Glimmers

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These conversation are cutely hilarious. One called to order a fish then they argued over whether a receipt is necessary for a fish. Then another called to ask how traffic is, then hearing it’s fine, asked them to bring one chili with them, as they were lacking one chilli.

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Patient: So, is it bacterial or viral? Doctor: It’s existential. Patient: Oh. What medications do you recommend for the existential? Doctor: First-line defense, we’ll try stoicisillin philosophosphate. If that doesn’t work, we can try nihilisamol absurdate. How does that sound? Patient: Well, Im not sure it matters, to be Frank. Doctor: That’s alright, Frank. I think we’re off to a good start.

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It is not hard to come up with complexity. The hard thing is keeping it simple while getting seemingly complex results. - Dovos on Discord 05.27.2023
enjoy bouncing ball analogy — intentful push or just gravityglimmer
“you can’t finish your book if you keep re-reading this chapter.”glimmer
something he calls “the invisible obvious” thingsglimmer
Interesting quote: “It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too frequently?“inspiration text quotes psychology health glimmer
“Moreover many kinds of beauty require that a man should take himself more seriously than is possible for an intelligent modern. A prominent citizen in a small city State, such as Athens or Florence, could without difficulty feel himself important. The earth was the center of the Universe, man was the purpose of creation, his own city showed man at his best, and he himself was among the best of his own city. In such circumstances Æschylus or Dante could take his own joys or sorrows seriously. He could feel that the emotions of the individual matter, and that tragic occurrences deserve to be celebrated in immortal verse. But the modern man, when misfortune assails him, is conscious of himself as a unit in a statistical total; the past and the future stretch before him in a dreary procession of trivial defeats. Man himself appears as a somewhat ridiculous strutting animal, shouting and fussing during a brief interlude between infinite silences.”glimmer
How Wile E. Coyote Explains The World: “On and on you will go, making sense of the world, forming notions of order, and being surprised in ways large and small by their failure, forever.” — Albert Burneko on Wile E. Coyoteglimmer
This is all among the reasons why so many tech enthusiasts have fled to - or at least spend more time on - places like the fediverse, tildeverse, gopherspace, gemini, etc. I count myself among them; I’ve been spending lots more time on these other places, and tons less time on conventional social networks. But - with maybe the exception of the fediverse - where are the non-tech folks going? Or, is it that the non-tech folks have no alternatives and either put up with the garbage, or simply diminish their overall use/exposure, I wonder?glimmer
3 people can keep a secret if 2 of them are deadglimmer
They know where the rakes are buried under the leaves.glimmer
Just like in life, the imagined obstacles are scarier than the real ones.glimmer
Fish jerky is the ultimate insult to fish. First you take the fish out of the water, then you take the water out of the fish: - How do you make fish jerky? Give them coffee.
- Overheard in the Library:
  - “We need to talk about the hamburger text.”
  - “No! We never talk about the hamburger text.”
  - I must know more.
- THE PLAN
  - In the Beginning was the plan. And then came the assumptions. And the assumptions were without form. And the plan was completely without substance. And the darkness was upon the face of the workers. And they spoke among themselves saying, “It is a crock of shit, and it stinketh.” And the workers went unto their supervisors, and sayeth unto them, “It is a pail of dung, and none can abide the odor thereof” And the supervisors went unto their managers and sayeth unto them, “It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none can abide it.” And the managers went unto the directors and sayeth unto them, “It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none can abide its strength.” And the directors spoke amongst themselves, saying one to another, “It contains that which aids plant growth, and is very strong.” And the directors went unto the vice presidents and sayeth unto them, “It promotes growth, and is very powerful.” And the vice presidents went unto the president, and sayeth unto him, “This new plan will actively promote growth and efficiency of this company, and certain areas in particular.” And the president looked upon the plan, and saw that it was good. And the plan became policy. This is how shit happens.
- r/Showerthoughts: The brain may have named itself, but it also recognized that it named itself and was surprised when it realized that. [?](The brain may have named itself, but it also recognized that it named itself and was surprised when it realized that.)
  - “They say the brain is the most important organ in the body…but then I thought, ‘Yeah, but look who’s telling me that’.” -some comedian
  - Wasn’t the brain of the scientist that named the brain the one who named itself ? Everyone else is just agreeing with the name
  - What if it wanted to be called Brian and it was just a spelling mistake that never got corrected
  - And also, upon recognizing and being surprised that it named itself, it found that fact mildly interesting as a shower thought and decided to reply.
  - Sometimes I think, “What am I thinking about?” after spacing off for a few minutes. Then I think, “Well, I’m thinking about thinking… about thinking about thing about thinking…” and then my brain short circuits and I think I feel an embolism moving up into my brain and I have a panic attack
  - the scary part is that you are not the author of your thoughts. It’s not a new idea and I recall Nietzsche talked about it, but Sam Harris has a good thought experiment for helping you observe it directly. It’s along the lines of, think of a city. Now you can’t think of any city, you can only think of the ones you know right? But it’s worse than that, you can only come up with ones that bubble up from the subconscious. You can’t decide what will come up and you have little control over that. You can come up with tricks to coax things out but there is some mechanism beyond your perception which puts thoughts from the subconscious into the conscious. So you can’t author your thoughts. You can’t decide what your curious about. You can’t decide what your tastes with regard to music, food, etc. You can’t decide what impulses arise in you. Given all that, how much free will do you really have? You can discover what you might like to eat but you can’t decide. You can’t pick from the list of things you couldn’t think of, and you can’t feel like having the things you don’t feel like.
  - I’m more amazed at the fact that the brain find way to trick itself: counting sheep to sleep, writing things down not to forget/procrastinate. It’s like, the brain state that it’s not efficient enough and find a roundabout way to find satisfaction anyway.
  - Enough hydrogen was available in a seemingly infinite universe long enough, that eventually, it contemplated itself. This kept me awake in my 30s. It brought me to the thought that thermal dynamics / entropy was the purpose for life.
- In a noisy open plan office, with one of those noise reducing helmets, SADS lamp, earplugs, white noise, popping adderall, barista delivering espressos to feeding tube, etc.glimmer
- Cat power woman: my brain wanted those sounds explodedglimmer
- army of frogs, murder of crowsglimmer
- ‘so, when are you going to lose your virginity? never. i never lose.’
- Aman: Amanita: You don’t find your worth in a man. You find your worth within yourself and then find a man who is worthy of you. Remember that.”glimmer
- Are you having an existential crisis because of glass pumpkins?glimmer
- Frailty of the English Languageglimmer
  - Hood of card & Hood of hoodie sweatshirt
  - Jarring of the joints on the knee, jarring a jar?
- “hubris and shit”. “I think I want to be a better person” song exploder how to dress well pour cereal song expander
  - Because aren’t you supposed to feel something when they dieglimmer glimmer
- At least probably not usually.glimmer
- You’re welcome, maybeglimmer
- Fatberg - “A giant obstruction made up of hardened fat, oil, wet wipes and other waste items – called a fatberg.”glimmer
- Shoot a pilot, double endtendre (movie, crime)glimmer
- Charming little jerk Hayes legal whips and chains and racehorse Haynesglimmer
- Doorknob problem, patient asks right as you prepare to leave the room and a note important problemglimmer
- We had a cadaver with a very large and very tiger stripe tattooed penis. This was the only tattoo this man had, for use on all of our anatomy exams (you walk around the room to different parts/bodies and identify whatever is tagged, and this specimen was always identifiable by the only laughing medical student as they kept rotating around the room).glimmer
“Tequila makes my clothes fall off” -random guy at Monkeypod Kitchen in Waileaglimmer
Mother machine, rebuild itself. Rebuild civilization.glimmer
My mother is Ada Lovelace, son of the analytical machine, poetical scienceglimmer ai
Why Are Dogs So Friendly? Williams Syndrome - source & reddit: TIL that when humans domesticated wolves, we basically bred Williams syndrome into dogs, which is characterized by “cognitive difficulties and a tendency to love everyone”
“Water is a beverage whose flavor is its temperature. source: Did you figure this out by drinking the water in the shower? Really valid showerthought this one”
“Only if you love me more. I will certainly live you something. I will live you more… Orthogonally.” //glimmer
“I like to set Google Home to the male voice, because it’s really the only time I get to hear a male consistently say: I don’t know how to do that, over and over again.”
“that’s something you can’t really know, without first putting it onto a child ” no context glimmer
“she is just a little girl who doesn’t smile anymore” i’d burn his whole fucking world down.
“When you hear voices, and you stop. Is that hearing loss? :)”
Push button purchase, and a drone flies in to deliver someone a condom
staple metalloptysis: “coughing up metal staples.” Source: Coughed up a stapleI cough up this wee staple and suddenly felt much better. I consulted Dr Google and apparently the term for this is staple metalloptysis. Lol ptysis is just a suffix that means “coughing shit up.” So staple metalloptysis is just a fancy pseudo Latin/Greek way of saying “coughing up metal staples.”
Ejecting electric fuzzy navel
The thin edge of a wedge… is a good foot in the door… metaphor
“That’s gay. Like, homosexual gay.”
Yes, I get it: the integral of caring over time
People who mind don’t matter, the people who really matter don’t mind.
Brain worm
The Internet, where the men are men, the women are men and the children are FBI agents
You’re building a tunnel, starting from two sides, and nobody has agreed on where they are going to meet.
- “I need to put on my Erik”
It rains diamonds on Saturn, and Jupiter.
enjoy bouncing ball analogy — intentful push or just gravity
People completely shave orangutans and force them into prostitution.
“The Perpetual Pedantic Push for Pointless Planning, Prevents Passionate People from Producing Perfection” from “Prior planning and preparation prevents piss-poor performance”
Whale vaginas the size of living rooms: Blue whales don’t have enough blood in their body to get an erection, they would pass out from lack of blood in the brain, to compensate female blue whale vaginas are the size of an average living room
“Is that impressive? Yes, in the same way the floor is ‘impressive’ when it’s there stop you when you trip.”
An animal known by all, but seemingly seen by nobody who has survided. A lion or wolf who has killed hundreds.
My grandson was pretty late in her Alzheimers and toasted a shot with “shit to the crowd”
Cop uses cigarette and water bottle to catch a ghost:
- My mom was a police officer. She tells the story of an old woman who called the police almost weekly complaining that there was a ghost in her house. They’d go in, check it out, and tell her they couldn’t find anything.
- One day, one of the guys on her squad gets dispatched to this lady’s house. He busts in, worriedly, and asks if she has a 2 litre bottle. She nods back solemnly with wide eyes and empties out a Coke bottle she had.
- “Ma’am, I’m gonna have to ask you to wait outside. It could get messy.”
- She runs outside to the front porch. The cop walks upstairs, lights up a cigarette and blows the smoke into the 2L bottle. He chills for a minute or two, then comes running out of the house, triumphantly holding the smoke-filled bottle, screaming “I’ve got the ghost! I’ve got the ghost!”
- He threw it into the back of his Crown Vic, and sped off. They never got a call from the lady again.
Come out of the bathroom after showering and freshening up, it smells like someone knocked over a jar full of polka dots or something.
Daddy, the ocean is stealing your footprints:
- I pick her up and she has her eyes closed tight, she kind of burps and a bunch of water comes out of her mouth and nose. I let her catch her breathe and I put her down. From there, she wants to hold my hand because she’s afraid of the ocean now. Instead, I pick her up and walk maybe 50 feet out until I’m mid-stomach in water and I have a little of a Mufasa moment with her.
- “Look out there Jocelyn. That’s the ocean. It is MASSIVE. Larger than our little brains can ever perceive. People spend their life mastering it and will never see it in its entirety. It’s beautiful. It houses 95% (I made it up, whatever) of the Earth’s life. People can get lost in it daily and it will kill you if you give a chance to. So, when we’re playing near water, it’s okay, but don’t ever think for a minute that you are safe around it. It WANTS to kill you, but it’s a lot of fun.”
- With that, I wade back to shore and we start heading back up the beach towards our stuff. At some point, she’s picking up seashells and I hear her gasp.
- (Mind you, I am walking in the tide.)
- Her: “Daddy! The ocean is stealing your footprints!”
- Me: ಠ_ಠ “You’re adorable.”
- Her: throwing seashells at the ocean “DIE YOU BASTARD!!! DIE!!! JUST! DIE! DAMMIT!” (she undoubtedly learned those words from watching me play StarCraft…ZvT…of course)
Food is your best medicize
Live another live in a dream / coma
“What do you want to do? You mean, some sort of activity? NO, because you can do activities at home, dear.”
China Town Boston… Sneeze some Taiwan on my brick building please.
Ask for a sax (axe)
We couldn’t think of anything so we wrote everything
Obesity, book about eating disorders is the biggest book on the shelf.
Drop kick a bee into a black van
TIL that the difference between farther and further is that “farther” refers to an actual physical distance, while “further” is used in a distance that cannot be really observed and measured. For example “He furthered his education”, and “The homes were farther apart “. Farther - literal distance Further - metaphorical distance Father - emotional distance
Cicada 3301 reddit & wiki-article —TIL of a secret society called Cicada 3301, that has on six occasions posted puzzles and alternate reality games (some lasting years) in an attempt to recruit code breakers from the public.
Maybe the grass seems greener on the other side because you’re not over there fucking it up. reddi-thread
Cow computer
Quote, “Cannot sustain the weight of _____, falling into the depths of ______… inhale/snort, Mreow, was I talking just now?” sleepingglimmer
I mean, your fat, or you were triggered by your catglimmer scriboto allergies
The sentence “Don’t objectify women” has “women” as the object of the sentence. glimmer
…call it an autobiographtree ?glimmer: Plant a tree and take a picture every month for years, then when the tree is big enough, cut it down and print the photos of its entire life on paper you make from the tree…
Cheese is just a loaf of milk.glimmer
Twins paradox ?: If you are a twin that’s rare… so you’re unique. But you’re not actually unique, because there are 2 of you. And the more there are of you, triplets, quadruplets, etc, the more rare that is, but also the less unique.
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Pencil Lead facts and wordplay wordplay glimmer - TIL that pencils historically never had lead in them, they in fact always had graphite. When graphite was discovered, it was thought to be a form of lead, hence calling it “lead” in the pencil. - Pencils also used to be painted with lead-based paint, which lead to mild lead poisoning in people who chewed on them or simply used them a lot - Just to add, I took Lead Abatement training, lead taste sweet which is why children will eat paint chips. I have other facts if interested? - Lead consumed by people stays in the bones for up to 30 years. In males, lead can damage the DNA in Sperm cause birth defects in their children. - According to Chinese version of Wikipedia regarding pencil or 铅笔 (literal meaning is leaded pen), it’s called leaded pen because ancient Roman uses lead to write. Then someone in England found graphite, which initially thought to be a darker form of load, hence calling it the graphite inside the pencil “lead” for a period of time. Pencils historically had lead in them, if you consider those used by the Romans are pencil. - The colour orange, however, is named after the fruit. Before orange became popular, we would refer to it as yellow red or red yellow.
- Phlegm Fataleglimmer
- TV show of boiling waterglimmer
- Quantum superpositionglimmer
- Toast catglimmer
- It looks like he removed a ring. Likely the goose gnawed someone’s finger off for quietly walking by within 50 metres of it. There was a reddit post a long time ago that described Canada Geese as “cobra chickens”. Best description of these little buggers.glimmer
- Boyle’s list of scientific projectsglimmer
  - Photos
    - The Prolongation of Life.
    - The Recovery of Youth, or at least some of the Marks of it, as new Teeth, new Hair colour’d as in youth.
    - The Art of Flying.
    - The Art of Continuing long under water, and exercising functions freely there.
    - The Cure of Wounds at a Distance.
    - The Cure of Diseases at a distance or at least by Transplantation.
    - The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions.
    - The Emulating of Fish without Engines by Custome and Education only.
    - The Acceleration of the Production of things out of Seed.
    - The Transmutation of Metalls.
    - The makeing of Glass Malleable.
    - The Transmutation of Species in Mineralls, Animals, and Vegetables.
    - The Liquid Alkaest and Other dissolving Menstruums.
    - The making of Parabolicall and Hyperbolicall Glasses.
    - The making Armor light and extremely hard.
    - The practicable and certain way of finding Longitudes.
    - The use of Pendulums at Sea and in Journeys, and the Application of it to watches.
    - Potent Druggs to alter or Exalt Imagination, Waking, Memory, and other functions, and appease pain, procure innocent sleep, harmless dreams, etc.
    - A Ship to saile with All Winds, and A Ship not to be Sunk.
    - Freedom from Necessity of much Sleeping exemplify’d by the Operations of Tea and what happens in Mad-Men.
    - Pleasing Dreams and physicall Exercises exemplify’d by the Egyptian Electuary and by the Fungus mentioned by the French Author.
    - Great Strength and Agility of Body exemplify’d by that of Frantick Epileptick and Hystericall persons.
    - A perpetuall Light.
    - Varnishes perfumable by Rubbing.
- She worked with plants her whole life, and always had a green thumb. Now she has a green tongue. glimmer: In reference to Rob Roy’s mom trying cannabis tincture without knowing what it was.
- Instead of highlighting a persona’s past failures, align on important successes for the future; rumination on past noes won’t surface most important yeses.glimmer
- So you can believe in Angels but can’t believe a woman could succeed atwriting a novelglimmer
- This is a comment on a link to an article about books about thinking about thinkingglimmer
- Wedge and hedgeglimmer
- Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.glimmer
- Mountain lion is scary, mounted lion is hilarious, mounted lion head is sadglimmer co-ai
- Word playglimmer co-ai
- Cloze, clothes, cloth, clonazepam
- Blow: into Nintendo cartridge, drug use ⇒ Hit
- Guys: 1 guy date, 2 guys party meeting, 3 guys penny, 4 guys, - 5 guys, burgers
- put your hands up co-ai
- namecheap.com
- Georgia Moses polly class differentiation coming ofresearch co-ai
- Mexicans are simultaneously stereotyped for being lazy and for taking people’s jobs.glimmer
- Plane theft links for inspiration comingof.ai
  - The man who stole a plane said he didn’t need much help: ‘I’ve played some video games’ call if the void intrusive thought
  - Link Link Link
- When saying cheers, you may be performing an encantation decantation. I can’t even.glimmer co-ai
- Be holding, beholden, Holden caulfield, James Holdenglimmer co-ai
- One eye to eye third eye, four eyes eye Patchglimmer co-ai
- When America gives subsidies to Hamburg, Germany… they effectively become “Hamburger Helpers”glimmer writing co-ai

Quotes

Knock knock. Race condition. Who’s there?

Animals

One humming bird dead, its needle nose stuck in a tree after piercing another one.
Idle crows
toothpick fish; candiru swims into the gill cavities of other fish, erects a spine to hold itself in place:
- The candiru or canero (Vandellia cirrhosa) or toothpick fish is a freshwater fish in the group commonly called the catfish. It is found in the Amazon River and has a reputation among the natives as the most feared fish in its waters, even over the piranha. The species grows only to a size of an inch in length and is eel shaped and translucent, making it almost impossible to see in the water. The candiru is a parasite. It swims into the gill cavities of other fish, erects a spine to hold itself in place, and feeds on the blood in the gills, earning it a nickname as the “vampire fish of Brazil”. It is feared by the natives because it is attracted to urine or blood, and if the bather is nude it will swim into an orifice (the anus or vagina, or even in the case of smaller specimens the penis—and perhaps deep into the urethra
“Almost everything has a purpose, but almost nothing is a porpoise, but statistically speaking, almost nothing is a porpoise”
Rat tail broken in a hamster’s wheel
Kids go squirrel-shooting
A cat eats someone’s poem
A fly in the amber
Someone pulls wings from a butterfly
Painted elephant

Gender & sexuality

Sex and death
- Love and sex marked by the smell of a science lab: preservatives, formaldehyde
- A screeching of car tires reminds someone of sex.
- Probability of pregnancy when having unprotected sex is about 1:6. So is the chance of death in a round of Russian Roulette.
- Sex as inescapably allied to death
- Sex with dead people really is sweatless love. Person-less strategy.
Sex and plants/nature
- The smell of freshly-cut grass is actually a plant distress call
- From flowery to deflowery
- A stigma that comes with pleasure
- Well-oiled honey-hole
  - A woman’s sexual awakening described w/ nature imagery
Innuendo, word play, misc quotes
- Cunning linguist
- ‘hysterical’ as Freudian reference for hysterectomy
- “Misogynist? But, I give terrible back-rubs.”
- Puritans were people who couldn’t call “cocks” cocks — stupid roosters.
- Girls are sugar and spice and everything nice; women are spices in an open wound
- “Breasts are like lions at the public library, they’re free to check out”
- “Sexy is desperate”
Kink & preferences
- Asphyxiate himself
- Man tries Vampirism for the first time in the local convenience store
  - One morning my girlfriend and I went to 7/11 to buy bus tickets and right when we were about to pay the cashier, a ratchet looking man barges out of the bathroom covered in blood from head to toe with bloodshot eyes. He swiftly walks to my side and yells at the cashier shouting, “You can fucking keep this!” As he violently threw a pack of skittles at the counter. The cashier then calls out saying, “Wait-!” But the man ran out of the store. The cashier then shook his head and casually said; “Sorry about that.” And everything went back to normal like nothing happened. I have no idea what the backstory to that was.It depends on the owner and place, but this happens. Mostly in smaller to medium sized cities, there’s a thing with vampirism (FBI has a report on this because some blood turns out to be human), and some places will offer either blood from a butcher / meat plant or variants of red corn syrup or other types of red-dyed viscous liquid.
  - What happened in this case is the guy that came in is just getting his feet wet in rural vampirism, and was told that that 7/11 is cool and will hook you up. ‘Vampires’ are told that drinking blood gives them various abilities or functions like a universal panacea (doesn’t have to be blood for certain ‘abilities’, but it should cover the body in the case of it not being blood; otherwise, it should just be consumed).
  - So the guy gives the codeword to the cashier and the cash, but the cashier can probably tell he’s new to vampirism so suggests something sweet to consume simultaneously with the blood. New Vampire asks for a recommendation, cashier suggests Skittles.
  - Thing is: never go to a convenience store for vampirism, especially not 7/11, because nothing will be fresh even though it’s cheaper. You go to a club or restaurant. So New Vampire gets his bucket, goes to the bathroom to drink, but the fucking blood is congealed and thick at the top so he turns the bucket further and further up, trying to get the blood to come down, until it’s almost upside down and right at that moment the thick hard congealed blood clot holsing the liquid blood beneath it slips out and all the blood pours all over him. He’s fucked now and so are his Skittles, and I don’t think he’s going to try vampirism to cure his ED again.
  - This actually happens more often than you’d think. source
- Couple always has sex while listening to a lullaby played from a childhood music box.
- “Transvestites are ambiguous; this is just confusing.”
- A man licks his lips, as ladies lap the buildings (latte, latina)
Inverted social norms
- Revoke laws against public nudity.
- Only girls are charged in a ‘sex under the age of consent’ case.

People

Street people
- Bagpipes that shoot fire
- Hate preachers
- Greasy cardboard
- Jesus-loving hookers
- Tonsured monks
- Someone drops teeth into a beggars coin cup
- Two girls riding one bike, singing
- The artists formerly known as ‘the Eskimos’
Handicapped
- Person with Down Syndrome and Autism runs paper shredder business; her inability to read/write is in fact the secret to her success
- Handicapped man in a wheel chair, stares down at a compostable box full of nothing but bacon.
- Above “gross” but below “refinement”
Children
- A bunch of adults are pretending to be children
- A child calls chocolate milk ‘brown milk’
- Someone feeds a baby apricots
- 1. “Daddy, fix the moon.”
- 1. … “the sun will never get to see the fireworks”
- 1. … And even the most stark and objective are sometimes compelled to stare upon the moon and believe that it was placed there for a reason.
- 1. I’ll email you a moon-crater
- negative affects that the “Don’t Talk to Strangers” campaign has had on socialization.
- A dangerous age
- Mother’s wit
Relationships
- A marriage certificate is essentially the opposite of a restraining order. ?
- Dating is just a series of interviews to become a partner at a two-person company whose only mission is sustaining mutual happiness. ?
- - It is easier to kick someone out, that you have first invited in
- - Trust VS Truth
- Eliminate the concept of “race” and replace it with “culture.”
- Hen-pecked
- Squints into the hoot of presto-love
- “What do you want to do? You mean, some sort of activity? NO, because you can do activities at home, dear.”
- “You think they did. I know they did not. Such is life.”

Character

Physical
- She smelled of buttered oatmeal and sweet lavender
- Chest-hair like astro-turf
- Toes tanned like a checker-board, like grilled Vienna sausages
- Ear-lobes like dried apricots
- Large, intimidating breasts
Hates / fear
- Hates children
- Fear of belly-button perforation
- Marinate in the juices of my hatred
- “Don’t waste your life worrying whether you are loved”
- Connubial fears
- Allergic to chocolate
Desire
- A longing for self-wholeness
- Wants unconditional love without loving self to love others
  - Wants to be loved unconditionally, but does not love self enough to love others (albeit delusional in thinking that they would or could or do given their limitations)
- A taboo desire that hurts nobody
- Proclaim one’s plan, one’s pain
Personality
- ‘tsundere oyaji’
  - ‘Old man who secretly cares but pretends not to because he’s feeling like he cannot reveal his true intentions, often resulting in his actions being perceived as cute.’
- Selective deepness
- Naive and arrogant
- Lonely eccentric
- People have a universal desire for the lies of definition.
- Supernatural virtue
- Individuality, ego
- Universal ambition
- Personal symbolism
- Misc personality traits
  - Hypersexual
  - Verbal
  - Introspective
  - Crass
  - Depressed
  - Loathes Hypocracy
  - Alcoholic
  - Honest
  - Judgemental
  - Demanding
  - Overanalytical
  - Dramatic
  - Personally Spiritual
  - Medicated
  - Self Actualized
  - Confident
  - Threatened
  - Egotistical
Identity
- Sued by life
- Experience requires motion
- Human (N) Being (V)
- You should not define yourself by what you do not do
- And we are simpletons, or well-intentioned liars.
- If we are to be damned, let us be damned for who we really are.
- “What if—despite being an economist (or ‘X’)—you are, in fact, a human being.”
Behaviors
- I make three very small dots on the bottom right corner of any document I read.
- Pull straight hair for ears and nose: I will pull out hairs, one at a time until I find a perfect straight one… the kinda twirl it between my thumb and index finger… and tickle the inside on my ear canal. Also in my nose until I sneeze about 15 times.
- I blink for each lamppost while driving
- Vacuum my head after a haircut.
- I blow in cups before I use them most of the time.
  - I blow in cups before I use them most of the time. I blow in cups before I use them most of the time. I pull them out of the cupboard and blow some air into them. Usually discretely. Two quick puffs in rapid succession. My fiancee knows I do it and I assume other people close to me do too. It stems from a weird childhood habit I picked up to try to blow spiders out of cups in case there were any in there. I just never put in the conscious effort to stop doing it.
- I can’t open a can of pop without tapping on the top of it 3 times with my nails.
- If I’m laying in bed with my wife, I will slow my breathing to get in sync with hers.

Drugs & dreams

Psychadelic imagery
- Slather things with consciousness
- Drifted through the Bronx
- Tattoo the inside of your stomach by eating perls
- Hopeful hopelessness
- Opened your senses; left them dilated
- Feathery foam
- The lush response to the small provocation
- Visually syncopating
- Grand swell
- Someone is forced to raise hands in complete darkness
- Give birth to your tongue
- Flies-eye-view
- Glimmers in the photo room
Dreams
- Quicksand in a lucid dream
- Brains constructs vivid imagery but can’t draw: My brain constructs highly detailed and vivid scenes during dreams, yet I can’t draw a stick figure better than your average 7 year-old.
Inverted social norms
- Prescription durg commercials are banned
- Psilocybin sold as ‘quit smoking’ aid
Psychadelic quotes
- “Ethereal crap”
- I don’t have time… or… no spine
- “Divergence… later”
Alcohol
- DTs/seizures from withdrawal: Someone experiencing DTs (delirium tremens) & seizures from alcohol withdrawal
- Yoga teaches you to beat DUI sobriety tests

Death, war

A car falls over the edge of a cliff, and the driver turns the radio on mid-fall.
Take away the day
A dead body tips the undertaker
Leaders eat last
A group of people struggle with a coffin
In the context of butchery
“You died to be a foot-note”
Cataclysm in repose
Someone dies while playing chess
Military theatre
Death by a thousand cuts
Black Axe: (property damage, punishable by death)

Religion

A man tells a women to “stop living in the past, let’s think about the future.” Then appeals to Yehova, “Have the strength through ‘The Was, Is, and Will Be”
- Airport lounge, old guy talking loudly to wife or secretary “stop living in the past, let’s think about the future.” Starts quoting something that sounds Bible-ish, something about having strength through the was, is, and will be. She can’t hear the “will be” part of the quote, so he keeps repeating “will be” finally spelling it out “W-I-L-B-E”
Don’t just worship at the shrine of difference
Tolerable blessing
Tight minister
The nonmetallic quality of the sinner creates a new self-holiness
Transport mormons
- On the official website of the Mormon faith, you can request a free copy of the Book of Mormon. On closer inspection, one will find an optional checkbox that—when selected—invites a representative to visit their home to explain the Book of Mormon to you. Of course, the mischeviously minded will quickly realize that—simply by entering an alternate name and address—you can effectively use this mechanism to transport Mormons to friends or foes with the mere click of a button.
Companies competing over Shamans
- There is a little town in Mexico called Chamula where shamans started using Coca Cola in their religious rituals to heal worshippers. Pepsi heard about this and began giving commissions to shamans if they recommended Pepsi instead, so then Coca Cola did the same and there are now rival religious groups based on which soft drink they use.
Communion wafers shaped like body parts so you know what part of Jesus you’re eating

Lit reference

Semi-colon of modernism
“This poem needs less, because… less is more”
Nouns are adjectives. Watch me: Peach. Peachy!
“I’m not going to talk about the fucking plums”
It’s not really a process, it’s a struggle
Writer as a butcher
Filled with pressure like the non-teachableness of a sub-plot
Condense the James
Non-absorptive reading
Flash language
Flagrant authorial ingenuity
“A jumble of music, poor grammar, and romantic… grammar”
Origami poem
Rich and written
Still, a little more than slightly

Business / tech

Office & management
- Manager idioms
  - Umbrella manager
  - Albatross manager (swoop and poop)
  - Funnel manager
- Massaging a cloud
- “Keep the cheese, I just want out of this trap”
- Life as carceral solitude
- Male takes off belt in an otherwise empty office room w/ female employee. Proceeds to show notches of weight loss instead of the assumed.
- Tells himself it’s Friday: everyday when he gets to work, he tells himself is Friday, and it sounds crazy but it it helps him feel better and less stressed
- “Because… reasons…”
- Claim to shame
- Tales of the tribe
- Only speaks the language of their occupation
Inverted social norms
- Full crack down on false advertising (expectations vs reality). / Behind billboards
- strong government grant projects to support artists.
Science / technology
- Secrets are locked away in disconnected data
- Judge the importance of a field of study by the number of people killed in the name of the study.
- “It’s not that I have confidence that scientists are always right, it’s that I have confidence that no-scientists are so often wrong.”
- Theme parks can snap a crystal clear picture of you on a roller coaster at 70 mph, but bank cameras can’t get a clear shot of a robber standing still.
- Invest in protein folding research.
- “AliceBot would be the Internet fun-hole”
- A doctor is concerned with a balance between longevity and happiness/pleasure

Music / dance

They were simple words, shared in melody and harmony: a hum of meaning, expressed through tones.
Loud music breaks glass in the streets
Walk in one someone half-asleep listening to Pink Floyd
“Time-corrected rain” sounds like all other rain, so what’s the point?”
Do you remember ‘that very dance’ or all the dances ever danced, as one? Or, having dances, all the memories without a *(worries, return?)

Objects

Uniques
- Plastic bottle filled with cigarettes
- A baby doll’s severed plastic arm reaching through a sandy beach for a used syringe
- Mirror in the dark
- Frozen icicle tear below a statue’s eye. Statues are the things you back into while looking at paintings.
Food
- Cigars
- Strawberry, low-fat milk
  - Mangos / salsa
- Squidsicles
- Police flavored ice-cream: donuts and coffee
- Orange rinds
- Burnt almonds
- Edible flowers
- Stale cream-puffs
- “You were okay until I fed you”
Clothes
- Galligaskins
- White cotton gloves
- A leather jacket made of 7 cows
Single words
- Sidelong
- Blue-granite
- Rubicund
- Witch-hazel
- Flagons
- Fly-bottle
- Organdy
- Murmurs
- Faraway
- Precipice
- Flogged
- Fissure
- Cannulae
- Weathercocks

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