"Specialization is for insects."
Some years back I rented a convertible for a week in Maui, the selection of vehicles at the rental place being almost entirely convertibles or Jeeps. That’s when I was forced to come to grips with one of the hard realities about growing older.
A bald spot is a helluva thing to have to deal with.
I’m calling these “tubedannas” because there isn’t a single good name for the whole category, one that isn’t a trademark. It’s my blog, I can call them any silly thing
I really want one of these, though I can’t really justify it. I really have no use for it, or very little. It’s just so bizarre… like a steam locomotive with a computer control console.
It’s a combination of a Raspberry Pi computer and a tube amplifier.
I’m a firm believer in versatility. The more detailed the scenario, the more specific you get in trying to predict the future, the more likely you are to be wrong, so I believe in just generally enabling yourself to handle more situations as they come up. Knives, flashlights, and multi-tools are among the most versatile tools there are, and can make you a whole lot harder to kill in a “collateral damage” sense. Insulation, water carrying capacity and the ability to make fire are almost universal needs.
This is an odd survival item in that I’ve never had any use for it in an urban or suburban or even rural environment, only in the woods and mountains, but for there I find it indispensable. I never go out for more than a day hike without at least six feet of aquarium tubing, preferably eight or nine feet, and I’ve used it for more decades than I care to count.