TV Charisma https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar20_Post.mp4 Halt and Catch Fire is a pretty good TV show. It’s a four season show that covers the rise of the PC and the Internet. It’s a fictionalized version, but it’s pretty accurate. The competition for the first PC, then the first couple search engines, then the first browsers. […]
The Most Coveted Human Instinct
The More Things Change https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar10_Post.mp4 One of our best features as humans is something called a collective memory. Many animals can learn. One common things many “wild” animals learn is a simple equivalency. Humans = Free Food They see humans, and if they’ve learned this, the start to carefully move close. […]
End Times Theory
Corner Guy Once there was a street preacher. Who was very charismatic. Who stood on many corners. And delivered many sermons. To many people. Some walking past. Some standing transfixed. His storytelling method was perplexing. Within each story. Were many nested stories. Some very short. […]
Circular Time Travel
Ancient Discovery Once there was a calendar. A very ancient calendar. That was discovered. While searching for a sunken cargo ship. In the Aegean Sea. The calendar was strange. Not like modern calendars. We Need To Study This https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan08_Loop.mp4 After it was recovered. And cleaned up. […]
Secret Shops Selling Secret Things
Unsweetened Cakes Once there was a cake shop. That operated in a niche market. They didn’t use any sugar. They used expensive imported flower. All the cakes were white. All the cakes were round. They rarely had any customers. And they were in a busy part of town. […]
Unconscious Magic Performance
Advanced Studies Once there was a dance teacher. She didn’t teach dance movements. Or dance techniques. In fact, she requires her students to be dancers. To be advanced dancers with plenty of experience. Dancing before large crowds. Large Entry Requirements https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct18Loop.mp4 The things she would teach them. Would […]
Lost Cities Of Seclusion
Money Stacks There are a lot of interesting metaphors about money, about the amount of actual physical currency you’d need to have a certain amount. Like $10K would be like a small stack of hundreds about an inch or so thick. Or a million would be a small stack of those. And […]
Hot Dog Empire
Worse Than Drugs Processed food is not only dangerous, but it is very hard to resist. One reason is they are strategically located in the grocery stores. Sumerian Power https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May03Loop.mp4 There are a collection of ancient symbols, supposedly handed down to the ancient Sumerians by the aliens who first founded Earth. These […]
Nested Campfire Games
College Party When I was in college my friends and I like to go car camping quite a bit, mainly to sit around the campfire and play games and tell stories. One game in particular was really enjoyable, but it required that only about half of the people knew the rules. You’d have […]
Step By Step Magic
Card Tricks A long time ago I had to teach a magic class to two groups of kids. One group of five year olds, and another group of six year olds. We ended up deciding to teach them a set of self working magic tricks, along with some magic stories along with the […]
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