Article: Why does Covid-19 affect men more severely than women?

Kes: this is a subject I find really fascinating, in part because I'm constantly observing women being more proactively involved in their own health and the health of others, while many men do little or nothing toward proactively caring for their own health. Talk about toxic masculinity.
https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/why-does-covid-19-affect-men-more-severely-than-women/

Yes! Alexa now knows what a smoot is!

Last time I checked which, granted, was some months ago, Alexa couldn't define a smoot: now, she actually has two definitions, although I am pleased that the MIT-related one comes first.

An embarrassing epiphany

I spent 2020 updating my computer skills--I'm currently on my sixth and seventh online course, and I took about a dozen webinars--and I've been mostly receptive to new apps and new ways of doing things.

But I have this one, er, blind spot.

Whenever the first set of instructions is to go to the Windows search or Jaws search, I resist.

I cut my teeth on Windows '95 (which was really just DOS with a thin veneer of a GUI over it) and Unix, and there is still this idea in the back of my mind that old school users have a zillion keyboard commands memorized and don't need no stinkin' search.

Then a few seconds ago, it hit me.

I am *that guy*.

I am that guy who would rather waste an hour or two, wandering around lost, thinking, "No, wait, this is beginning to look familiar...," rather than pull over and ask for directions on how to get there.

F***,