Pot Lucks are Fun I went to this work party a couple of weeks ago. It was a potlock and a lot of people brought some pretty delicious things. One lady brought this utterly fantastic bean dip, so I asked her for the recipe. Cake Baking Skills https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept03Loop.mp4 I have a friend […]
Trigger Happy Alien Spirits
Secret Assassin There’s a pretty common idea that is in a lot of movies about government trained assassins. That you are a trained assassin, but you don’t remember this. That if somebody called you and said your trigger word, you would suddenly remember all your assassin training and go kill the targets. […]
Time Travel Brain Entropy
Word Order Critical If you compare a dictionary and a bible, the two are vastly different. One is filled with words and definitions. The other is filled with ancient stories and metaphors about the nature of human existence. But both are filled only with words. Words ordered one way will create […]
The Spirit In The Basement
Party People I went to a networking event recently. It was at this bar restaurant type place and there were a surprising number of people there. I was walking through the park and I saw this guy fishing. Right when I walked up he turned and started to talk to me. […]
Deep Deception and Sexual Influence
Curve Ball Killer An inside out curve ball is a very vicious and insidious pitch. Normal curve balls appear to be on their way to cross the plate, but then the curve away from the batter. Inside out curves appear to be slightly inside, but they curve toward the batter. These are […]
The Magic Pendant
Shoe Salesman I have a friend who works in a shoe store. He’s worked there for over ten years. When he started he thought it would only be a part time job. A lot of big bookstores are closing. For obvious reasons. A lot of retail is in trouble. But bookstores even more so […]
Punishment Of Evildoers
Three Month Probation I’ve a friend who was a programmer a long time ago. He’s probably still a programmer today, but when he first got one of his first jobs, they told him that he had to go through a 90 day probationary period, which he was okay with. But after a couple of […]
Revenge Against Evil
Not So Fast I’ve a friend of a friend who started working at a very large very powerful company about 10 years ago. After about a year of working there he found out that this very large and very powerful company was engaged in very terrible activities. They were exploiting people. They were killing […]
Light Cones and Time Travel
Physics of Time I was watching this very interesting series of videos recently on the physics of time. Time is something that is very difficult to think about because unlike other subjects of science you can’t think about it objectively. Even if you’re doing a mental experiment you can’t really put time in front […]
Demon Assassination
Childhood Bully When I was a kid I was in Boy Scouts. I really liked Boy Scouts. One of the things they did, we did, that I liked was to go on these backpacking trips. Sometimes for one or two days, sometimes for a week during the summer. One time during one of these […]