Irish commentator reports on Olympic sailing. Not safe for work, due to language, but hysterical.

Happiest of birthdays to the Wisest of Scrappys!

But don't worry, we don't just love your for your brain. We also love you because you're hot.

Teppy, I have drug questions! My doc suspects my weight plateau might be related to my SSRI, Lexapro. She suggested a possible switch to Wellbutrin. I have no info on Wellbutrin so I'm not sure I want to monkey with this just to lose a few pounds.

Also, looks like I'm headed for thyroid issues. I'm going on a pill to stimulate my thyroid and see if that helps as well.

Well, I would recommend not messing with your antidepressant until you see how the thyroid medication does. If you started Wellbutrin too close to the thryoid medication and then did lose weight, there'd be no way to know what did it.

As for switching your meds, here's the thing: SSRIs can cause weight gain/inhibit weight loss. And Wellbutrin can cause weight loss. But sometimes Wellbutrin *doesn't* cause weight loss. (I took Wellbutin 2 separate times, about a year apart; the first time I lost weight, the second time I didn't. So I don't have a lot of faith in it as being helpful for weight loss.)

If Lexapro is working well for you, I honestly would say don't switch. Antidepressants are so dodgy (in terms of what works for one person but doesn't for another) that it is ridiculous to stop a drug that's proven to help your brain just because it *might* make you lose weight. Because it also might *not*, and then your brain is fucked. Or maybe you lose 5 pounds. Is that small of an amount worth fucking with your brain?

Irish commentator reports on Olympic sailing.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA, oh that was fantastic.

How cool is this?

A photograph of Curiosity during landing has been leaked!

A few hours ago, NASA's HiRISE team announced that it had acquired an image of Curiosity during its epic descent to the Martian surface. That image has originally scheduled to be released at NASA's morning press conference, scheduled for 9:00 am PT, but Spaceflight 101 and Discover magazine are reporting that the image of Curiosity has been leaked. Here is that image, which shows the rover descending toward the surface of the planet via its massive supersonic parachute:

To be clear: this is not a model, a simulation, or an artist's rendering. This is an actual photograph of the actual rover, descending on its actual freaking parachute, on a planet hundreds of millions of miles away. It was photographed from an entirely separate spacecraft that is currently orbiting Mars using HiRISE, the most powerful camera we've ever sent to another planet. It looks pretty convincing to us, but we'll have to wait until the press conference to see if it's the real deal.

Irish commentator reports on Olympic sailing. Not safe for work, due to language, but hysterical.

BWAHAHAHA! I am moving to Ireland to live there forever.

How cool is this?

Incredibly fecking cool. that's how!

Cash, to provide another anecdata point, I didn't lose any weight when I switched to Wellbutrin. I agree with Steph.

I just offered someone a bottle of wine in exchange for a taxidermied bullfrog playing an upright bass.

Are you secretly The Bloggess?

I think it's kinda remarkable how not afoul Usain Bolt has run of the press in general. He somehow manages to buy into his own legend, party like a rockstar, win more often than not, but not always, but hasn't driven the US press away from him.

Talk about frame of mind and finish position--the Jamaican story on the race I was just reading said that Tyson Gay was reduced to tears after running his season's best time. It was, just, you know--fourth.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA, oh that was fantastic.

The end was the best.

How cool is this?

That is almost as cool as the landing itself!

I'm running out of adequate adjectives to sum up my feelings about this.