Three Ingredients https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar15_Post.mp4 You can get anything you want, so long as you have the three necessary ingredients. And often, only two is enough. One is you need the raw materials. Two is you need the skills. Three is you need the belief that it is possible. For example, suppose […]
Windy Aliens
Always Angles https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar14_Post.mp4 Why do they call newspaper articles “stories?” Because objective descriptions of events are pretty boring. And news companies, TV, online, etc., are businesses. Sure in some countries, they are funded by the state. Which makes them propaganda. Pure, blatant propaganda. But so long as you need […]
Leverage Your Poor Memory
Um… What? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar11_Post.mp4 Human memory is very faulty. If a crime allegedly happens, and all they have are eyewitnesses, they won’t prosecute. It’s very difficult to prosecute something ONLY because somebody said they saw him do this. Sure, there are exceptions, but these are the exceptions that prove the rule. Imagine […]
Hat Beliefs
Lucky Boy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar10_Post.mp4 There’s a famous story about the farmer and his three sons. One son finds a horse. His neighbors say he’s lucky. The farmer says maybe. Then his son breaks his leg while trying to tame the horse. The neighbors say he’s unlucky. The farmer says maybe. […]
Walk Up Rocks
Rock Man https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar09_Post.mp4 Once a I went rock climbing with a friend. A long time ago. And climbs are rated kind of like Earthquakes. On a log scale. So a 6.0 climb is twice as hard as a 5.0 climb. And at the time, I felt comfortable on a 5.5 […]
Quantum Tunneling Through Pancakes
Need A Haircut I went down to my local barber the other day to get a haircut. But they were much more crowded than normal. No worries. I didn’t have any plans that day. I’d gotten up early that day and finished all my work. I wasn’t in any hurry. I picked up a […]
Open Manhole Cover
Tricky Applicant There is this guy a few years ago who wanted to get a job at a very sought after tech company, one of the big tech companies. But he didn’t want to go through the same motions that everyone else did because he would be put in the same pool of applicants as […]
Time Travel Love
Time Loop Chaos There’s a lot of very interesting, very cleverly written time loop movies. Probably the first popular fictional time travel story was the Time Machine by HG Wells. Another popular time travel movie that showed the problems of time travel was a story written by Ray Bradbury where a bunch of guys […]
Broken Brain
College Foolishness When I was in college I had a lot of part-time jobs. Because my university was on the semester system and because I lived in the dorms and because there were several weeks in between semesters I always had quit the job at the end of the semester. I had a lot […]
Necessity Of Social Fears
Bookstore Excursion A couple of weeks ago I went to one of those big bookstores nearby my house. Where you have a coffee shop and plenty of books inside. They have a lot of those nice easy relaxing chairs that you can slink into when you read your book. I was wandering around and […]