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Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)

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Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)

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Post by nazgulnarsil »

japanuspus wrote: post #128
jedberg wrote: post #93

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Protip from someone who is 45 and has had bad knees since he was 15: Strengthen the muscles around the knee as much as possible. The stronger your quads and calves are, the better your knees will be. The best way to do this is squats with either no weights or just a couple of pounds. You may need to wear knee braces when you do this (in my case I was able to skip the braces after about 10 years) This is actually true…

The surgeon who fixed my first knee injury advised me to do single legged squads if in any way possible: the balancing aspect is good for activating many small muscles around the knee, and the weight is high enough to maintain muscle mass even after age 50.

pulling a sled also strengthens the acl which are a weakpoint for many.

Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)

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Post by whycombinetor »

dang wrote: post #124

The original submitted URL was https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/everybodys-free-to-wear-s... . Since this is a podcast without a transcript, it probably makes sense to change it to the most informative text article on the topic. So far, that looks to be the URL mentioned by neogodless here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32330624 . Those interested can still listen to the podcast!

The comments here feel weird now, after changing the target link of the post to an article not focusing on the song, when the majority of the top level comments are about the song. The new link barely mentions the song twice.

Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)

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Post by kcarter80 »

fezfight wrote: post #90
kcarter80 wrote: post #60

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I'm 41. I just asked 6 friends who are my contemporaries and each of them knew this song well. It was also, of course, extremely popular, as the link points out. Can you introspect a bit about what may be unusual about you so that you were never exposed to this song?

I'm 40 and I've never heard it, nor have the 4 people sitting around me. We were all in Ontario when this song was apparently popular. We were all massively into music at the time.

> We were all massively into music at the time.

There was something consistent and unusual about your lack of exposure to this song.

Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)

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Post by kcarter80 »

VyseofArcadia wrote: post #63
kcarter80 wrote: post #60

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I'm 41. I just asked 6 friends who are my contemporaries and each of them knew this song well. It was also, of course, extremely popular, as the link points out. Can you introspect a bit about what may be unusual about you so that you were never exposed to this song?

For starters, at 35 I am a bit younger than you. That's certainly a factor, but I still should have been exposed. For radio play, I was living in rural Alabama at the time. Wouldn't shock me if the local station never played it because someone's church had some kind of issue with it. (Famously my mother once called in to request a Billy Idol song and was refused because the DJ claimed that Idol was a satanist.) For t…

Thanks for replying!

Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)

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Post by harrylove »

blowski wrote: post #12

It's amazing how every so often, I gain new insight into a line from this song. I recently hit 40, and "be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone" is starting to make sense in a way that used to be more abstract.

Hopefully this helps someone else. I'm approaching 50. I just took up mountain biking after moving to an area that has lots of trails. I have seen gains in my health and my mood that I worried might not return. I ride with a guy who's 60 and he regularly smokes the rest of us. My wife and I started kayaking together recently and that's done wonders for mood, health, and our marriage. So, here's my advice:

1) Don't stress about your age. And don't stress about approaching an age. Enjoy whatever age you are. Instead, consider your condition. Should you improve it? Can you improve it?

2) To help with #1, find a hobby that gets your heart rate up and uses a good portion of your body. Better yet, find multiple hobbies that exercise different areas of your body.

3) For me, the key to #2 was finding a hobby that actively engages my mind at the same time. I needed the rush and challenge of riding on trails that mountain biking offers. But for kayaking, I thrive on the opposite. The tranquility of the water and being out on a date with my wife is a sort of meditation. In both hobbies, I come home refreshed and energized. If you haven't found such a hobby yet, keep trying different things until something clicks. You'll probably know it when you get there.

Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)

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Post by throwaway821909 »

biofox wrote: post #88
EvanAnderson wrote: post #65

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Like how a recording of a performance is the same as the sheet music.

Development is like a one-way hash function: a line of code may have been added and structured a particular way for any one of an infinite number of reasons. Without the documentation (the forward mapping) there's no way to exactly predict its intended function, leading to all sorts of misunderstandings further down the line when someone tries to reverse it.

Doesn't need re-explaining but makes me realise we often talk about comments explaining what code does, which leads to "your code should be well-written so it's easy to understand what it does" or "I'm a good developer, I can understand that easily by reading it".

But as you say the question is why - people will often be reading existing code because of a bug, so clearly the thought process that created it had a faulty step somewhere.

Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)

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Post by hombre_fatal »

bombcar wrote: post #72
iso1631 wrote: post #44

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While an EU citizen can at least roam in the EU fine, and a US citizen can roam the 50 states, seems that roaming outside of that would be exceedingly difficult and expensive to get appropiate visa (if they exist)

The "quiet part" you don't say out loud is you don't get work visas - you pretend you're a tourist and survive on those. However, an American could spend years just traveling the United States, and that doesn't even cover the possibility of the territories, etc.

Traveling the US misses out on different cultural experiences though which are the most interesting parts of traveling I think, esp making friends and dating.
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