built for two

I was in my automobile and I saw some folks riding a bicycle. Multiple people riding one bicycle. It was a bicycle built for two.

Now, that's all fine and dandy if you're old and want to ride through a park on a sunny day with pretty piano music playing, but to make that your main form of transportation? Is that normal?

Granted, I don't know if it was their ONLY form of transportation, but it sure looked like it. The couple, in their 40's maybe, was riding the bike with some grocery bags. I guess it allows the two of them to still shop together, which is sweet, but still...who decides that a bicycle built for two is a better idea than a car?!

I guess it's a better choice than a bicycle built for one. Then one of them would have to ride on the handle bars, and that's not very comfortable on long trips. It wasn't so bad when I was 10, but my behind isn't as resilient as it used to be. Not as resilient, but still fantastic.

I'm off to ride on the handle bars. (Or, for you Messiah fans, Handel bars. HA! I just thought of that joke.)

Enjoy!

-DJ

let's go ride a bike

A man in China has created a bicycle! It's a spiffy new invention where you can sit down on a contraption and use your feet to make it go! Genius, right?!

Okay, so you've seen a bike. But not like this. An "inventor" in China, named Guan Baihua, made a bike with a five-sided pentagon as the front wheel and a three-sided triangle for the back wheel. I give you the side counts to make sure understand that THE WHEELS ARE NOT ROUND!

Hold on. I have to look up the word wheel. I have a feeling that in order to be a wheel, something must be round. Let's see...

Ok, so I looked it up. It has to be circular and rotate. Is a pentagon circular enough to be considered a wheel?

Anyway, some guy made this. He said it's not as bumpy as you would think, but it is harder to pedal. He wanted to give people an alternative to the standard bicycle with two round wheels.

So, I have alternatives for people bored of useful objects.

How about a phone without an earpiece? You don't want to hear what anybody is saying, so why pretend to listen? Just call your friends and tell them what they need to hear!

Perhaps you are looking for a spoon with hole in it. That way, you will never burn your tongue on your soup because it will never make it to your mouth. AND! You will have a very warm lap!

And finally, for those who really want a challenge, a keyboard where every key is a different size. The "J" will be bigger than the space key, but the "T" will be smaller than a needle point. Perhaps I will keep "Q" the standard size. It's not like anybody likes the letter Q.

I'm off to deal with the calls from The Q Appreciation Association.

Enjoy!

-DJ