Ouch

I just played a Clubhouse Games round of Hearts against the currently #1-ranked worldwide player, one MISS MARPLE (caps hers). It was pretty brutal. CG apparently makes little attempt to match you against players of similar rank; I'm like #333 or something. The final score was like 108 - 30 - 5. (Middle score was "Henry", who was also quite good.) Then again, I doubt many people are online and playing the same game at once, at least compared to WiFi Tetris or Mario Kart.

I can fend off most computerized hearts players, but watching a human master of the game play is stunning, even whilst they are schooling you. They really play like magicians. If they're not leading, they never have the led suit, unless it's safe for them to take the trick, in which case they shall. As leaders, they always have exactly the right rank to force you to take the black queen and all but one of the hearts.

I seriously don't know how they do it.

CR people

Story from New York Magazine about a Calorie Restriction diet subculture. That is, people who eat as few calories per day as they can, carefully measuring out exactly the nutrient quantities their body needs and not a scrap more, with the hope that it will add (all things being equal) decades to their lifespan.

I had heard about the experiments with lab animals, where it's proven to work, but didn't know that people were doing this. I imagined that nobody would want to live in a state of constant hunger.

This sounds exactly like the sort of thing I'd jump into wheeee and then forget about two days later. Still quite intriguing.