Supermarket Battle I was talking to a friend of mine from Japan a couple days ago. Somehow we ended up talking about American food you can find in Japanese supermarkets vs. Japanese food you can find in American supermarkets. Since we’d both lived in both places, it was a compare contrast kind of […]
Japanese High School Girls
Overseas Friend I have a friend that lives in Japan. She works at a large, international company. She lives in the company dorm which is pretty common. Most company workers that aren’t married live in the company dorm. Transitions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun04.mp4 Once they get married they move out, but until that happens, they […]
Reversions To The Mean
Moving Averages Stock charts are a fascinating combination of technical and mathematical specificity and human psychology. One one hand they can be a very accurate representation of a company’s health. On the other hand, they are a pure expression of human psychology. One way to look at a chart is to compare the day […]
Unlocking Hidden Energy
Troy A Myth? For the longest time historians believe it that the Trojan war story in the city of Troy was completely a myth. Nobody really believed that the ancient city of Troy was a real place until very recently when they started to find some archaeological evidence that Troy was indeed an actual city. […]
Moon Shot
Beat The Russians One of the best examples of setting and achieving a goal was the US moon program back during the 60s. This has everything that all of the goal books have as to what you need to create a goal, but there’s one more thing that was included in the US moon program […]
Museum Of Time
Wandering Downtown A couple of weeks ago I was wandering downtown and I came across a clock museum. Now, I had seen this clock museum sign before and I had always assumed it was some kind of a clever marketing gimmick for a a watch shop or a clock shop but it turns out it’s […]
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 […]
Creativity Enhancement
Electronics Expo A couple of weeks ago I went to this electronics expo. When I first went I didn’t really know what to expect. I think I saw an ad for it in a magazine that I was reading somewhere outside of my home. I didn’t really think too much about what it was […]
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 […]
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 […]