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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • In all of my ecology classes they were super specific about re-framing that concept as “survival of the fit enough”

    You don’t actually have to be the best example of something to have your traits carried along, just good enough to consistently make it to reproductive age and then procreate.

    It helps explain a lot of weird survival mechanisms - it doesn’t have to be the best way to do things but if it consistently works, then it’s good enough. Like the old saying “if it’s stupid, but it works, then it’s not stupid”





  • What happens to the ball? It rolls slowly off the table, and bounces a few times away from the table before coming to a stop.

    What color was the ball? Blue

    What gender was the person that pushed the ball? Male

    What did they look like? Tall, average build, short brown hair with facial hair, maybe mid-30s, gray shirt, brown pants

    What size is the ball? Like a marble, or a baseball, or a basketball, or something else? A bit smaller than a basketball, like a ball for kids or a handball.

    What about the table, what shape was it? What is it made of? Round, wood, but like the cheap laminate kind with plastic edging. Metal legs. Like a cheap table you’d see in a school or office.

    I feel like I imagined a lot more detail than others. The questions were really easy for me to answer, and like a lot of unnecessary details came to mind. The guy pushed the ball because he was asked to, and he didn’t know why he was there. Probably the schizophrenia.




  • No one ever mentions this movie but my favorite movie is The Fountain, with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.

    It’s basically a love story set in three timelines, with absolutely amazing music, dark storytelling, and an unbelievably satisfying ending. A lot of it is left up to interpretation but it’s not overly complicated. Cemented me as a huge fan of Aronofsky even if he’s not always a pop culture favorite.