I always want to fight in a war. To work for a cause outside (“greater”) than myself, but just fulfilling a duty. To blindly fulfill a duty. I like that. Vietnam: “This is war. This is what we do.” – Roger Harris. Just do your job. Just get it done. But not for the grind […]

watching Ken Burns’s Vietnam battalion – 4-6 companys (~1,000) company – 100-250 platoon – 16-50 squad – 8-24

how do we take care of dead bodies after a battle? is there an unspoken cease fire while each side can get their own?

yes. ice first. and pour down the side of the glass.

bird songs are cool because it’s just them talking to each other

Gene therapy, in vivo, uses a virus to put into someone’s body and the virus infects your body’s cells and inserts the right proteins to replicate genes the right way. Gene editing, ex vivo, you take stem cells out, cut them up/edit them outside the body, and then put them back in. Need chemo to […]

Parallel universes. Constantly spawning with every movement. Which one do we experience? The only one that ends up with life continuing. Everyone must die. Which one dies last? Or never dies? We are all a burst, the electric pulse following through neurons. If we are experiencing, we have been able to bridge the gap of […]

Turn on and do something else while half-listening maybe half-watching. You will know when important moments rise. Then listen and rewind and watch. Repeat.

Make them feel like they are the most important person in the room. Make them feel like you are so enamored by them. Make them feel you are crushing on them, that we could be together. Make them feel you would cheat with them.

(Hexadecimal or something like that.) What activity can I have to fill the boredom? Play music (sober) – need to be sober? maybe not… Fallout (sober) – hits the same endorphins Read (sober) – need to be sober to remember Watch TV/movie (sober) – need to be sober to remember Photography