Bike Me: Fat-Bottomed
Girls You Make the Rockin' World Go Round
Captain o captain HIP HIP (Just kidding)(Weezer reference)Note: This post popped into my head when working on the Monsters Post. Nice to finally have come full circle with that thought. Coming up on one year now stranded on an island again having not much more constructive things to do except ride my bike and write, so it is nice when I can combine the two. "Put down that pen and hold onto the steering once in a while!" Bicycle races are coming
your way
As I said in the introduction to the notes, I could not afford time-wise to work on the project as the concepts took too much time and most of my awareness to sort through. I was in Europe, about to go to school and trying to figure out how to pay for it and be able to stay there long enough to graduate, so little notes and drawings on concepts about 4D space were all I could afford time-wise. At this point the 5D Notes really were living up to their future name, later ascribed looking back when compiling them. This was Part 1 of the notes while in Lithuania (2003) hanging out, bike riding, learning on my own about the region I was to study, and getting ready for my studies, more or less.
Balance quote in regards to objects existing as folded space oscillating omni-directionallyI want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it where I like I was one of the many millions around the world who watched the storming of the TV tower on live TV. Later, living in Vilnius (Lithuania), I had lots of chances to reflect on that night. The TV tower was visible from my apartment windows and balcony, and I would see it every day. I rode my bike past it most of the times I rode my bike, and to me it is a symbol of the struggle for freedom, sacred ground if you will, like Tienanmen Square, Auschwitz, Wounded Knee, and a lot of other places people should never forget, nor forget what they represent which we will always need remember constantly if we wish to improve upon them or ourselves. ...
... so I can hope I did my best even if it amounts to nothing. At a recent protest here with Palestinians on a hunger strike, it was suggested by one person's opinion, "you know, no matter what they say about promising you secrecy, they turn over everything you say to the CIA." "I know", was all I answered. That that was what I was counting on and the whole point, I wanted to add. I said as much in RCP2, and much since then has just been having to wait and see where things settle and where the new level is to be found. Nothing I can do but go where I am told and do what is asked and see where it leads to, if anywhere. It has been work, and it has been fun. I really did like riding my bike a lot and miss that. Either my little adventure of the last few years is winding down or just getting started. That is up to others to decide what I am worth and if I will be given something worthwhile to do for a country I feel inclined to work to help.
On Christmas day (2006) I was riding my bike on Maui and I saw a sign of just 4 words, "Dry Area Prevent Fires". The first two words or first half was quite clear, a declarative statement, "this area is dry". The second half was more instructional, seemingly suggesting I should prevent fires there. Seeing as it was a very brief sign, it pretty much left it up to me how to proceed in following that instruction, command, or suggestion. ... That is really all one can do in that situation. No one, not me, not Smokey the Bear, not Jesus, not the President of the United States, no one can prevent forest fires. They will happen, like wars, plagues, and terrorist attacks, and nothing anyone can do will prevent them. The best we can do or ask anyone to do is to not do anything stupid to cause them, not to throw matches on dangerous areas, not to forget to put out camp fires, not to drop bombs on tinderboxes.
The logistics and timing of it depended on several factors. I wanted to write it on the same mountain where it began, Haleakala, which raised problems. One, is I needed a full day to travel up the mountain. Two, unless I used a paper notebook, I needed a notebook computer with a good enough battery to last for several hours to write it all at once. Third, I needed good brakes on my bike, my only transportation at the moment. With my cars, when I had cars, putting them in neutral, they would still speed up to about 70 mph just by rolling. ... It took about 6 months for all those 3 factors to line up all at the same time. Even with fairly decent brakes, I still ended up going about 40 mph or more with the brakes almost fully on! On the way down I paraphrased one of my favorite lines from my notes pages to sum up the idea of braking. "The goal ought not to be to stop, for that is impossible. Therefore the goal ought to be to slow down enough so that, if need should arise to stop, death is not a certainty."
As I have written before here recently, words are an important measure to me as far as what we choose to think to say, but equally by what we choose not to say, what words we omit. Which words are the most important to us. While riding my bike in 2003, during the 'debate' in the run-up to the Iraq War, a local school here on Maui had large inspirational banners of single words for the children of values. COURAGE, STRENGTH, HONOR, etc. stood towering in giant-sized capital letters over the play area on banners painted by the students announcing to the world what the students or the school thought were the most important words. I saw instead what was missing. By omission, the banners I read were NO COMPASSION, NO FORGIVENESS, NO MERCY, and most glaringly absent of all, certainly NO PEACE!
Bicycle bicycle bicycle! (In
Red colored font...)
quotes from Freddie Mercury (Queen) "Bicycle Race" Lyrics 10/9/07
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