You ever find yourself wanting to do something you really aren’t interested in, just because that would plausibly allow you to do something peripheral that you do want to do?
Example: I suddenly want to get a motorcycle just so I can wear this.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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“A big selling point is the USB/Wallwart charger that comes with the helmet, which would allow me to easily recharge the helmet on the road using the USB outlet on my bike.”
A USB outlet on the BIKE? Does the bike have a rack on the handlebars for your laptop? This is sort of scary. 🙂 The last motorcycle I had anything to do with (observation, not riding it) was my first husband’s 500cc Honda in 1969. It didn’t have any electronic parts at all, I think, unless you include the headlights. 🙂
Why bother with a bike? You’d look magnificent shoveling horseshit in that rig.
Yes, often. I have an accidental box of 20-guage that is constantly telling me it needs an 870.
But sound on a bike never worked for me.
“A USB outlet on the BIKE?”
It’s actually under the seat, it makes charging my cellphone and so forth (on longer rides) possible. I try to keep the laptop use to a bare minimum, and only in stop and go traffic.