# posted by ron @ 6/21/2006 10:55:00 PM
If you don't have a bike, go and get one. Do yourself a favor too and spend a bit of cash, 200$ won't get you something worthwhile, 500$ will. It may quite possibly be the best investment of the year.
1) it will keep you fit.
2) you will all ways have something fun to do.
3) you can ride with friends or alone depending on your mood.
4) frustrations can be taken out by a particularly demanding and tiring ride.
5) screw yoga, go take a long solo ride and think about life.
6) its exciting
In conclusion, go buy a bike if you don't have one. If you do have one... have you ridden it today?
Yoga is free and i have much less of a chance of hurting myself.
But i should learn to ride.... i will contimplate your suggestion deeply.
is this a huffy advertisement?
Everyone has their relieving indulgences. Yours is clear, but may not be mine. I went for a rollerblade last night to 'my spot'. That means something to me- masterfully skating is an art.
Its like Tim Looney says, "Like...whatever gets you off...man"
yea well, I'm just saying if you want to try something new.....
unfortunately ron, i don't think riding a bike is anything new to most people. you know how you don't forget it, kind of like riding a bike, you never forget how.
The same kinda of thing could be said about binge drinking, or gang bangs. In any case, while biking is a lot of fun (especially when you got some place to go, or no where to go, i guess) I think that neither yoga nor biking will do it for me. I need something that requires little effort, either one set of good boobs or several sets of okay boobs (i find both have their merits) and television (BTW: Did you hear Futurama is coming back in 2008 on comedy central {hello swear words}).
Aside from that nonsense.
Thank you Brancibeer for attributing that to me, however I cannot take credit. Though I have preached that in the past, I got it from something Nancy said on "King of the Hill" . I don't think she said "..man" that just sounds like classic TL to me (could just be the whiske though).
And to conclude:
I propose we put some serious thought into thinking about starting a business that installs alternative energy sources on private homes. I've only seen do-it-yourself kits. I'm sure there are people are providing this service but the market is probably not saturated. The question is how valuable is providing the labor to such a task? What is a home owners return on investment on installing these? Is there a signifigant monetary gain? Could we get a piece of it? If people are only doing it for very minimal economic benefit only "feeling good" then we can't hope to turn profit. We need to have mass appealFeel gooders either all ready have it, will do it themselves when they have the money, the only market in feelgoods is the slow growth potential. However, money talks for a large audience. Can we prove value? Even in suboptimal conditions? Could we make whatever devices we install aesthetically pleasing? Simple? Maintanaince free, or easy to it your self? Actually, it would be so bad for the industry if parts wore out from time to time (but not to quick,either). In closing I expect some solid figures from you all. I want component costs, time of installation (assuming that the people intalling are slow witted and cant follow directions), power production, value of substituted energy, how much will the powercompany buy back the enrgy at? Use your brains my fellow monkeys, leave no stone unturned, no beer undrank and no termite uneaten!!!!!!!!!!!!
We should look at making cheap solor collectors for preheating building water. industrial shops and plants have huge flat roofs just waiting for row upon row of small solar collectors. all we have to do is size the pumps to keep the water flow moving depending on the length of the chain and the height of the roof. Sell it as alternaitive energy and get idiots to fork over the dough. pumps are cheap and if it's just a reflective material focusing in on a pipe it can be constructed simply and cheaply. higher profits. fuck yeah.