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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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Age-ed Hiker Level 9000
I was thinking to myself as I was putting together my pack for some day-hiking, that you can go to some elite outdoors outfitter, and buy a pair of shorts for between $70 to $120, OR you could go to the Dollar General and buy a pair of basketball shorts for $10. Now, with the… Continue reading
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Endless Mexican Sprawl
In the New York Times, I read (subscription may be required) about a man who lives in Mexico who was browsing the luxury items for sale on the website of the French jeweler Cartier, when he came across a pair of earrings priced at 237 pesos, which apparently is $13 US dollars. That pricing was… Continue reading
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Jost Burgi and The Inquisition
In my free time, I’ve been studying a book written in 1620 by a Swiss clockmaker named Jost Burgi. The book was called Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen, and written in German, probably because the German language was an academic language in the 1600’s, and a lot of intellectual work was done in German at… Continue reading
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Cats, Dogs, and Social Play
I was woolgathering about someone asking me if I was a cat or a dog person. People seemed to ask this question more in the past than they do now. In fact, the whole cat-dog dichotomy seems to have been more of an 80’s and 90’s idea than one that is popular today. I actually… Continue reading
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Russian Dvoeverie and Public Applied Psychology
There is a generalization about Russian spirituality, which leaves out the exceptions, such as the Hindus and Muslims to the south, and the Buddhists to the east, and it is that the people of Russia have a simultaneous duel-faith, which is Russia Orthodoxy and the pre-Christian Paganism. But to cut to the chase, ‘Paganism’ is… Continue reading
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Odysseus, Faust, Hannibal Lecter, and Reverse Meanings
“All that glisters is not gold“ – William Shakespeare I have this funny idea that the previous centuries and even the ancient world, used to warn of a type of vanity by describing how it seems, rather than how it is. Now imagine this: Say that Odysseus of The Iliad was not as smart as… Continue reading
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