuse (Most Effective) What it means: Say "no to single-use items, unwanted handouts, and buying things you don't actually need. Goal: Stop waste at the very source. Rehome What it means: Pass along functional items you no longer use to friends, neighbors, or local ... Read more
Updated 29-Oct-2026 See recent: Trump Cut Legal Immigrant Entries 2.7 Times More Than Illegal Entries (Cato Institute) How Trump Erased 29 Years of Growth America is undergoing a silent structural shift - a rapid transition into demographic stagnation. For generations, the United States avoided the economic sclerosis and population collapse haunting Western Europe and East ... Read more
Updated 12-Oct-2026 Most of these are not Halloween-themed, but definitely horror, and some have gore. Some are scary, but also silly. Watch with children. 28 Weeks Later AM1200 An American Werewolf in London Dawn of the Dead Frankenweenie Goosebumps Gremlins Haunted Mansion High School of the Dead (anime) I am a Hero (2016) I am ... Read more
Ah, containers. Well, gotta have them these days, I guess. Install Docker, etc. Install docker on Debian keys and apt.sources file Install various parts # Add Docker's official GPG key: sudo apt update sudo apt install ca-certificates curl sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc # ... Read more
Yes, the sport with two names (actually three?). Association football in much of the world. Soccer in the US, Japan, the Phillipines. And both in a few places. Ok, well, this is about coaching the beautiful game. I have an eight year-old and a ten year-old and they are into this and I have to ... Read more
Updated 15-Oct-2026 I like AI. It is neat, and I especially like the kind I can run on my relatively underpowered integrated-graphics mini PC at home. Yes, slow, but good enough to get actual work done. Here are a slew of things: Translate books Create audiobooks out of ebooks Create music Be a personal assistant ... Read more
Updated 15-Oct-2026 What are they good for Local LLMs are running these generative tools on local (not cloud) hardware. This is good for cost, security, privacy, and the resources spent. That said, those of us with tiny budgets still can do some interesting things. By that I mean the following generative AI: Images Video Audio ... Read more
Updated 11-Sep-2026 ebook2audiobook is an open source project that does what it says on the tin. Setting Up ebook2audiobook on Debian 13 (Trixie) with AMD Radeon 680M Acceleration (integrated GPU) This guide outlines the complete setup for running ebook2audiobook on Debian 13 (Trixie) using an integrated AMD Radeon 680M (RDNA 2) APU for ROCm hardware ... Read more
Think small by Service and Gallagher is about how to accomplish medium-to-large projects with small thinking. This came out of the Behvioural unit of the UK government. Makes sense. I couldn't read the whole thing as it really is way too long-winded. So after reading the intro and first chapter I asked Gemini to give ... Read more
Updated 26-Oct-2026 By that I mean the 60-year-old is that old and the exercise plan is not, but is meant for that old dude. Activity Breakdown & Durations Floor Pilates: 30 minutes (Active recovery / core focus on Monday). Jogging / Run-Walk: 30 minutes (Weight-bearing bone-density cardio). Swimming: 45 minutes (Low-impact full-body cardio & joint ... Read more
Updated 05-Oct-2026 I have a history with Peter Pan, since a young age. Even though Wendy is an invented (as a female given name, though it was used as a surname previously) which first appeared in Peter Pan (a musical theatre production) in 1904. In the summer of 1977 I was cast as Michael, the ... Read more
Updated 02-Oct-2026 Navidrome and Jellyfin are servers for Audio and Video, respectively. They run on Linux (and possibly other operating systems) and have clients that can access them and stream media, provide an organized interface for browsing, etc. They should be accessible to AI agents as well. Navidrome for audio Navidrome uses the Subsonic API ... Read more
Updated 15-Oct-2026 After messing with the grist-desktop app and trying to do the source NPM app, too many dependency errors and such, I've given up and embraced docker. docker pull gristlabs/grist-core docker run -p 8484:8484 -it gristlabs/grist-core Running grist-core (docker) Support and Help files (online) Grist Youtube channel Grist new users' guide My online grist ... Read more
See also Samsung buds core bluetooth Android devices Android apps Disable One UI 7/8 battery indicator Android Debloater I didn't know what to do with the newer GUI version (is this a docker thingee?), so I just ran the old shell script, which is only a year older, and it worked fine. Summary I try ... Read more
Updated 29-Sep-2026 Apparently it is time to update my command line / terminal / shell commands. Here we go: Nerd Font icons Nerd Font patches great terminal fonts, including my favorite Hack. Yazi Yazi is a *terminal file manager, and also integrates with Zoxide and Fzf. And it can run on top of Kitty. Naw, ... Read more
I believe that the Home Assistant will be the key to freeing myself from the Google ecosystem of personal assistants. Of course I will still want the YouTube Premium](https://www.youtube.com/premium) membership 1,790 THB/year (it might be 1,990 THB/year at the end of my current subscription), so that we keep the curse of advertisements at bay and ... Read more