Amazing. As hard as it is for me to believe, it looks as though I might have spawned another one. One of my regular commenters has decided to dip her foot into the blogosphere. Oddly enough for one of my offspring, the blog concerns motorcycles. (I've only been on a motorcycle a couple of times in my life and never as the driver.) Even so, I'd be a really neglectful blog parent if I didn't give her a plug for Ren and the Art of Motorcycles.
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I don't need to explain that I think the Mythbusters are awesome (do I?). I just finished watching their latest episode. In it, they tested the scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Indy puts a flag pole in another motorcycle wheel.
Sales of Vespas are up -- largely because of high oil prices. Vespas and other motorcycles have significantly greater fuel economy than your average car.
It's a seldom mentioned aspect of my professional history that I used to do a lot of trauma surgery in my youth.
Not to suggest that Americans wouldn't:
Thanks for the plug, Orac. Now I'll just have to come down and take you for a spin on the back of the bike. I think you'll fit very nicely in the top box (how big are you? It's hard to tell from the picture) :)
There will be other subjects, too. The title would have just been unwieldy if I'd listed medicine, books, traveling, nursing stories, midwifery stories.....I can just say that, like a Renaissance (wo)man, I have many interests.