Neanderpundit

as if you hadn’t noticed.

Spent sunday at a friend’s farm, driving through areas that challenged four-wheel-drive. Saw herds of deer; flocks of turkeys. Thought about thoreau, wondered how long it would take someone to find me if I just disapeared out there.

Anyone ever see “alone in the wilderness”? Story of one Dick Proenneke, a guy who packs up his shit and moves to Alaska, builds a log cabin, films parts of it, writes a book about it, proceeds to live there for thirty years.

I’m ever more convinced that they have the better idea. If I live long enough to retire, or should I win the lottery, that’s what I’ll do- drop every piece of personal technology newer than 1949, and go off somewhere I can live in some relative peace from cellphones, computers, etc.

No, I’m not a luddite, but that shit seems to do a good job of preventing you from living a real life.

Nice work, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome home.

Inspired by this post from Acidman.

I don’t smoke anymore. I didn’t quit for health reasons, I quit because I’m cheap. I dislike smoke, but not enough to be a pain in the ass to anyone about it, if it gets too smoky for me, I leave the room.

In laboratories all over the world, there are fume and smoke collection devices that are used around chemical and biological hazards. Some of these chemicals, the teeniest whiff is instantly fatal. The devices used to contain these fumes are neither complex nor difficult to manufacture,( A fan. A filter) and considering that tobacco smoke usually isn’t instantly lethal, simple devices could be manufactured that would remove the smoke and eliminate all hazard from everywhere they are placed. they could be built into table tops like Jenn-Aire stovetops. THis is not brain surgery. So, why not do that? because that’s not what everyone else is doing.

What a bunch of total fucktards.