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 […]
Sweet Seductive Sociopath
Girl At The Coffee Shop There’s this really attractive woman that I’ve been flirting with at my local coffee shop for the past couple weeks. Whenever you have a situation like this it’s always not quite sure what to do. On the one hand it’s nice to have a very friendly face that you […]
The Good Witch
That Tasted Good A couple of weeks ago I went to this pot luck party and I ate something that was particularly delicious. I didn’t actually find the person who made it and ask them for the recipe because I overheard them explaining the recipe to somebody else. At the time I thought I would […]
Malthus and Overpopulation
Nature Video I started watching this interesting set of science videos. It is a set of 24 videos, 30 minutes each, and they’re all about life sciences. The one I watched I can watch them out of order. The one I watched started off talking about populations and natural equilibrium. They were talking about […]
Relationship Success
Rich Old Couple I met this interesting couple couple of weeks ago. They’re a very older couple very very wealthy there were several hundred million dollars. When I, before I met them, I had this kind of assumption the man was the successful business person and the wife more or less spousal support that […]
Guided Psychic Meditation
Gorgeous Neighborhood Bartender There’s a bar in my neighborhood I like to go to because I like to watch the bartender. I haven’t drank alcohol in a long time but sitting in a bar is sometimes very relaxing thing to do. It’s an understood environment where it’s perfectly acceptable to sit there and stare […]