h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

In the logging business (and even tangentially in the business I now am involved in) there is a device called a comealong. In the working language of some working people it is a ratchet device that gradually moves something in a straight line, straight ahead, slow but ever so steady. Only referentially comparing it to our current global economic crisis, it has a personal resonance as well. I move ahead incrementally, economically and socially- albeit with glacially slowness in regard to sociality.

Here is one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Comealong.jpg/308px-Comealong.jpg

A simple, ingenious device to move two tonnes or more, wouldn't you agree?

Again tangentially and oddly, I once I met a woman who introduced me to a sexual technique with the same name, weird, huh?

Obama and economists would be well suited to point out the advantages of *slow and steady* forward growth, just I have been over the last while. I have friends who just like me and you and them and us have come to realise their mortality. Slow and steady. Strong and constant.

Comealong. You will undoubtedly enjoy the ride, long or short as it is. It beats the hell out of standing still.

Oo. I have one exactly like that!


I also have a couple of marine winches, a large single block pulley, a double block pulley, and a very nice old snatch block!

Give me a good hemp rope, and I can move damn near anything


Nice metaphor, btw

'a very nice old snatch block!'

' I once I met a woman who introduced me to a sexual technique with the same name'

Sorry. A little two much of that 'good hemp . . . '

Right on, man!

I'm joking. I'm actually the only person in Canada who's never tried the stuff (except second hand if I stand outside anywhere on a summer afternoon).


I did find some strong Absinthe the other day, however. . . http://www.czechabsinth.com/products_02.htm

'It is recommended to drink it in small doses for its well known hallucinogenic effects and ecstasy. In small doses it does not cause any health damage at all, on the contrary it has a healing effects, supports digestion and enjoyed in moderation works as an excellent aphrodisiac.'