Differential Equations I had this really cool differential equations teacher once. He would always be halfway through an equation and then he’d stop and tell a story. They weren’t the kind of stories that helped to illustrate the underlying idea of the equation. It was just that he would be talking about […]
Juggling Stories and Hot Dogs
Old Friends I have a couple of friends in their late seventies. One of the things they do is take these bus trips. It’s mostly retired people, and they take day trips to these places. I know an old guy in Japan who does the same thing, with his wife. There […]
The Hallucinated Dinner Party
Library Expansion I’ve noticed a new thing they are having down at my local library. They’ve been putting up notices for these day trips. They are put on by the city, and I don’t think they library itself is involved in organizing these trips. I think the library is just a convenient […]
Cult of Sacred Geometry
Taco Party I went to a friend’s retirement party a couple weeks ago. When she called to tell me about it, she made it sound like it was no big deal. Like it was a small party or something. She said show up whenever, wear whatever, bring whoever, don’t worry about brining […]
Magic Mind Control
Party Tricks A friend called me the other day. She said she needed some props for a party she was having. I asked her what kind of party she was having. She said it was a birthday party. For her son, who is in second grade. No Props Up Here […]
Jesus Pyramid Scheme
Happy Hour Taquitos I went to my local bar a couple of weeks ago. They have a pretty good happy hour. Drinks aren’t really all that cheap, but between 4 and 7 they have a free appetizer buffet. It’s not healthy, it’s the same kind of stuff you’d find in the frozen […]
Juggling Clowns Pork
Hey, Buddy! A friend called me a couple weeks ago. Not a close friend, more of an acquaintance. She said her family was having this huge barbecue party in the park. She said it was for a bunch of different things, but one of the main thing was her daughter’s fifth birthday. […]
Thought Cancellation Pattern
Middle Age Genius One of the more interesting ideas that happened between the early and high middle ages was the idea of scholasticism. Before, they only had monasticism. Which meant focusing only on one set of ideas. Back then, these were ideas about God and society and the teachings of the Catholic […]
Invisible People In Your Brain
Square Roots Are Easy If you needed to find the square root of four, this would be pretty easy. The square root of four is either two or negative two. Negative two times negative two is four. Two times two is four. This is something we learn in elementary school, or […]
Trading Fear For Money
Horrible Horror Movie I saw this really messed up horror movie the other night. It was about this guy who was an insane killer, that pretty much lived inside of a hallucination. It started out with this guy jogging down some country road. And then a guy pulled up in a van, […]