S_Bowl

Read the Buzzfeed piece below, on eating disorders in men.

Yes, men are equally affected as women; just better at controlling

the buzz around it.

In particular surprised by the young man who reached anorexia to keep

looking 'in shape'; only  realized as an adult that all that restriction

had stopped him from growing past 5"8 when he could have been

5'10!!

That's mind-bending. In an age of abundance, we have become the architects

of our growing bodies with confusion and shame on all sides...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elaminabdelmahmoud/male-eating-disorders-overexercise-body-image-diet

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Older

https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/2021-02-06/vos-questions-nos-reponses/devrait-on-magasiner-son-vaccin.php

This whole discussion about the usefulness of various vaccines is

getting rather byzantine. During clinical trials, different age groups 

were more or less tested - without regard if subjects already had natural 

immunity - and the results varied. Yeah...

Reflecting on the matter, we might be taking about how capable one's system

is capable of producing an immune reaction, which tends to be less with the elderly

but not absolutely so. This is why the elderly are more susceptible to the virus to

begin with.

As for the get vaccinated if you can approach, hard to argue against it. For us

older folk, anyway!

Lua Classes

 Finally cracked it: one creates a Ball class which is declared

as a metatable (look-up table) or prototype for ball instances.

One can then change behaviours on the various balls.

The City

 Just thought I would share this unpretentious little YouTube

presentation on city life.

In point of fact, I am engaged in much more nefarious activity;

I have finally broken down and found a YouTube vid that has code

for the Breakout assignment. A girl can only suffer incomprehension

so long...

Later, on how that goes.

https://www.lua.org/pil/13.4.1.html

Accounts_Lua

 In this scenario, Account gets refused if there are

insufficient funds and by extension, anything calling

account.withdraw will as well...

That is because Account is the prototype for the class-like structure I have

created with Lua.

A further twist below: I can as well keep the features of the prototype but

add another feature that will act on the one instance. Account 2 has a withdrawl

limit. Even with sufficient funds, it will be refused if over the limit.

Poolside

 24 hours of snow on for the moment. Ha!

New Vehicule

 In the midst of it all, something new from Moscow inventors:

an electric flying taxi, which goes from one parking space to another

autonomously.

https://www.lapresse.ca/auto/2021-01-30/un-taxi-volant-russe-a-l-essai-dans-un-arena-de-hockey-de-moscou.php