When Scott , Kale, and I started this blog site, our intention was to blog about things we were passionate about and do so in our own unique styles. Mine tends towards the pedantic, obsessive researcher style, with lots of supporting documents and pretentious quoting.
This post, however, is going to be 99% opinion. Maybe more. I have a lot of opinions. So hang onto your bustles, kiddies….
So, this post was supposed to be finished MONTHS AGO. Being a person of many moods, I let this drop off my radar. But here it is, finally – my rebuttal to Scott’s empty gas tank & infrastructure post:
For the sake of argument, lets say I did let the gas tank get low because I was hunting for cheap gas. I come from driving people, trooping people, people who take pride in how good they are at finding deals. Add that to my general desire to put off filling the oddly finicky gas tank on our shared vehicle and you get a wonderful excuse to not fill it. Despite this, I’m also pretty certain, though, that the gas gage works, and is accurate enough that someone sitting in the driver’s seat could, in fact, see at a glance that the gas tank was not as full as one might like, and thereby prompt that someone to get gas in a less inconvenient part of town.
Just sayin’.
But infrastructure, now, that’s an interesting topic. There are a lot of good reasons to worry about infrastructure these days. Scott’s post got me thinking about infrastructure and how to get people to get excited or invested in it.
For the deniers among the bytegeist, just suspend your disbelief for a bit and pretend that global climate change is really a thing. I’m not going to talk about whether or not humanity is responsible, or can do anything, or even if it’s just a cyclical process that the global climate just… DOES. Instead, let’s all just agree that it’s getting weird out there and talk about how that relates to infrastructure.
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