Ice Machine
MONDAY May 8th, 2023: Sold my internal combustion engine (37 HP, 417 lbs) to a middle-school teacher.
Now riding an electric Zero FX (46 HP, 289 lbs)!
18-MAY
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Category Archives: Wheels
13-MAY
Transcontinental
These two bicycled from one side of the USA to the other, just like this! Such a healthy duo!
Update 2024: I’m feeling fine. Getting energy back. Speech is still affected, but can at least communicate. Hoping focus on exercise and caloric restriction proves effective.
Update 2023: Doctor asks for me to take a look at the MRI. It is stable from before, not worse or better. The good thing is there is no contrast enhancement to suggest an ongoing active infection. Since steroids have not helped symptoms, think it is best to do another spinal tap (lumbar puncture) just to make sure there is no inflammatory process.
08-MAY
Round & Round
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. –Leo Tolstoy
It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful. –Nietsche
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. –Leo Tolstoy
01-MAY
Isolated
What society thinks of as reality is the hypnosis of social conditioning, an induced fiction in which we are all collectively participating. –Deepak Chopra
Update April 26, 2023: still waiting for results of yesterday’s MRI.
12-APR
Giddy-up
In so many ways, better than a bicycle.
26-MAR
Heavy Metal
Reasons you might want to talk to a computer: fantasy, dominance, privacy, confession, and the appeal of pushing the boundaries of consciousness. Simple fact is that there’s no greater pleasure than a good chat.
Sweet Nothings, The New Yorker, March 16, 2026
Perhaps the promise of A.I. machine-companionship is not the illusion of another person at the end of the exchange, but the assurance that there is actually no one there at all.
17-ZAMP
Hot Hinges
While out bicycle riding today (in record heat, by the way) this vehicle stood out as an exceptional example of detailed design.
21-HEEL
Innovation
The wheel was discovered around 5000 years ago.
During the age of wagons & chariots, it may have never occurred to anyone that putting two wheels in line with each other would be a practical thing.
But finally in 1817 the bicycle was invented, and that idea led to the motorcycle, and doing backflips:
