On more economics.

I found the following video, if you have 50 minutes of free time it does a pretty good job explaining what money really is. I don't think most people understand that money is not real, I know I certainly did not know that.



In honour of my thirty first birthday, yesterday Lesley bought me some compact florescent lights at Bestbuy, she bought herself a Guitar Hero game, with the guitar. She asked me if I wanted in on that, she was going to buy a two guitar set, I told her if I am gonna play the guitar again I will go pull my old Seagull out of the basement, get the fretboard sanded down and get some glue under the bridge, then I'll play a proper guitar. The guy in line in front of me nodded in approval. I guess I should buy a tuning fork though.

The truth is though, what I really want is a better computer for cycling. When I was in the Bestbuy I asked if they had any Garmin Forerunner 705s, the guy showed me Garmins for driving with. Apparently the thought of using a GPS for something other than driving escaped the management at Bestbuy.

Here is a really silly question, why are power meters so expensive? All the power meter is doing is measuring the force applied by the cyclist at some point on the drive train, is it really that hard to put a force meter somewhere? Come to think of it, Shimano could probably build one right into the rear derailleur without much effort, after all there is already a spring in there. Or maybe some sort of spring loaded chain link, a mirror at both ends of the link and an LED laser on the chain stay ought to do the job for one heck of a lot less than the $2,000 cost of a powertap. I'd go patent my idea, but truth is I'd rather see some engineer see it, get inspired and build the thing, I don't need the money, I just want a power meter that isn't going to leave me in the poor house.