Backpacking Trip I was backpacking with friend once and I had a particularly frightening experience. We’d been planning this trip, a five day loop in the sierras, for a few months. Part of it involved taking a shortcut that was suggested in the guide. Shortcuts Never Work Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov30Loop.mp4 We got halfway […]
Hypnotic Brain Seeding
Birthday Tree I went to a cool picnic recently. It was a 1000 year birthday party for this tree. They had a scientist verify the age with carbon dating. It was a huge event, lots of food booths, barbecues, tons of alcohol. It had a kind of spontaneous, pagan kind of […]
Why Be Yourself Is Excellent Advice
Be Yourself A very common piece of advice when wanting to make friends or to create romantic relationships is to be yourself. From a superficial level, this seems to make logical sense. If you can be yourself, you’ll eventually meet people who like the real you. At the same time, this advice […]
Moon Shot
Beat The Russians One of the best examples of setting and achieving a goal was the US moon program back during the 60s. This has everything that all of the goal books have as to what you need to create a goal, but there’s one more thing that was included in the US moon program […]
Self Destructive Death Cult
Nested Dreams A couple of weeks ago I had one of those dreams that you’re having a dream and then you wake up and you think you’re finished having a dream but you’re still having the dream and then you wake up again and you realize you’ve been trapped in several nested dreams. Inside […]
S Curve Madness and Kung Fu Brain Training
Math Video The other day I watched this very interesting introductory math training video that was in a series of videos. It was based on I think high school or college algebra. I watched it kind of for nostalgia reasons. I enjoy math very much and I haven’t studied math in a long time. […]
Underground Metaphysics
Secret Fortress When I was a kid a couple of friends of mine and I were playing around this park near our house and we found this underground fort. Somebody had dug a relatively big holder was the size of a very very small room. They had dug a shelf into one of the […]
Beehive Punch
Not A Good Idea If you were out hiking you saw gigantic beehive it wouldn’t be a good idea to punch the beehive because all of the bees would swarm out and sting you to death. If you were hiking through the forest by yourself when you suddenly found yourself in wolf territory and […]
Super Genius Strippers
Free Sales Seminar I went to this free seminar near my house a couple of weeks ago. It was a seminar about closing techniques, so it kind of assumed a little bit of previous knowledge about sales. Like most free seminars, it was about two hours of basic information mixed in with promises for […]
Law Of The Jungle
Two Distinct Phases When I think of my life from the time I came into existence to the time I’m having this conversation with you right now I can easily separate my life into two distinct categories before Thailand and after Thailand. When I graduated from college and had a degree in physics. I […]