Vampire Bats Vampire bats have a highly regulated collection of social instincts. One of them is the capability of doing each other favors, and remembering who has done favors for whom. They’ll go hunting, some will come back with blood, some won’t. The ones that don’t get any blood will borrow from […]
Parasitic Brain Demons
Street Stall Delicacy There’s a very tiny street downtown that has tons of food stalls. They sell very cheap, and very delicious food. Way better, and way cheaper than in any restaurant. A common type of private equity is the leveraged buy out. Often called LBO. Uninvited Guests https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug15Loop.mp4 This […]
Benefits of Delayed Gratification
Hit The Floor In the past decade or so, HIIT, or high intensity interval training has become much more mainstream. There are a lot of academic studies showing the benefits of high intensity exercises, not only for cardiovascular health, but to potentially be a defense against Alzheimer’s. A great way to do HIIT […]
Occult Economics and Black Arts
Shoe Repair There is this old shoe repair shop in my neighborhood. The dude that runs the place is in his late seventies. His son, who’s in his forties is going to take over I guess when he dies. I saw this PBS documentary on YouTube. It started out as a human interest […]
The Importance of Savings
Old College Friend I have a friend from college that lives just north of San Diego. He lives in a small town. I forget the name. I went to visit him recently. The downtown area has fallen on hard economic times. Most of the shops are closed up, out of business. But there is […]
Trade Magic Economics
Shoe Trader I read this story about a guy. He got a pair of shoes for Christmas or something. He kept them in the box. Then like six months later, he traded them for a skateboard. But then he kept the skateboard. Didn’t use it. And traded it for something else. And he kept […]
Pending Retail Apocalypse
Who Invented Bowling? Bowling is a weird sport. A friend called and invited me to go bowling with him and a couple other friends. I hadn’t gone bowling in a while so I figured what the hey. The bowling alley was in a mall. I hadn’t been to a mall in a while […]
Spirit Guide Acquisition
Free T Shirt I was out driving when I heard they were giving away t shirts. Some radio station said they were parked a couple blocks away and the first 50 people would get a free T-shirt. I showed up and they had a big van with the radio station on the side, […]
Recover Ancient Spiritual Power
Beginnings of an Adventure A couple of weeks ago I was reading some local online forum and they were talking about this place downtown. A couple of days later I decided to go check it out. I didn’t remember exactly where it was, but I was in an adventurous mood. I took […]
Time Flies Like An Arrow
Instinct People Humans have a ton of instincts. Things that compel us to behaviors, sometimes against our will. Most of us are familiar with social instincts, and food instincts and sex instincts. But there is also a humor instinct. It makes sense from a physiological-immune system kind of way. Whenever we laugh, aside […]
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