1. Thinks Americans and a lot of others around the world are missing life. They live behind glass (televisions and cars), veiled behind music in headphones, interact with others primarily through electronic media, behind the walls of their homes. Hence, www.biketofeel.com.
2. Does not fear or worry about dying very much. He as had a fulfilling life and has had far more meaningful experiences and opportunities than a lot of people.
3. Believes that individuals should make good, intelligent and informed decisions about how they interact in society before being required to interact a certain way by law.
4. Tries to live his life by the motto, ‘Do the right thing.’ He believes he should ask himself, ‘Is this the right thing to do?’ on a daily basis even when making small decisions.
5. Had a hard time as a new father until he approached fatherhood with this objective: Try to teach your children how to live long, healthy lives even though they may be taken from you at any moment. That is all you can do.
6. Is learning how and strives to be a better father every day.
7. Really likes beer.
8. Thinks that a lot of people don’t understand him. He believes that his wife is not one of those people.
9. Would like to ‘retire’ in a few years and do ‘hands on’ work to help other people who haven’t had the opportunities that he has.
10. Really likes cigars.
11. Feels people vastly misjudge his character because of how he looks.
12. Has hope for the future.
13. Believes that war is fundamentally wrong. After all, why do we teach our children not to hit others.
14. Has few regrets about life. He’s made a lot of mistakes but has learned from them and moved on.
15. Believes that most people in his line of work (medical device regulatory affairs) are pretty weird and anal retentive. He maintains that he is normal.
16. Thinks all people inherently want to take the path of least resistance. But he thinks people have the cognitive ability to instead do what’s right. He would like people to use this cognitive ability more frequently.
17. Would like to be a vegetarian and is working hard at it. He feels it’s very hard though with a very carnivorous wife and daughter.
18. Believes that he should walk the world a humble man. He likes to substitute the word ‘bike’ for ‘walk’ in the previous sentence.
19. Believes fear is the pathway to evil.
20. Feels like the band camp girl from the movie ‘American Pie’ when he talks about his Peace Corps experience in Haiti . He’s apologizes for talking about it so much.
21. And his wife are building a house in Haiti that overlooks provincial capital of the Gran D’Anse and the Caribbean Sea .
22. Wishes he was better at brushing his kids’ teeth and reading a book to them before bed. He really doesn’t like doing either. He’d rather just sing to them but he doesn’t remember very many songs from childhood.
23. Had to finally get glasses this year. He bought the biggest, blackest dorkiest looking frames he could find just to spite his eyes. He is disappointed that people now call him Clark Kent or Superman because he looks like him/them. He is also disappointed that he agrees with their assessment.
24. Wishes he could just shave his head instead of cutting his hair but he realizes that his head looks too small anyway.
25. Once fell asleep in the co-pilots’ seat of a small commercial passenger aircraft and woke up to find his face only inches from pushing the yoke forward.
26. Is an overachiever and listed 26 things: Doesn’t love bikes, he loves biking.
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You know, you’re one confused person. I like reading your blog but what a conflicting list of trivia!
Yes, some might say I am a walking contadiction.
I see the libertarian in you coming out in #’s 3 and 16. This just makes me wonder all the more why the hell you would vote for Obama. Anyone who appreciates the individual and understands human nature should resist the political left. Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito.
Okay, I have no idea about the last sentence you wrote, apparently Latin.
Like all of us voters, I chose the lesser of two evils. While I don’t necessarily consider Obama an evil, I hope he doesn’t move further toward socialism.
However, people in the U.S. are consistently dismissing scientific evidence of the destruction which unsavory environmental practices are having on our planet. Thus, there is no choice but legislation.
I think we all need to consider how we would feel if someone leveled a beautiful mountain top near our home (PA or WV) or dump harmful chemicals in our water supply (PA or WV) or ruined our way of living by allowing oil to pollute our homes and gardens (AK, Nigeria and Azerbaijan). But since we’re not, hopefully the governments of the world will.
Hopefully, you read my article about Lance Armstrong as well.
Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito-translates into:
“do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it”
Regarding your scientific evidence, especially as it pertains to global warming, I suggest you dig deeper. Contrary to what the media wants you to think, the science is very much unsettled on the matter. Computer models are only as good as the data that goes into them and the biases and agendas of those inputing said data.
The other thing to keep in mind is that abuses from industry often happen where there is a monopoly brought about by the govt. interfering via excessive regulation or favorable legislation. That is not to say that there is no place for regulation. But, if you look at the environmental abuses that go on in places such as Nigeria or Azerbaijan you will find a few things are common. 1) it is not a truly free society and private property is not guaranteed 2) the business entities responsible for the abuses are essentially granted monopolies by corrupt governments. 3) these two factions work in usison soley for their own benefit. Natural rights such as life, liberty and property mean nothing to them and they are willing and able to abuse them for their own benefit. In a free society where there are private property rights, free flow of information and free enterprise these abuses are much less likely to happen because people have choice and are free to express their dissaproval in a number of ways. Abuses of any type are generally bad for business. So when there is competition business will often do the right thing even if it’s for purely selfish reasons. The absence of competition and liberty pretty much means they can do what they want free of any consequence.
As far as Obama moving towards socialism, well look around. It is happening right before our very eyes. True, the alternative was not much better. The difference essentially is that Bush and McCain are reluctant socialists. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are not so reluctant in their socialist motivations. We have turned a corner for which we cannot go back without a major event. I fear for my country and the future it portends for my children. I do not toil and pray for my children only to see them left with a country that will have them be nameless, faceless, Godless, mindless wards of the state.
You know you and I agree that less government is better government in many ways as socialist governments remove accountability and that’s a bad thing.
I can’t agree with you on global warming. Although it is not necessarily the case, it seems intuitive, given that the earth has an atmosphere intended to retain heat in the middle of cold space, that if you burn decayed plant matter which has stored the energy of the sun over millions of years, and do this in a very short period of time, the earth will unnaturally warm. That’s without even trying to take into account elevated greenhouse gases.
As far as places like Nigeria and Azerbaijan and the governments which operate them. Your point is mine exactly, only coming from the other direction. However, instead of complaining about how those governments are inept, we take personal responsibility and remove their income and at the same time lower the amount of polution - we don’t buy their oil.
Like always, Wilky, a good discussion.
All that is missing from the discussion is beer and cigars and maybe a little BBQ.
Totally agree. However, Pokerfest looks out of the question for me this year. The wife will be doing her CNA practicum and will need the car. Plus, I couldn’t possibly drive 10 hours by myself in a rental with my two hooligans in the back.
Don’t be a weeny. I agree that said drive would be painful but such sacrifices are sometimes necessary for such a worthy cause.
By the way,regarding your global warming position, I caution you on relying on intuition in place of reason and good science. Throughout history intuition has not always served us well i.e. the earth is flat, the sun revolves around the earth etc. The truth, especially as it pertains to the natural world, is not always so simple as to be intuitive. As it pertains to global warming I think we should want to be very certain because the policies intended to counter it will have devastating economic effects and will hurt the poor most of all while making many more of us poor as well. Knowing your are someone who is sincerely interested in intellectual and scientific honesty and integrity I would urge you to study the matter further. When you do you may be surprised at what you find.
Like many republicans, I think you are conerned with the economy first, everything else second. I agree there are some policies to counteract global warming the are not necessarily the best, but at least someone is doing something. However, without a healthy environment, the very foundation upon which an economy is built, agriculture, suffers. No healthy environment = no healthy economy.
Irregardless of whether global warming is actually happening, that is not the premise of this website. And you cannot refute that the practices used to extract fossil fuels, regardless of how clean, are extremely damaging to the environment. You probably didn’t want the ethanol plant in Milford (more undesirably energy) and I’m sure you wouldn’t want someone leveling off a hill near Dewart Lake and allowing the runoff to kill everything in the lake. I would also caution you not to be so liberal. Since there is some question about whether global warming is happening, let’s be a little more conservative until we’re sure. By the way, if you aren’t sure about whether automobile exhaust is harmful to the environment, go sit in your garage with your car running and all of your doors shut. The thinking that somehow cars are not a major source of polution is laughable.
Furthermore, the premise of this website is to help build stronger people and stronger communities, something that all political parties hope to do. Cars have for the most part eliminated our interaction with the environment around us and our community. I want this to change.
What’s Jeremy’s e-mail? I think he needs to weigh in on this discussion.