headphones and stuff

So a good friend of mine. A person who feels similarly about these ear bud devices that isolate an individual from the world sent me a link.

Worth a read.

And worth a moment to contemplate how oblivious you want to be of the world around you. Sure the odds of something falling out of the sky are pretty low, but there's a damn good chance you'll hear something in time to avoid it. Say ya walk by a construction site and something falls and someone yells but you die because you didn't hear the heads up. Doesn't matter who's fault it is. You are dead. No lawsuit is gonna bring you back.

And i had a boat load of thoughts on the way in. One of them that stuck was it isn't so much original thoughts as the co-mingling and sorting and linking disparate thoughts. I don't have that many original thoughts, but I do notice that when in the car and listening to the radio or music, I'm less contemplative, I reflect less on the world around.

Things like those people who have to show you how many years they've owned a car by scattering the annual stickers around the license plate. You know what? No one really cares if you've got five years of stickers showing. But then hey, it is your way of expressing yourself beyond what vehicle you are driving *cough* land rover *cough*.

Bike to work was dry for a change. Last two years it was cold and rainy and windy. This year perfect. Just under 60 degrees, slight breeze. Perfect riding conditions. For me. People were still bundled up. All the pastries were gone when we got there. All the hot coffee was gone (ice coffee still remained). Most of the folks had left. But it was all good. A major pain to get the loaded trailer up over the spine of the city. But hey. It is all good. And I can ride mostly pain free after my body slam yesterday. Didn't sleep for crap (like when i went down at Steadmans). But the legs were there. Fortunately. Even the lowest % grade hills between the festivities and day care are not insignificant. But hey. This giant is wicked cool. I just need to get the 9speed stuff on there and the drop bars... one of these days...

And remember.

Choose your power wisely. The average passenger car emits 11 tons of carbon per year.

Ride your bike.

eat smart. through our mouths (what we eat) maybe the biggest impact we can make on this planet. What we eat probably matters more than our mode of transportation (not to decrease the importance of the mode of transport... contradiction colin?)

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