My previous post was quite the brain fart wasn't it? I love that term, brain fart, the notion that sometimes we pass mental gas has a certain terse elegance. I am reminded of the story, when Jon Stewart resumed The Daily Show during the writers strike the first episode was devoted to labour issues. I did not actually see it, but I'm told it was not exactly the model of funny.

On an unrelated item, I was reading the news this morning and retired Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio passed away on Wednesday night at 90 years of age. Its interesting to read about him, not being from Ohio I had never heard of Metzenbaum before which is a shame, he sounded like a model of a liberal progressive to me. (The part where he closed tax loopholes for the rich and stopped at least $10 billion in pork barrel waste in a single year is exactly the sort of politician the US needs more of.)

Yes I also read about Gov. Spitzer, and I would like to point out that while I acknowledge reading about it, I will not comment on it except to say that I had high hopes for the former Governor of New York. I had hoped that Spitzer might one day run for President of the United States, the last time a Governor of New York became President he was a Democrat too, and he took on Hitler (with his friend Churchill) and won. Actually New York has had a lot of great leaders, Mario Cuomo I am told is a voracious reader and I have a rule of thumb, if a person reads a lot, the are probably going to be a good leader.

Anyway enough of politics. The guy who sits next to me at work got the following email from a large computer company when he sent in a support request.

Subject: Return Receipt (displayed)
This is a Return Receipt for the mail that you sent to person@company.com.
Note: This Return Receipt only acknowledges that the message was displayed on the recipient's computer. There is no guarantee that the recipient has read or understood the message contents.

Next time I send in a support request I'm going to include some pretty pictures!

I told someone else I work with it is my plan to bike to Caledon and back at least a few times this summer. She told me that she wanted to come with for the exercise. I am a real elitist here, but frankly I don't think there are too many people who can hack the 75km. Well actually I suspect a lot of people can if they train for it, but how many people are willing to train hours and hours a day? I already know I'm not really training enough, that's why its my goal, to achieve it I am going to have to train a lot harder and really work for it. And there is still a decent chance I won't make it. Last year I set the goal of skate to Oakville and back (70km also), I came up about 20km short but I had to turn back because the road surface was becoming too rough for me.

Am I being an elitist? Am I being reasonable? I don't know. Should I skate instead of ride? Well at least one question is easy, there is no safe way to skate from downtown to Caledon and back. But the other two questions... well I welcome responses.