15 Months!!!
ran 3.5 miles
Today ends 15 months and 1,384.8 miles of running against Obama! Something short and fun tonight. One of my favorite authors and books is Douglas Adams’ “So Long and Thanks For All the Fish”. Adams, now deceased, had a gift to expose typical human behavior for the chaotic, nutty thing it is, and in the following excerpt he sums up in only a few lines just how chaotic and nutty it is that we elect the politicians we do. Thanks Reddit and speedyturtle4.
Ford Prefect explaining to Arthur Dent about why a robot said "take me to your lizards".
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said.
"They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
695.2 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day93.
ran 3.5 miles
Today ends 15 months and 1,384.8 miles of running against Obama! Something short and fun tonight. One of my favorite authors and books is Douglas Adams’ “So Long and Thanks For All the Fish”. Adams, now deceased, had a gift to expose typical human behavior for the chaotic, nutty thing it is, and in the following excerpt he sums up in only a few lines just how chaotic and nutty it is that we elect the politicians we do. Thanks Reddit and speedyturtle4.
Ford Prefect explaining to Arthur Dent about why a robot said "take me to your lizards".
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said.
"They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
695.2 miles to go.
Here is what happened one year ago on Day93.
