Dog Machine A friend of mine has this automatic dog machine. The dog drops the ball in the machine, the machine waits a random amount of time, and then spits the ball out with a random amount of force. The dog, after dropping the ball in, backs up, gets ready, and catches the […]
Deadly Hidden Costs
Tiny House There are some miniature houses you can buy from Amazon. So long as you’ve got the land, you can order a house, they’ll ship it to you, and you can put it together in a couple of days. You do need to have some land to put it on, and a […]
Deep Rooted Jesus Tree
Drinking Party My friend has this huge tree in his backyard he’s been wanting to chop down for a long time. I was supposed to go and help him, but when I showed up he’d changed his mind. He’d hired some pros to do the job, so we’d just hang out, get hammered […]
Fourier Hallucination Magic
Digital Audio Workstations If you are at all familiar with music production, then you know what a DAW is. A digital audio workstation. A way to create pretty much any kind of music you want. There are two kinds of virtual instruments that go inside of a DAW. Sampled instruments, which […]
Gaslighting Hallucination Instinct
TV Show A friend of mine and I had just returned from a local bar and we’d decided to watch TV. The Simpsons came on, and I thought I recognized the episode. I told my friend all the funny things that were about to happen. He looked at me and said, this […]
The Once And Future Hallucination
The Demon There was this philosopher guy a couple hundred years ago named Descartes. He came up with a problem that was unsolvable then, and unsolvable now. The problem was how do we know whether what is happening all around us is real, or just a hallucination? His idea was that our […]
Hierarchical Brain Structures
Big History If you study big history, you’ll see plenty of similarities between all major civilizations. Doesn’t matter where or when they are, they all share many similarities. For example, you’ll find pyramids in plenty of cultures. Egyptian, Meso-American and ancient Greece. Another common trait is how they modified the environment to […]
90 10 Golden Rule
Music Tutorial The other night I was watching this very interesting music tutorial. The guy was talking about songwriting strategies. He started off by going over the basics song structure. The intro, the verse, the chorus, the break, the verse, the outro. Then he started talking about how to choose a chord progression. It […]
Mental Teleportation
Strange Neighbor I have a very very odd neighbor. He moved in about six months ago. Everybody saw the moving trucks come and go. Everybody has seen the landscapers come by once a week, but no one has seen this guy. We have all kinds of rumors about who this guy really was. The […]