Bad Knees
First - I have a few shout-outs. First to Whispered Ink and their post "Adding a "reply via email" button to Bear Blog". I have added a similar link (and email alias, good tip!) to the bottom of my posts. I'm excited to see how it works, and if people use it.
Second - To Brandon of Brandon Writes. Thank you for adding me to your Links page! I'm honoured, I never expect to get mentions from anybody and it gives me a little rise inside when I see people say something nice about me. Also, your post about Ultimate Spider-Man #1 (2024) is great; I, too, picked up the BMB Ultimate Spider-Man and enjoyed it. I'm not a comics person either but I have these on my comic books shelf. I will probably get digital copies of this one - it looks like it's up my alley. We're pretty much the same age, so it's not surprising how closely some of our interests align. This comic premise in particular reminds me of Steve Rogers: Captain America1 from a few years back.
A couple of random things:
Does anyone else want to kick the slush of every car in the winter? I find it so satisfying and a bit disappointed that I can only do this for my own cars. When I see other cars I want to do it but I'm sure people wouldn't appreciate someone kicking their car. Plus, I think they'd want to do it themselves.
And recently on a podcast Discord channel someone mentioned a trick in Safari to save links for open tabs for their show notes; I tried finding the same thing in Firefox but it doesn't appear natively. My first couple of searches resulted in some awkward work-arounds but finally stumbled upon a very useful extension: Copy As Markdown.
Onto Bad Knees. A while back someone in the Podcasts subreddit suggested the "Ologies" podcast for someone looking for some help with sleep or falling asleep. I dug into it and found a bunch of episodes that looked appealing, archived the rest, and now I've got a library of one-off episodes to listen to whenever I can.
One of those episodes was Genicular Traumatology (BAD KNEES) with Dr. Kevin Stone. I, myself, have bad knees - or at least, one bad knee, one OK knee. It stems from one time in high school when my knee just gave out on me while riding a bike, and I spent all summer limping when I got up from sitting. The doctor never really gave it much thought and my parents never did anything...pretty sure I tore something and I've never fully recovered. I should get an MRI.
Anyway - this episode was all about knees. How they work, what's important about them, that kind of thing. I found it incredibly interesting, but I'm not sure if it's because the episode itself was interesting or if it's because I personally related to it so much. Maybe a bit of both? I've done some cursory research about knees over the years to figure out what part of my knee is giving me grief, but have never found satisfactory answers.
This podcast episode didn't give me any other answers but did give me a few tidbits that relate to some of the symptoms I have. Specifically it confirmed to me2 that I probably did tear something and have little to no cartilege; and that there is probably something getting stuck under my knee cap which results in my knee occasionally locking. The cracking or snapping sounds that I often get in both knees is probably nothing serious, it's just crepitus. It's probably slightly abnormal that it happens almost all the time, but it's not the source of any pain.
Overall the Ologies podcast is quite interesting. It's not going to go in-depth on all the topics, there's only so much a show that covers multiple subjects every episode can do (it's basically a jack of all trades, master of none).
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You can find info about the comic here: Captain America: Steve Rogers Vol 1: Hail Hydra. The short spoiler is the Red Skull manipulates a cosmic cube (I think?) to change the past and Captain America is now a Hydra sleeper agent. There's a great one page panel where he says "HAIL HYDRA" and it's great.↩
As much as a podcast can confirm, I still need to see a doctor about it.↩