I should probably clarify my use of the word "interesting".  I realize it's a bad habit to use the word so often - it's a garbage word - basically meaningless except as an indication to the person I'm speaking with that I have something more to say about the "interesting" subject.

So I've been trying to replace the word in my normal speech.  "Hilarious", "surprising", and "it makes me angry" are three alternatives that seem effective.

Thinking about it in class this morning, I realized that the closest meaning I could pin on the way I use the word "interest" goes something like this:

I have been considering an indefinite question for a long time, and the subject we are discussing provides evidence which helps support or disprove whatever my question will eventually turn out to be.

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Two more good things about lightweight bikes:

1)  The lighter a bike is, the easier it is to steer with one hand.

2)  If you live in a city and use public transportation, the ability to carry a bike up long flights of steps becomes much more valuable.

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Anarchism.  I don't have much experience with it.  I've read some Bakunin, and certain things that Marx wrote could be considered Anarchist, and I've read a lot of fiction which deals with the American West Coast labor movements in the early part of the 20th century.

I guess I've talked to a few anarchists, though most of them have been closer to the "I don't want a job, and I don't have any money" anarchist stereotype.

Anyway, I talked about anarchism with a capital A anarchist the other night.  He said that he didn't consider a person an anarchist unless they had educated themselves in anarchist philosophy and history.  I assume he said it realizing that his definition was silly.

One nice thing about NCF people: they generally don't seem to say meaningless things.

I've drifted from my original subject - I'll write more in a later post.