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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 silisili »

Wow, what a blast from the past. I haven't heard this song in 20 years, when it was on the radio, and mostly just ignored it then - when I was young and powerful, to quote the song.

Hearing it now was oddly relieving. It's like every line tells/assures you of things you think about, realize, or worry about - suddenly making it all just seem perfectly normal and OK. Especially for someone without parents or mentors to give you such advice. I guess I was just too young and 'allknowing' to relate to it or appreciate it when it came out.

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

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Post by jedberg »

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.

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 for most any joint in your body -- the stronger the muscles surrounding the joint are, the better that joint will perform.

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

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Post by bombcar »

yardstick wrote: post #89
bombcar wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What about the tax aspect of it? Or do you simply pay tax as resident of the place you last properly lived? Maybe this is a more relevant question for non-Americans, since most other countries don’t tax their citizens on their worldwide income. Eg UK definitely doesn’t. But often it requires the employer to be comfortable with the HR situation you put them in. Often easier to contract via a company (intermediary HR e…

Many people just keep "working" for wherever they "officially" live and stay on the down-low. You get a lot of cash/barter happening also, and try to stay out of the attention of the authorities.

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

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Post by dwringer »

edmcnulty101 wrote: post #86
EvanAnderson wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Haha that's a great analogy. I'm going to use that when someone gives me that BS line that code is documentation.

Lots of music is performed first, and only later transcribed (often from a recording). In all cases, a music performance contains more data than sheet music (although there's no guarantee that the performer played their sheet music accurately to the page, if they had any). However, in many cases it's much more productive to learn a song by listening to a recording. Paul McCartney famously didn't use sheet music at all.

I guess sheet music is like documentation, but just like documentation it's often incomplete, wrong, confusing, misleading, or worse than nothing at all. Sometimes it's the only ground truth we have, such as with classical music where we can't know what the composer truly had in mind, so in cases like that I'd say the sheet music is effectively the source code.

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

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Post by happyopossum »

I remember listening to this song over and over as they played it in heavy rotation on KROQ when I was in my 20s. Some of those words I wish I’d taken to heart.

Laying in bed the day after ACL reconstruction, the advice about your knees is particularly poignant.

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

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Post by purpleblue »

dsego wrote: post #14
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.

38 here, things just don't heal as fast and tend to ache for weeks or months.

Almost 50 here. 40+ is not just an age. It sucks being in your 40s. Things really don't work the same. My brain is slower, I get confused a little bit more, I struggle to find the right words at least 3 times a day. Even worse, your parents get sick and you have to start worrying about them and taking care of them.

Enjoy your 30s to the fullest, because it gets worse and it's completely out of your control to make it better. The best you can expect in your 40s is to slow down the decline.

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

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Post by beastman82 »

scarface_74 wrote: post #83
iso1631 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

I can attest to that, my wife and I are planning the digital nomad lifestyle later this year. But we are doing it only in the US, staying in one brand of hotels (Hilton brands -- Homewood and Embassy's mostly) to take advantage of loyalty programs for free nights, the consistency over trying to stay at an AirBnb and just for comfort, and flying everywhere. It's going to take us at least 3 years to hit all of the plac…

What kind of Hilton perks come with this kind of lengthy stays?

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

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Post by purpleblue »

I had not heard this song (or the original column) until my 30s, after my divorce. My close friend sent me this song, and it was the anthem for my next couple of years, regardless of how cheesy that sounds. It really did help me out of a bad place, and it's filled with absolute wisdom and actually did change the trajectory of my life.

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

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Post by dleslie »

jedberg wrote: post #93
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.

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…

This is why I do squats: chronic knee and back pain melted away after taking on weighted squats for a few months.
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