its by Robert Mallet... extra bonus points if you know who is was and when he lived...
ah or maybe not - i pulled it out of the book i'm reading a bit now - on and off - good stuff, reading that is.
As commuting by bike is to driving a car, Reading is to television
both result in benefits that make for a much better/healthier life...
And about that driving to work thing i said yesterday... i got to thinking about the "i need the space" i've been surveying people unoffcially both here and at the old place... once... ONCE in a great while do i see people making more than one trip to the car - or carrying items too large to put on a bike or in a bag... so the argument that you MIGHT need the space goes to the SUV one - "I might need the space so let me buy it now, rather than get the smaller car that fits all but 0.01% of my needs"
i think i've gone over that in the past... probably...
Nature Rightly Questioned Never Lies...
ask questions until the answers are the same, if you FIND the truth - any questions relating to it will not change the TRUTH...
all those creationists and (un)Intelligent Design retards/morons/zealots/bigots can put that in their pipe and smoke it, 'cuase that one bitty question disables their whole argument... Just ask Dr. Miller!
anyway - have i mentioned i'd always lusted after a Hakkalugi? there was something about that bike... maybe it was the name, or the Ibis mystique, or the Handjob cable hanger... i dunno... or maybe the color - but it was coooooooool... hell still is!
bikes and companies change, Ibis has as well - kinda a swobo-esque sort of deal from the looks of it - they are very different now than they were then - at least in product lines...
at anyrate - i've chewed through enough of my scribble notes - and that reminds me!
the other part about the Nature Rightly Questioned Never Lies... the same book talks about the reccomendation in that era that everyone always carry a notebook, a pencil and a compass to make observations of everything... now, the compass may not be the most helpful thing nowdays... but i'd swap the compass for a cheap digi-cam and still carry the notebook and a pencil... One of those MoleSkine books from modoemodo.com
I've got one kicking around that because of READING i may just start carrying... fits in my pocket - i just have to drop a pen/pencil in there and i'm ready to roll - maybe i'll be better at remembering stuff like THIS and not wait till the freaking end of the post to remember one of the things i really wanted to say/write down...
Oh and Big Johnny's Rant over at DC today is a great read!
peace out yall
G
PS
I MUST add these... and forgive linkin - but its sourced so if they wanna change content - go for it
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