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Ascetic Laboring is Coool
I’m re-reading a small book by a famous Russian Orthodox priest that lived in the 1800s, and in one part of it, a fellow named Nicholas Motovilov implied that there was some idea going around in 19th century Russia that laboring as a monk was fashionable. This is not as ridiculous as it sounds. The Continue reading
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Scaling Up Birdfeeding Operations
I was thinking to myself about something I saw on the internet. Someone was asking for advice on how to keep the large, greedy birds from eating all the birdfeed, which prevents all the small, pretty, well behaved birds from eating themselves. I’m about to put in some bird feeders myself, and while I was Continue reading
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Duel-Resource Gathering of Starlings
Drinking my coffee this morning, I’ve been watching a pair of starlings during bird breakfast hour also look for nest building materials. These two have apparently selected a forsythia bush in front of my house for their nest. The materials they seem to prefer for it are flexible and perhaps waterlogged sticks, because I saw Continue reading
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Monkeys and Dogs
I wanted to share a stream of consciousness I was having a moment ago. In India, there is a famous phenomenon that occurs there every now and then when the local monkeys go to war against the local dogs. This is usually spurred by one of the monkeys being injured or killed by a dog, Continue reading
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Food Advice and Latitude
I wanted to write a small thing real quick about a consideration I’m aware of regarding food advice. You see, where someone lives and its similarity to where you live determines the reliability of some things you learn on the internet about food, where so many people from all over the world can submit directions Continue reading
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Cheap Optics Numbers Games
I was amused this morning playing around with a cheap monocular I bought off of Amazon. It was only $15, and can be zoomed with a little twist ring, but it purports to have a magnification of 300 times! Holy crap! There is even a little video on its page on Amazon that shows someone Continue reading
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Nothing About Wars Is True
Thinking to myself about a strange phenomenon, which is that what people are told about current wars is all mostly strategically valuable fictions, and this makes society only function adequately but not optimally, because people’s mass beliefs don’t really correspond with reality. You see, we live in an era where world beliefs and opinions are Continue reading
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Bear Encounter Post-Analysis
I wanted to share some thoughts about meeting a bear in the woods yesterday. The experience has made me an overnight expert in the matter. Yesterday I did many things correct to avoid getting attacked, but there is room for improvement, and my next outing will be a bit cleaner. First of all, I think Continue reading
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Black Bear Encounter
Just came back from a day hike. I was trying to reach the top of a small mountain near my house when I had an encounter with a black bear, and decided it was wise to turn around and head back, and not try to push any farther towards the top. I was prepared for Continue reading
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