Popcorn Palace There’s this really interesting popcorn store downtown. All they have are popcorn related paraphernalia. I got to admit, I passed by it a few times before going inside, and I was surprised how big it is. They got popcorn from all over the world, special popcorn pans and pots. […]
Cereal For Breakfast
Something of Champions I have this weird friend that eats popcorn for breakfast every morning. I wondered why she did this, so finally I asked her, wondering if it might cause unexpected friction. She actually had a very rational, very legitimate answer. Where’d The Sun Go? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun10Loop.mp4 If you study solar eclipses, […]
Juggling Hobbies
Food Cult Openings I used to know this guy in my Toastmasters group, a place where you can not only learn public speaking, but meet some pretty fringe type characters. He said he’d joined this kind of food cult, where they had very strict restrictions on what you were allowed to eat. He’d […]
Center Of The Universe
Big Bang One cool thing about the Universe is why every person on every planet on the Universe can legitimately claim they are the center of the Universe. Since from every point space, you would measure all other points in the universe expanding equally in all directions. A cool metaphor to describe this […]
Blue Book Chaos
Too Smart To Study I saw an interview by a professor who’d written a book based on the best attempts he’d seen at cheating. The best one, according to him, was a guy that showed up with two blue books, for an essay test. He spent the entire time writing a letter to […]
She Went Inside Her Brain
Look Inside My Brain I saw this TED talk a while ago about a lady who was a neurologist and then had a stroke. And she explained in full detail what it was like, how her brain slowly more or less went offline. And how even dialing the phone became something utterly confusing […]
Wrong Way Persuasion
Almost Become Rich I had a friend who scored a potentially lucrative job interview. Lucrative, of course, only if he managed to get the job. To be able to persuade the hiring manger to hire this person. Luckily, the job interview wasn’t for a couple of weeks. So he had plenty […]
Once Only Clothing
Cheap Traveler A friend of mine went on a trip to Thailand, and wanted to travel as cheaply as possible. He was going to backpack around, stay in hostels, etc. But he found an interesting way to save money, one he never would have predicted before the trip. Sleazy Profits https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May10Loop.mp4 Recently […]
Alien DNA Determinism
Self Help Loops Any kind of self development absolutely requires an honest feedback loop. You need both success data and failure data in order to better calibrate the targeted behavior. This is true in sports, music, investing and even business, in the case of profits and losses. No Aliens https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May09Loop.mp4 The Fermi […]
Hot Dog Empire
Worse Than Drugs Processed food is not only dangerous, but it is very hard to resist. One reason is they are strategically located in the grocery stores. Sumerian Power https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May03Loop.mp4 There are a collection of ancient symbols, supposedly handed down to the ancient Sumerians by the aliens who first founded Earth. These […]
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