Work Work Work https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan24_Post.mp3 One expression from Buddhism is that before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. I watched a documentary a while back about that NXIVM cult. A few people went to jail. But this cult had the idea they were doing something so super […]
Thought Juggling
Trick Photography There is a few interesting videos matching the frames per second to a propeller on a plane. This makes it look like the plane is flying without the propellers moving. There are plenty of videos like this, where people purposely manipulate the recording process to create some interesting effects. Metronome […]
Pancakes and Fractals
Old Woman There was this old woman sitting outside of her shop. She was sitting on the ground, not quite on the ground on a very low seat, and she had this big plastic pitcher of pancake batter. She would pour enough pancake batter onto a small electric griddle that was in front of […]
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 […]
Modern Sorcery
Get Out Of The House As soon as I graduated from college I had to find a job as soon as I could. When I was in high school my dad and I had all kinds of conflicts. When I went away to college I was living by myself for four years. When I finished […]
Paradox Of Frustration
Embrace Your Anger Nobody likes frustration. We do everything we can to avoid frustration. Lots of advertisements are specifically allude that if we buy the product, our frustrations will be a thing of the past. In fact, one of the most common copywriting techniques is to pace the frustration of your target, expand it, and […]