more snake oil

[opabinia]

I've been taking 1mg of Melatonin, sublingual, half an hour before bed, for the past few days. It's magic. Knocks me out. I still wake up here and there, and getting out of bed is still impossible, but get this: I'm no longer drowsy all day. This is absolutely incredible. I went from 2 +/-1 cups of coffee a day to one cup of decaf overnight. I couldn't make this up if I tried.

Nobody really knows what this shit does, aside from quench free radicals. I hope it doesn't make my toes fall off in ten years or something.

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Does anyone have an extra set of computer speakers they want to sell? I put a sound card in my lab computer (thanks, arcanus), and now the machine needs a mouth. I don't want to spend the forty bucks. Something about computer stuff -- probably the fact that I know there's a great surplus in my circle of friends -- turns me into a cheap bastard. Could be that I just blew $800 on a home computer, too.

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I want more control. Sleep/wake cycle, net worth, mental and physical fitness, general discipline.