Six Plus Two About fifty years ago there was this guy who had a magic horse. He wasn’t really magic, but he could do basic addition and subtraction. Some guy would ask what’s two plus six, and the horse would stamp is hoof eight times. Then he’d ask what’s three minus one, […]
Jesus Origin Story
A Walk In The Park I just moved to a new neighborhood. There are lots of parks, and there’s this one walking path that kind of snakes it way through all of them. It’s a cement path for both walking and biking. Most of the parks are long and narrow. They are kind of […]
Quantum Tunneling Through Pancakes
Need A Haircut I went down to my local barber the other day to get a haircut. But they were much more crowded than normal. No worries. I didn’t have any plans that day. I’d gotten up early that day and finished all my work. I wasn’t in any hurry. I picked up a […]
Imaginary Library Lady
Library Trip The other day I went to the library and got this really awesome book. It was fiction, about this witch who slowly transformed from a good witch into a bad witch. But in the end you find out she was really kind of a bad witch after all. But it was written […]
Brain Replication and Creation
Genetically Programmed Builders Ants, beavers and bees all have one thing in common. They are genetically programmed to come into this world, take raw materials from their environment and turn those raw materials into complex functioning homes. If you went back in time a million years, you’d see bees and beaver and ants busily […]
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 […]
Protecting Market Share
Small And Hungry It’s a common phenomenon for small companies with zero market share to take a ton of risk. Since they don’t have anything to lose, and everything to gain, this makes perfect sense. Then as they slowly claw some market share and customers away from other more established, existing companies, they shift slightly. […]
Collateral Attraction
Bar Investigation A few years ago I moved to a new city. Whenever I go to a new city, one of the things I like to do is check out the local night spots. Not to try and meet anybody, I find that these places are good places to people watch. To kind of feel […]
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 […]
Metaphysical Librarian
Spiritual Bookstore Couple weeks ago I went downtown to check out this new age spiritual bookstore. I walked inside and had a lot of different crystals a lot of books on magic spells a lot of books on spirituality. There was this interesting woman reading a book. There was something about her that was […]
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