yesterday I was like 'welp, if I know one thing it's that today is the last day of August and that tomorrow is September.'
And, well, you can only imagine my surprise when I opened up my little calendar box at the corner of my laptop and saw that for this year only they've added an extra day to August.
I didn't know it was a secret leap year. Why didn't anyone tell me?
Was this some kind of prank? Oh, you guys got me good. Sneaking in a secret leap year to see if I'd notice. How delightful.
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A lot of people think being delusional and detached from reality is a really harmful and destructive thing. But as I've just demonstrated, it doesn't have to be. You can believe in vast conspiracies and still just have fun with it. I hope this has been helpful and don't think of this as some sort of starting point or first inkling of anything. This isn't like some clue you discover in a video game as you're wandering around the wreckage of the early levels. It's not.
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A lot of people think you can't use video game plot and framing devices in your own day to day experience but as I've just demonstrated, you can and it's actually really helpful. If there's a new hire at your work, give them tasks to complete and set up lighting to highlight the objects and places they need to go to and retrieve. And then reward them with some sort of token at the end of each mission to increase their buy-in and feelings of competence. Also if you're in an argument with someone, use your hands, facial expressions, and sound effects to sort of create the appearance of a weak point in their logic or general presentation. And then attack that ruthlessly
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A lot of people think you can't keep nesting commentary on top of commentary and call that a creative work especially when it's devoid of any real substance and at its core is about forgetting how many days a month has. And I think that's incorrect because even if something is hollow at its core that doesn't stop you from adding layers and layers of commentary on top of it. It creates the appearance of a core and an essence. Some people think that this is basically what consciousness is and that your experience of being alive is nothing but an endless wave of suggestions and illusions that seems to point at some sort of greater truth or cohesive system or answer but really it's like it's like it's like it's like
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A lot of people think. Ya know? Everybody's thinking. Probably. And surely in the same way that all our individual thoughts and emotions add up to something in the end, so too does our collective thinking make us more than a colony of ants.
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A lot of people think it's important that the achievements of mankind mean more than the works of ants and I would disagree. I think ants and their teamwork is great. I've written about this before. In July of 2024 I saw ants working together to carry like a cheesy poof or something and I thought it was really awesome and hoped to be a part of a team like that one day. And the thing I'd say about the end of the summer that was one of my favorite parts of working at camp is when me and the other counselors sat around a big piece of paper in the lodge at night and scribbled on the paper and did impressions of the kids and made jokes that were only funny to us and that was so so so so fun. And moments like that where the sauce really congeals are times that make me glad to be alive.
And also I hit a 5x5 160lbs back squat with DEEP range of motion today and it was sick.
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