Square Apples I saw this video recently about a farm in Japan that makes square apples. When they are very young, they put them in a square box. Then by the time they are large, they are square. In Japan, square fruit is very expensive. Fusion Around The Corner https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar08Loop.mp4 Back […]
Hypnotic Stranger Parties
Door To Door Wizard I used to know this guy that was always looking for ways to make money. He only sometimes broke the law, but he was always skating the boundaries of moral and ethical norms. He loved to make money, but he absolutely hated to be part of any organization. […]
Nested Campfire Games
College Party When I was in college my friends and I like to go car camping quite a bit, mainly to sit around the campfire and play games and tell stories. One game in particular was really enjoyable, but it required that only about half of the people knew the rules. You’d have […]
Alchemist Cult of Metallurgy
Novel Writing Secrets If you were to decide to write a novel, so you become famous, or maybe if you only wanted to become rich, you’d have unlimited options. But your unlimited options would necessarily be constrained within common story structure. There’s basically seven story types, 14 archetypes for the good guy, 14 […]
Ancient Alien Mythology
Day At The Library The other day I had a few hours to kill so I wandered down to my local library. I grabbed a random book off the shelf and sat next to the window, which had a nice view of a small lake and some ducks. The book turned out to […]
Hallucinated Evolution
Shroom Theory There’s a very interesting theory about the origins of human consciousness. Way back in the day, when primitive proto humans were just developing a sense of self awareness, it was likely long before we learned how to speak. Since there was no written language to reference, no memories of spoken stories […]
Alarm Clock Hibernation
Daily Struggle Everybody has their own unique, highly calibrated strategy for making the transition from sleeping to waking up. Because of this, you can find pretty much any alarm clock that will accommodate this strategy. Few people leap out of bed in the morning with an excited feeling of bliss and anticipation. […]
Culinary Trainwreck
Cooking Experiment I had wanted to cook this complicated recipe for a long time. It was a recipe that required multiple steps of cooking, as well as a bunch of different ingredients I don’t normally use. Finally I decided to pull the trigger, so I budgeted a few hours one weekend to try […]
Self Replicating Hallucinations
Man In God’s Image In the book of Genesis, we are told that God made man in his image. There are plenty of different interpretations of what this means. There is obvious and naive interpretation that we look like him. This is not believed by any serious scholar. Another interpretation is […]
Network Marketing Occultists
Old Pyramid Schemes Back during the seventies, pyramid clubs were very popular, but they were made illegal very quickly. The concept was simple. Show up, pay ten bucks to get in, and try and recruit more members. If you ever got to the top, you would get all the money from everybody […]
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