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Perception We had our first ever real fire at Hope years ago on a Wednesday night. Several people came told me there was a grass fire in the back parking lot. We started walking out to go see about it, I grabbed a fire extinguisher. We got out the back door and there it was. It looked big like the whole back property was on fire. Smoke was everywhere, flames were going up and from where we were it looked like the whole ball field was burning. I was wondering about all of those houses on... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, February 27, 2021

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Crawling out. Somebody came up to me one Sunday and said "I go to Starbucks every Sunday morning, want me to get you one too?" I don't ever turn down stuff because I know people are trying to be nice and they are trying to give me a present and if you turn it down it hurts their feelings and they were trying to do something good and I wouldn't let them...etc...plus I like getting presents. But I go to Starbucks a lot and I know how much it costs. I just didn't want th... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Monday, February 22, 2021

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Painless Perspective I was reading an issue of Wired Magazine. It had answers to all the big questions you might have: Why do we need to sleep? Why can't we predict the weather a year out?  Is time an illusion?  Where are my Keys?  stuff like that. One question was "Why do Placebos work?". This is when a doctor gives you a sugar pill and tells you it's a super-duper pain killer and for some reason, the pain goes away because you believe it. In a recent st... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, February 13, 2021

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Ice Sculpture One of my favorite Olympic sports is Curling. It's probably the only Olympic sport where cheating is part of the rules. You can see how curling got started, two guys were ice fishing and weren't catching anything so they started pushing big rocks into the hole. Then they thought "let's see how close we can get without going in the water"... The next time they cut 2 holes, one to fish and one to slide rocks into. Then one week a guy brings a broom to cl... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, February 6, 2021