Way Back When https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan20_Post.mp3 The origin story of Christmas goes way back before Jesus. Dec 21 is the shortest day of the year. The longest night. And it’s pretty cold. If you were an old school farmer, you couldn’t grow anything during winter. So winter represented harsh times. Halloween […]
Master The Magic Triangle
Circular Lines https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug23_Post.mp4 A lot of cool ideas are discovered independently. Like the Pythagorean formula. Most kids are taught this in junior high school. The idea (A^2 + B^2 = C^2) is pretty simple. You’ve got a right triangle. One side, another side, and the hypotenuse. Like you’ve got […]
Artificial Energy Shapes
Square Apples I saw this video recently about a farm in Japan that makes square apples. When they are very young, they put them in a square box. Then by the time they are large, they are square. In Japan, square fruit is very expensive. Fusion Around The Corner https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar08Loop.mp4 Back […]
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 […]
How To Persuade Like The Sun
One thing I really like is metaphors, both reading them and coming up with them. Here’s one I heard the other day that I particularly like. When a lot of people persuade, they try and “overpower” their listener with all kinds of logic, features and benefits. Or if you’re trying to pick up a girl, […]