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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 xeromal »

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.

Any easy way to start out with single-legged squats (pistols) is to find yourself a step up or box jump box. Start out low and just step up onto the box for several reps/sets. You can increase the height until just below the knee. You don't want to go too high. After you strengthen from that, you can start doing other progressions for true pistols if you want.

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

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Post by fezfight »

kcarter80 wrote: post #133
fezfight wrote: post #90

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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.

We grew up in the burbs. Everyone was into music. Just never heard this song. Not all songs go everywhere, eh. For example, as a Canadian, most Americans I met at the time had never heard of the once most popular band in Canada - The Tragically Hip.

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

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Post by jsjohnst »

Damogran6 wrote: post #69
jsjohnst wrote: post #41

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Very much agree re: the aging advice in the song, my gosh the difference past 40! I sorta followed the advice of the song and spent around 10 years in California (LA + Bay Area). Have spent the following 10 years living in the NYC area (mostly, there was a short break in the middle). Wish the song gave a suggestion after you leave both! I tried the “live in a large RV” life in 2021 traveling all over and it was great…

We have a trailer, and use it a half-dozen times a year and I could NOT full time. Too much decision fatigue. And the number of people trying to self-fund their full time lifestyle on Youtube...holy smokes.

> Too much decision fatigue.

That wasn’t the problem as much for me, the issue was hassle. It was a hassle finding campgrounds with availability. It was a hassle ensuring the campground had sufficient cell coverage (every coverage map is a LIE) for me to continue my full time day job (less problematic now with Starlink RV, but still an issue with their network capacity in that area somewhat). It was a hassle maneuvering a 38’ camper everywhere I went (I bet I can back up through a complex obstacle course after all that practice though!). etc. etc.

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

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Post by harrylove »

johnla wrote: post #163
harrylove wrote: post #136

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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 st…

This is so funny. I started mountain biking last year and it's been fun but I wanted to do something with my wife as a hobby. I'll look into Kayaking. LOL. Do you do a 2 person kayak or 2 separate 1 person kayaks?

We like separate kayaks in general. Both types can be fun.

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

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Post by scarface74 »

brabel wrote: post #104
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)

You can easily get year-long visas to Australia and New Zealand if you're young enough and from an "approved" country (look for working holliday visa). I think countries like Thailand and Indonesia (Bali) also allow foreigners to stay quite a generous amount of time... South America is also an option for up to 6 months, I believe, without much hassle... if you fancy China, they also have not-so-difficult-to-get stude…

Would anyone want to nomad to China now with their harsh lockdowns if you test positive for Covid? This isn’t an anti-China political statement by any means.

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

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Post by NonNefarious »

tomrod wrote: post #173
NonNefarious wrote: post #144

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The misattribution to Vonnegut was indeed pervasive, and stupid. You have to be a maladjusted no-lifer to get your jollies from "pranks" like that.

I mean, you just described 99.99999% of the population, especially those that participate in a discussion of a 25 year old pop song on a technical community board, or more broadly, teenagers. More jollies and harmless pranks, I say! But on a serious note, I reflect a lot on that song and empathize with being kinds to knees (I broke mine at 18 and decades later still feel it).

99.99999% of the population takes a work and deprives its author of credit by attributing it to someone else?

Bullfuckingshit. Don't make excuses for assholes.

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

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Post by tomrod »

NonNefarious wrote: post #187
tomrod wrote: post #173

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I mean, you just described 99.99999% of the population, especially those that participate in a discussion of a 25 year old pop song on a technical community board, or more broadly, teenagers. More jollies and harmless pranks, I say! But on a serious note, I reflect a lot on that song and empathize with being kinds to knees (I broke mine at 18 and decades later still feel it).

99.99999% of the population takes a work and deprives its author of credit by attributing it to someone else? Bullfuckingshit. Don't make excuses for assholes.

You stole that last comment. ;-)

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

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Post by biofox »

bobthepanda wrote: post #153
throwaway821909 wrote: post #137

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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 faul…

Really, what people think should go in comments should instead go to commits, which is actually a snapshot of what the author was trying to achieve during a point in time. Inline comments just become out of date or mangled. Commit revisions are the source of truth.

The problem with commit messages is that they quickly get buried in the log, and are difficult to dig up. It's not perfect, but comments stay with the code throughout the versions.

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

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

rr888 wrote: post #139
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #29

Keep old love letters

Print out your text messages...

Love letters are a dying art. I only wrote and received them during my time in boot camp in 2009.

I've been watching the Ken Burns doc about the Roosevelts and it is incredible how much we can know about people from physical letters they leave behind. What will survive us in 100 years? Almost all of my creative output is in digital form.

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