Friendly Dive Bar I was out of town with a couple of friends. We were sitting in this dive bar, kind of small, but a pretty friendly atmosphere. All of a sudden this train went by, the entire bar started shaking, and the bartender started toss out these Nerf basketballs to everybody and […]
Scientific Birdcage Mythology
Correlation and Causation One of the biggest causes of misunderstanding in the world of science is a mistaking correlation for causation. Especially if you have one main variable, that is driving all the other variables,. Then any two of the driven variables can be correlated, and thereby misunderstood to having a causative relationship. […]
The Death of Hippocrates
Health Expo I went to this health expo a few weeks ago. It was kind of non-main stream expo, mostly supplements, lots of homeopathic based medicine. They had a lot of booths, mostly books and supplements. They also had a lot of talks, some by doctors, some by dieticians, but they were […]
Circles Bread and Pi
Bread Making The other day I was making some bread but I forgot to put in the baking powder. You can use baking powder in bread that doesn’t require yeast. Since I didn’t have any yeast, but I had some baking powder, I figured it would work well enough. But I forgot […]
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 […]
Ideal Kindergarten Law
Old Weird Friend I had a friend way back in college who worked at 7-11. This guy was a real weirdo. This guys said his favorite part was stocking the fridge. Secret Break Time https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept29Loop.mp4 That this was a place he could escape from the customers and relax. But then later, […]
Bacon Defense Patterns
Vegan Dinner Invitation A friend of mine invited me to dinner a couple of weeks ago. He warned me that it was going to be a vegetarian dinner. Which meant that there would be a lot of vegetarian dinner. Since I love to eat meat, I was a little worried I might […]
Rat Dragon Apocalypse
Gaming Tournament There’s this pretty cool hobby shop in my neighborhood. Most of the time this is a normal place, selling normal hobby type things to normal people. But every couple of months they have these really intense underground tournaments. Where they try and make this as absolutely as possible. Trip […]
Holy Trees and Entropy
Haircut Place The other day I went to the barber to get my head shaved like I normally do every couple of weeks. My normal guy wasn’t there, and instead there was this extremely young and gorgeous woman. At first I thought she was a customer, then she motioned for me to get […]
Specialty Coffee and the Speed of Light
Shared Molecules I remember the first chemistry class I took in college. It was in one of those big auditorium type classrooms. The professor comes in and the first thing he said was to close your eyes. To think about somebody you admire. They can be alive, they can be dead, but they have […]