Now initially you might think you don't need or even want to know about
butyrate (ˈbjuːtɪˌreɪt) noun,
any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–, and when you then bumped into this, having first found out it is in butter, you might well panic:
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Clear plastic screwdriver handles are usually made from cellulose acetate butyrate, a material developed in the 1930s.
— Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, "Why Do My Old Plastic Screwdriver Handles Stink?," 8 Oct. 2017
But then you would realize that lately it has had a great rise in reputation and helps maintain your biodome and aids in the production of key neurotransmitters that help both our gut and our brains to work. Apparently we make it when bacteria in our bellies ferment high fibre carbohydrates, but it is also, and here is the punchline, found in butter! The highest food source for it. I am relieved, and think I will just butter up everything!
At least these verbose scientist think so:
The neuropharmacology of butyrate: The bread and butter of the microbiota-gut-brain axis?
man, Steven Tyler looks like crap.
this is really fucking sad. this will be my last post here forever.
Um … wtf?
Good Morning to anyone who isn’t going to piss me off by being so rude.
don’t read anything into it. i am just frustrated. no one will engage about anything anymore. it is a smart phone and twitter world. something happened again today – i mean yesterday. unfuckingbelievable. what a cold hard senseless world we now live in. but no one cares, so maybe i shouldn’t either. or maybe we can discuss by text. it is slower, less efficient, but safely impersonal, and there is no chance of catching ebola. welcome to the zombie apocalypse. or is it only me that has gone insane? by the way, i haven’t smoked any dope for over a month, there’s a remote chance i may have to take a whiz quiz you know, so no i’m not, wasn’t high, nor am i, had i been drinking, but it’s a brand new day, and i am considering either or both. fuck it, i am having a beer.
talk to you later probably. don’t read too much into this like i said Xty. if anything i feel sorry for you doing the work and getting no comments. thank you for your efforts with your blog because i do appreciate it.
well how about that. good morning. i will talk to you later OK. so thanks for all, and for now.
Well, having to wait to pee in a cup and therefore being forced to drink rather than turn to an age old herb that has been smoked for millennia is enough to turn anyone’s milk sour. But people are busy and sick if you are meaning the four of us who talk here. And EO has gone walkabout and probably a good thing so he can cool his jets. People do care but have to get through the day too. I think people read but don’t write, mostly. So think that people are reading what you write – not a lot of people, I have pathetic stats, but tens of people for sure. And that is more people than you talk to in a day, and gives you a chance to put something out there and not just be on the receiving end of ideas all the time. Ripples in a pond. That was the metaphor a neighbour’s child came up with when he spoke at his grandmother’s funeral: we can be the pebble that makes the ripples in the pond.
I put up the whole album but didn’t mean to take down that first video of the first song.
As to Steven Tyler, he reminds me of an old divorcee who used to live across the street, and literally chain-smoked. One from the other … I used to marvel she was alive. But she didn’t take wicked drugs and he sure looks like pain killers were his drug of choice. When I was taking Oxy I felt great – despite my nerve problems. And it was only after I started to stop taking them that I found the surgeon in Montreal who helped me so much. But if it weren’t for family etc., I could have done that. But I thank him for this song, which is also an inspiration to me when I am grumped out.
I saw the rants from you two a day or two ago. But it’s true, I didn’t “engage”. I thought you both put up excellent work there. There was much there to agree/empathize with. I’ve done my share of internet and email rants, but frankly I’d rather be doing less of them. Or none. They don’t really do me any good. They don’t make me feel better anymore, if they ever did. Those posts of yours were so good, a simple thumbs up, or a change of topic would have been stupid. These days my anger is just not goosed up enough to pile on with anything comparable and I didn’t want to follow up with something weak. In the moment, you either feel the spirit or you don’t. I was logged in, and about to post something unrelated, saw your stuff, and decided those rants should stand without interuption or topic change. So I thought it was probably better to just log off again.
Pretty much the same story with DP’s comments the same day at Dan’s. There was some engagement over there, but I just didn’t feel driven to add anything.
Anger levels ebb and flow, up and down. Mine are kind of blah right now. Not that there’s not plenty of things to be angry about. I guess I’m just more resigned to it all, feeling like there are not really any apparent solutions at hand. Shaking my fist at the sky is just not grabbing me lately.
Maybe I’m also a bit fatigued from election season garbage, and that’s feeding my desire to lay low. Or…perhaps I just had a small piece of fluff in my ear. Good Morning.
I agree about posting for the sake of posting. I can tell, roughly, when about five or six real people, and sometimes more, a day, read what any of us write. I am sure they read the comments. 50 or so a week, some posts lots of views. So I am not discouraged by lack of commenting, to be honest. Happy to be a platform for something that should be seen or read, but not going to smash down the system, somehow from this keyboard, no.
Hoping to better understand the human condition, and learn to live well while accepting life’s inherent horrors, and somehow pushing for incremental change in the minds and hearts of those I can reach, while making their lives a little better too. That’s about it. Oh, and write a novel, however terrible.
And nice to hear from EO, with whom I really agree about not posting for the sake of posting.
no i do not mean you guys at all. just commenting on life in the USA, and my life around here in a city that is dying figuratively and literally. i am not afraid to go off on the internet, even reveal personal things. probably because i cannot afford a shrink, or better drugs. so thanks for bearing with me. i probably will post later. but i don’t think i will share what happened – we all have enough. enjoy the day. i am going to make a beef roast – i finally found some on sale. talk at ya later.
edit: btw – the picture i posted is of the Duchess of Alba. the words popped into my head, “man Tyler looks like shit!” when i saw it, and i busted myself up. in the event either the Duchess or Mr. Tyler ever see my joke, i think they would cut me a little slack. i thinks she’s 98 years old, and Tyler still looks better than Keith Richards! 🙂
and i do wish you could get some more commenters here Xty. but i think technology is changing how our brains work. the blog is dead. the new normal is 5 words or less, back and forth, 100 times in 15 minutes. and i am getting too old for that kind of shit. 🙂
back to ya, yikes. ..check this version out.
for Xty.
check this out Xty.
check this out Xty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAqu8VX5wo
Can’t sleep – great tunes.
I am angry this morning, and will see you all later.
anger is good. you are motivated to change something. best to start small.
or just say fuck it.
Inducing anger in me is bad.
get it out Xty. just do a better job of explaining yourself than i did. i did not mean to take out my frustrations on the contributors to this blog, but that is exactly what i did. for that i am sorry.
i scorched some earth now at Trader Dan’s. guess i am still angry too. the hypocritical Christian right never fails to blow my gasket. God help us all.
“i find it cynical as hell that Dr. Jerome chooses to use his expertise in “rhetoric” to distort Dan’s views, and to mischaracterize this site. and really with the Ayn Rand stuff? idiot. that’s all i got Doctor of Bullshit. Geronimo my ass. “
so this for sure will be the last fucking post ever by me here…
Yes, it would have been but you already posted again. I am going to give you the holiday you have been asking for.
Remember these guys?
They have an irritating new video with super cool choreography with these mini honda bikes and umbrellas that they filmed themselves with a remote helicopter of some sort, and some obedient dancers.
i was just kidding Xty! check your e-mail also.
You wanna be angry and depressed? Check out this chart. And the article it comes from. I could go on a rant about it, but…meh.
http://www.voxeu.org/article/exploding-wealth-inequality-united-states
That gap is what the fellow with the impenetrable French accent was arguing with Russ Roberts about. It is even more glaring when seen from abroad apparently! There weren’t the mega rich when I was a teenager, really. I remember Elton John being suddenly worth 7 million dollars a week being announced sometime in the seventies and the world began to change. That chart matches my anecdotal experience completely – the rich used walk amongst us, mostly, not this aristocracy of investment banker people.
I had a good chuckle this morning. I happened to look at the TV and saw Golden Minerals Co (AUMN) go across the ticker, at 59 cents a share. I thought, “I remember that one. I thought it was a scam the first time I analyzed it. It used to be a $20 stock.”
So I checked, to see if my memory was right. Here’s the chart, lol.
One has to take little pleasures in life wherever they are found.
i am surprised the article does not mention unemployment, or better yet, the real unemployment rate, based on the percent of the labor force that is not working. i am telling you the jobs are not there. i am in the hunt. i would bet all the money i have that if Rock County where i live needed 10,000 workers, and they paid at least 15 bucks an hour, they would get more than 10,000 applicants. it really is that bad here. and i should say that i mean Rock County applicants only. the population is about 160,000.
the official unemployment rate is 5.9 percent now, yet the biggest city in the county, Janesville, looks like a scaled down version of Detroit. like i have said before, the fake numbers are cruel. it makes people blame themselves, and suffer silently. i believe that the “suffer silently” part is the reason the government is lying. if too many folks realize it’s not so much their own fault they cannot find work, they might get a little uppity.
next i’ll talk about the 59 oz half gallon, or the 29 oz quart. the English system of standard weights and measurements was confusing enough before. (just got back from the grocery store)
and one other thing. it’s those damn liberals with their income redistribution isn’t it? just look at that chart! it looks like the worm turned soon after the election of Reagan… but he would run as a democrat now with how far to the right the republicans have gone, you see. and with the state of the economy now, what we really need to do is double down on that Reaganomics thingy. my motto has always been, “if it ain’t working, it’s because you aren’t doing enough of it”. isn’t that true Rep Paul Ryan R WI? (you knew i couldn’t pass up a chance to take a swing at Ayn Rands greatest ever fan)