A few years back, I was visiting my father at the laundromat where he worked, when one of the regulars, who knew I was a cop, asked if I was "strapped".
"I felt as if I'd been strapped to a roller coaster," Spiegelman writes: "It was killed one day and resuscitated the next.
(I remember entering the theatre, then later I was stumbling out, over-stimulated and a touch nauseated, as if I had been strapped into an amusement-park ride, and then forgotten there for three hours).
And though we're snaking down, I feel as if I've been strapped into a roller coaster, think I almost hear that nerve-racking, clack-clacking ascent as the coaster nears its first peak.
"In microgravity I would float if I didn't strap myself down to the treadmill, so I have to wear a harness system that's a bit similar to a rucksack.
She said, 'If I have to strap my body to the [Pacific Gas and Electric] pole out there, it's not gonna happen.
"In microgravity I would float if I didn't strap myself down to the treadmill, so I have to wear a harness system that's a bit similar to a rucksack," he said in the video.
Even in a Valley that worships productivity, he is an outlier, plowing through e-mails and meetings as if strapped to a time bomb, his unblinking stare speeding up colleagues until they sound like chipmunks.
He is in no financial position to take on the home himself and I would be strapped if I did".
Riding the $1.9 million BugAlli Veyron from John Biggs on Vimeo.
When I asked Steve Williams, Chair of the Police Federation of England & Wales if cash strapped forces would sometimes be unable to pursue a breach because of financial constraints.
