Swimming

Yesterday I went swimming again. It's not yet regular, and not really frequent, but it's getting there slowly :) About ten lengths.

I realised I hadn't really been exerting myself; it was fun, but it wasn't as much exercise as the first time. So I tried to alternate some leisurely swimming with some exertive swimming, and got that pleasant "wobbly" feeling afterwards. I still need some technique, as well as fitness, as I'm still not *fast*.

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OK, I don't really mind, but looking at the front pages of a couple of papers... Something that happens to a celebrity isn't news! But we're used to that. But an anniversary of something that happened to a celebrity really isn't news!

"Diana continues dead", well I'm sorry for her, but this was hardly a surprise. It was one day short of the anniversary. Then it was the anniversary. I mean, anything else would practically be, not just a physical, but a logical impossibility.

EOR

OK, actually I don't agree with that at all, it was just a hyperbolic way of expressing my annoyance with some habits. In fact, many considerations of the way things are, rather than just what happened today, make an important part of news and do deserve front-page prominence they never get. After all, how often does world hunger make the news unless someone famous says something about it.

Reversed Bike Lights

Last night I think I saw someone different with reversed bike lights. I may have been mistaken -- it was only for a moment.

However, it reminded me of the puzzle of why. My best ideas, none very plausible, were:

* They didn't know which way they were supposed to be
* Mental instability
* Hunting down slow moving pedestrians (like an Owl's call is supposed to sound like it's moving away)
* An obscure personal joke, superstition or philosophical metaphor
* Some sort of optical effect or time-reversal

Although I don't know if the second and third are really different.

However, this person I saw cycling the wrong way down a one-way street, and a sixth and seductively plausible cunning reason for doing so suddenly occurred to me...

PS. That is, assuming that you don't care about any potential danger, but are just worried about being stopped by the police, and assuming that given the number of people without any lights at all no-one will do more than ask you WTH if you reverse them, and assuming that at least sometimes you go the wrong way and aren't stopped because it looks like you're going the right way, reversing the lights might reduce your sanctions.