Break Down and Build Up Building muscle, from a biological perspective, is pretty simple. You stress the muscle. You break down the muscle. And when it rebuilds itself, it becomes stronger. Can’t Get Anything Wrong https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug16ALoop.mp4 Most people are utterly terrified of making mistakes. So terrified that they play it […]
Circle Origin Story
Trigonometry is Magic One of the coolest discoveries in mathematics is that of trigonometry. Since cycles are a deep part of the natural world, and trigonometry deals in cycles, its discovery helped humans to understand a lot more than they did previously. It all started by wondering about the mathematical descriptions of the […]
The Hallucinated Dinner Party
Library Expansion I’ve noticed a new thing they are having down at my local library. They’ve been putting up notices for these day trips. They are put on by the city, and I don’t think they library itself is involved in organizing these trips. I think the library is just a convenient […]
Photographic Fear Elimination
Childhood Fear Creation Developing childhood fears is a pretty common experience. A common example is when a kid touches a hot stove. Before this fear is hard wired in to the poor kids brain, the stove is a this cool looking thing. It creates really cool smells. Happy Place https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept24Loop.mp4 All […]
Split Test Adrenalin Rush
Increased Conversions One of the coolest things you can do in online marketing is a split test. If you have any kind of page that is getting any kind of traffic and conversions, you make a copy of it. Then you take the copy and make one small change. This is also called A-B testing, […]
Angel of Peace
Bad Mood Couple of nights ago I was in a fairly foul mood. I didn’t know why and I wasn’t really interested in finding out why. I wanted to ignore my problems by focusing on something else or what to my local bar. I didn’t even plan on talking to anybody. I just sat […]
Cement Mixer Fantasies
Need To Fix Something Recently I started getting into some home development, home-improvement. It all started with the task I had needed to get done or do myself for a while. I was right on the border of whether or not to learn how to do this or to hire somebody to do this. If […]
Undersea Hallucination
Renting Skis A couple of months ago I was going skiing and so I had to go rent a pair of skis. I have been skiing ever since I was a kid or at least I learned how to ski when I was a kid and I’m been skiing off and on since I was […]
Invisible Satanic Doppelgangers
Bicycle Riding Several years ago, maybe a decade ago, I used to do a lot of cycling. I started in the spring, I got really into it in the summer time. I went cycling about three times a week and I lived 23 miles from the beach and I would get off work about 4 […]
Self Created Fear
Goofy Neighbor I have this interesting friend who lives next door. Interesting couple who lived next door. They’re pretty old, they have a few grown children who have moved out. They have a really interesting relationship. On the surface it seems like they might hate each other. They’re always giving each of the most […]
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