Night On The Town A couple of weeks ago I went to this open mic night. I’d been to a couple, and they are always interesting. If you’re paying to see somebody, then you have a much higher expectation of having a good time, but you’ll also see somebody who is going to […]
Life’s Viciousness
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 […]
Born With Knowledge
Child Prodigies The other night I watched an interesting TV show about child prodigies they had all these kids that were 5,6,4 that could do all these really interesting things. The most interesting kid was this boy who was four years old. He can name all of the presidents in order. If you gave […]
Origins Of Modern Civilization
History of Metal I watched a very interesting video a couple days ago about the history of metal. Not heavy metal music but actual metal. The kind of stuff you get out of the ground, melt down and form into tools that you can use. It turns out that the discovery of metal and […]
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 […]
Divide And Conquer
Next Door Neighbor I have a very interesting neighbor. He is a retired Army Col. He is very intelligent, he’s very kind and he’s very very good at talking to people at their level. If there is ever any kind of economic collapse or zombie apocalypse or alien invasion I definitely want to be […]
Super Villain Potential
The Maze Solver I have a friend, my next-door neighbor, has this kid, he seven and he is a super genius. He loves to do these mazes. She is very luck, his mom, whenever she needs time to herself without being bothered or interrupted she just needs to print out several of these very complicated […]
How To Start A Cult
How To Be The Chosen One If you want to start your own cult, it’s not that different from baking a cake. Meaning if you get all the right ingredients together and mix them up together in the right way, you’ll get a cake. If you do the same, you’ll get a cult. Of course, […]
Authority Paradox
The Guy In Charge Said So One of the go-to ways for most of us silly humans to figure out what’s what is to see what somebody in charge says. Study after study shows this. They put ten people in a room, and dump in an unexpected and complicated task. Time after time, people will […]
Paradox Of Frustration
Embrace Your Anger Nobody likes frustration. We do everything we can to avoid frustration. Lots of advertisements are specifically allude that if we buy the product, our frustrations will be a thing of the past. In fact, one of the most common copywriting techniques is to pace the frustration of your target, expand it, and […]