Tag: outdoor activities
Why Worry?
We are aiming to cycle from Oskemen (east Kazakhstan) through Xinjiang (China) to Khovd (western Mongolia). Should we be worried?
Of toilets and rubbish (mostly)
France, a land of great scenery, architecture, baking, and terrible toilets. Why does New Zealand think toilets and rubbish bins are essential to support tourism when France is full of tourists and deplete of public toilets?
AI Assistance
AI can help in all sorts of ways – going to your meetings, fighting your wars. What sort of world might we be creating if humans are freed from these tasks?
The road to hell…
…in our case was paved with good neighbours. Or, more specifically, razed by neighbours trying to be good.
No Yips for Donald
Why does Donald Trump keep referring to the yips, as in “I don’t have the yips about boots on the ground?” Is he worried he might be getting yippy? Or is it just because he loves golf?
E-biking & AI – what’s the link?
E-biking and AI – both allow you to do things more easily and faster. Is this good, leading to more productivity? Or is the inherent work we are handing off essential to training ourselves?
Waterloo & Haiku
Is Greenland a route to Trump’s Waterloo? Let’s hope it invokes sufficient masses to unite against him. And, as a diversion from Trump, here’s some haiku inspired by snowy Japan.
Xmas Rituals
We all have our rituals for events like Xmas, even people who don’t think they have any…
Scales of tragedy
How tragic is a ‘natural’ disaster? Does it depend on what is lost? Or when it happened? Is sadness about natural disasters another tilt at preventing inevitable change?