Author: Geezer
Under educated, abnormally curious, gutsy coward. 65yr or so, ( it keeps changing). Traded money for time even though money is freedom. Went sailling (sail a little work on boat a lot).
DCL 10/23/20 (Discovery of Chronic Life)
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Ok Calico (google) said thanks but no thanks. Guess the computer didn’t find any interesting keywords and so assigned me to the default. Expected, but worth a try. National Institute on Aging said default hi see you in a bit then actully answered the question…
DCL 10/17/20
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Lazy, nuf said. Logged into Calico, google’s life extension web page, to ask a question but found no way to do it. Apparently, they get enough of that with the main google. So I filled out an employment form to ask what would be the…
Mesh Tales 10/15/20
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Dentist & wisdom teeth SO why are they called wisdom teeth? Google says “wisdom teeth because they appear so late – much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are presumably “wiser”” And being so smart they get the heck out as soon as…
Discovery of chronic life
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10/16/20 Where to start? The two hardest things to any endeavor getting started & stopping. Two happiest days of a sailor’s life purchase & sale of the boat, with perhaps a little sailing in between. As with many starts, this one has been repetitive with…
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Mesh tales 9/11/20 The HVAC filter adventure -> Bought a new Trane HVAC home unit last year $5,000, cheap actually for this area. Life was good for about 8 months then the 5-inch thick new style filter gets a little clogged. According to Trane, they…
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Lingzhi Mushroom 1. The Mushroom of Immortality Chinese alchemists spent centuries formulating elixirs of life. They were frequently commissioned by the Emperor, and experimented with things like toxic mercury, gold, sulfur and plants. The formula for gunpowder, sulfur, saltpeter and carbon was originally an attempted elixir of immortality….
LE Past Comment on Lingzhi Chinese mushroom
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need to do more research – legions etc. LEPDB mushroom
LE-Past Chinese Mushroom
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From Wikipedia Lingzhi (mushroom) (see my comment) The word lingzhi (靈芝) was first recorded in a fu (賦; “rhapsody; prose-poem”) by the Han dynasty polymath Zhang Heng (CE 78–139). His Xijing fu (西京賦) (Western Metropolis Rhapsody) contains a description of the 104 BCE Jianzhang Palace of Emperor Wu of Han that parallels lingzhi with shijun (石菌; “rock mushroom”): “Raising huge breakers, lifting waves,…
MESH Tales 8/14/20
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Car battery When I was actually physically young not just psychologically young, say the 1960s,70s,80s, car batteries advertised warranties about their life expectancy of 2,3,5,or 6 years this is how you judged the value of the battery, by the warranty. Sears Diehard batteries would sometimes…