[Greenbuilding] (not) Re: infrared thermometer

[Lawrence Lile]

$2000 for snowshoes?  Wow!  I made a pair out of some old milk crates, wire and boards, and had an interesting time walking on top of the deep snow for a week or so.  Fun to make, maybe I will use them again maybe not, but who cares?  They were made out of junk that I dragged out of someone else's trash already.  I call this Post-Scarcity Economics. 



--Lawrence Lile, 

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> From: greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:greenbuilding-
> bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of RT
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 2:20 PM
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> Subject: [Greenbuilding] (not) Re: infrared thermometer
> 
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:43:33 -0500, JOHN SALMEN <terrain at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I find it humorous that our culture has a penchant for identifying
> > problems and self diagnosis and the gadgetry that accompanies it rather
> > than simply spending the equivalent on fixing the problem.
> 
> > there was an article in a magazine that described how snowshoing was
> > much more
> > aerobic than running - with a picture of all the lovely gear (with
> > pricetags)that you could purchase to go snowshoeing (about 2k worth)
> 
> While I would typically eschew needless gizmo(il)logical complexification
> of seemingly simple tasks, tools like an infrared thermometer are pretty
> easy to justify for me simply because I find myself using it every day,
> sometimes for things as mundane as checking the temperature of a wok or
> skillet before adding the food to be cooked to perfection.
> 
> Nor do I have any problem with self diagnosis to identify problems.
> 
> I much prefer that to being clueless/useless to the point of having to
> rely on some other perhaps slightly less clueless/useless person (only
> because they made the effort to educate themselves sooner) to do the
> necessary thinking to diagnose/identify/fix problems for me.
> 
> What I find humourous is that people would have to read a magazine in
> order to know that one activity is more conducive to aerobic activity than
> another and would need to be told what to wear in order to do it and then
> SUV-ise the whole affair -- not unlike the SUV-isation too many things
> these days I suppose... like kitchens in new homes where people feel they
> *must* have commercial grade kitchens heavy on the stainless steel and
> granite when in fact, they are more likely to end up simply nuking
> excessively packaged/pre-prepared/highly-processed food-like substances
> rather than do much real food preparation.
> 
> Me ? After shoveling out the laneway this morning and then pedaling
> through the as-yet unploughed roads to get to the woods where I snowshoed
> over the freshly fallen snow with the mutts, it was pretty easy to
> conclude that shoveling out the laneway was the most aerobic (and useful
> to boot) activity of the three... with the pedaling through the
> wet-on-the-bottom-layer snow coming a close second and the snowshoeing
> being effortless in comparison but definitely yielding a greater level of
> aerobic activity than running (but not if that running were being done
> through knee-deep snow).
> 
> 
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> Rob Tom
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