slow start, great end

Today I learned that laundry detergent companies are deliberately designing their products to leave residues. I suspected that they did that so they could brand people with their smells, but now they have chemicals that protect the fibers so your clothes last longer. That actually sounds like a great idea as long you don't mind breathing laundry chemicals 24 hours a day. I mean, Bounce sounds like great stuff, too, and I used it religiously until I got sick and had to wash it out of everything I owned.

In other news:

• Here's an article about an EI whose apartment got contaminated with pesticide.
• Apparently coconut oil helps people with Alzheimer's fuel their brains, which no longer handle sugar, so that's why the neurons die.
• Fantasizing about food helps people ignore pain.
• Inbreeding Habsburgs produced Charles II of Spain, whose jaw was so misaligned that he couldn't chew.

Also, we went to Cafe Poca Cosa tonight right at 5 pm, and since it has tile floors, I did pretty well until the place filled all the way up about 90 minutes later, when it was about time to go anyway. It even looks like I can still write.