Related:

• Barber's Laws of Backpacking 1) The integral of the gravitational potential taken around any loop trail you choose to hike always comes out positive.
  2) Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure....
• The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in proportion to the weight of the packages you are carrying.
• The net weight of your boots is proportional to the cube of the number of hours you have been on the trail.
  -- Milt Barbe...
• Getting along with your relatives increases in direct proportion with the distance you stay away from them.
• The number of licorice gumballs you get out of a gumball machine increases in direct proportion to how much you hate licorice.
• When you arrive at your campsite, it is full. -- Milt Barbe
• Objectivity increases in direct proportion to the distance from the problem.