Peoples' Pharmacy quotes Lancet Study: Saturated fat is OK!

I recently came across some prime beef at Costco:

It was completely delicious, as I expected ... and a new study confirms accumulating evidence that it's better for my health than carbs!

Put down that Twinkie, soldier, and grab a burger (skipping the bun)!

Bon apetit ...

Why I started wearing a wristwatch again after years of not doing this

I was visiting my sister-in-law and her husband in Michigan last month. My father-in-law died in 2014 and my mother-in-law earlier this year, and my wife and my sister were going through some of their effects. This included a Timex Indiglo, which had belonged to my father-in-law:

It was still running ... and keeping nearly perfect time!

And ... I had just missed an Amtrak train from not having the time easily glanceable on my wrist, so ... I"m getting used to this again.

It "takes a licking and keeps on ticking" indeed ...

The 21st Century Bank Robbery: how to keep your Bitcoin stash from being part of it

Some friends and family have been accumulating various amounts of Bitcoin recently:

I just read a disturbing article on how easy it is to drain a bitcoin account that's set up with 2-factor authentication via text message.

One part of the solution: use other 2-factor authentication ... for example, Google Authenticator, which I already had set up on my phone for another site and which I easily added (just by scanning a barcode) to Gmail. I then removed the text-message authentication step.

Now all I need is a bunch of bitcoin! :-)

If you are keeping bitcoins, best not to let Coinbase or another exchange keep the keys for you. Keep the keys yourself ... I know this is all confusing, but a good book on the details is: