This morning I feel like Gollum.
I don't bite my nails. I never have. But now that I can't I keep trying.
I received a set of temporary teeth last week and they look marvelous. They don't work very well but they do look great. Until I get the permanent bridge I suppose I can live on gruel. I've been trying to take off a few pounds anyway.
As I said the temp looks good. It's four bottom teeth that fit down over the gum ridge and clip over the remaining left and right tooth. I'll wear it for about a month. As you may know, Wanda works for a dentist and he treats family for lab fees only, thank goodness. The cost of this appliance was $105. I'm not complaining it just seems a shame to throw it away.
When I'm done using it I'll list it on E-bay.
Do I want to live into my nineties?
According to a report on 60 Minutes exercise, coffee and a few drinks every day help increase longevity. On the other hand the report said the chance of developing Alzheimer's disease increases significantly as we age. The report said it doubles every five years between age 65 and 90.
Now I try to exercise each day and I do drink coffee but I need to find out if Alzheimer's chances simply doubles every five years or it's actually 2-5th power before I decide to start drinking wine. I don't want to live into my 90's if I can't remember what I had for breakfast.
In an unrelated report drinking 64 ounces of water every day is not necessary for good health. I never did and I always felt guilty about it. The new report states water intake amount "depends on many factors." I feel so much better now.
Stephen Hawking and a group of top physicists are sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence. Success in creating AI could be "the biggest event in human history," but also "the last."
So the great minds say that having computers that think and act could be the downfall of civilization.
I've always thought it would be lack of intelligence.
A warrant charging a Georgia man with armed robbery has been issued after a 50-year-old suspect allegedly used a pitchfork to rob a Waffle House.
Police are looking for Jeffery Woten after he allegedly used the farm tool to herd employees and customers into the back room of the Waffle House so he could grab the cash register.
Dottie Daily, a long time waitress at the Waffle House said, "When he first came in I didn't think much of it. You'd be surprised how many people bring utensils to the restaurant. But truth be told, I was glad he didn't bring a knife to go with that fork. I was scared when he said it was a robbery."
“When he realized he couldn't get the cash register open, he took it and left with his pitchfork,” said police chief Warren Wilson.
While he was carrying the register, Woten dropped the pitchfork and a woman picked up the tool and began hitting him with it. "It appears the suspect sustained some injuries from this incident,” Wilson said.
“Once he didn’t have a pitchfork, he wasn't as brazen. I know that,” Wilson said. “It wouldn't be an offensive weapon in your garden, but it was in a Waffle House.”
In his most recent report Sociologist Dr. Sidney H. Hallstrom gives examples of behavior in an attempt to answer the question of a direct link to intelligence and the use of alcohol and drugs.
A Georgia man is facing eight charges, including DUI and reckless driving, after he allegedly handed a police officer a beer instead of his driver's license during a traffic stop.
Officer Alvin Rogers reportedly pulled Tobias Exum over after the 37-year-old struck the cop’s vehicle.
When Rogers approached Exum’s vehicle and asked for his driver’s license, the “heavily intoxicated” suspect handed him a beer.
Exum, who has been arrested for DUI in the past, was “totally unaware that he had collided with the patrol car,” Rogers said. "He was intoxicated and not making the best decisions."
Rogers was not injured during the crash.
A West Virginia man had a rude awakening on Friday night after allegedly using heroin and passing out in a bank bathroom.
According to the police report Christophe Gunderson woke up in the bathroom of the C&O Credit Union and realized he was locked inside.
The 32-year-old reportedly went into the bank earlier in the day when the business was open and passed out after using heroin in the bathroom on the second floor.
When Gunderson woke up in the bank, he called the police to come let him out.
He was arrested for misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance and an outstanding warrant.
This makes me proud to live near the progressive city of San Francisco.
An art installation on wheels that offers couples the chance to convene in a room that is designed to accommodate “intimate relations” in now open for business in San Francisco.
Designed to give car-less Tinder users an option when they are on the go, the “Hook-up Truck” is also available for “festivals, weddings, holiday parties, and more!”
The truck opened its doors on May 2nd and 3rd and it will offer users a “private, secured room” as well as “complimentary birth control and STD preventatives.” There’s also a camera option for people who are interested.
“The room is designed with cleanliness in mind,” the truck’s creator, artist Spy Emerson, told CBS San Francisco. “I’ve created a very minimalist room.
The truck has a custom-made bench instead of bed which is “designed to facilitate positioning for the average-sized bodies.”
People who want to use the truck must be 21 or over and register with the service online.
“This is a game for adults who want to play with sex,” Emerson said. “You have to be nice, and cool. No drunks, but everyone is welcome to join us. There will be a party going on all the time.
Everything is wiped down and cleaned before and after every person. It’s probably cleaner than the BART or any public toilet you’ve used.”
This is a wonderful alternative for those folks who usually have sex on BART or in public toilets.
Artificial Intelligence the downfall of mankind? I don't think so.
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