Aint nobody got time for that. How will I get my internet posting in every day

Only way this would've been better is if it ended with "whiskey dick, **** my life"

My problem is I only have to get up real early twice a week. So I'm not setting my sleeping schedule around those days.

Rockstars are probably my least favorite energy drink, followed by Red Bull. Don't drink much of them but usually avoid both like the plague. Energy drink hipster?

I also knew a Rockstar rep in college and was friends with two Red Bull girls from Baton Rouge. Their job description was to drive to NOLA, distribute Red Bull a can at a time outside bars and parties then go back to Baton Rouge. What they would actually do is come to our house as soon as they got in town, drop off every single can they were carrying at our place, drink for an hour or two, and then go back to Baton Rouge. Sick oversight at that job obviously.

Yeah all the energy drink college people I knew were quite lol

Rockstar Recover? IDK the name for sure but the non-carbonated completely sugar-free versions are really good

yeah this is what i drink. the lemonade one on a daily basis. i keep a couple of the 2x caffeine ones in reserve for days i have to get up before 5.

Fish oil update:

1) Got the Barlean's EPA/DHA liquid (orange flavor).

2) put it in smoothies (1 teaspoon, as recommended on package)--it tasted fine, even wife thought so.

3) Tried it by the spoonful, will not repeat or have wife try it that way.

4) Read through Chim's articles and found them pretty compelling especially as to the non-production of DHA under a flax-style Omega3 intake. Learned many long new words. Intrigued to read that beneficial DHA absorption levels continue up to 3 grams per day, which is 10x most pill doses, and 5x the Barleans.

5) noticing that even the Barlean's had more EPA than DHA, googled for specific descriptions of what each does and what the ideal balance would be; 1st result was a 1 year old article saying EPA is the most important of the two and you want 2x that than DHA (among other stuff). 2nd result was an article stating that the author of the first article was FOS and just saying that because it's cheaper & easier to get oil with that mix and that's what he's trying to sell. At the bottom of this article was a "Buy our DHA-heavy Fish Oil" link. 3rd result was an article saying that DHA is more essential but that you still want EPA in amount at least equivalent to amount of omega6 fatty acid (I forget the specific one) you are consuming since they compete for enzyme that the omega6 uses to create inflamation. 4th link looked like a description of a recent Oregon State University study demonstrating the differences between DHA and EPA, but it turned out to be a health sub-forum on a porn site. They did link to the study but it was from 1999.

This is typical of any nutrition topic, in my experience.

6) The Barlean's bottle is an airtight squeaze-stream type which you have to squeaze fairly hard to get any flow. In rather a hurry this morning, accidentally unscrewed the whole cap rather than flip the top lid up, then turned the bottle over and squeazed into the blender as usual. As a result, I'm going to have the world's most expensive and fishiest green smoothie for dinner.

Really hoping it improves my brain function, and really looking forward to another stop at Vitamin Shoppe for the same thing.

A few tidbits that may or may not be correct:
* "inflammation" appears to be a real thing, and that omega6 appears to really cause it. DHA/EPA (I forget which, "really") really does act like a cortiscosteroid in alleviating it. Wife was on those after brain surgery specifically to reduce swelling and inflammation in the brain, but could not consume fish oil at the time due to blood-thinner interaction.
* ha, ha; antioxidants being bad for you was not just a figment of my imagination (be honest, you thought so). But don't worry, they're only bad for you if you're counting death as a thing (and even then it has just 5 specific anti-oxidants being considered).
* Money quote from comparing hundreds of anti-oxidant studies; "Vitamin E lead to a small net decrease in mortality when considering all trials, but a large net increase in mortality when only considering low-bias trials." You have to admit, that's pretty ****ing funny!

Guess I'll switch to liquid after I'm done with this bottle, also, going to start taking 10 pills a day.

Three cities that were part of the Confederacy and no mention of San Francisco/San Jose/Palo Alto/Bay area? Seems legit.

just as legit as every other Forbes ranking

Well, if you count being liberal as being dumb...

Or Massachusetts or certain potions of Jersey, Connecticut etc

Yeah, and another thing I noticed is that's from 2009, but somehow today was the day a bunch of people decided to share it on Facebook

And those are the ones who left for the bay area and Manhattan. The ones who stayed might post it some time next year I guess

Yeah, the richest state per capita in the country probably has a city that's one of the top five smartest in the country.

Unless your bottle's "serving size" is two or three pills, in which case maybe 30.

sortbynationalmeritcutoffscores is probably the easiest/most accurate way to get a meaningful state intelligence ranking, for whatever that's worth. Bit of a leading indicator, but more or less.

Averaging the last 5 years of cutoff scores and sorting gives you a top ten of

District of Columbia
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Maryland
California
Connecticut
Virginia
Delaware
New York
Washington

and a bottom ten of

Oklahoma
Nevada
Montana
South Dakota
Utah
Mississippi
Arkansas
West Virginia
North Dakota
Wyoming

Seems pretty legit. Kinda surprised to see Wyoming dead last as opposed to MS or WV. Kinda surprised to see Utah so low, too.

My roommate was a crunk juice rep, still have a case floating around somewhere I think

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Didn't read the article, but Huntsville has the highest amount of PhDs per capita (or maybe per something else.) The claim isn't outrageous by any means.


But the rest of Alabama:

Engineers, not PhDs, I believe

One note on the inflammation thing. It's not that n-6 is bad and n-3 is good. Inflammation is a really important and good thing. But, it's all about the ratio. Just so happens western diet is really high in n-6 so n-3 becomes the primary concern. Having way too much n-3 and not enough n-6 would also be bad.

Saw one of the universitys in dallas new Presidents (UT-Arlington I think) is from Huntsville, Alabama.

Confirmed PhD/engineer

Per the census, they don't make the cut for PhDs:

http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-24.pdf

We can all be shocked collectively that there are ton of PhDs in Cambridge.

looks like sortbytownwithhighlyratedcollege.list with someone messing up the decimal location for athens