Owen Nieuwenhuyse wrote:

> Is there anything else interesting going on?

> Do you have any other hobbies besides computer-based ones (or music)?



Yes, but only if you don't count electronics under computer-based stuff.

=>



Otherwise I do collect information about various subjects. This includes

hardware of all kinds (including car-related stuff) and, for example,

biology. Fact is that I do not see a diffirence between the two, both

are about how systems work; of coruse I understand that the normal

biologists are too short-minded to understand that and admit that

machines are non-organic lifeforms.



> Motorcycling is another of my interests.



Nice to hear that. What type of engines do you prefer?  My favorites are

the bigger electric motors and the Wankel engine. 



I was recently into digging up information about hybrid engines, they're

quire cool. I also found out that our city transport buses use a hybrid

engine: A Diesel/electric combination; what's cool about this is that

the electric motors are directly on the wheels, which means that the bus

is floating on the magnetic feilds, between the rotor (the wheel) and

the stator (the bus) of the motor.



> 2. Gastric oesophageal reflux, (stomach) with some tissue damage which is

> not healing.

> This causes a wide variety of general body inflammatory conditions-which

> can be painful and tiring, plus some nausea and general weakness.

> My doctor(s) will not prescribe anti-histamines or steroids for this

> condition-

> I suppose they think the risks outweigh the disability.

> I do take acid-suppressing drugs,  antacids, paracetamol, and an oral

> anaesthetic

> -I wonder what that does to the healing process??



As I know it, tissue damage in the stomach is caused by the lack of the

surface layer (that protects the tisue from the HCl you're digesting

food with and is extracted by the tissue itself). So if you are reducing

the amount of acid, you're protecting the tissue from further damage. If

the tissue is not healing for some reason other than the possibility

that it could be damaged as fast as it can regenerate, it is likely not

to heal at all, which means big trouble: If you want to get rid of it,

you'd have to cut it out.



I have got one very usefull suggestions here for you: Drink more water!

I just hope the water in pipelines at your place is any better than mine

here (it is drinkable yes, but it's taste (read: pH) is orrible, I guess

I could almost use it instead of acid-suppressors ;). I myself had some

quite bad problems with digestion (not as bad as yours of course),

resulting in a sharp pain whenever my stomach is empty for a while. I

found that if I drink water, the problem dissapears. Of course note that

this means about 1/2 litters of water per pain occurance, that might

repeat up to 3 times in a day. 



> I suppose I shall just have to wait and see if the condition improves or

> worsens.

> It has been slowly deteriorating for several years, now.

> A sign of worsening is increased food sensitivity, with nausea and vomiting.

> I am not at the vomiting stage yet.



Heh, I guess I could list my problems here too. =>



The main one is that I have high blood preasure and low hemoglobin

content, which means that when I need more oxygen (e.g.: when I'm

running), my heart beat pops to above 200 BPM, so my blood preasure

increases way above what is normal. I wouldn't care about it, if it

didn't cause the wires in my nose to explode, resulting in some minor

bleeding and some quite annoying iching for the next 2 months... =[



I guess your problems are way beyond mine, so I guess I can say that

you're preety good to keep that up.



> I started investigating "mind-agents" and directed dream states, but I think

> I have lost interest in that for now.-this AI stuff on the internet has my

> attention.

> I have ordered some library "interloan" books by a psychologist-author,

> "Lilly"

> I should look him up on Dogpile-I will do that now.

> I think there is one called: Meta-programming the Human Biocomputer.

> That sounds interesting.



Yes, the word "Meta" catches one's attention, as with METAsearch engines

and MET(h)A tea, etc. ;]



Well you got me interested, I will lookup those terms. However I fear it

has something to do with stuff like "Neural Nets" (in other words: Way

too alternative methods).



> Read from you later!



I guess I might note that: 1. I always read all of your mails,

regardless of the fact that I don't reply to everything you write and 2.

I appriciate you keeping up posting, it dosen't matter what you write or

what you ask me, keeping up a discussion adds the feel of support.





One of the topics I was about to offer you is... Psychotechology. It's

not firmly defined as the word, so I do not know if it's the right one.

It's supposed to mean about the same thing as Biotechnology, with the

"psycha" inplace of "bio".



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