May 18, 2007
FOUR FOR FRIDAY
Q1 - Sleep: Where is the most unusual place youíve fallen asleep?
Q2 - Guns: Do you think blind people should be issued concealed weapons permits or be allowed to own guns?
Q3 - Driving: Taking into consideration errands and the drive to and from work, how many miles do you drive each weekday?
Q4 - Packing: When do you pack for a trip (the day of, the night before, or earlier)?
Posted by Mikal at May 18, 2007 1:08 AM
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My answers are up at my blog.
Q1 - Sleep: If unusual is unique, I'd say along the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
Q2 - Guns: If they can go to the shooting range and hit the target (not the bullseye even), sure.
Q3 - Driving: About 40 miles per day
Q4 - Packing: I usually block out time to pack just right before the trip, so either night before if early, or a few hours before I leave.
Q1 - Sleep: A private large sail boat
Q2 - Guns: Huh?Not sure if I understand the question... But if a blind person can use their other senses successfully and with greater skills than the sighted{as I think they can}. The blink should be able to have a gun permit.
Q3 - Driving: I drive bout 40 miles per week. My 10 year old car only has 53,000 miles on it and amazes my insurance agent. He checks my odometer occasionally.
Q4 - Packing: The night before and the day of.
1. At a seminar. I had been up too late the night before and the topic was boring. But, I was probably only asleep for a short time.
2. No.
3. Less than 10 miles.
4. I don't like packing for a trip, but I usually pack one or two days before so I am not scrambling at the last minute.
1 - In a harness about 500 feet in the air. I was tired....
2 - Sure, why not.
3 - aprox. 100 miles....I'd rather not talk about it.
4 - Usually about an hour before I leave for the airport. I like to keep things streamlined :)
Q1: Church. Wait that's not so unusual...
Q2: If they are completely blind then no on the concealed weapons permit. Let them own a gun if they want, because there are other things that you can do with a gun besides shoot it (like collecting). I'm certainly in favor of supporting people, but the fact that someone has a "deficiency" by nature means that they just can't do some things. I'm too tall to be an astronaut, too ugly to be a supermodel, and too fat to run a marathon. Blind people are too blind to see. No amount of accommodation will resolve those facts. I think too often people cry for "equality" in one thing or another, when what they are really crying for is "similarity", but what they should really be doing is accepting that people are not always the same.
Q3: 20 miles
Q4: Usually the night before, but sometimes the day of.
1. Sleep: Hmm. I'm not a particularly interesting person when it comes to sleep. I'd have to say in a classroom in Marine Corps boot camp, sitting straight up and all.
2. Guns: They should certainly be allowed to own a gun. As for a concealed carry permit, I'm not so sure I see the point to allowing a completely blind person being to carry in public, but if they can accurately identify and hit a target, then sure. I tend to think that blind people (and people with disabilities in general) are well aware of their limitations, and are much more likely to be a responsible gun owner that the general public. Let's not get into the chi thing again... okay, let's.
I know a guy that is blind, but "sees" by observing the chi, or energy fields, of those around him. He's teaches martial arts and knows when a student has incorrect form, even with his back turned (not that it matters which way he's facing, being that he's blind).
3. Driving: Well, it used to be about 15 per day. But now that my wife is working, we probably put close to 35 on it each weekday.
4. Packing: I usually pack the night before. But it's still until it's too late that I realize I forgot something *$#@!
1. My favorites are lying up the stairs and while riding a horse (much harder than it looks in the movies)
2. I have a hard time seeing why they wouldn't want something a little more near range, like a cattle prod, but if they can pass the training courses, sure.
3. Around 15 miles.
4. A bit the night before, but it really has more to do with my wife. When she says she almost packed, I start, that way we're finished at about the same time.
1. A Pearl Jam concert. I really like Pearl Jam so I feel the need to justify falling asleep at their concert: It was the second night of a two show visit. I'd gone to the first show with really good seats, but then a friend of mine won tickets for the second show off the radio. When we showed up, the tickets were pretty much the worst seats available. The concert was in the Delta Center, so that's pretty bad. We were so high up, and the acoustics there are so horrible that by the time the sound reached us there was so much reverb that you couldn't even really tell it was Pearl Jam. It was just loud distortion. Plus I was really tired from the concert the previous night.
2. No. I can't see how that makes any sense. It would be like giving them a driver's license.
3. 10ish
4. Depends on the departure time, but usually the same day.
Q2 - "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
A1. Let me count the places!!!!
A2. Gut instinct says no, but will need to think more about this. Even though the right to bear arms is a constitutional right, with it comes great responsibility and accountability (something I think there is a significant lack of with many gun owners), but there are many expections, as there should be.
A3. It varies!
A4. Depends on the length of the trip, but typically the night before.
1. Hmmm, I can't think of any unusual place right now.
2. Yes, in my opinion guns would be a lot safer in their hands than in the hands of some of the other people we allow to have guns.
3. 40 Miles per day. (It really sucks with gas prices right now). Good think I have a Saturn that gives me great gas mileage.
4. My wife hates it but, the day of. I don't have very much to pack. I believe, the less I take the better.
Q1 - Sleep: Where is the most unusual place youíve fallen asleep?
I have slept everywhere: Truck, car, mountain, in a tree, on a tree, under a car, in the middle of a party, at a rave, on the front lawn of a hospital in a shady neighborhood at midnight, you name it I can sleep it.
Q2 - Guns: Do you think blind people should be issued concealed weapons permits or be allowed to own guns?
Even though blind people may not be able to discern who they are shooting at with visual senses, they do have a heightened sense of hearing and could scream to receive the reflective sonar waves they need to pinpoint their threatening target. Havenít you ever seen daredevil? Why is this even a question? Of course blind people should carry guns itís like asking if def people should be used to listen for people lost in the wilderness.
Q3 - Driving: Taking into consideration errands and the and from work, how many miles do you drive each weekday?
6 miles and usually itís on a bike or mooching a ride from someone.
Q4 - Packing: When do you pack for a trip (the day of, the night before, or earlier)?
Night before, and day of. I get the luggage out the night before and then I figure out what Iím packing right before the trip. I usually end up with limited options for attire and tons of books, music, and entertainment related items.
1. Maybe not that unsual, but it was cool...Just this last week, I totally passed out in my Yoga class. We did pranayama breathing/meditation right before shavasana. It is the most amazing thing I've ever experienced doing yoga and definitely the hidden cure for insomnia.
2. Seriously???? A blind person with a gun is ridiculous. I don't care how unfair it may be to take away that right from them. But, there are qualifications that come with owning a gun and seeing is definitley one of them.
3. On average I probably drive 30-40 miles a day. I wish I could limit it given that gas is seriously almost more expensive then the car itself. However, there are so many wonderful places to go in CA!
4. I am kind of a freak about packing. I usually pack a couple of days before the trip, sometimes I even make a list!! I don't usually end up wearing half of what I pack and lately, I have forgotten things I really needed. Ha ha! So much for not procrastinating!
Nothing too exotic, I think it was the space between the coffee table and the couch. I just rolled off the couch and decided not to get back on.
No I don't think that would work. On a side note, a friend of mine saw a blind person drop a 10 spot at a cafeteria line and she swiped it, knowing they were blind!
2 miles to and fro. Sometimes 7 when me, elwon and stuart go out to get sconed
night before, while my wife bitches at me the whole time for not starting earlier. God I love her.
This has been another reminder of how presumptuous the general public is when it comes to people with disabilities.
A blind person can learn to use a gun and shoot at targets just like anybody else. I saw a news story just last week (and I presume this is what brought up the question) of a blind man who did exactly that. He used the sound, from firing his gun, reverberating off his environment to identify where the target was. Target shooting is something he enjoys and a bunch of people that don't have the slightest clue what it's like to be blind want to take that from him. It's horrible I tell ya.
That being said, I can't imagine (as I mentioned in my first post) why a blind person could possibly be in need of a concealed carry permit. But I'm also not blind, so it's not my place to say. Again, if a blind man can accurately identify and hit a target as well as a seeing man, then why not? (assuming you're not opposed to sighted people being allowed to carry)
Q1 - Sleep: A few years ago I feel asleep at the Indianapolis 500. I was seated in the "Paddock" -- the only open-air / covered area of the track, where cars come screaming by at nearly 200 miles per hour, belting out 125-150 decibels with each turn around the track. I'm pretty sure I was the only one sleeping.
Q2 - Guns: It scares the heck out of me (a blind person owning a gun), but while I personally do not support such a practice, who am I to take away another person's constitutional rights.
Q3 - Driving: Exactly 6 miles every workday.
Q4 - Packing: The night before (which means I tend to stay up way later than I should), and again--for what is ever left over--the morning of.
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