Ancient Vikings There’s not a lot known about bronze era Scandinavians because way back in the bronze era which, was before about 1200 BC, there was never a large enough population to create lasting infrastructure that historians and archaeologists can look at and try to piece together what kind of society they had. All […]
Poison Snakes And Unintended Outcomes
Funeral For A Friend I saw friend a couple of days ago and he was just coming back from a funeral. I asked him who died. He told me, and it happened in an accident that was in the news a few weeks ago about a building that had collapsed. When I first saw […]
Effective Con Strategies
Con Movies There are a lot of fantastic movies about con artists. There’s movies about short-term cons and there’s movies about long-term cons. Whether you’re trying out a long-term con or a short term con the basic strategy is the same. You have to create a false reality around your target and you have […]
Banned Sexual Secrets
Outlet Mall Trip A couple of weeks ago there was an outlet mall that opened up near my apartment. I’m always very interested in checking it out one of the reasons I like going to places like outlet malls is because they have lots of places to sit and think and write. I like […]
Modern Human Sacrifices
Downtown Psychic Shop There’s this very interesting psychic shop downtown. It’s not a stereoypical psychic shop. When I think of a stereotypical psychic shop, I think of something with maybe a hand on the front with an eyeball painted in the palm. Maybe a picture of a crystal ball. Maybe some tarot cards. Maybe a […]
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 […]
Retreat To The Power Within
Dive Bar There’s this bar nearby my house. A dive bar, kind of a community dive bar. I go there because not because I drink but because it’s a very relaxing place to hang out and talk about things that only are allowed to be talked about inside of your local community dive bar. […]
Temple Of Solomon
Free Seminar I went to a very interesting seminar a couple of weeks ago. It was a free seminar, the kind of seminar where they advertise in the newspaper, you show up and they give you a two-hour pitch that sounds fantastic and then they try to close you at the end for some kind […]
Story Of Life And Death
Garden Planning A couple of weeks ago, maybe a couple of months ago, I was standing out front of this house that I had just rented. I had written it just as winter was starting and the guy that I was renting it from said that I can do whatever I wanted to the garden. […]
Prototype Society
Book Club Recently I have been going to this book club every couple of weeks. It’s a nonfiction non-self-help book club. We read a lot of books, most of them lately have been economic books. The history of economic thought. Some history books. One of the people that come and always contributes a lot […]