Half-baked ideas:

Status is like a car; you need something to drive it on.

Having a good attitude, the eastern way, is powerful, but does it lessen your drive? Being content is the opposite of accession, which is the cause of all improvement.

I call certain beautiful or interesting places "zones", slang from the days when finding a place to hang out in peace was a major concern. A private place is like your own property, sort of. Zones commonly occur along rivers, shorelines, railroad tracks, power line corridors (bad for you), vacant lots, abandon buildings, behind buildings, parts of parks such as the matanence area, under bridges, balconies of closed buildings with open stairs, closed golf courses and cemeteries, water towers, etc. Hanging out under a bridge might not sound beautiful, but it is if you find the right one. I could stretch out totally and sleep in my bug and my Honda crx. If you take out your passager seat and part of the back seat you can put in a large flat piece of wood. Bring padding, bedding and a car cover and your set to travel cheep.

I have put chairs in the most beautiful places imaginable. I use to live on a giant mesa which had a football field sized paved area overlooking a valley, freeway and the ocean. I would sing and laugh and yell like I was crazy, close my eyes and stager around like a drunk. I saw deer and other animals. I was only 5 minutes from work. When I worked in a different place I found a zone near there.

Also in Serento valley (a tech industrial area with lots of open space) I spent many hours at an abandon shack by a stream. I cleaned it up, leveled out the dirt floor, and leaned up big pieces of wood to cover one of the two missing walls. It was great in the rain. The stream would rise 8 feet, almost overflowing. The shack was right next to the 8-foot drop and right at a weird bend in the stream; very beautiful and overgrown. At night I sometimes burned candles. I decorated the place with cool junk and debree form the area. A rat was nesting in one of the walls and a possum would cruse by at about the same time each night; to hear me sing, I assume.

When you are with someone and they get scared, for example, it will give you strength to not be afraid or vise-versa. This sort of thing occurs more than you might think.

The brain senses the change in chemical equilibrium caused by drugs and reacts against it. This reaction outlasts the effects of the drug, causing an effect opposite to the drugs effect. Even if this were not the case, coming back to normal would feel extra "low" compared to where you were. Hangovers and withdraw from opiates feel bad because those drugs make you feel good. On the other hand, with a drug which makes you creative, when you come down you swing into the analytical side of your brain. It is more like a transmission than a booster, so withdraw is not bad but rather like getting two drugs for the price of one.

A common cause of homelessness is having too much pride to work for other people. Big cites and even phones can cause isolation. If something does not seem ironic, you might not be looking deep enough.

Alphabetization is a valuable abstraction that the Chinese lack (I think). Among other things, it is an agreed upon system of organization, making it a universal table of contents.

Is it better to work on your faults or your abilities? More headway can be made on faults, but the efficiency of division of labor has created an atmosphere where being a jack of all trades is less in demand. However, both generalization and specialization can often get you where you are going. There are creative, well-rounded scientists and "scientific" formula using artists.

Because the public can only hold so many celebrity in mind at a time, a small top strata exists whose members are very over-exalted.

Waste can undo almost any advancement.

The truth hurts once but a lie hurts forever.

Dangerous activities are for people who cant handle dangerous thought.

Oppression works, so watch out!

Fancy things are marbles for the dumb.

Human made things are frozen life: sake`rid. Waste is an insult to life.

A showoff is like a slut. They are names that dumb people call great people, hoping to make smartness seem like a crime. The same motive to level the competition has caused people to make embarrassment seem like humiliation. Embarrassment should feel great because it is caused by being seen feeling proud or trying to show off.

People find it hard to just sit and think with our any distraction, yet it is vital. In fact, the purpose of many actions is to be detracted.

The injustices of McCarthyism are suppose to be serving us as a warning but most people don’t understand it or have forgotten.

Men’s nipples shows the extent that all sex dependent traits are suppressed when not needed.

The law makes war and feud unnecessary, just as money makes barter unnecessary. Breaking land into lots is the best thing government ever did.

Many of my best times would not have been so fun if I could have seen into the future a little. However, by the time the truth is known, they can’t go back and take your fun away. This is the value of illusion.

You would think I am dying to hear me lament of loneliness. However, would I give up my glasses for a true love? Would I live in a canyon and eat grubs? Would I give up shoes and live barefoot for a lover? Only for a wile. My pankerous, which i treet like dirt, is worth more to me than my best friend. This may show that I am not relly so bad off.

DNA is a template. Wax and clay are natural templates in that they record the shape of what imprints them. Clay can "grow" in the sense that its crystalline structure can act as a template or catalyst, upon which more clay of the same type will form like a stalagmite. The first DNA is thought by some to have piggybacked on such clay. Some simple natural molecules form chains which form rings and spheres because they have a chemical affinity for each other. Carbon will bond with more carbon on any of its 4 sides. These were the start of cell walls, but first they simply conveyed resistance against erosion to its clay host.

Things have color when light hits them because the light excites the electrons of the atoms on their surface. When these excited electrons jump back to their regular orbital they give off a color of light whose energy corresponds to the energy they received. White things have enough different orbital energy states on their surface to absorb and re-admit all the freqs we see (the sun and lightbulbs send them all). Clear things have optically un-reactive electrons. Green things absorb all but green light. Black things absorb visible light and emit it in the infrared (heat) freq. range.

The opposite of black is something that absorbs non-visible light or electrons and re-admits the energy as visible light. Some things that glow, such as phosphorus, produce a spectrum that includes each of the 3-freqences humans see.

TVs have a filament so electrically charged it arks out like lightning. The electric field generated by the coils of copper wire in TVs pull this lightening back and forth and right and left across the screen. This is done by sending a consistently pulsing supply of energy to the coils. The coils do not receive data. The eye knows when blue light hits it because it contains a molecule that reacts only to blue light. Blue light will break half a double bond allowing part of the molecule to rotate on the remaining single bond. This causes a nerve cell to fire. In a TV camera light is focused onto a TV screen shaped thing covered with dots of something whose electric properties change when it is hit with visible light, just like our eyes are. No mater what kind of change occurs to the substance, if it happens consistently, it will accurately reflect the changes in the amount of light which hit it. Anything that is not clear has this property; sense light changes its electron orbitals. The dots on the screen shaped "lens" are checked to see if they are excited and the yes or no responses are the TV signal. (I.e.; first row, first dot blue yes, red yes; first row, second dot yellow yes etc.) By checking the dots one at a time, row by row, at the same speed the monitor scans rows, keeps it all straight. Feedback (resonance) allows speeds to be controlled very accurately. In this way a TV and a TV camera are the same thing in reverse.

Many laws punish you bases on the result of your actions, not your intentions. It is sensible to fine someone if they crash into your car even though they did not mean it, but should they have to pay $200,000 if you were driving a Rolls? What if he hit a motorcycle instead and killed the guy? The same mistake would have been small if he hit a large truck. Insurance hides this flaw in the system by acting as a buffer. It spreads out the costs over time and over many people.

When the government sets rates, insurance becomes another socialist function. High-risk people must be accepted and their extra costs are spread around. Also, insurance obscures the true cost of mistakes, making people reckless. People’s cars would not be so fancy and medical care would not be so expensive if people had to pay out of their pockets. Also, if you are insured and not above average risk, you are helping to support a huge industry whose value is questionable. If the average person saved the money they spend on insurance, it would have to be more than their return. It is a sub-concish greed, a hope to get more than you put in, that keeps the system rolling. It is like gambling, many little payments, but assuming you will hit a jackpot.

They give ribbons for second place because nothing short of a dirt clod is cheaper than ribbon.

Dumb people help by slowing down progress. If "progress" were much faster it would be too risky.

Boredom is a good sign that you are refusing to do the fun things you know are not worthy.

"She thought she missed him, but the feeling was really just withdraw from the second-hand smoke he produced."

Some people want to own their own house so they don’t have to pay rent. However, you are always paying rent in the sense that you could be renting out the place you live. The sacrifice of that money is your "rent".

Greatness is likable with craziness because the mind is like a motor. You have to run it hard to get the most out of it. Many great people were very weird and/or unstable.

If you drop an ice creme you just bought you feel incline to replace it. If you don’t, however, you feel life more real-like. Many of people’s actions are to level out the bumps. It seems some people use nicotine and everything else for this.

People are much better drivers than I would except considering how spastic they are. This is because body language was heavily evolved for and applies to cars.

Don’t be jealous of your imaginary selves. they have more fun, but its
really you living in paradise.

Even a cracked board is better than the two pieces which comprise it.

A piece of art doesn't know if you have better things to do; that is how it can still be art.

When sportspeople etc. get into "the zone" it is to be in the primitive brain. By not running through all the circuits they save time and don’t confuse their actions with indecision. People with very complex brains should be slow thinkers and slower to develop. Some people have "v8" brains and others have "ferrie" brains. Either type could be great. The right mix is best.

All the intracases of music can be expressed as one wave. When waves are superimposed onto each other no detail is lost. The single resulting wave’s frequency and amplitude rises and falls complexly.

It’s like when on some nature show you see birds in some elaborate mating ritual. Only a women would say "oh, how lovely". Guys are just thinking "man, blue-ball city. I thought I had it bad"

Ambishion is the devils pinyada.

Real truths love ironory.

If you can laugh and cry at the same time, you can be a televangalist. If you can be smart and dumb at the same time, you can write pop lyerics.