Clint Eastwood Samurai There’s a lot of similarities between the Clint Eastwood cowboy character and a lot of man-with-no-name samurai characters. In fact a lot of the Western movies with Clint Eastwood were remakes of Japanese period piece Japanese samurai movies. The idea that drives evolution is natural selection and you’ll find natural selection […]
Inoculation Against Demons
Economic Article I read an interesting article in an economic blog recently and it says that there is a sharp increase, or there has been a sharp increase in the number of exorcisms in the recent years. It had a couple of explanations as to why this is. The most common explanation is that […]
Blackness Behind The Curtain
Depressed Friend I have a friend, she’s mid-late 30s, very attractive, very intelligent but for as long as I have known her she’s been always very unhappy and depressed. I always assumed it had something to do with the broken heart or perhaps a deceased child. Then when I finally sat down and talk […]
Poison Snakes And Unintended Outcomes
Funeral For A Friend I saw friend a couple of days ago and he was just coming back from a funeral. I asked him who died. He told me, and it happened in an accident that was in the news a few weeks ago about a building that had collapsed. When I first saw […]
Time Value Of Money
Time Preference Derivation There is an idea and economics that involves thinking about money in two different ways. If you thought about having $1 million now versus having $1 million plus a little bit more in the future, there’s a point where the money that you imagine now versus that same amount of money plus […]
Slowly Then All At Once
Wandering Home From Somewhere I was walking home from somewhere a couple of weeks ago I passed by this old stripmall. All of the businesses in this old stripmall had gone out of business at least a year ago so the place is essentially vacant. There was just one ginormous tree in the parking […]
Circle Of Mathematics
Business Meeting A couple of weeks ago I had to go to a hotel downtown to meet one of my clients. He was in town for a lot of serious business meanings and he wanted to have kind of a between meeting brainstorming session. To get a lot of contracts to hopefully close. I […]
Orphaned Hungry Rats
House Party Hookup A couple of weeks ago I was in this location and I was leaving and I saw a friend of mine. The friend of mine was coming in just as I was leaving. That wasn’t, it wasn’t a situation where we didn’t really have much time to stop and chat. He […]
First Supernatural Kingdom
Where’d My Toastmasters Go? A couple of weeks ago I went to my local Toastmasters meeting to give a speech. I had been practicing this speech for a couple of days. I was excited to give this speech, but when I got there there was no Toastmasters group. My Toastmasters usually meets or they […]
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 […]
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