Author: Paul

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Life extension and exercise

Let’s do the math here.

A report today suggests exercising twenty minutes a day adds two years to your life.

They don’t say how long you need to exercise twenty minutes a day.

Twenty minutes a day, in a 365 day year, means 121.66 hours spend just exercising, or five solid days.

So you can live to be, say, eighty, or you can exercise and live to be eighty-two. But of those bonus 730 days, you’ve spent 400 of them sweating, netting you 330 days; so, a little less than a year.

Yeah, you get to be ALIVE those 400 days that you’re sweating. But the “two extra years” they’re promising, it doesn’t come without a cost.

I’ve always thought a more convincing argument is that exercise presumably lets you have a greater percentage of your life spent healthier than if you’d been more sedentary.

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Why word order matters

The radio news has been reporting that in the California wildfires, a grandmother and her two grandchildren “were reported killed by their relatives.”

Uh… no. They were reported by their relatives as having been killed. Their relatives didn’t kill them.

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Facebook algorithms

Crazy…it worked! After reposting this to all my friends, and muttering arcane incantations under the nearly-full moon, friends started appearing out of nowhere. Some seemed surprised to be there.
Here’s how to avoid hearing from the same 25 Facebook friends, due to Facebook’s new algorithm. What happened to their old algorithm, by the way? Is there a used algorithm market somewhere? Can I buy it and start Footbook or something?
If you are reading this message, leave me a message. If you are NOT reading this message, leave me two messages. Tell me what a good time you’re having doing whatever you’re doing instead of reading my message.
Then, copy and paste onto your wall so you can have more interaction with all your contacts. Or your contact lenses. I’m not sure which. Copy and paste what? I don’t know. Be creative. And don’t use library paste. I see you eating the library paste. Shame on you. I don’t think that’s on the Paleo diet.
I don’t know what happens then. Maybe we all go bowling. People don’t bowl enough these days.