LinkedIn

I was bored last night so I took up an invitation to LinkedIn that jtroutman sent me in January, and set up a profile there. I ignored the invitation initially, figuring that LinkedIn was just another Orkut-like thing that some segment of my nerdy adult friends were having a microfad over - see how many pokemon experience points connections you can collect! - but since the start of the year I've gotten the impression that the site has actually earned a fairly decent rep as a useful resource for professionals, especially those who do need to network at least occasionally.

I commenced to bombard invitations at people until I was too sleepy to keep at it. If you didn't get one and wish to be part of my scintillating business network just say so. (Or invite me via the thingy.)

Pass the salt

From rserocki: Biologists are making progress in isolating why calorie restriction extends animals' lifespans. This is encouraging news.

I thank the CR community for helping to keep life extension in the headlines, making news like this more visible, but their implementation is not one for most people. (Understatement.) My interest in CR stops at being mindful to avoid eating when I'm not actually hungry - which is good, but it isn't even scratching the surface of what its real practitioners do. (Which is, basically, to avoid eating when they are actually hungry.) I admire and support their commitment, and I am sure they're right about all the side benefits of their koo-koo diet (such as out-of-whack hormone generation giving them a feeling of continual elation), but still I think I'll hold out for the pill version.