House Party The other night I went to a party in my neighborhood. A guy just moved in and he bought this very big house. A very nice house up on the expensive section of the neighborhood and so he invited everybody. It turns out that he just got this job as a professor […]
Sweet Seductive Sociopath
Girl At The Coffee Shop There’s this really attractive woman that I’ve been flirting with at my local coffee shop for the past couple weeks. Whenever you have a situation like this it’s always not quite sure what to do. On the one hand it’s nice to have a very friendly face that you […]
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 […]
Science and Metaphorical Resonance
Tale of Two Teachers When I was in junior high school had two science teachers. Both of them were completely different. The first guy is what you might expect a science teacher to be. A junior high school science teacher to be. He was kind of a typical doofus geek type of guy. He […]
Quantum Brain Theory
Lady At The Gym A couple of weeks ago I had a particularly interesting conversation with a woman that I had first started talking to at the gym. We sometimes end up on the bikes next to each other and one day we were having a interesting conversation on the bikes and both of our […]
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 […]
Secrets Of Inventions
Natural Trade Anthropologists will tell us there’s four basic kinds of trade that take place between humans, both modern humans and ancient humans. The first type is trade a thing for a thing, meaning I give you something now and you give me something back of equal value. The second type is trade thing […]
Dirt Is Important
Two Types of Civilizations If you look back over the long history of human civilizations you’ll find two basic types of civilizations that have popped up over time. The first and most common type the most people think about is the agriculturally based civilizations. These had these cities and these empires that were built […]
Jungle Rats
Cherry Blossom Season In Japan every spring they have a cherry blossom viewing event. They can’t usually predict when it’s going to happen. The feeling in Japan is very comparable to what it’s like on July 4 in the states. People go to the park to have a barbecue, they watch the cherry blossoms […]
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 […]
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