Perception Limits There’s a famous video that allegedly points out the discrepancies and inadequacies in human perception. The point is to show that even if you pay attention to something, you will miss most of what is going on here. You’ve no doubt seen this video, as this one is really popular. […]
The Gambler’s Ruin
Pinch Hit Sock Machine So a couple of weeks ago I was in the local laundromat because the machines in my apartment complex were being repaired because they weren’t working properly. When things are not working properly you need to look inside, fix what’s broken so they can get back to being in fine working […]
The Woman With All The Answers
Health Food Store There is a fairly small health food store that I like to go to occasionally in part because sometimes I can find stuff there cheaper that I can find online but mainly because the woman that works three, the owner, she seems to know quite a bit about all of the products. […]
Water Filter Salesman
Eccentric Neighbor For a while I’ve had this very strange neighbor in my neighborhood. Everyone knows about him. Everybody talks about him. He’s kind of a recluse. The story is, ann this is a fairly accurate story because most of this is public information. He was a driven kid in school. He was a […]
Magic Book Of Wisdom
Party In The Hills I was invited to a party a few weeks ago. It was a party that was being held by a friend of a friend, perhaps a friend of a friend of a friend. I was assured it was going to be a fantastic party. The guy that told me about […]
Your Super Genius Brain
Unexpected Aquarium A couple of weeks ago I went to a very interesting aquarium that unexpectedly opened in my neighborhood. I’m not a particularly huge fan of aquariums. They’re nice to go to. I like to spend an hour or so walking around looking at the various types of fish, but they’re not something that […]
Remember The Spiritual Side
Crazy Neighbor I have this neighbor. She’s very nice, she’s very attractive, she’s intelligent but she has a habit of over sharing and she’s been seeing this therapist for about a year about a breakup that I think happened over a year ago. The problem is every time she sees me around our apartment […]
Alone With Your Thoughts
Communication Seminar I went to this really strange communication seminar a long time ago. It was all about non-verbal communication. The theory of the guy that was teaching it was that most of our communication is nonverbal very little of it is based on the words. We had to do a lot of exercises […]
Anti-Memory Energy
Pick Up Driver The first job I ever got in college was as a delivery driver. When I was in high school I had a job delivering pizzas so I figured this would be a familiar job. It wasn’t really delivery driver it was more of a pickup driver. I worked for this charity […]
Hallucinated Futures
Attractive Neighbor I have this really attractive really intelligent next-door neighbor I’ve never seen her with anybody and I’ve never asked her out myself because a long time ago I made the huge mistake of dating somebody that I lived very close to and I vowed never to make that mistake again. One day […]