Foreshadowing https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug25_Post.mp4 There’s an interesting idea that was essentially invented by Shakespeare. The very first scene would, if you were paying attention, explain everything. Two dudes up on stage talking about something. Since it was the very first scene, the tendency would be to just soak it in and see what happens. […]
Eject Fakeness and Fear
Not Funny https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug17_Post.mp4 I took an improv class once. I had not idea what it was, it was recommended to me. I thought it was going to be about comedy. But it was about improv in the context of any kind of stage acting. Plays are based on memorized lines. […]
Immortal Monkey Apocalypse
Shakespeare Experiment There’s a theory that if you put enough monkeys on an island, each banging away on a typewriter, they’ll eventually produce all the works of Shakespeare. This is true in theory, so long as they bang on a typewriter long enough, a certain percentage of the random stuff they type will make […]
Malthusian Death Traps
Black Death Back during the black death, nobody knew why everybody was dying. Of course, today we know it’s because of the fleas that were on the rats. But back then, it was way before they could understand science. Way before we humans learned how to use science to increase health and […]