19b. Which of the statements below best characterizes your attitude towards particles?
⚪️ Particles do not concern me.
⚪️ Particles rarely concern me.
🔘 I regard particles with some concern.
⚪️ Particles often concern me.
⚪️ I am profoundly concerned about particles.
I would thrive as a third world country police officer. Leaning on my AK47. Collecting bribes. Sitting in front of a building drinking tea. Move along. Papers Please. Halt. And so on
when I mention Arby’s, you’re likely already picturing a specific location
maybe one down the street, or that you went to growing up, maybe it’s not even there anymore
this is your “Mind Arby’s” and with training you can go to this Arby’s at any time and from any place
Coach: You are familiar with Sun Wukong, gentlemen — King of Monkeys. One of the great running backs of antiquity—yet He had no cleats, no helmet. Nothing but what?
Team: The Tao, Ever-Flowing, Coach
Coach: And where did he ride it?
Team: To the great Endzone in the sky, Coach
The Odyssey must have seemed like such a goofy title when it came out. Imagine if someone nowadays wrote a book about a guy named Steve and called it The Stevening and it was taught it every school 1000 years later
my 92 y/o granddad telling me about christmas in 1930s czechoslovakia: and then the man would come with his bear, and we'd give him money, to help him keep it. he needed the bear for his work.
me: what was his work?
granddad: well every christmas he'd come round with his bear
"are people supposed to be aware of every single piece of literature" is not the thing you say when referring to probably the second most influential piece of literature to ever exist
Teaching a grey alien how to drive stick in a 1994 Mazda Miata. "I love how she corners," he remarks, "Not that dissimilar from flying an orb." I say, "You're right. You're absolutely right."