On Jul 16, 2011, at 10:11 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Paul Stenquist > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But gasoline is a necessity. When I need gasoline, I buy gasoline. When I >> need food, I buy food. Tracking the price of necessities accomplishes >> absolutely nothing, other than satisfying some compulsion to record numbers. > > Increased fuel consumption was the only symptom of a cracked exhaust > manifold in my Civic del Sol. > > But, more to the point, is everything you do essential? Of the things > that are not essential (say, taking pictures), should we characterize > that as a "compulsion"? Something pathological and deserving of > ridicule? > You have a valid point. In that much of what we do is non essential. but taking photos, for example, actually accomplishes something. However, as you note, in your case recording gas prices did yield a benefit. But again, no value judgement. I was just surprised to learn that quite a few people track such things. Paul > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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