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"Asked how a teenage boy could've committed a crime more than two decades ago, a police spokesman explained 'He's very clever.'"

I had several eye surgeries related to my congenital cataracts as a kid, including one where I had to wear an eye patch bandage for a few weeks. I remember being given a Mickey Mouse doll with a circular band-aid over the same eye, similar to my own. I peeled it off right away. Maybe I was a cynical kid.

But the patent on this, insulin aspart (humalog is insulin lispro, the competitor), is now expired, so the patent isn't a factor in the cost. The fact it costs 10x more than it did when it was introduced to the market in the mid-90's is just absolutely crazy.

I still remember one particular game in the mid-90s where there was basically a corporation of several "evil" players vs. me and another "good" player. We eventually played to a stalemate where neither side was going to get a clear victory.

Most type 1 diabetics take 2 types of insulin (except for people on pumps). One is your bolus insulin, which is faster acting, usually used before meals or to bring down high blood sugar more quickly. The other is your basal insulin, which is slower acting, typically taken once or twice a day, which provides insulin for your body's background metabolic processes. People on pumps typically just use the bolus type insulin, since the pump can continuously supply small doses every few minutes, which allows for finer tuning more quickly.

Until about 25 years ago, the normal bolus insulin was Regular insulin, which is just like what your body makes. However, injecting it into fat makes it work more slowly, so you'd take it a half hour before eating, and it would peak a couple hours later. Currently bolus insulins are a genetically tweaked version that allows the body to absorb it more quickly, within a few minutes, with a peak in an hour or so. In the human body, there's an even faster phase 1 insulin response, but to get it as a type 1, you'd need to inject insulin into a vein. It can be done, but it is considered extremely dangerous.

Basal insulins are generally regular insulin mixed with something to delay action or modified to do the same. Older ones like NPH needed to be taken roughly every 12 hours, but had a relatively high peak, which sometimes meant you needed to time a snack to deal with that. Newer ones offer a much flatter action curve, and can often be taken just once a day.

As a type 1 diabetic, I feel this. It sure seems like there's a lot more money to be made from me selling insulin, testing supplies, pumps, etc, that I'll need to use for life (29 years and counting) than in finding a cure, which perhaps they can sell me once, or maybe yearly. I know there are people working hard to find a cure, but I also know that they struggle with getting funding.

I ripped all of my CDs to FLAC, then I was able to convert those to Ogg Vorbis at the time for my portable player. Later I converted the FLACs to mp3s, and used Apple's iTunes Match, so I have access to them on various devices for $25/year.

I took a look, and didn't see any huge price breaks.

What we need is an oil barrel subscription service. For just $20/mo, they'll deliver a barrel of oil to your house or business. For $25/mo, they'll throw in a bucket of coal. Makes a great holiday gift.

As a type 1 diabetic, I can confirm that vast quantities of aspartame do not cause my blood sugar to rise.

They used quotes to take the place of + which used to be a prefix you could add for words that were required. We lost + to Google+.

The first time I put them on, I was in a room with a fan, and I thought it'd lost power because I didn't hear it. Took me a second to realize, nope, it was the noise cancellation.

For the content creator, Google's Takeout service will give you an archive of your videos, so if you know you're shutting down, you can get them before then.