Archetype https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun08_Post.mp3 James Bond is famous for a lot of things. Probably the way he says his name. Bond. James, Bond. Not just the word order, but the energy. Total presence. Right tonality, a well placed pause that just kind of hangs there as he stares at whoever he’s talking […]
Are You Dragging Armor?
Self Help Flim Flam https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July23_Post.mp4 They say the wake doesn’t drive the boat. This is a nice metaphor. Meaning the stuff you leave behind doesn’t impact the future. Or it least it shouldn’t. But like many self-help ideas, this is a description. A description of an ideal case. Metaphors […]
Ancient Deities
Invention Categories There are many types of inventions, and many different reasons that drive the creativity that leads to inventions. But they can all be put into a few categories, based on the intentions behind them. There are the types of inventions that are to make money for the inventor, and therefore are […]
Origins Of Long Game
End of The Stone Age There are two major discoveries in human history that essentially have informed human society ever since. The very first was the change that stopped the Stone Age and began the Bronze Age. Most historians believe this happened accidentally. If you think about how they get bronze, they find bronze […]
First Supernatural Kingdom
Where’d My Toastmasters Go? A couple of weeks ago I went to my local Toastmasters meeting to give a speech. I had been practicing this speech for a couple of days. I was excited to give this speech, but when I got there there was no Toastmasters group. My Toastmasters usually meets or they […]
Perpetual Motion Machine
One Day, Killing Time One day I was hanging out and I was bored so I decided to go over to my friends house. My friend is a hobbyist and he has a lot of cool pieces of equipment in his garage. What he does is he takes these pieces of previous electronic devices […]
Origins Of Modern Civilization
History of Metal I watched a very interesting video a couple days ago about the history of metal. Not heavy metal music but actual metal. The kind of stuff you get out of the ground, melt down and form into tools that you can use. It turns out that the discovery of metal and […]
Story Of Life And Death
Garden Planning A couple of weeks ago, maybe a couple of months ago, I was standing out front of this house that I had just rented. I had written it just as winter was starting and the guy that I was renting it from said that I can do whatever I wanted to the garden. […]