It’s nice to be an anticommuting operator,
\ndriving along the thoroughfares of life.
\nI’m happy to be on mass shell as a propagator,
\nplanning a long-term future with my wife.<\/p>\n
I come when everyone would go,
\nand go when they all come.
\nI doubt what others claim to know,
\nact smart when they act dumb.<\/p>\n
When others’ interactions
\nare strongly inelastic,
\nI get my satisfactions
\nfrom tripping light fantastic.<\/p>\n
So stay out of the mainstream,
\nignore what others say.
\nFollow up your own dream
\nand go the other way!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Originally intended to be a song in the style and to the tune of Monty Python’s “Always look on the sunny side of death<\/em>“, this was written in 1969 or 1970 when I and my new (first) wife, Suzanne, were living in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco and I was commuting across the Bay to Berkeley every day, while she commuted to Stanford.\u00a0 Crazy kids!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s nice to be an anticommuting operator, driving along the thoroughfares of life. I’m happy to be on mass shell as a propagator, planning a long-term future with my wife. I come when everyone would go, and go when they all come. I doubt what others claim to know, actRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1968-1973","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}