{"id":569,"date":"2006-06-26T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2006-06-26T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T21:37:00","slug":"goo-goo-goo-joob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Goo goo goo joob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6250\/621\/1600\/brainage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 99px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6250\/621\/200\/brainage.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Finally got around to picking up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainage.com\">Brain Age<\/a> for the DS, the software that claims to be a good daily regimen for keeping the grey matter in good shape.  While it doesn&#8217;t come out and say &#8220;prevents Alzheimer&#8217;s&#8221; anywhere, that&#8217;s certainly the idea.  Three things:<\/p>\n<p>1: It&#8217;s actually quite fun.     I wouldn&#8217;t have thought doing 100 simple calculations as fast as possible would be enjoyable, but I guess I should have.<\/p>\n<p>2: Nintendo&#8217;s got to be laughing all the way to the five-story italian-plumber-shaped piggy-bank they keep their yen in.  The game&#8217;s selling as if it was hotcakes, and a whole new demographic has opened up.  I mean, go to the site and look at the marketing.  These people ain&#8217;t playing Mario Tennis.<\/p>\n<p>3: I&#8217;m discovering that a good alternate title could have been &#8220;Handwriting Age&#8221;.  O, Mrs. Robinson!  Why did I not listen and learn decent handwriting from you?  I live in shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got around to picking up Brain Age for the DS, the software that claims to be a good daily regimen for keeping the grey matter in good shape. While it doesn&#8217;t come out and say &#8220;prevents Alzheimer&#8217;s&#8221; anywhere, that&#8217;s certainly the idea. Three things: 1: It&#8217;s actually quite fun. I wouldn&#8217;t have thought doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}