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    Christine Perfect, RIP

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    4 hours ago, DooDiligence said:

    Can anyone recommend a good Fleetwood Mac documentary?

    A quick look shows there are a few out there.

     

    I have never watched one. But it certainly would be interesting. The band has  been around a very long time and has gone through several major transformations.

     

    I saw a documentary on Peter Green, the person who formed Fleetwood Mac and wrote Black Magic Women. He named the band Fleetwood Mac to get Mick Fleetwood and John McVie to join him. I don't recall the name of the documentary but I saw it on AXS TV. There is a classic albums episode on Rumours I have seen, also on AXS TV.

     

    Edit: Here is a The Big Interview episode with Lindsey Buckingham, https://www.axs.tv/channel/the-big-interview-with-dan-rather-season-3/video/lindsey-buckingham/

     

     

    Golden Gate Suicide Net

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    12 hours ago, Spekulatius said:

    The indecisive ones can cause pretty bad traffic jams. Some are indecent enough to do their business during commute hours.

     

    They'll probably have more jumpers now, non-suiicidal ones who just want to say they jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge.

    China

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    1 hour ago, cubsfan said:

    Shit - worse than that - the leaches in the government get full pay and work from home for doing nothing basically. These local county & city officials were hardly available by phone. What a scam, they wanted to keep it all going - like a 2 year paid vacation.

     

    It took my daughter over 6 months to get building permits for a condo remodel in West Hollywood during covid. She might still not have them but the former mayor of West Hollywood lives in her complex and helped her. 

    China

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    14 minutes ago, rkbabang said:

     

    Does the US have a vaccine that works?   I've been vaxed and boosted and I still got COVID.   My neighbors have been triple boosted and still got COVID.  Everyone I know that has caught it in the last year has had multiple vaccines.  Except for my unvaccinated 71 year old parents who were less sick than my wife and I when they caught it.  I disagree that the US has a vaccine that "works".

     

     

     

    I have been vaccinated, boosted three times, and I am 69 years old. I'm in a room with 50 college students three times a week. I have students next to me in my office all the time. Almost no one wearing a mask for at least a year. As far as I know I have not gotten COVID. (I imagine I could have had it and no symptoms.) Isn't the big difference with those who have been vaccinated that they are not dying or even needing to be hospitalized?

     

    Edit: Just about everyone on campus has been vaccinated. I have been made aware of two students who had COVID this semester and would be missing class. There might be more who have not gotten tested but I get the feeling that most have been conscientious about it.

    China

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    7 hours ago, Dinar said:

    That's awesome.  I love academia, I'd love an adjunct gig at a university (I'd do it for free) since I miss intellectual stimulation.  There were a number of awesome professors in my PhD programs, very well rounded, very well read, very thoughtful and with plenty of common sense.

     

    I have been in academia for 38 years and it has been great. Plus I get to live in a smaller community.

     

    Most of my career I did everything in collaboration. Those collaborations changed over the years. In the current situation this could not happen because I never interact with anyone. It was great when I could just go down the hall and find an expert to sit across the desk from and talk to. This could really impact innovation. Musk understands this and why he is forcing his employees back to the office.

    China

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    2 hours ago, Dinar said:

    Sure.  The problem is that commuting costs so much time and money (in NYC suburbs as much as $5k per person per year and up to 1000 (one thousand) hours per year) that there is a real question whether it is worth it despite loss of interactions and creativity.

     

    I understand that situation. I am at a large research university in a college town. A long commute is 15 minutes. I can bike to work in 12 minutes.

    Looking for Advice / Stories from Older folks

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    I could comfortably retire, but won't because I love what I do. What I do does not depend on my net worth.

     

     Of all the  blue zones, Okinawans have the highest life expectancy. In Okinawa, there isn’t even a word for retirement. Instead there’s simply ‘ikigai,’ which essentially means ‘the reason for which you wake up in the morning.’”

    Which activities in life brings you the most fun?

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    30 minutes ago, tytthus said:

    Drinking morning coffee while doing a crossword on the deck.  John Coltrane on the Sonos.  I could do that every day.  Wait, I do indeed do that everyday.  Except sometimes the weather doesn’t cooperate and I switch between jazz and blues sometimes.

     

    and I don’t mind admitting that I sometimes search for answers on the internet when I get stuck.

     

    I agree regarding morning coffee! In the evening a stout or porter, but I try now to do that just one day a week. 

     

    Listening to classic rock—Neil Young, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Cream, etc.

     

    Exercising, reading, developing videos for my Youtube channel, and teaching.

     

    And of course writing puts on BRKB!

    Which activities in life brings you the most fun?

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    One more thing about doing hard workouts.

     

    Glycogen is the way your body stores glucose, an energy source. Glycogen is stored in your liver and muscles. Glycogen in your liver can be converted to glucose and released into your bloodstream for use anywhere in your body. Muscle glycogen must be used in that muscle. I imagine a sedentary person has glycogen that is years, maybe decades, old. I don’t know if it deteriorates but I would not be surprised that it does. So, it is good to exhaust your muscles to clean out the glycogen. Your muscles are then primed for up taking glucose from your blood at your next meal. This helps to ward off type 2 diabetes and type 3 diabetes, dementia.

    Which activities in life brings you the most fun?

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    I echo @cubsfan about weight training and maintaining or building muscle more important the older you get. When you get injured, the repair materials come from existing muscle. That is why breaking a hip is often the kiss of death for the elderly, because they haven't maintained any muscle mass.

     

    This loss of muscle mass with age is viewed as a disease, sacropenia, that can be prevented, or at least greatly delayed.

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