Eight million idiotic Simpsons references to five actual worthwhile suggestions. Thank goodness someone finally got around to solving this original poster's query.
The/cetam drugs are good, but much better when you're young. I'm taking Piracetam and centrophenoxine, but it's too early to see what the results are.
A lot of talk on here is behavioural coping mechanisms, and not much talk of actually repairing the damage aging has caused to the brain. One of the main problems with learning and keeping mentally agile is the accumulation of lipofuscin on the dendrites in the brain. Lipofuscin is a pigment; age spots are made of it, and it accumulates in the brain and liver. It's made of broken pieces of cell membranes and other crap. And it's plaquing up our brains! The brushy tips of the dendrites are where the mental connections are made, and there's less available surface area when lipofuscin is mucking everything up. So take centrophenoxine.
Rat studies show a significant reduction of lipofuscin (about 40% in middle-aged rats) after a month. This effect is potentiated by piracetam and similar drugs (all of which can be had online nowadays). Piracetam (and the others that came after) cause the brain to use more glucose and choline, which get turned into acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter. These drugs were originally developed to repair damage caused by alcoholism and hypoxia. Good stuff, Maynard.
Also the previously suggested exercise, eating less/no red meat, meditation etc are all important as part of the program. AND QUIT WATCHING TELEVISION.
Einstein was wise, but many in the world are not. And a problem for many of the people this thread is about is that they are leaving unsatisfactory careers and trying something radically new. I quit a cubicle job at the phone company and next month will graduate from watchmaking school (thanks to a Slashdot posting from two years ago). The problem is, it's REALLY HARD to try to learn a whole new set of skills in a new career at 45. (The flip Simpsons comments on this thread are just showing how slashdot has become polluted with idiocy when serious subjects need discussing.) The final exam has a bunch of math, and the Swiss group that administers the test requires students to memorize the formulae. Fortunately it's only a few questions out of twenty or so on the test.
Horrific accident strikes Mrs Wonka.
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The Oompah Loompahs wailed as cos-bunnies looked on in shock. There had never been a worse accident in the history of Wonkaville. Charlie's aging bride Trixi was struck so hard by a cart bearing a heavy load of cos-bunnies bound for the juice squeezer that she was knocked completely out of her latex dress and thigh-high boots, and her ass spurted out of her super-tight undies like a pinched watermelon seed. Said ass orbited her corpulent torso nine times before settling on her frontular abdomen.
Jackson didn't make _film_s. He made _movies_. Movies are popular entertainments for making lots of money by appealing to the largest sweaty masses available. He succeeded wildly of course. Film is an attempt to create art and relies less on special effects and straining violins and more on good source material: script and character. Jackson yanked out a lot of good source material and inserted his own, which is his right to do in his movie, but we don't have to like it.
You're right. Can't be done. The Lay of Beren and Luthien would be a good single movie. Their tale alone would be a great 2-3 hour movie. The whole book would make an excellent Prime Time TV series, albeit very expensive. And anyone who would make it should do the whole thing at once. But I like episodic movies better I think. But not by Jackson. Ridley Scott maybe.
Why do so many people on these forums obsess about conflict? Do any of you posters ever feel like going into bad neighborhoods to hang out? Gee, why not? Our planet is the bad neighborhood of galactic civilization. Once we clean up the trash (pollution), fix up the infrastructure (build spaceports, house our own people), get rid of the drugs (mostly alcohol, or the concept of immoderate consumption of any kind), prostitution (fascist/corrupt politicians) and violence (war, military rulers), they'll be happy to see us. Oh, and we'll have to get rid of the insanity too (wacky religions of all stripes).
Why does it never occur to people that all sentient races go through several stages before they're going to be welcome on the scene? Ours isn't ready yet.
For once it's right to blame the media, too! There was NO mention of this in either of the major Twin Cities papers. Shit. And I work 'til 10 pm, so have consistently missed it. Maybe I can see the daytime version tomorrow...
Not necessarily. It's going to be a six hour miniseries, so a lot of it can be done. I just hope they do a very brief, silent scene where Nell's last 'stepdad' gets his just desserts. It would take less than 30 seconds, but could be such a beautiful visual poem.
Your comments are particularly funny, because (according to the commentaries from Trey & Matt on the DVD) they were all pissed about when entertainers get political. But they themselves are entertainers. And the whole movie is predicated on the idea that people in the entertainment business shouldn't try to make the world a better place, but should just keep their own opinions quiet and "Just Sing" or whatever. But they ignore the idea that people who OWN show businesses (Rupert Murdock owns Fox TV for example) do all KINDS of bullshit to mislead the public. Also, it implies actors are stupid and easily misled. They're typically somewhat intelligent, since they have to be to get jobs in showbiz. And since they're well off, they don't have to spend their evenings glued to the boob tube, sucking down the bullshit Rupert Murdock is foisting on America.
Watch "Outfoxed! Rupert Murdoch's War on Modern Journalism". It's fascinating.
I agree completely. I remember getting a book from the library when I was in 3rd grade about Mars colonists in some rocket-based was against their rightful earth government. Halfway through the book I realized the colonists were getting screwed by the government edicts and SHOULD rebel. And today, over 35 years later, I can still see when the powers-that-be are drowning us in bullshit other people seem oblivious to.
I was rather of the impression he wasn't so much an attorney as a whack-job on the hunt who had some legal qualifications. And that he'd been ON the hunt for a while. He was originally an outdoorsman and wildman type who'd become briefly domesticated.
True! My favorite was the bit where "let's develop really really detailed faces for online avatars so we can conduct business online in virtual reality. That way my facial expressions can by read by the other party...which won't be a disadvantage in negotiations at all!"
That and "okay, I'm swinging my real samurai sword around in a 20x30 at the UStorIt by the airport, but I'm wearing my VR goggles and somehow don't kill anyone or crash into anything."
Super fun book though. Love the SmartWheels and anything from Ng Security Industries, especially the SemiAutonomous Guard Units.
Look children! An asshole! See how it loathes everything that's NOT itself? Those things nearly killed all life on earth with pollution, war and greed. Good thing they're nearly extinct.
Yeah, the tasty animals like chicken and duck! Bird flu! Kill us all. Pork and beef industrialized into smaller and smaller places, places so filthy we have to pump in intravenous antibiotics so WE don't get their disgusting diseases. It won't last forever, dipshits. Sooner or later your callous attitude and stupid, unfunny jokes will breed a flu virus or something that our science won't be able to stop.
Get it, dumbfucks? Too many idiots like you means death for us all. We need to start gathering up your kind and slaughtering YOU.
Wah fucking wah. You're (not 'your' btw, oh and try learning to use proper capitalization and punctuation) the cockhead. There's always suffering. Life IS suffering. Do people NOT suffer now in China? Hell yes they do. Always have. Me, I'd rather have one more interesting species alive in the world than a few million more idiot humans. Fuck people, and fuck you, jizzbag. If we just go along dumping shit in rivers and overfishing the shit out of everything, we're going to kill OURSELVES off anyway. More suffering. So why postpone it at the cost of an entire species? Doing the right thing now is always best for everyone. Putting money before the environment is suicidal. For OUR species.
I, for one, welcome our new natural overlords. I would certainly advocate razing (and recycling the steel) when these buildings wear out and replacing them with earthen buildings. Also wooden buildings should also be supplanted with earthen ones when their time is up. Cob and adobe last way longer, takes way less energy to create the materials (straw, sand and clay) and won't be destroyed by california's wildfires, and if built with a concrete pad in the foundation will also stand up to earthquakes. And I could quit my bullshit cubicle job and go be a cobber or adobe builder. Everybody wins!
It IS on topic to talk about other things the guy can do. He's not old after all, he's only 44. More info about the rest of his physiognomy would help maybe. It might just turn out that not being able to play video games any more is the best thing that could happen to him.
There are lots of sharks in videogames! The first Tenchu game for PS1 had one that if you did it just right you could throw a hand grenade at it. I spent as much time trying to kill that shark as I did completing the proper mission on that level. Heh. }:)
I agree; I still have the arcade-style controller I bought to play it with. In fact, a lot of these questions of arthritis might be mitigated by using an arcade controller: big ol' joystick on there, large buttons, and you can set it across your lap.
>Wow you mean all the ares that are overflowing with illegals? He gave a view on how it is in the NE and you come back with how nuh uh they are all full with them in this state im in right along the border with Mexico!
Whoa, speaking of people who don't speak english! What did you mean there? What are "ares"? Ever heard of punctuation? It's used inside sentences, not just at the end.
People from here know what a ripoff $6 an hour is, so why should they work hard? People from mexico find $6 an hour to be way more than they could make at home, so you're damn right they work harder. People from here have a higher sense of entitlement. "How can I get all the stuff I deserve as an american on only $6 an hour? This place sucks.." Mexican immigrants, OTOH, live with more people crammed into smaller houses and drive cheaper cars or take public transport. Americans never see such conditions (at least not on TV, which is where they get most of their opinions) so can't countenance sharing small living quarters or not having a lot of new clothes etc etc.
This isn't trollish. Mod up. America is about opportunity and freedom. We should have open borders. We should also be asking Mexico what's wrong with them that so many people there want to leave and come here. There are TONS of american corporations there exploiting the shit out of people. We want fewer people coming here, we should me our corporations obey our laws wherever they have buildings overseas. And repeal NAFTA.
The French didn't just fucking lie down and puss out. They fought the meanest army in the world, who had just spent several years building up to it and practicing on Poland, when they were battle hardened and armed with the best weapons on the planet. Fuck armchair generals watch too much fucking Simpsons.
I'll happily bet a week's pay there were never any shootings at any of the schools MacArthur or Patton went to, except maybe accidental shootings on the rifle range at West Point or something. People in those days may have had fights, but they knew what the limits were. Where'd they learn them? From strong, 'testosterone-poisoned' parents who were _involved_in_their_lives_ instead of spending way too many hours working for some dickhead corporation, or sitting in front of the tube, wasted.
Parallel case: rhinos were showing up dead at one of Kenya's national parks. With their horns intact. Not shot. Turns out they were killed in fights with adolescent male elephants. These males were dripping with hormones and secretions from a condition called must (spelled musth on wikipdia). The parks went and got full-sized adult males from another park and let them loose and the younger males immediately went out of must, went into it less often, and had the condition for shorter periods while the adult males were around. And the rhinos quit getting killed.
Our society needs to recognize that local action is the only one that's truly effective for social problems; we can't rely on big government to do everything for us. Government's job is to keep corporations from getting too much power and destroying our lives and environment. (Which obviously they've royally screwed up on lately.)
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Eight million idiotic Simpsons references to five actual worthwhile suggestions. Thank goodness someone finally got around to solving this original poster's query.
/cetam drugs are good, but much better when you're young. I'm taking Piracetam and centrophenoxine, but it's too early to see what the results are.
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A lot of talk on here is behavioural coping mechanisms, and not much talk of actually repairing the damage aging has caused to the brain.
One of the main problems with learning and keeping mentally agile is the accumulation of lipofuscin on the dendrites in the brain. Lipofuscin is a pigment; age spots are made of it, and it accumulates in the brain and liver. It's made of broken pieces of cell membranes and other crap. And it's plaquing up our brains! The brushy tips of the dendrites are where the mental connections are made, and there's less available surface area when lipofuscin is mucking everything up. So take centrophenoxine.
Rat studies show a significant reduction of lipofuscin (about 40% in middle-aged rats) after a month. This effect is potentiated by piracetam and similar drugs (all of which can be had online nowadays).
Piracetam (and the others that came after) cause the brain to use more glucose and choline, which get turned into acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter. These drugs were originally developed to repair damage caused by alcoholism and hypoxia. Good stuff, Maynard.
Also the previously suggested exercise, eating less/no red meat, meditation etc are all important as part of the program. AND QUIT WATCHING TELEVISION.
Einstein was wise, but many in the world are not. And a problem for many of the people this thread is about is that they are leaving unsatisfactory careers and trying something radically new. I quit a cubicle job at the phone company and next month will graduate from watchmaking school (thanks to a Slashdot posting from two years ago).
The problem is, it's REALLY HARD to try to learn a whole new set of skills in a new career at 45. (The flip Simpsons comments on this thread are just showing how slashdot has become polluted with idiocy when serious subjects need discussing.)
The final exam has a bunch of math, and the Swiss group that administers the test requires students to memorize the formulae. Fortunately it's only a few questions out of twenty or so on the test.
The Oompah Loompahs wailed as cos-bunnies looked on in shock. There had never been a worse accident in the history of Wonkaville. Charlie's aging bride Trixi was struck so hard by a cart bearing a heavy load of cos-bunnies bound for the juice squeezer that she was knocked completely out of her latex dress and thigh-high boots, and her ass spurted out of her super-tight undies like a pinched watermelon seed. Said ass orbited her corpulent torso nine times before settling on her frontular abdomen.
Dear Mr Underscore,
Jackson didn't make _film_s. He made _movies_. Movies are popular entertainments for making lots of money by appealing to the largest sweaty masses available. He succeeded wildly of course. Film is an attempt to create art and relies less on special effects and straining violins and more on good source material: script and character. Jackson yanked out a lot of good source material and inserted his own, which is his right to do in his movie, but we don't have to like it.
Jon Kerr
You're right. Can't be done. The Lay of Beren and Luthien would be a good single movie. Their tale alone would be a great 2-3 hour movie. The whole book would make an excellent Prime Time TV series, albeit very expensive. And anyone who would make it should do the whole thing at once. But I like episodic movies better I think. But not by Jackson. Ridley Scott maybe.
Why do so many people on these forums obsess about conflict? Do any of you posters ever feel like going into bad neighborhoods to hang out? Gee, why not? Our planet is the bad neighborhood of galactic civilization. Once we clean up the trash (pollution), fix up the infrastructure (build spaceports, house our own people), get rid of the drugs (mostly alcohol, or the concept of immoderate consumption of any kind), prostitution (fascist/corrupt politicians) and violence (war, military rulers), they'll be happy to see us. Oh, and we'll have to get rid of the insanity too (wacky religions of all stripes).
Why does it never occur to people that all sentient races go through several stages before they're going to be welcome on the scene? Ours isn't ready yet.
http://www.youaredumb.net/archive/2007/6/5
You Are Dumb dot net has a great three part series that started Tuesday about this 'museum.' Check it out!
Jon
For once it's right to blame the media, too! There was NO mention of this in either of the major Twin Cities papers. Shit. And I work 'til 10 pm, so have consistently missed it. Maybe I can see the daytime version tomorrow...
Not necessarily. It's going to be a six hour miniseries, so a lot of it can be done. I just hope they do a very brief, silent scene where Nell's last 'stepdad' gets his just desserts. It would take less than 30 seconds, but could be such a beautiful visual poem.
Your comments are particularly funny, because (according to the commentaries from Trey & Matt on the DVD) they were all pissed about when entertainers get political. But they themselves are entertainers. And the whole movie is predicated on the idea that people in the entertainment business shouldn't try to make the world a better place, but should just keep their own opinions quiet and "Just Sing" or whatever. But they ignore the idea that people who OWN show businesses (Rupert Murdock owns Fox TV for example) do all KINDS of bullshit to mislead the public. Also, it implies actors are stupid and easily misled. They're typically somewhat intelligent, since they have to be to get jobs in showbiz. And since they're well off, they don't have to spend their evenings glued to the boob tube, sucking down the bullshit Rupert Murdock is foisting on America.
Watch "Outfoxed! Rupert Murdoch's War on Modern Journalism". It's fascinating.
I agree completely. I remember getting a book from the library when I was in 3rd grade about Mars colonists in some rocket-based was against their rightful earth government. Halfway through the book I realized the colonists were getting screwed by the government edicts and SHOULD rebel. And today, over 35 years later, I can still see when the powers-that-be are drowning us in bullshit other people seem oblivious to.
I was rather of the impression he wasn't so much an attorney as a whack-job on the hunt who had some legal qualifications. And that he'd been ON the hunt for a while. He was originally an outdoorsman and wildman type who'd become briefly domesticated.
True! My favorite was the bit where "let's develop really really detailed faces for online avatars so we can conduct business online in virtual reality. That way my facial expressions can by read by the other party...which won't be a disadvantage in negotiations at all!"
That and "okay, I'm swinging my real samurai sword around in a 20x30 at the UStorIt by the airport, but I'm wearing my VR goggles and somehow don't kill anyone or crash into anything."
Super fun book though. Love the SmartWheels and anything from Ng Security Industries, especially the SemiAutonomous Guard Units.
Look children! An asshole! See how it loathes everything that's NOT itself? Those things nearly killed all life on earth with pollution, war and greed. Good thing they're nearly extinct.
Yeah, the tasty animals like chicken and duck! Bird flu! Kill us all. Pork and beef industrialized into smaller and smaller places, places so filthy we have to pump in intravenous antibiotics so WE don't get their disgusting diseases. It won't last forever, dipshits. Sooner or later your callous attitude and stupid, unfunny jokes will breed a flu virus or something that our science won't be able to stop.
Get it, dumbfucks? Too many idiots like you means death for us all. We need to start gathering up your kind and slaughtering YOU.
Wah fucking wah. You're (not 'your' btw, oh and try learning to use proper capitalization and punctuation) the cockhead. There's always suffering. Life IS suffering. Do people NOT suffer now in China? Hell yes they do. Always have. Me, I'd rather have one more interesting species alive in the world than a few million more idiot humans. Fuck people, and fuck you, jizzbag.
If we just go along dumping shit in rivers and overfishing the shit out of everything, we're going to kill OURSELVES off anyway. More suffering. So why postpone it at the cost of an entire species? Doing the right thing now is always best for everyone. Putting money before the environment is suicidal. For OUR species.
I, for one, welcome our new natural overlords. I would certainly advocate razing (and recycling the steel) when these buildings wear out and replacing them with earthen buildings. Also wooden buildings should also be supplanted with earthen ones when their time is up. Cob and adobe last way longer, takes way less energy to create the materials (straw, sand and clay) and won't be destroyed by california's wildfires, and if built with a concrete pad in the foundation will also stand up to earthquakes. And I could quit my bullshit cubicle job and go be a cobber or adobe builder. Everybody wins!
Jon
It IS on topic to talk about other things the guy can do. He's not old after all, he's only 44. More info about the rest of his physiognomy would help maybe. It might just turn out that not being able to play video games any more is the best thing that could happen to him.
Jon
There are lots of sharks in videogames! The first Tenchu game for PS1 had one that if you did it just right you could throw a hand grenade at it. I spent as much time trying to kill that shark as I did completing the proper mission on that level. Heh. }:)
I agree; I still have the arcade-style controller I bought to play it with. In fact, a lot of these questions of arthritis might be mitigated by using an arcade controller: big ol' joystick on there, large buttons, and you can set it across your lap.
>Wow you mean all the ares that are overflowing with illegals? He gave a view on how it is in the NE and you come back with how nuh uh they are all full with them in this state im in right along the border with Mexico!
Whoa, speaking of people who don't speak english! What did you mean there? What are "ares"? Ever heard of punctuation? It's used inside sentences, not just at the end.
People from here know what a ripoff $6 an hour is, so why should they work hard? People from mexico find $6 an hour to be way more than they could make at home, so you're damn right they work harder. People from here have a higher sense of entitlement. "How can I get all the stuff I deserve as an american on only $6 an hour? This place sucks.." Mexican immigrants, OTOH, live with more people crammed into smaller houses and drive cheaper cars or take public transport. Americans never see such conditions (at least not on TV, which is where they get most of their opinions) so can't countenance sharing small living quarters or not having a lot of new clothes etc etc.
This isn't trollish. Mod up. America is about opportunity and freedom. We should have open borders. We should also be asking Mexico what's wrong with them that so many people there want to leave and come here. There are TONS of american corporations there exploiting the shit out of people. We want fewer people coming here, we should me our corporations obey our laws wherever they have buildings overseas. And repeal NAFTA.
The French didn't just fucking lie down and puss out. They fought the meanest army in the world, who had just spent several years building up to it and practicing on Poland, when they were battle hardened and armed with the best weapons on the planet. Fuck armchair generals watch too much fucking Simpsons.
I'll happily bet a week's pay there were never any shootings at any of the schools MacArthur or Patton went to, except maybe accidental shootings on the rifle range at West Point or something. People in those days may have had fights, but they knew what the limits were. Where'd they learn them? From strong, 'testosterone-poisoned' parents who were _involved_in_their_lives_ instead of spending way too many hours working for some dickhead corporation, or sitting in front of the tube, wasted.
Parallel case: rhinos were showing up dead at one of Kenya's national parks. With their horns intact. Not shot. Turns out they were killed in fights with adolescent male elephants. These males were dripping with hormones and secretions from a condition called must (spelled musth on wikipdia). The parks went and got full-sized adult males from another park and let them loose and the younger males immediately went out of must, went into it less often, and had the condition for shorter periods while the adult males were around. And the rhinos quit getting killed.
Our society needs to recognize that local action is the only one that's truly effective for social problems; we can't rely on big government to do everything for us. Government's job is to keep corporations from getting too much power and destroying our lives and environment. (Which obviously they've royally screwed up on lately.)