HeyJaredMy Conch
My various (often philosophical & epistemological) musings on film and stories.
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Dating a Girl Above Your League (opens the original)
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imi posted an essay called Dating a Guy Below Your League.1 She calls it a dating manual. It covers a tall Brazilian with a bun and ugly glasses, and an improv show in Edinburgh where the host asked the audience to clap if they believed in love and she was the 1 person who didn’t. Her reasoning for going below her league was sound on paper. She had less to lose and he had more to gain, so she would be the one less likely to get hurt. She knew how that story went because she had watched it, in Cl
Atomic Arēans (opens the original)
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Today, looking through old photographs on my phone, my eyes caught one specific image. Now, as a chemical engineer in progress, this picture takes on an entirely different meaning. The formula on the back of our scout team’s shirt:E² + M² = CsE² stands for emberebb ember, which means much better human, plus M², magyarabb magyar, which means much better Hungarian, equals cserkész: scout. This equation bears an eerie resemblance to Einstein’s famous mass-energy equivalence, E = mc².But let’s peek
Blown Fuse (opens the original)
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The vehicleThe jump worked. The engine turned over and caught and I put it in drive. That was the last normal thing the truck did until late the following Wednesday night, and for most of those 5 days it sat in a public lot I expected to find empty every time I went back.A 2021 Gladiator has 2 batteries. The main one sits where you would expect. The auxiliary is buried under the fuse box, and to get at it you pull the fuse box first, which I had done 2 months earlier when the auxiliary died. So
Man in a Box (opens the original)
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Virgas (opens the original)
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