There aren't many inexpensive options for something like in this picture. Sure, walking or biking is cheap, but carrying stuff, that's trickier.

I have a great electric kick scooter (charged by solar), and since the grocery store is only a couple of miles away, I figured shopping without a car would be pretty simple.

I've walked there before, but with the heat lately, I wanted a way to carry larger grocery loads so I'd have to make less trips. I don't really wanna have to use my car. I assumed there would be small cargo trailers made for kick scooters.

Turns out, not really. Most trailers are designed for bicycles or larger motorcycle-style scooters.

I found a few niche options people have built themselves, but they're either more expensive than I wanna spend or require more fabrication skills than I have.

I've decided to try building one myself, but yeah, that's gonna take some time since I'm new at the whole "just build your own shit" brigade.

As you all know, here in the US, living without a car is possible, but it often isn't very convenient. The infrastructure and products just aren't designed with that lifestyle in mind.

(Shout out to my downvote stalker. Right on schedule! Thanks for keeping me in your mind all day. LMAO)

So I'm training for a swim competition that is coming up next year, and maybe some half-marathons before then. But keto science is slightly confusing to me.

Would trying keto be any benefit to me? Seems like primitive man was basically keto from what I know, so our body is kinda made to be ok with it, right?

I'm not overweight, I'm tall and lean already. I'm pretty much just gonna jump and try it to see how I feel, but was wondering what thoughts you all had on it for athletes.

Thanks guys!!

(Oh and a shoutout to my serial downvote stalker, if ya follow me here. Hi. :) )

"Babe, turn on my bookreader and grab me a cigar."

In April 1935, Everyday Science and Mechanics imagined a future where people would read books and newspapers from microfilm instead of printed pages. Microfilm!

The proposed home reading machine used tiny photographs of pages, enlarged them, and displayed them on a screen.

The whole setup sat on an adjustable stand with a built-in lamp, focus controls, and a button for moving from one page to the next.

At the time, the idea seemed pretty logical as a futurist idea. Microfilm was pretty much seen as a practical way to store huge amounts of printed material, and that same year The New York Times began preserving its daily editions on film. The microfilm trend lasted a long time too. My library still has a microfilm reader.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ipad-of-1935-115653218/

Original illustration with the article:

What could go wrong? That's the World's Safest Plane!

Portable radio. It was introduced in early 1949 for $7.95.

Fiske’s Reading Machine was a handheld e-reader invented by retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske in the early 1920s.

Books were photographically reduced into extremely tiny print on narrow cards, which users inserted into the metal device and read through a magnifying eyepiece while a shield covered the other eye.

The cards could hold large amounts of text in very little space, so Fiske imagined people carrying whole libraries in a pocket or purse. A futuristic dream!

The machine received a U.S. patent in 1923, but it never became commercially successful.

Often described as an early mechanical ancestor of devices such as the Kindle.

Just look how portable that is! I wouldn't be happy with the screen size on this thing though.