No Randomness https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct28_Post.mp3 Suppose you wanted a bag of chips from a vending machine. So you put in the amount of money. You pushed the appropriate button. But instead of a bag of chips, you got a pack of donuts. This would clearly be an error. No vending machine that […]
Emotional Resonance
Resonance https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept11_Post.mp3 A long time ago, a friend taught me how to surf. I was always more into body surfing than board surfing. Anyway, we went out one day and he taught the basics. You need to see the waves coming in and choose the right one. You had to be […]
Stress Release Love
Pressure https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar29_Post.mp4 I have an Instant Pot. When I first got it, I was a bit worried. A high pressure cooker. I was worried it might explode, killing me and everybody within a ten mile radius. The very first time I opened it, after cooking something, I kind of flinched. […]
There’s No Place Like Home
Lost https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug30_Post.mp4 Once I went hiking with a buddy. A week long hike. Part of our plan was to cut across this mountain range. If we walked around the mountain range, it would have taken an extra six hours or so. But if we cut across, like our guidebook recommended was […]
Recipe Disaster
Cooking Error Once there was a chef. A very popular chef. Who was having a dinner party. To celebrate the opening. Of his first restaurant. Expected to be delicious. And extremely popular. The dinner party was mostly. For close friends. And a few reporters. Who […]
Origins Of Magic
Written Dangers Long ago. There was an ancient society. That had discovered writing. But had evolved beyond writing. They realized. That writing created moral hazard. For the brain. That simply be being around texts. Outsourced Thinking https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec13Loop.mp4 Caused the brain to be lazy. Created a decrease […]
Magic Vitamin Girls
She Started Sane Once there was a woman. Who went from being normal and boring. To being abnormal and insane. All through a slide down the slippery slope. Of the alphabet. First, she got an idea to organize her cupboards. So she organized her cupboards. In alphabetical order. […]
Surface Memory
Know What’s Underneath Once there was a crab fisherman. He’d been a crab fisherman for a long time and was well respected for his crab fishing proficiency. Sometimes elementary school children would go on field trips on his crab fishing boat. So they could learn all about different trades and different ways […]
Dice Throwing Magic
Pre Planned Genius I have a friend who went on a diet and lost a lot of weight, and gained quite bit of muscle definition. But before he did that, he created a very specific strategy that would satisfy a lot of different criteria. That way, he could use that same experience and […]
Cat Hypnosis
I Suck At Cooking I like to cook, even though I mostly suck at it. I’ll watch something on YouTube, or read somebody’s blog about some kind of recipe, and then I’ll decide to cook it a couple days later. Problem is I don’t usually remember much of this, except the taste I […]