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Bike tour geek, yep
Aug. 27th, 2020 12:11 pmRight in the middle of working on code my brain suddenly shouts "Hey! Open Google Earth and look around at cool bike routes in Eastern Europe!!"
I'm like, "NO brain, you have code to write!"
Still, it's tempting. Looking at recorded GPS routes amassed by other adventurous souls across the world is really fun. You can zoom in and look at all the curves and funky buildings and imagine being out there. Obviously that's what my brain wants.
Mind you, I'm already writing code in a pretty great place: A folding chair on a patch of lawn, underneath a beautiful tree, in the sun-dappled gardens next to the clock tower at UC Berkeley. I got here by riding my bike up the hill, so I've already been riding today for nearly an hour. My brain wants to keep riding.
"No! Work to do!"
"But the air is so clear! After a week of forest fires nearly blotting out the sun with smoke and poisonous gas! I should be out exploring!"
"Come on! You were just riding! You went on a month-long ride across Nevada recently! Give it a rest!"
And so it goes. My work setup here is fantastic, especially during COVID times when I'm lucky to even have a job. But my brain has always been a writhing fish, jumping around on the deck of obligation, trying to fling itself back into the big blue sea of doing whatever it wants.
Perhaps this short post will help. And some jazzy down-tempo techno music from the 90's.
Dangit, I've put on a track with cool voice samples. "Soylent Green" from "Earth To Infinity".
In the background of the song, under a pulsing electronic beat, an earnest woman says:
Dangit, now I'm googling to figure out where these samples came from... There goes more precious work time. At least the search was brief.
Turns out all the voice samples are from an episode of a PBS series called "Making Sense of the Sixties" that aired back in 1991, when I was a high school freshman. Here's the relevant episode with a relevant quote: ( https://youtu.be/OW-GgFinUhc?t=1597 ) .
Okay. Maybe now I can get back to work, brain? Maybe?
"Okay. For a while."
Sheesh.
I'm like, "NO brain, you have code to write!"
Still, it's tempting. Looking at recorded GPS routes amassed by other adventurous souls across the world is really fun. You can zoom in and look at all the curves and funky buildings and imagine being out there. Obviously that's what my brain wants.
Mind you, I'm already writing code in a pretty great place: A folding chair on a patch of lawn, underneath a beautiful tree, in the sun-dappled gardens next to the clock tower at UC Berkeley. I got here by riding my bike up the hill, so I've already been riding today for nearly an hour. My brain wants to keep riding.
"No! Work to do!"
"But the air is so clear! After a week of forest fires nearly blotting out the sun with smoke and poisonous gas! I should be out exploring!"
"Come on! You were just riding! You went on a month-long ride across Nevada recently! Give it a rest!"
And so it goes. My work setup here is fantastic, especially during COVID times when I'm lucky to even have a job. But my brain has always been a writhing fish, jumping around on the deck of obligation, trying to fling itself back into the big blue sea of doing whatever it wants.
Perhaps this short post will help. And some jazzy down-tempo techno music from the 90's.
Dangit, I've put on a track with cool voice samples. "Soylent Green" from "Earth To Infinity".
In the background of the song, under a pulsing electronic beat, an earnest woman says:
"I remember the absolutely stunned hush. I remember the sense of wanting to stay indoors at this particular moment. Not because something was going to fall from the sky, but because the sense of crisis was so intense."
Dangit, now I'm googling to figure out where these samples came from... There goes more precious work time. At least the search was brief.
Turns out all the voice samples are from an episode of a PBS series called "Making Sense of the Sixties" that aired back in 1991, when I was a high school freshman. Here's the relevant episode with a relevant quote: ( https://youtu.be/OW-GgFinUhc?t=1597 ) .
Okay. Maybe now I can get back to work, brain? Maybe?
"Okay. For a while."
Sheesh.
