Blog content by conveyance to work

You can probably predict the quality of my blog content for a given day based on how I got to work.

Walking -- While great for my life, walking to work doesn't do much for the blog. I see the same people every day, the same wacked out homeless guys in more or less the same positions depending on the position of the clouds (and, therefore, sunny spots on the sidewallk). Starbucks, Panera, the bagel place where the old-fashioned glazed donut is so good but I dare not touch it on non-holidays. Princeton is too affluent a place for there to be much of interest on the street.

Driving -- With music or gab radio on, driving to work offers lots of media stimulation and is, on average, the best place to think up a passable blog. Being in a car is like being in your head (to think along with Gaston Bachelard on the one hand and Michael Mann, the great cinematographer of cruising, on the other), and therefore something tends to come up of reasonable quality.

Train-- Has the greatest potential of all, with a high degree of randomness, especially when done off-peak, so you see fewer people in mechanized routines. Rush-hour is better for observing norms.

Today I walked. Obviously.