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RICH: Average life expectancy in 1900 was only 47. By 2000, up to 77.
RICH: We’re still gaining, on average, another year of life every five years. Thanks to medicine, technology, the iPhone, etc.

DELIA: So we’ve been going about our immortality project wrong, then. Aiming way too high. Trying to stop aging entirely.
DELIA: When all we really need to do is retard it by eighty percent – so we’d age at the same rate that lifesaving medicine advances.

RICH: That almost seems too easy.
DELIA: Yeah, for an eighty percent slowdown all we’d need is what, 50 gallons of gerbil blood?
RICH: And an egg whisk, yeah.

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#359; In which Rich reads Statistics transcribed by in

RICH: Average life expectancy in 1900 was only 47. By 2000, up to 77.
RICH: We're still gaining, on average, another year of life every five years. Thanks to medicine, technology, the iPhone, etc.

DELIA: So we've been going about our immortality project wrong, then. Aiming way too high. Trying to stop aging entirely.
DELIA: When all we really need to do is retard it by eighty percent - so we'd age at the same rate that lifesaving medicine advances.

RICH: That almost seems too easy.
DELIA: Yeah, for an eighty percent slowdown all we'd need is what, 50 gallons of gerbil blood?
RICH: And an egg whisk, yeah.

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{{alt-text: race you to the pet store}}

race you to the pet store

#359; In which Rich reads Statistics

  — December 4th, 2007

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Applications open for Genius Northwest – an IRL gaming competition

May 8, 2026 by David Malki !

Last year, I participated in Genius Northwest, a gaming competition inspired by the Korean gameshow The Genius and its ilk.

It’s a reality show without the cameras — a 3-day, all-inclusive weekend retreat structured around a series of challenges and puzzles, in which personalities and dealmaking matter as much as playing games.

It’s truly a remarkable thing. I came in dead last in the competition, but I still had a great time participating.

The event is held annually in the Pacific Northwest (hence the name) and applications are now open to participate in the 2026 competition!

Learn more — and apply — at GeniusNW.com.


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