In a desperate attempt to keep the usefulness of my mailbox (as I've already accidentally deleted or almost deleted several legitimate emails), you may now no longer talk to me about viagra or xanax via email period. Sorry. I was really tempted to toss in "valium" as well, but I have to keep open the possibility that one day some drug-addled friend of mine will send me a desparate email: "d00der. Took too much valium with my DMT. Save me plz!"
#kill prescription drugs :(
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This is to catch the 50 or so messages that pass THROUGH spamassasin in a given day. I would really really like to leave open the possiblity to one day have a stimulating and vibrant discussion about viagra over email. If anyone has any useful procmail recipes, let me know :)
There are a few moments in the world that makes me smile- that change for the better can happen as long as we keep working towards it. This past weekend was one definately worth partying for: San Francisco allowing same-sex marriages.
Riana and Seth have photos and first hand accounts. There's no sweeter celebration than that of love unbounded.
Thanks to Biella, I've been turned on to Bioimmune's Ultra Asorbic C, advertised as "intravenous level doses of Vitamin C".
Linus Pauling, quack by some, is probably the most famous advocate of vitamin C in large doses.
Anecdotally, I've been taking about 1000mg of the supposedly high absorbancy C with a lot of success. That is, it feels like the overall "cost of movement" in terms of wear and tear in my body drops significantly. After ingestion of the stuff, I usually get a pretty good surge of energy... a lot of fogginess that is a residue from years of bodily abuse starts going away... And my workout sessions are breezy, and my body is left with this strangely cool breeze feeling as if I just sweated out a lot of toxins. I'm strongly considering making it a long term factor in my diet.
The only downside so far has been my personal Ph balance going off- I can tell my overall acidity has gone up... Although I'm not sure yet if this is from ascorbic acid ingestion, or from a general detox...
I've tried megadosing in the past with pills, but it just didn't seem anywhere near as effective as this form for some reason.
Anyone have any megadosing experiences they'd like to share?
Corpwatch has a pretty interesting read on some of the cultural aspects of the Haliburton operations in Iraq.
When I traveled through airports in the middle east pre iraq invasion, Qatar and Bahrain, the thing that struck me was the immense amount of transient workers that were imported for the oil companies. The working class seemed to be exclusively young male, either single or with families back home.
Engineers and management came in from all over western europe and the americas. More striking was the shuttling of planeload after planeload of migrant laborers from pakistan, bangladesh, and india. The entire culture of flying was different for a lot of the laborers: as opposed to the chi-chi western method of flying with a handbag and an upper class casual look, and have a very metropolitan view of things... These were workers that very much *used* the plane: dressed up in dhotis, suitcases crammed to the point of explosion with goods bought in the middle east to send back to their families, they would rowdily rush onto the planes as if it were a crowded subway...
The airport was generally there as a funnel for globalized labor on scale that I have yet to see again. The global network of headhunters and people cut across national boundaries like no other industry- paling the mexican agricultural and eastern europe/indian software labor migrations experienced in the United States.
It's easy to think of the numbers of the energy industry... And to casually talk about the causes in iraq of being an colonial war driven by a number of things, oil... But to see the scale at which the topology of human networks are warped makes me unnerved at the scale of our suicidal addiction to oil.
I need a job dammit. If anyone knows of someone hiring for a position in bioinformatics, data mining, financial prediction, or just plain old decent senior software engineer, in the sf bay, chicagoland, or nyc let me know.
I would link to my resume, but I don't want the spammers going nuts.
Well, it was bound to happen. The beginnings of christian paranoia against the transhuman movement.
Traditional Values, a nice slash style site with lots of scary anti-abortion icons has This rant against the seemingly anti-christian bio-ethics and nano-ethics that is increasingly common in the scientific community at large.
So there you have it, Extropy is now close to joining it's place of honor along rap music, D&D, and GOTO loops as things that are bad for your masturbating adolescent.