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the new bike trailer came through

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2013.04.28

Ken and I rode to the tip of Leslie Spit today. The trailer made it very easy.

Until I was cycling back against the wind and Someone fell asleep. Then it was not so easy.

Yet the trailer came through even then - being of a reclined design, Ken was able to doze safely. With the other upright trailers, that's not possible. And the two-wheel tent-style trailers are slow and cumbersome. We heard someone using one remark on the design of our (much smaller and lighter) Weehoo.

rand()m quote

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

—Michael Crichton