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 […]
Misunderstanding Disaster
Cooking Origin Story I was watching this YouTube video about a recipe. Later I was at the store and decided to cook it. Even later I was back at home, wanting to create the recipe. Interesting Philosophy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr26Loop.mp4 There’s this really advanced hypnotist. But she found a very interesting way to […]
Cooking Cult
Cooking Class I took a cooking class a few months ago. I met a woman there that started telling me about the class and the instructor. Then she told me this was the ninth time she’d taken this same class with the same teacher. Meta Study https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19Loop.mp4 A recent psychological meta study […]
Pythagorean Mysticism
Triangle Cult Pythagoras is credited with discovering the secrets of the right triangle, namely A^2+B^2=C^2, but this is not likely true. Not only was Pythagoras likely a fictional creation of the Pythagorean cult who worshipped numbers, but this same idea was discovered by plenty other ancient cultures. For example, long before the Greeks […]