This episode features an answer to a listener's question, (Thanks Sam!)) and the audio here kind of goes along with a post I put up here last week. The link to our Spotify home page for this episode is HERE.
The post I am referring to is found by clicking THIS LINK.
I guess the bottom line is this: If you are old enough, you have bridged across two important eras of how life is lived. I kind of feel like most of us do not recognize it at all. But the "Analog World" and the "Digital World" eras are so different and completely incompatible with each other that I find it hard to believe this isn't something being studied and dissected by social researchers, historians, and others with an interest in culture change. Maybe you've seen or are aware of such studies. I've got to think it is something smarter folks than I are thinking about.
Anyway, the contrasts between these two eras affects cycling and how we approach and engage in the activity to a very high degree. At some point, and maybe we are already there, anything cycling without some digital feature attached to it will be seen like we see riding fixed gear all the time is seen now. Yeah, you can do that, but why?
Of course, I've experienced the other side, and my bias shows badly, but I feel we've been cheated and that we have lost something in the exchange going from one side of the timeline to the other.
Maybe I'm just old and in the way.
Give the podcast a listen and let me know what you think.
Last June we lost our cat Felix unexpectedly. He was found dead in the hallway on June 6th. It was a devastating occurrence within the family. (And as you may know, not the only one)
I kind of figured Izabel and Phyllis would want another cat at some point, but for obvious reasons this kind of was pushed back and well, now is the time, I guess.
Izabel found this tuxedo cat online at our local animal shelter's website and made the arrangements to go get him. So, please welcome "Haroo".
He's about 7 months old, and he's had all his shots and has been neutered. He's a bit skittish. He was in hiding for the first ten hours or so of arriving here and is now getting more acclimated to us and his surroundings.
As for his breed, well I don't know but I'd say he's got some Burmese in him by the shape of his head, ears, and by his loud vocalizations and their variances. He also purrs a lot when being pet, very loudly!
Our other cat, Minka, is very curious about him, but for now we're keeping them mostly separated from each other until we can get them to behave with each other unattended. So far, so good.
And that is the latest from here. Thank you for reading Guitar Ted Productions.
Beautiful cat, Haroo!
ReplyDeleteHola, Haroo
ReplyDeleteSo stoked for you all, Brother... I'll give the podcast a listen.
ReplyDeleteI was chuckling at the juxtaposition of your discussion of the joys of a planned/unplanned bike trip and the how to create a route segment.
ReplyDeleteThe Buffalo Soldiers bicycle trip was 1897, 10-15 years after the “safety” bicycle was introduced. Well after the Civil War
@shiggy person - We work on the assumption that my ideas are weird and everyone else likes to plan ahead. So this might explain the contrast of ideas a bit better.
Delete@GT I totally understand. I love creating routes. I also love exploring. I spent many years pouring over paper maps looking for routes, then going out and getting lost. I had to be very careful who I did those rides with. They were glorious with the right company, even if everything went wrong, and horrendous with the wrong companions, whether it was as planned or not.
DeleteI once did a mtb ride, in the late ‘80s, using a USGS topo map last updated in 1961 and word of mouth directions from family that lived and rode horses in the area. I had little idea how far it was. Just figured it would take all day.
Mid-ride I found myself on an old roadbed with 6” diameter pine trees in it that was not on the topo map. But I was fairly confident that it would go through because there were horse hoof prints coming from the opposite direction. Connected to a swoopy old school singletrack for several miles down to a primitive campground then dirt and pavement back to my parents house.
A great day. Even though I came down an entirely different canyon than I intended.
Now I also use online mapping sites, mostly RidewithGPS, with access to satellite images and a dozen different maps, and follow the routes with my gps bike computer.
I still get lost. I still have surprises. I still intentionally go off-route. I still have to choose my ride mates carefully, and many times that means I ride alone.