Brains like an Internet

First in an occasionally-updated series on my brain’s inner workings when I’m ‘not thinking about anything’ in particular.

So while I was driving home from supper with friends, I realized I was moving my head around trying to get comfortable in my collar. Time for a haircut, apparently. The movement I made got me thinking how weird it would be if people turned around in sections, like some kind of robot – head, shoulders, hips, then feet. “Oh, I’ve actually seen someone doing that before, in this video of a North Korean traffic director.” I wonder what the process of buying a car is like in North Korea? They wouldn’t just give everyone a car, that would be horribly expensive. What if we all went totally green here in the US, and it became a requirement to have a bicycle? How much would that cost? It could probably be done with very high-quality bikes for $100 apiece, and you’d spend like 10 billion dollars on it. Wow, that’s a lot of money. There are bunches of cool charities and businesses now that help people get bikes either permanently or just for a few hours, those are cool. That reminds me of www.zipcar.com – but back to the bikes. It’s cool how the derailleur can change gears without messing up the chain, that’s some good engineering there. I wonder if recumbent ‘tadpole’ tricycles like this have the same kind of shifting technology? I’d probably get dirt on the back of my head if I rode a tadpole, though. There’s a really cool idea about shifting gears though, that doesn’t use gears at all – it’s a totally-enclosed ball-bearing setup.

Wow, my brain’s been just wandering around for almost 5 minutes now – I’m almost home!

To Do: Get a haircut

PS. It totally weirds me out that it takes 3 times as long to write this down as it does to think it. It makes perfect sense, given the linking, but it still weirds me out.

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